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Participatory Arts for Neurodiverse Artists and Audiences
Enabling neuro-divergent young people to take part in arts activities that promote creative agency, wellbeing, cultural participation and social enjoyment.
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PANDA’s work is informed by groundbreaking research into autistic creativity and neurodivergence at the University of Kent
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Maybe you have a creative project to share with the world
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Celebrating Neurodivergent Creativity
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About us
PANDA arts is a not for profit organisation set up to produce high quality participatory arts activities and events that are tailored to meet the needs and interests of neurodivergent young people and to celebrate and promote neurodivergent creativity and imagination
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PANDA is informed by Imagining Autism and other ground breaking research into autistic creativity and neuro-divergence in the University of Kent. This research includes Imagining Autism (2011-2014 and subsequent work to date, particularly in The Beacon, Folkestone); Playing Apart (2018-2021) exploring the creativity of autistic adolescent girls; and Attune (2021-2024) studying the impact of creativity upon the mental health of neuro-divergent adolescents. PANDA’s work will encompass all participatory arts including visual art and making, performance and puppetry, photography and film, music and sound.
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A strong impulse behind the company is making the successful Imagining Autism (iA) project more widely available - the iA pod and its sensory, narrative driven environments; the ways the iA approach translates into the classroom, school and home; and autistic led work.
Enabling neuro-divergent young people to take part in arts activities that promote creative agency, wellbeing, cultural participation and social enjoyment.