Programme of Events

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Now! - Eel art wanted!
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13th April
Something’s Fishy Art Fair.
Union Corner, Plymouth. 12-16.00pm

www.instagram.com/somethingsfishyartmarket/

2nd May - 2nd June
'Eels, Nearly Eternal As Any Earthly Life’.
An Exhibition for World Eel Day.
NWT Cley Marshes

www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk

May
Age Concern, Sheringham
an exhibition and display of art and poems for their regular visitors inspired by the Wonder of Eels for World Eel Day

May 17th
Workshop led by Our Little Lives
family workshop in North Norfolk to celebrate World Eel Day

(20+) Our Little Lives - Home Education Group (North Norfolk) | Facebook

17th May
World Eel Day Pop-up Shop
Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
10-16.00pm

June 2nd
Wonder of Eels legacy podcast
featuring interviews with residents on their memories of eels, from children in North Norfolk writing their poems, Nick Sanderson at the Broads Authority and Carl Brooker, to the nephew of an eel catcher, writer Jonathan Walpole and much more. Artists exhibiting in ‘Eels, Nearly Eternal As Any Earthly Life’ share artistic inspiration found while walking the North Norfolk landscape to research their work and recommend wild wellbeing walks for you to try, connecting you to the European eel.

Available on www.ruthiecollins.co.uk

8th June
Eel Fest!
Union Corner, Plymouth.

https://www.instagram.com/amybugs

Now! - Guillemot Press Eel Poetry Festival
An eel-inspired page of poetry. The poems in this collection are read by their poets and are all from The Creel anthology, a book of eely poems published in the winter of 2018/19.

https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/eel-fest-2020

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WORLD EEL DAY
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