Mon 3rd June, 2:11am
Chapel FM’s 4th Friday of the month is not your usual open mic… Come try something new, come share your last creation or [ignite/set in motion/get starting/start up] your stage skills!
Events: Spoken Word
Have a look through all of our events (please note this includes our past events). You can filter the results to find the kind of events you are particularly interested in.
Mon 3rd June, 2:11am
Celebrating the wide range of amazing sports that happen in our city
Chapel FM Open Mic – April 2022
Fri 22nd April, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre. Open to all performers, bring yourselves and your friends!
Chapel FM Open Mic – March 2022
Fri 25th March, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre. Open to all performers, bring yourselves and your friends!
Chapel FM Open Mic – Feb 2022
Fri 25th February, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre. Open to all performers, bring yourselves and your friends!
Mon 3rd June, 2:11am
A Celebration and showcase of all the climate action happening in Seacroft
Mon 3rd June, 2:11am
A brand new radio show on East Leeds FM, the Disabled Table explores disabled people’s stories, experiences and humour. This special live event is taking place at Chapel FM Arts Centre featuring poetry, music and comedy from a host of brilliant disabled artists.
The First Chapel FM Open Mic of 2022
Fri 28th January, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre. Open to all performers, bring yourselves and your friends!
Mon 3rd June, 2:11am
Poetic homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in contemporary form from The Otley Troubadours.
The Last Chapel FM Open Mic of 2021
Fri 26th November, 7:30pm
After an event full year of events at Chapel FM one of our final events of the year is our always popular Open Mic Night.
Halloween Open Mic Night
Fri 29th October, 7:30pm
Prepare for a spook, prepare for a fright, come join Chapel FM for the Halloween Open Mic Night
Tue 4th June, 3:07pm
The Good to Go festival concludes with a closing celebration featuring the Chapel FM Jazz Collective and community creations.
Tue 4th June, 3:07pm
An evening of music, storytelling, interviews and more showcasing the many creative roles of women in our community and wider Leeds.
Fellowship of Questions Radio Broadcast
Mon 16th September, 1:27am
This special radio broadcast explores the power of posing questions across Europe through a special broadcast/presentation from Chapel FM’s sister project UNION – The Northern School for Creativity & Activism (unionarts.org.uk)
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
Local independent press Yaffle bring together a gaggle of poets under their publishing win
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
Nicky Bray and Carl Flattery from Tower of Song lead song writing workshop. Open to all aged 12 and over.
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
Poems inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, from poet Clare Wigzell.
Tue 4th June, 9:10am
In Helen Shay’s play, a girl comes to Seacroft to sort out a late relative’s estate and discovers strange, unexpected music in her family’s
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
What if the mask is a wheelchair or a white stick, or make-up? Storyteller Vickie Orton with guests.
Writing on Air Festival 2021 Part 2 – Day Three
Sun 3rd October, 10:30am
The 6th annual edition of Chapel FM’s literature-on-the-radio festival features the work of more than 100 writers from across Yorkshire. The theme for this year is Vision: seeing different futures, dreaming dream, in the blink of an eye – what do we see, what don’t we notice, what might the future look like?
Tue 4th June, 8:49am
What’s prison really like? An eloquent and powerfully affecting interactive spoken word performance by ex-offenders, plus Q&A.
Tue 4th June, 8:26am
Nick Ellerby, from Oasis School of Human Relations, is quizzed by young activists from Chapel FM about his vision for the future
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
The Performance Ensemble tell us in poetry, dance and song how the world looks from an older perspective. Art with the wisdom of experience
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
The blanket is a birthday present, a love story, a fifty year old memoir and a revelation. From Jane Kite
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
Lydia Allison leads a writing workshop themed around Vision. Open to all ages 12 and over.
Writing on Air Festival 2021 Part 2 – Day Two
Sat 2nd October, 10:30am
The 6th annual edition of Chapel FM’s literature-on-the-radio festival features the work of more than 100 writers from across Yorkshire. The theme for this year is Vision: seeing different futures, dreaming dream, in the blink of an eye – what do we see, what don’t we notice, what might the future look like?
Mon 3rd June, 2:12am
Chapel FM’s radio theatre turns mini-parliament for a free-spirited debate about Seacroft, past, present and future
Writing on Air Festival 2021 Part 2 – Day One
Fri 1st October, 10:30am
The 6th annual edition of Chapel FM’s literature-on-the-radio festival features the work of more than 100 writers from across Yorkshire. The theme for this year is Vision: seeing different futures, dreaming dream, in the blink of an eye – what do we see, what don’t we notice, what might the future look like?
Writing on Air 2021 Part 2 Festival Overview
Fri 1st October - Sun 3rd October
Writing on Air is a festival of words on the radio broadcast on East Leeds FM. The theme this year is Vision and features a host of programmes including radio dramas, readings, live music, all created by local writers.
Tue 4th June, 3:07pm
This fun and unique workshop is exclusively for young people aged 14 to 26. It will explore identity and how creativity can support wellbeing and a positive sense of self.