A Lot Meant: Pontypridd

SCHEDULE

A Lot Meant is a gentle, creative gathering for people who grow food, flowers, or plants — whether you’ve had an allotment for years, help out on others, or are just getting started.

Artists Rhys Slade-Jones and Harriet Fleuriot invite you to take part in a creative workshop and shared lunch, embracing the quiet of winter and imagining spring together.

The morning workshop will be led by Rhys and Harriet, sharing reflections and insights from previous A Lot Meant events and inviting guests to creatively explore their relationship with growing, food and creativity. This will be followed by a relaxed, hot cooked communal lunch where we'll be welcoming artist Kathyrn Ashill as our special guest for a performance. There will be a chance for more sharings, craftings and chatter.

Blending conversation, creativity, and shared food, the day offers a space to reflect on growing, belonging, and care — for land and for each other. The event values slowness, collective knowledge, and intergenerational exchange.

Everyone is welcome!!

BOOKING

All tickets are free but must be reserved in advance.

There are two types of ticket:

1. Workshop + lunch ticket (11am - 3pm)
2. Lunch-only ticket (1pm - 3pm)

This is not-for-profit, funded event. If you’d like to help cover costs, there is a suggested donation of £5 for the workshop and £5 for lunch, payable on eventbrite or with cash on the day. There is no obligation to donate.

Supported by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council as part of their work with the Food Sustainability Partnership, with support from the Welsh Government.

ACCESS

If you have any access requirements or need to know more information about accessibility of the event, please let us know when you register or contact us by clicking the 'contact' button below.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Harriet Fleuriot is a Rhondda-based artist working across performance, film, and installation. Harriet’s practice blends live and recorded work, focusing on the body as an archive of the untold and film as a site for reimagining narratives. Harriet was recently appointed Artist in Service at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, developing her practice through community engagement. Recent work includes a short film commissioned by the AM Community Films fund, exploring "an interior life" with local elder women in her community (view here). Harriet also works as a producer, editor, mentor, and access supporter for other artists, a workshop facilitator for wellbeing groups, and is a trustee for Rhondda Arts Festival.

Rhys Slade-Jones is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Treherbert and living and working in South Wales. Walking the line between the convivial and the confrontational, Rhys creates political work that straddles the worlds of performance, cabaret and craft. Their work is a meditation on queer ecologies, the limitless exuberance of queer raves and the inherently political nature of joy, all of which are complicated by a simultaneous awareness of environmental catastrophe and collective lament. Rhys is currently Artist in Service for Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, was a 2022 Future Wales Fellow with the Arts Council of Wales, and is a founding member of the queer Welsh performance collective CWM RAG.

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Host or Publisher Harriet Fleuriot and Rhys Slade-Jones