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Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Chapel FM Arts Centre

On October 9, 2019 we celebrated the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Chapel FM Arts Centre in the heart of Seacroft with a series of festive and memorable events with members of our community and guests from the wider world. Here are some of the highlights: Our Chapel...

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Musicathon 18—the video

We’ve put together a short video of the ninth annual musicathon at Chapel FM—just to give you an idea of the scale of the event and the fun we all had! Thanks to everyone who took part, to all the volunteers on tech and front of house who made it...

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Tom Maguire Memorial Lecture with Len McCluskey

We our pleased that our local MP, Richard Burgon has chosen Chapel FM Arts Centre for this prestigious event. It is completely sold out but the lecture will be broadcast from this site from midday and on Facebook live. Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union is coming to...

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UNION—the first weekend

UNION is a sector-based coaching programme for emerging community artists and social activists across the north of England. We aim to deliver an inclusive programme that develops skills, experience & leadership within the sector. We invited the first 20 participants to start their 12-month learning journey at Chapel FM between...

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Writing on Air 2019

Writing On Air is back again. WOA ’19 is a broadcast festival of writing. It will happen over four days, 21st-24th March at Chapel FM Arts Centre, our beautiful state-of-the-art studio and performance complex in East Leeds set in a restored Methodist chapel. East Leeds FM, which started in 2003,...

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East Leeds Live 2018: Video Highlights

 

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Isaac on Work Placement

Isaac Love was part of our Next Generation training programmes a couple of years back…and then he moved to Scotland. But it was great to have him back recently on a week-long work placement at Chapel FM. We asked him to sum up what he had learnt: “Two things stand...

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Job Opportunity: Community Arts Worker (broadcast)

We are looking to appoint a part-time Community Arts Worker to join our team who has a specific role in developing our broadcast offer at Chapel FM.

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Introducing Chapel FM’s new Co-Director

It was an unlikely series of events that led Tony Macaluso to Chapel FM Arts Centre here in East Leeds.  Half a year ago he was in his hometown of Chicago directing a radio network that creates arts programs for stations around the world and guiding a large oral history...

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New Autumn Art Exhibition

This autumn we have a new and wonderfully vibrant art exhibition by local artist Kim Birch. Kim likes to capture the ever changing nature of landscapes and is also interested in experimenting with different styles and media. Most of the artwork is for sale and 20% of all sales will...

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Spooky Family Activity Day

This Halloween join us for a truly SPOOOOOKY Family Activity Day! We’ve got loads of fun stuff for your little ones and will be serving healthy snacks and refreshments all day. For more spooky info check out the flyer below…

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UNION—The Northern School for Creativity and Activism

UNION now has it’s very own website at unionarts.org.uk ————————————- “Art is travelling without travelling. Art is a language that does not need Western translation. Art is a mini-scale revolution.” The International Congress of Youth Voices Are you at an early stage in your career? Determined to make a better...

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40 Faces of St Gemma’s Hospice

Go behind the scenes of St Gemma’s Hospice during their 40th Anniversary year. Portraits of 40 people, photographed by Olivia Hemingway are now on display at Chapel FM Arts Centre. Patients, families, volunteers and staff all share their stories in this moving and uplifting exhibition. This is a chance to...

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A year at Chapel FM

We are celebrating four years of creative activities at Chapel FM—the first-ever arts venue in East Leeds. Last year we had a massive 78% increase in the number of the visitors attending the Centre. This report should give you a quick overview of what has been happening in the last...

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Job Opportunity: Community Arts Worker (music)

We are looking to appoint a part-time Community Arts Worker to join our team who has a specific role in developing our music offer at Chapel FM.

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Job Opportunity: Director (job share)

We are looking to appoint a Director (job share—4 days a week) to work alongside current Director Adrian Sinclair and be jointly responsible for developing, leading and managing Heads Together Productions and Chapel FM Arts Centre.

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Donut Research Project

Chapel FM is part of the Donut group of organisations in Leeds—a supportive network of small-scale venues based outside of the city centre. Over the last year we have been part of a research project run in partnership with the University of Leeds

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Together We are Stronger

Chapel FM was asked to be part of the "Together We are Stronger" project run in partnership between Leeds City Council and the national organisation Building a Strong Britain Together.

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Summer Closure at Chapel FM Arts Centre

It’s Summer yay, but that does mean that we will be having a little rest over August and at the beginning of September. We wanted to let you know when the final sessions before our summer break was and which groups and broadcasts would be affected… Open Voices & Community Café...

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European Academy of Participation

“In your opinion, what is the ideal complexion for a cow?” I attended the European Academy of Participation 8-day course in Amsterdam. It was a week of questions and there were many answers, but maybe I found the questions more interesting!

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£1000 donation from Christ Church

At the beginning of 2018, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation awarded Heads Together an Explore and Test grant to develop a Community Arts Academy; an industry-based coaching programme for a diverse group of young community artists and social activists across the north of England. Current Centre Director, Adrian Sinclair, will now...

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Cultural Democracy

Cultural Democracy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Manchester 5th April 2018 I was very much looking forward to attending this symposium at Manchester University, organised by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty alongside the launch of their recent publication about the British Community Arts Movement “Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make...

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An Academy for Creative Activism

At the beginning of 2018, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation awarded Heads Together an Explore and Test grant to develop a Community Arts Academy; an industry-based coaching programme for a diverse group of young community artists and social activists across the north of England. Current Centre Director, Adrian Sinclair, will now...

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Easter Closing at Chapel FM Arts Centre

We would like to let you know that we are closed from Friday 30th March until Monday 2nd April due to the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. We are, however, having ‘A Very Good Open Mic Night’ on Friday 30th March, that anyone is welcome to come to. If you would...

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New Spring Art Exhibition

This spring we have a brand new art exhibition by artists Helen Burke and Phil Pattinson. It’s a fabulously vibrant show, with paintings and prints for sale. We are open at various times for you browse the work. Please feel free to pop down for a cuppa and a look...

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Kaitlin’s Film: Dangerous Driving

This is short film that has been created by Isabelle Turner about Texting while driving. It has been created in memory of her sister Kaitlin who passed away on the 6th of October 2017 after being hit by a car. Isabelle, who was part of East Leeds Youth Theatre, presented...

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It’s been snowing again…

No-one can quite believe it but we are cancelling this morning’s Open Voices singing group and our Deaf Friends session. Hoping that it will clear quickly this afternoon so our Next Gen Theatre and Music sessions can still run…

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The big chill won’t stop us!

We know it's cold out there but you can still be assured of a warm welcome as we are definitely going ahead with our Friday Night Live Blind Dead McJones presents...  tonight. Unfortunately the Birds and Beast can't make it out of Huddersfield but the Blind Dead McJones boys have some plans! Happy Snow Days!

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Chapel FM wins Child Friendly Leeds Award

Adrian, Emily and James attended the 5th Child Friendly Leeds Awards on 1st February on behalf of Chapel FM. We are very proud to be able to tell you that that Chapel FM was judged to be best in the city for ‘Inspiring Creativity through Arts and Culture’ and we...

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Place to Place

In 2016 Chapel FM and Heads Together Productions were selected to be part of the Community and Participation Programme for the Tandem European Cultural Collaboration initiative.

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