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Welcome to Planet Fishermead by those who live there - Documentary Film

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A film commemorating the 50th anniversary of the creation of Fishermead in Milton Keynes and the lives of some of the people who live there. The idea for the film arose from thinking about the welcome Zerena had received from the community of Fishermead in 1988, and how since then, the estate had welcomed many ...
Welcome to Planet Fishermead 2023

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Features 35th Anniversary photos of events and activities at Willows School. On April 21st, 1988, Zerena landed her spaceship in Fishermead. Exactly 35 years later on April 21st, 2023, an exhibition featuring archival photographs and the documentary film Educating Zerena: An Alien Encounter was shown in the very school hall where school children saw the silver ...
Creativity and the Curriculum with Michael Rosen

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Pic: Zerena returns to Planet Earth and meets Michael Rosen. Part of Educating Zerena 2022. Presented by Living Archive MK in association with MK Gallery, Inter-Action MK and MAKE. Michael Rosen is one of our best loved children’s writers. He is a poet, scriptwriter broadcaster and performer. He regularly lectures and teaches in universities on children’s literature, reading ...
Educating Zerena MK Gallery Events October 2022

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In October 2022 the story of Zerena was revealed to the city in a programme including an archival exhibition presented in MK Gallery Project Space, associated talks and screening events. The programme revealed the untold history of Zerena to Milton Keynes’s residents and used that history to ask the question Could the Zerena Project happen ...
Poster: Zerena from Xadrolyte illustrated by Marco Kernbach

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Local tattoo artist and illustrator Marco was inspired by The Zerena Project’s story to create this poster.
Educating Zerena: An Alien Encounter documentary film

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In 2017 Ursula White heard the story of The Zerena Project and began research into this undiscovered history, connecting up with the children who were at the school in 1988. A Facebook group (“I Remember the Zerena Project” ) was set up with 80+ members joining. Contact was re-established with Zerena, Professor Blenkinsop, the teachers ...
Milton Keynes Mirror Newspaper Articles

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Two reports in Local press on the alien Zerena’s arrival and departure from Fishermead.
Julia Upton’s Zerena Project File

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Julia was a new teacher at Newlyn Place School in 1988. She kept a file (without the knowledge of the authorities!) of original children’s schoolwork inspired by the alien Zerena’s visit to Newlyn Place School. The file features drawings and writing for a special school newspaper, NEWLYN NEWS, created by children during Zerena’s stay at the ...
The Zerena Project - A Taped Slide Show

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Recorded in 1988. Duration 17 mins 10 secs. Produced by Roger Kitchen for Inter-Action MK. Children from Newlyn Place First School ( Now The Willows ) tell the story of when a spaceship crashed in their playground in their own words. Exhibited as part of Educating Zerena 2022 at MK Gallery. Watch the documentary Educating Zerena: An Alien Encounter ...