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• 30th June – Workshop for Synesthesia (free) https://synesthesia.online/Parallels-Encounters
• 2nd & 3rd July – Ledbury Poetry Festival with The Poetry Takeaway (free) https://thepoetrytakeaway.co.uk
• 7th & 16th July – SOWrite Women’s Writing Workshops with Artfulscribe https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sowrite-women-tickets-230301537097
• 18th July – Reading at The Social – Ella Frears, Ben Pester, Rose Blake & Sophie Heawood, Jarvis Cocker, DJ Wifrid Wood – https://roughtradebooks.com/pages/events
• 23rd July – Masterclass for Outspoken at the Southbank Centre – https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/out-spoken-masterclass-july
• August – Wilderness Festival with the Poetry Takeaway – https://thepoetrytakeaway.co.uk
• August – reading at Boardmasters Festival – https://www.boardmasters.com
• 30th August – Launch of Cornish Modern Poetries edited by Ella Frears & Aaron Kent, Kresen Kernow
• 3rd September – Workshop and Creek Walk in Deptford Creek with Spread the Word https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/events/when-the-tide-goes-out-with-ella-frears/

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FAREWELL SATURN – CASSINI’S FUNERAL 

Sept 15th 2017, Bold Tendencies, Peckham 

photos by Cat Goryn 

After nearly twenty years in space and countless discoveries made, on the 15th September 2017 the Cassini Spacecraft was sent the command to plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere — destroying it completely and resulting in a fiery end to the mission. 

Funded by the Arts Council England and in partnership with writing agency Spread the Word, Ella Frears was Poet in Residence at Royal Holloway University responding to the final months of the mission; working towards elegy and asking what the death of a machine one billion kilometres away might mean to us. 

The ‘Space Funeral’ was curated by Ella Frears, hosted by writer/performer Stuart Silver. 

Featuring poetry written during the residency as well as newly commissioned works by:

Composer, Rufus Isabel Elliot

Architect/Designer, Emma-Kate Matthews

Filmmaker, Louis Rizzo-Naudi 

Memorial temporary tattoos were designed by Ben Jones