JanineWRITING ON AIR 2023 by Peter Spafford
Writing On Air is an annual festival of words and ideas on the radio. Broadcast from Chapel FM Arts Centre in Seacroft, East Leeds, Writing On Air usually features over fifty programmes, all created by local writers and writing groups with the support of the Chapel FM team, and involving over two hundred writers, actors, musicians and other performers. We’re in our 7th year!
Drama, soundscape, performance, debate, programmes for WOA come in all forms. Each festival has carried a theme: Borderlands, Vision, Voice, Home. This year’s is Missing. The lost and found; what and who is missing from the table, our politics, our lives, from the world? What must we preserve at all costs?
Though most of the writers and performers who take part in Writing On Air are from Leeds and Yorkshire, we’ve always featured international writers, particularly from Dortmund, Germany, one of Leeds’ sister cities. This year we’re working with writers in Kharkiv in Ukraine which is amazing for us.
We’re also keen to involve as many people as possible from our local community in East Leeds. If you’re a poet, keen reader, or someone who wants to volunteer for our cafe, or on the technical side, please do get in touch. Email Peter Spafford, Director of Words at Chapel FM: peter@chapelfm.co.uk
