Not-for-profit independent arts venue, Bloomsbury
October 2019 – November 2020
Subsequent to helping coordinate Arrows of Desire, a group exhibition celebrating contemporary artists’ interpretation of Saint Sebastian, curated by Manko, and launching Lesley with a group exhibition at The Horse Hospital in 2019 – Kat joined the small team at the Horse Hospital in central London. During her time there, she contributed to all aspects of not-for-profit’s busy events program, as well as helping to archive their 27-year history.
Funding secured during that time included, Arts Council England COVID-19 pandemic emergency organisation funding and a National Archives scoping grant.
Honesty Shop
Kat worked on establishing and facilitating an on-site honesty shop at The Horse Hospital. This small shop primarily stocked independent subcultural publications including – Mixed Rage, Ache, SICK, How to be an abolitionist today, Bakunin Brand Vodka, Perlman Reproduction of Daily Life, Warzone Dialectogram, Witches, Midwives and Nurses, Nailing Descartes to the Wall, Decolonise Fest zine, Arts of The Working Class, Able Zine
Selected Events
The following is a list of selected events primarily initiated and produced by Kat during her time working at The Horse Hospital. Collaborators included: The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection, Manko & Art Model Collective, Graham Fawcett, Emily Pope & You Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying.
Vintage Glamour: fashion illustration with Contemporary Wardrobe
Tuesday 25 February 2020 // 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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‘Vintage Glamour fashion life drawing hosted by Art Model Collective and The Horse Hospital Gallery featuring unique clothes from The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection.
Models will be posing in vintage sleepwear, lingerie, sheer gowns and feathered robes from the Contemporary Wardrobe collection. Accompanied by a specially curated playlist!
Art materials included courtesy of GreatArt
Untutored
Accessible venue with a bar
Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
All profits go to the support of the Save the Horse Hospital fund.
Be a part of saving an independent venue from gentrification, while treating yourself to an artventure in fashion illustration, capturing some truly outstanding looks!’
You Can’t Blame Lesley For Trying: HH Fundraiser
https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/amc-msl6y
Tuesday 11 February 2020 // 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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You Can’t Blame Lesley For Trying
The Horse Hospital Fundraiser
‘You Can’t Blame a Girl For Trying, or in this case, You Can’t Blame Lesley for having a go either, is a comedy night with Emily Pope, showcasing the wildest new stand up comedy and funniest performance art in the UK.
The acts are invited to perform material dealing with the usual issues – sex, death, love, money, self care (hopefully not too much of this) jealousy, the overthrowing of the Tory government and the futility of a comedy set in order to promote this. Is it true that the more we sit in rooms laughing, the more we are distracted with our own sense of humour?
We’ve teamed up with Lesley Mag to produce this fundraiser, in honour of the wonderful Horse Hospital. The HH is facing closure due to the theme of the night; gentrification. This irritating little word is wreaking havoc everywhere, and so we are asking the acts and the audience to laugh in the face of their superfood porridge and oat milk from the overpriced cafe. Everyone knows this means you are essentially eating oats, with wet oats on top.
11th of Feb 7.30 – 10pm
Host: Emily Pope
Acts:
Babeworld @Babeworld3000
Am Stubberfield @Brumblehag
Saba Husain @funsaba
and 2 more surprises TBA!
Tickets are a fiver in advance and 7 on the door
DJ: Kat Hudson’
Poetry Is Communication with Graham Fawcett
https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/devilsden-b7p3f-ye4br
Monday 3 February 2020 // 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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‘Poetry Is Communication
In Poetry Is Communication, Graham Fawcett invites his audience to live and re-live their own personal relationship with all the poetry they have ever read and listened to since they were old enough to find pleasure and meaning in it, so that they go away at the end not only remembering what has always communicated and meant so much to them but cherishing its depths afresh, even as though for the first time. This evening was originally commissioned as the lead lecture for a conference on Poetry and Communication held at the University of Milan’s campus at Feltre in the pre-Alps and given there in Italian in 2000. This new lecture-performance, illustrated throughout from a wide range of poetry, tells a story – in voices as personal and engaging as good eye-contact between people – of discovering poems which talk straight to us, including by John Donne, Anna Akhmatova and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
“Your talk, Poetry Is Communication, last Monday to the Wye Arts Association, was unlike any other. Your lyrical presentation, illustrating through poets and poetry the heart and meaning of your talk, was uplifting, stimulating and challenging. It was received differently by each of us attending, depending on how we have experienced the depths of poetry, but, nevertheless, greatly appreciated by all”.
– Secretary Wye Arts Association’
Welcome to the Future – Fashion Life Drawing with AMC
https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/amc
Thursday 16 January 2020 // 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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‘Art Model Collective and Horse Hospital Gallery present:
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
Retro Future Theme Fashion Life Drawing
16/01/2020
Ft. Clothes from the Contemporary Wardrobe Collection and Music from: Blade Runner, Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds, Forbidden Planet, Back to the Future, DUNE, Mars Attacks and many more!
Doors Open 7pm
Tickets £15all proceeds go to the Save The Horse Hospital Fund’
LESLEY X HH HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA! (FILM SCREENING AND HOT CHOC)
Monday 16 December 2019 // 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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‘Lesley Magazine and Horse Hospital have teamed up to bring you our Holiday get together!
All profits from the night go towards the campaign to save the Horse Hospital.
Join us on a cosy winter’s Monday evening for a Lesley family queer feminist film screening (film TBA), with mulled wine and hot coco (and beers) ♥’
Rebel Threads – vintage fashion life drawing benefit for the HH
https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/life-drawing
Wednesday 20 November 2019 // 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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‘Join AMC Collective for a life-drawing session with fashion items from The Contemporary Wardrobe Collectionmodelled by Kat Hudson and Manko. Multiple outfit changes, a themed soundtrack, professional lighting & bar!
Attention, fashion fans!
Art Model Collective are hosting a benefit life drawing session, the proceeds from which will go to support the legal fund of the iconic independent London art venue, The Horse Hospital.
We know you missed fashion life drawing and this is the perfect occasion! AMC models Kat and Manko will pose in a selection of garments from the amazing Contemporary Wardrobe Collection.
Situated upstairs from the Horse Hospital, The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection is a specialist hire company set up in 1978, supplying vintage street fashion, couture items and accessories to the Film, TV and Fashion industries. Born out of a passion for youth culture, and recognition of street fashion’s importance in our social history, the collection now exceeds some twenty thousand garments, mostly designed between 1945 and the present day, and representing a multitude of diverse British and American youth movements and cult fashions.
We can’t wait to show you some gems from their vaults!
The Horse Hospital are fighting an outrageous 333% rent increase looming from 31 December 2019.
So please join our session and contribute to the campaign to save the Horse Hospital. Please spread the word – the more buzz generated about what’s going on, the more pressure the Landlord will be under to negotiate a fair deal for the future of this incredible non-profit arts venue!
Themed soundtrack, professional lighting, multiple outfit changes, bar!‘
