Calling allotmenteers and gardeners!
Why do we grow? What joys and challenges come with tending land through the seasons?
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.
Events offer a workshop and performances by local artists, followed by a relaxed, hot cooked communal lunch with 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!!
07 Feb 2026
EVENTS COMING UP
Carnegie Parish Hall, Church Village
Join us for a workshop with writer and poet clare e potter, followed by a shared hot lunch together with crafting and conversation!
13 Feb 2026
OAP Hall, Treherbert
Join us for a practical run-through on how to get started in growing, featuring expert advice, soil and plant prep and power tool tuition from Black Mountains College, followed by a shared hot lunch with crafting and conversation!
25 Feb 2026
Yma, Pontypridd
Join us for a workshop hosted by Rhys Slade-Jones and Harriet Fleuriot, with a performance from artist Kathryn Ashill, followed by a shared hot lunch with crafting and conversation!
About us
A Lot Meant is cultivated by Rhondda artists
Rhys Slade-Jones and Harriet Fleuriot.
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.
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. 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.
Get in touch
E-mail: hello@harrietfleuriot.co.uk