Share Your Story Through Art (SYSTA)
Community Interest Company 15143670
SYSTA is run by Emma Skeet,
an artivist prioritising the environment
and human rights in projects since the 1990's.
For my art please click into
Commissions/Prints for sale along top MENU BAR
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Arts can help bring about change for a resilient and sustainable present and future, reducing feelings of isolation and helping to heal our culture.
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Let's inspire pro-social behaviour and redefine what success means, moving the focus from acquisition to shared experiences, relationships and community solidarity, working together with nature, giving, healing, creating, growing....where reward comes from reciprocity not ownership.
Join me on a workshop - you can choose from 3 workshops using art to create work around the planetary and earth system boundaries, resilience and sustainability, and celebrating and exploring nature.
Please email SYSTA to find out more.
Workshops can take place at your workplace for sustainability & wellbeing days, community groups, home-educated groups, birthday parties, schools or family gatherings. I will come to you.
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Workshops and party package £10 per person includes all materials. Additional cost for travel if outside Norwich, UK.
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* This concept presents a set of planetary boundaries within which humanity can help maintain healthy, safe and just earth systems. In September 2023, a team of scientists at the Stockholm Resilience Centre quantified, for the first time, all the processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. These were first proposed by former centre director Johan Rockström and a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists in 2009.
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Join the SYSTA PAC and become a Positive Agent of Change, where collaboration makes us, and our messages, stronger.
I love collaborating with others to make exciting things happen, bringing people together and building their creative confidence to use the arts for social change. I have over 35 years experience in the arts, health, charity and educational settings.
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I have a full DBS certificate and public liability insurance.
I believe the arts have a vital role to play in empowering people of all ages to use creativity for their own well-being and raise awareness of issues important to them.
SYSTA projects
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WE ARE NATURE toolkit to explore and celebrate nature as essential for our existence and whose welfare is our responsibility, with projects to create art about nature local to you to help inspire society to place humanity within, not as the master of, nature.
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Planetary Partners celebrating inspiring people and nature
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Arboretum Artivists creating a board game for a sustainable future
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Harry's Art Club in Norwich using art for change
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Artivism workshops for anyone 10 to 110!
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Portrait commissions painting, collage and prints
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I Miss My Mother's Coffee Refugee Week
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Every Life Matters displaced people project in Athens
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The Friend Ship Postcards for Peace with The Refugee Council, The Children's Society & Hope & Play, Gaza
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The Friend Ship HumaniTea Party with Norfolk Artists
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Latitude Festival Butterfly Effect Time For A Time Limit UK detention
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Silent Voices fair trade, human rights & slave labour
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Message in a Bottle clean water project building wells for OXFAM
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Sewn Stories WW2 school tapestry celebrating Peace and Freedom
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Once Upon A Time sustainable fashion up cycling vintage clothes
SYSTA collaborations​
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VOICES exploring endangered Norfolk insects through art, poetry and science, in collaboration with UEA academics, science and creative writing students, Bare Kind and Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Resulting in online educational resources for schools on UEA Project Change, exhibition at Norfolk Wildlife Trust Cley visitor centre, endangered insect sock produced by Bare Kind, and artivism animation and poetry workshops at Norwich Science Festival 2023.
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Norwich Science Festival 2022 with We Wear The Trousers, Colorifix, Norfolk designers, UEA science academics and students resulting in panel discussion and exhibition on sustainable fashion.
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Norwich Science Festival 2021 with SAW Trust, Norwich Research Park, SCVA, UEA science academics, students and alumni, resulting in panel discussion Creative Collaboration: Bringing Science and Art Together.
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Suffolk Youth Climate Conference 2023 with secondary school students creating a giant Flag for the Future with a positive message of hope they chose to inspire and motivate their peers to ‘Be Guardians of the Earth’.
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First Light Festival 2023 with Brave Art adults with learning disabilities creating large flags and window hangings around themes of environment and resilience for Hi! Street Festival in Lowestoft.
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Mental Health First Aid Kit with students at Framingham Earl School working as a design team making art and content to reduce stigma around mental health. Outcomes include an online resource for students on the school website, a giant flag for school, posters and book.
Too often people believe they are not creative, so can't take part in projects like this.
But I believe creativity is an approach to how you live your life, an open mindset with positivity and willingness to try something new.
All projects result in original art work for participants to keep, to share with others on social media, for exhibition or permanent display in a group space, or to sell and raise funds for your chosen cause.
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Please contact me to hatch exciting plans on how to collaborate with you individually, or with a group you work with.
Contact SYSTA
Please get in touch to discuss how we can collaborate.
SYSTA workshops for individuals and groups - school, community group, festival, wedding reception, office, hospital, senior citizens home..... anywhere where there are people with stories to share and creativity to discover