A Suitcase Full of Eels

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WORLD EEL DAY 2025
16th May
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Poster by Fox Vincent
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Did you know that eels are a critically endangered species
After a successful first ever World Eel Day 2023, with live events in four countries, two continents and messages of support reaching thousands of people from all corners of the globe, we are preparing for World Eel Day 2025.

Logo by Bronwen Vaughan

World Eel Day May 16th 2025

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We always welcome submissions of eel art, poetry and stories! if you have something to share please send it in to john.kilburn@plymouth.ac.uk and include your social media handle/website so we can credit you!

Or you can add us a collaborator on instagram posts - @eelsuitcase

The Eel Suitcase started as a creative project bringing together two academics and artists from different disciplines to use their love of narrative and absurdity to make artworks that draw on the historical importance and cultural relevance of the critically endangered European Eel, Anguilla anguilla.

about

Glossary

Submissions

>eel conservationExternal link to The Sustainable Eel Group website.

>Eel Suitcase Tweets

#Worldeelday2023 & 2024
Poster by Fox Vincent www.instagram.com/foxsnails

#Worldeelday2023
Eel FEST!

#Worldeelday2023
Eel Colouring-in resources by Mariia Holiashkina.

Illus510
Art projects by University of Plymouth illustration students.

The Creel An anthology of contemporary poetry about eels edited by Luke Thompson and published by Guillemeot Press.

'Eels, Nearly Eternal As Any Earthly Life’.
An Exhibition for World Eel Day 2024

European eel, by artist Sue Mobbs.

#Worldeelday2023
Eel ART archive Thanks to everyone who has sent in an eel for our collection.

The Natural History Museum

A Suitcase Full of Eels Featuring 71 artists, this beautiful little book of eelustrations is a unique testament to the weird fascination and creative relationship we have with the eel.

The Origin of the Silver Eel
is a tiny classic of nature writing, a joyful, exuberant and personable study in conviction and error.

#Worldeelday2023
Guillemot Press Eel Festival External link to the Guillemot Press poetry eel fest.

#Worldeelday2023
Hide and Seek

Brusseels On the 20th June 2018 we exhibited the Eel Suitcase artwork during SEG’s ‘Save the European Eel’ event at The European Parliament in Brussels.

Eels! is a novella written by Luke Thompson, illustrated by John Kilburn.
Published by Guillemot Press.

#Worldeelday2023
The Ideal Life of an Eel

Eel Poetry Thanks to everyone who has sent in a eel poem for our collection.

Project updates

Save the Eels animation external link An animation made by University of Plymouth illustration students.

Brusseels: A guide

The Eel Suitcase is supported by the University of Plymouth’s Sustainable Earth Institute’s Creative Associate Awards.