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RURAL VOICES with Kate Genever - "A Farmer and An Artist: drawing on the land"
31st May 2025
Welcome to Rural Voices, our monthly series of carefully curated talks served with a full cooked breakfast!
This month's speaker is farmer and artist Kate Genever, an artist and farmer based in South Lincolnshire but with family roots in Frome and Longleat. As a farmer, alongside her family, she runs a traditional mixed farm of suckler cows, sheep and combinable crops.
For Rural Voices, Kate invites you to join her in a conversation about how drawing can be central to both art and farming. Kate uses drawing to try to make sense of the world. She sees it as more than a technique – rather a way of revealing our deep connections with the world of materials, nature and each other. With rural and coastal communities, Kate has used drawing and creativity as a way of envisioning responses to immediate problems, supporting people, communities and organisations to imagine and shape the future.
Get your weekend off to a fantastic start - arrive at 9am for a delicious home-cooked breakfast (vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options available) made with locally sourced produce. We work with what is seasonally available, so alongside bacon & sausages from Horningsham’s own September House smallholding, we have also used produce from Pythouse Farm, Till Valley Eggs, Moonacre Farm, Vallis Veg, White Row Farm and Ivy House Dairy. Whilst you enjoy a cup of fresh-ground coffee, we will lay on a talk exploring our theme of 'creative and resilient rural communities'. We are inviting a range of fascinating and eclectic speakers including farmers, writers, artists, historians and much more - many of them local - who are collectively weaving an amazing narrative tapestry about rural life and resilience.
Please arrive promptly at 9am for breakfast, the talk will begin at 9.45am.
BOOK NOW! Tickets are £12.50 or £10 for Horningsham residents (use discount code 'horningsham' at checkout) - All profits go to the Village Hall Regeneration Fund.
If you need any help with booking please contact cherry@horningshamvillagehall.com