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Starting today, Friday, April 10, East Leeds FM (ELFM) is now broadcasting over the airwaves on 94.6FM (and as always, our unique community radio shows are available for listening anytime online). A warm welcome to new and returning listeners. Like many organisations, we have had to adapt to the changes...
East Leeds FM will be going live on the radio select days from 10am to 1pm to share stories, conversations, practical advice, music, writing and other arts in this unprecedented time of social isolation in response to the coronavirus. Click here to tune into our “Overcoming Isolation” broadcasts and listen...
The opening residential weekend for UNION: The Northern School for Creativity and Activism...
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 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...
This year’s Leeds Armed Forces Day will be happening on the radio. East Leeds FM is proud to be teaming up with Leeds City Council and others to present a day of unique radio full of oral history interviews about the experience of being in the Services, plus music, poetry,...
Make a donation to help us buy radios for those in need during the coronavirus pandemic. Community Engagement Worker, Kiran from the Recovery Hub in East Leeds. East Leeds FM (ELFM) has been responding to the coronavirus lockdown in a unique and powerful way. We are always looking for...
‘Community Radio Station in desperate plea to be allowed to broadcast on FM in current crisis” Click here to Sign our Petition to encourage OFCOM to allow East Leeds FM to broadcast on FM to help residents of our community receive important information during the coronavirus isolation. East Leeds FM...
In compensation for the postponement of Writing On Air 2020, we’re bringing you highlights from all four previous festivals, 2016-2019. From 7.30pm Friday 27th March right through to Sunday 29th midnight, a sumptuous banquet of totally fantastic programmes made by writers, readers, and performers in Leeds and West Yorkshire over...
UNION is a sector-based coaching programme for emerging community artists and social activists across the north of England. It is another initiative from Heads Together Productions. Like many projects it is important to have a presence on the internet, as part of this we now have a new website. unionarts.org.uk...
Have a watch of the 5-minute illustrated film which should give you an idea of the kind of work we do at Chapel FM with young people and what we are trying to achieve. The film is a taster for the full report created by Wafer Hadley after two years...
The Leeds Literature Festival (https://leedslitfest.co.uk) has hired Chapel FM Arts Centre to produce a series of 10 podcasts as part of this year’s festival (running March 4-8). These podcasts will be released during the festival under the name: Leeds Lit Fest Podcast. The 10 episodes of the Leeds Lit Fest...
The Seacroft Tapestry is the culmination of a year of work; a process of collecting and recording stories and experiences of life in the Seacroft area The stories come from many different perspectives and have been recorded in film and textiles. Lots of people have been involved and this is...
We have several key openings at Chapel FM Arts Centre (Heads Together Productions): We’re looking to recruit three new board members for 2020. Learn more about the process of applying to join our board here. We also have two important job postings: Chapel FM Centre Manager Chapel FM Community Arts...
We are looking to appoint a Centre Manager to join our team who has a specific role in developing and implementing policies for our venue as well as coordinating marketing, rentals and monitoring of participation programmes at Chapel FM. The job is offered at 4-5 days per week (28-35 hours)....
Heads Together, the parent organisation of Chapel FM Arts Centre, East Leeds FM radio (ELFM), UNION and other projects, is recruiting for three new trustees to join the organisation’s board and support our continued growth, strategy and governance at an exciting and pivotal point as we prepare to expand our...
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...
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...