Culture
Culture
Creative projects shaped by lived experience, community voice and neurodivergent leadership.
Neurodivergent Arts CIC works with cultural organisations, artists and communities to create projects where neurodivergent people and people with SEND can be visible as artists, contributors, storytellers, curators and creative leaders.
What Culture means
What Culture means
Culture is about who gets to tell stories, shape spaces, make work and be visible.
Neurodivergent Arts CIC creates cultural opportunities rooted in lived experience, creative practice and community voice.
Through exhibitions, heritage projects, workshops, public programmes and creative partnerships, neurodivergent people and people with SEND can contribute to cultural life in ways that feel meaningful, supported and authentic.
This work recognises lived experience as expertise.
How we work with cultural partners
How we work with cultural partners
We work with museums, galleries, festivals, heritage organisations, writers, artists, arts organisations and community partners to develop inclusive creative projects.
Our role may include:
Designing accessible creative workshops
Facilitating neurodivergent-led creative sessions
Supporting community curation
Gathering lived experience responses
Developing exhibition or installation ideas
Creating reflective creative resources
Supporting artists and participants to contribute at their own pace
Helping partners think about access, belonging and creative voice
Each project is shaped around the people involved, the setting and the cultural opportunity.
Past cultural work
Past cultural work
Neurodivergent Arts CIC has already supported cultural projects that bring together creativity, lived experience, community voice and public visibility.
Our past cultural work includes community exhibitions, heritage-led creative projects, public installations, creative workshops and partnership projects with cultural organisations.
These projects show how neurodivergent people and people with SEND can shape cultural work as artists, contributors, storytellers, curators and creative collaborators.
City Reflections
A cultural project exploring Southampton's city maps, walls, memory and identity.
City Reflections was a light installation exploring Southampton's city maps and walls, created with the local neurodivergent community in partnership with Southampton Forward.
The project invited neurodivergent participants to respond creatively to the city's history, including maps, walls, archives, movement, protection, identity and belonging.
Through creative workshops and community curation, participants shaped ideas that connected personal experience with the history and structure of the city.
City Reflections showed how neurodivergent people can contribute to public cultural projects as artists, thinkers, storytellers and community curators.
Christmas Exhibition – Salvation Army Christmas Tree Fair
Community-made decorations shared through a local Christmas exhibition.
In December 2025, Neurodivergent Arts CIC took part in the Salvation Army Christmas Tree Fair.
Christmas decorations were created through our art groups and with the local autistic youth group, Friends of In Touch. The decorations were brought together as part of a community Christmas exhibition, sharing creative work made by neurodivergent people across different local groups.
This project celebrated community creativity, seasonal making and the value of bringing different groups together through shared creative practice.
ArtfulScribe Neurodivergent Women's Workshops
Creative writing, reflection and lived experience-led cultural work.
Neurodivergent Arts CIC also develops creative workshop collaborations with cultural and literary partners.
Work with ArtfulScribe has included neurodivergent women's workshops exploring creativity, identity, writing and lived experience.
These sessions create space for neurodivergent women to connect through creative practice, reflect on personal and shared experience, and develop creative voice in a supportive setting.
This kind of collaboration shows how cultural work can hold creativity, wellbeing, identity and visibility together.
What cultural projects can include
What cultural projects can include
Projects can be one-off, short-term or developed over a longer partnership.
Who we work with
Who we work with
We are interested in working with:
Museums
Galleries
Heritage organisations
Arts organisations
Writers and literary organisations
Festivals
Councils
Cultural partnerships
Community organisations
Artists and facilitators
Funders and commissioners
We are especially interested in partnerships that create meaningful opportunities for neurodivergent people and people with SEND to shape creative and cultural work.
Future collaborations
Future collaborations
Neurodivergent Arts CIC is open to future cultural collaborations that centre lived experience, creative voice and community participation.
We are interested in projects that support neurodivergent people and people with SEND to take part as artists, contributors, storytellers, curators, facilitators and creative leaders.
Future collaborations might include exhibitions, heritage projects, writing workshops, public programmes, community curation, creative consultation or artist development opportunities.
If you are developing a cultural project and would like to explore working together, we would be happy to have a conversation.
Part of a connected creative network
Part of a connected creative network
Culture is one of three connected pathways within Neurodivergent Arts CIC.
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Employability & Professional Development
A person may first connect through a community group, then contribute to a cultural project, volunteer at an event, develop facilitation skills or move towards another supported opportunity over time. There is no single route through the work – the pathways overlap, strengthen one another and grow through relationship, trust and shared opportunity.
Work with us on a cultural project
If you are a museum, gallery, festival, writer, artist, cultural organisation, funder or community partner interested in working with Neurodivergent Arts CIC, we would be happy to hear from you.
We can talk through ideas for workshops, exhibitions, heritage projects, community curation, lived experience-led creative work or future collaborations.