Workshops
SYSTA run a weekly artivism group for anyone with a passion to use creativity for social change. Currently held at Harry's Soul Station cafe on West End Street NR2.
Art can help bring about change for a resilient and sustainable present and future, reducing feelings of isolation and helping to heal our culture.
SYSTA artivism workshops use drawing, doodling, painting, collagraph printing, textiles, rivers of type, upcycling & bookmaking to engage & inspire you, whether you are 10 or 110, at home and at work.
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Get in touch to book a workshop from the list below, where we will use art to create work to inspire empathy, eco-literacy and self-restraint to consume less and reinvent our culture from a consumer to a conserver/ecological economy.
Explore the science behind the Planetary Boundaries
On this workshop you will explore the planetary and earth system boundaries and their tipping points, creating art to inspire hope and action for a safe and healthy future for people and planet, our community and our home. Adapting theory to your local reality we will explore the facts and use art to find hope for a sustainable, just and resilient world.
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Create new stories of Resilience & Sustainability
On this workshop you will create art to 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.
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We Are Nature
On this workshop you will explore and celebrate nature as essential for our existence and whose welfare is our responsibility. We will increase our collective levels of nature literacy, understanding what nature does for us as a source for a healthy life, not as a resource to be plundered. You will 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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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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Please email for further details and to book.
Previous workshops:
Possitopia Festival
Workshops imagining a greener, kinder, sustainable future for people and planet with adults and children creating Flags for our Future, Inspiring Planetary Partners playing cards and contributing ideas to develop the SYSTA 'Tipping Points' board game.
Brave Arts
Workshops imagining characters and creating giant window hangings for Lowestoft First Light Festival.
Norfolk Schools
Organised in collaboration with Norfolk & Norwich Millenium Library and Norwich Schools of Sanctuary, workshops with local Junior and Secondary Schools in Norwich took place to raise support for, and awareness of, people forced to migrate. Arts and storysharing workshops with local artists and a chance to explore the library archives and discover the positive contributions made to Norwich as a city historically from people who have made Norwich their new home having had to flee their own. Work produced was exhibited during Refugee Week 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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Norwich Millenium Library Story Festival
Storysharing workshops with 60 Yr2 school children in the Children's Library.
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SAW Trust
Workshops with children at Latitude Festival making magic potions to make the world better.
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Norwich Science Festival
Raising awareness of sustainable fashion, reusing and repair to reduce landfill. Raising awareness of climate change impact on endangered Norfolk insects.
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Field of Joy
Workshops with young people raising awareness of issues important to them including the environment, deforestation, plastic pollution, climate change and being kind to horses.
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