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Juwairia Junaid who recently was named Learner of the Year in the NCFE Aspiration Awards 2022. The NCFE (Northern Council for Further Education) is an educational charity and leader in vocational and technical learning. Juwairia has been coming to Chapel FM Arts Centre for many years. She’s part of our...
Here are some photos from the Seacroft Village Green Jubilee Celebration on 2 June 2022. Organised by the We Are Seacroft network. To hear an audio soundscape of stories and voices from the event click here. To find out more about Chapel FM Arts Centre’s new “Home From Home” project...
Job Posting: Centre Administrator Chapel FM Arts Centre Leeds (Seacroft) Chapel FM, a community arts organisation located in Seacroft, East Leeds, is searching for a new Centre Administrator to help ensure that our arts centre and radio station can be an even more inviting and successful community resource by overseeing day-to-day operations...
Join us on Saturday 11 June at noon to find out about getting involved in Chapel FM Arts Centre’s new story-gathering, festival, radio and performance project HOME FROM HOME Click here to register to join us on 11 June What makes a place a “Home From Home?” Where are the...
THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL are looking for some people to help with a project. Think Global Act Local is a brand new show on East Leeds FM looking at sustainability and innovation during the climate crisis. You can listen to their shows here. They’re starting a Climate Change Diary...
To celebrate the start of a new year: a dozen dazzling highlights from Chapel FM Arts Centre in 2021 The world continued to change in unimaginable ways in 2021 and Chapel FM adapted, invented, mourned, celebrated and used the power of community arts and radio to help keep us connected....
Like many organisations we are closed over the Christmas and New Years period, this will be from Friday the 17th December 2021 – Monday the 17th January 2022. If you wish to check out an example of our previous work we recently finished up our 13th Annual Musicathon with over...
[Important notice masks will not be required when walking throughout the building but we recommend wearing them] As Chapel FM Arts Centre begins to reopen, we understand that it is our duty of care to provide a safe space for the public. We are still living in a world where we...
Since June 2021, here at Chapel FM Arts Centre we’ve been running a Climate group for young people to explore the climate crisis. These young peopled, aged 11-16, have met each week to look at the global and local effects of climate change. We’ve spoken to local activists and organisers,...
This is your weekly breakdown of all the great things happening at Chapel FM Monday Night Broadcast Special 7:30pm – The Disabled Table #3 – Join us for humour and stories! Discussing ableism in education, advice for going out alone for the first time as a disabled plus story-teller and...
Chapel FM is proud to be bringing a group of young radio-makers, musicians, writers and activists from our Next Generation Youth Programmes to Glasgow for the global climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021. We’ll be gathering stories and other audio in order to create radio documentaries to be featured...
The Chapel FM Musicathon is a 24h of live non stop music marathon involving over 45 acts and over 200 performers all giving up there time and sometimes sanity for those playing at 3am to make it happen. Chapel FM has put on the annual Musicathon event every year for...
Job Posting: Community Music Worker Chapel FM Arts Centre – Leeds Chapel FM Arts Centre (a project of Heads Together Productions) is searching for a Community Music Worker to plan and deliver courses and workshops on using music to help people from our community and beyond (especially young people) develop...
The COVID19 pandemic meant big changes for East Leeds FM. For a period of time, we got a FM lisence and broadcast advice and support for the local community in East Leeds. Some shows have been able to still record remotely, and learnt new skills how to create shows from...
Here at Chapel FM Arts Centre, we are proud of all the amazing broadcasters and shows platforming brilliant music and poetry, having amazing chats and reviews and celebrating communities. This Info Pack outlines all expectations between Chapel FM, and the ELFM Broadcasters to make sure our shows and policies are...
Announcing Openings for Community Music Facilitators at Chapel FM Arts Centre We are accepting applications for music educators to work alongside our broadcasting, creative writing and tech staff to deliver youth programmes this summer and autumn at the Chapel FM Arts Centre in East Leeds. Ideal candidates will have experience...
We’re looking for VOLUNTEERS for our newly renovated and expanded arts centre in Seacroft, East Leeds As a not-for-profit organisation, Chapel FM relies on the support, enthusiasm and hard work of an amazing team of volunteers. In return for volunteering with us, we can offer you the chance to gain...
Chapel FM Arts Centre / East Leeds FM Radio is excited to have joined forces with two of our marvellous peer organisations in East Leeds, Space 2 and the East Leeds Project, to develop a long-term project that: Takes an asset-based approach to community development; Creates the conditions for co-production...
We present six hours of reflections on life in the Armed Forces, including in-depth oral history conversations with current and former service members, music, poetry, news and more. East Leeds FM / Chapel FM Arts Centre is pleased to be working with Leeds City Council again this summer to present...
We are excited to welcome the world back to the renovated and expanded, post-lockdown Chapel FM Arts Centre. See below for details on when various activities will begin again. During the past year Chapel FM underwent a big transformation. We purchased the adjacent church hall and fixed it up, adding...
In celebration of the power of people from our community to come together and support one another during the pandemic lockdown a new collaboratively owned and run vintage Ice Cream Van will be coming to Seacroft and Killingbeck in April. Delivering useful health and well being information along with art,...
An exploration of Anglo/Indian/Scandinavian drone to unsettle the enquiring mind! Come Listen in or watch a very special international experimental music night On March 12th at 7:30pm At least once a year Chapel FM has put on an experimental music night but being 2021 and being in lockdown we decided...
A very popular end of the month event at Chapel FM the Open Mic Night. As you can imagine like many places we cant do a live event in our lovely new expanded building but fear not we will be doing it online you can listen live on this very...
The last Live Event we put on before we closed was the Chapel FM Quiz In coming full circle we have decided that a brand new quiz would be in order and what a way to test your knowledge one year later So put your thinking caps on as there...
See below for some news coverage of Chapel FM Arts Centre’s new building, especially our ground source heating system and other climate-friendly features… BBC Radio Leeds talking with Chapel FM co-director Adrian Sinclair (scroll ahead to 2 hours 13 minutes into the programme): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p090d98z Yorkshire Bylines article: Chapel...
Chapel FM Arts Centre joined up with some of our Seacroft Community Care Hub partners to bring a bit of music and spectacle to our lockdown streets this December. Below are a few images from the Seacroft Festival Musical Moments created in partnership with Fall Into Place Theatre, LS14 Trust,...
Like many organisations we are closed over the Christmas and New Years period, this will be from Friday the 18th December 2020 – Monday the 4th January 2021. If you wish to check out an example of our previous work we recently finished up our 11th Annual Musicathon with over...
The time is almost among us again. Chapel FM is once again doing its yearly 24h musicathon on the 12th and 13th of December 3pm till 3pm the next day with 24 hours of live music all local and all live kinda….. As you can imagine with 2020 being year of...
JOB POSTING: COMMUNITY ARTS WORKER (BROADCASTING) WITH CHAPEL FM ARTS CENTRE Chapel FM Arts Centre (a project of Heads Together Productions) is searching for a Community Arts Worker (Broadcasting) to develop participation programmes for young people and adults from our community who are excited to learn about creating radio shows,...
In celebration of Yorkshire Day 2020 East Leeds FM radio / Chapel FM Arts Centre will be broadcasting live from Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 1 August from 12pm. The programme will include a special concert by Leeds City Organist, Darius Battiwalla, on the Town Hall’s magnificent organ which was first played...