Creative Colchester: Insight Nights - Supporting Neurodivergent Creatives

In this relaxed and informal panel, award-winning theatre maker Hannah Aria (founder of Neurodelicious), Anthony Stuart Hicks (Talent Development Producer - Mercury Theatre) and creative producer and coach, Steve Goatman, chat with Creative Colchester Programme Manager Anna Pool about the biggest challenges faced by neurodivergent creatives, and the best ways to help people thrive in creative settings.

We'll be discussing lots of topics important to the panel, including:

ND Self Limitation - Discovering and overcoming self limiting beliefs around your creative practice

Sensory overload- what is it and how can you manage it?

ND Funding - who funds ND focussed/led work and how do is it accessed?

Access Support - who supports ND creatives and how is it accessed?(including access riders)

ND cultural offer in Colchester - what's working and what isn't?

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask and discuss the questions you need from an insightful panel and audience, whether you are an ND practitioner yourself, an organisation looking to better support ND creatives or a neurotypical creative who simply wants to learn more!