Neurokin Arts Festival is a biannual festival celebrating and showcasing the diverse creativity and talents of Neurodivergent people whilst fostering Neurodivergent community, culture and leadership.

Neurodivergent people are our wild-brained kin including Autistic people, ADHDers, OCDers, the Dys'ers (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia), as well as those with Tourette's, Synaesthesia; and anyone else whose mind dances to a different, beautiful rhythm.

Many of us inherit our differences and are born with brains different to the norm; others sustain changes through life, through trauma or injury. Often when our brains struggle in one task, they excel in another. We are not broken, but spiky - defined not by deficits, but by an uneven, breathtaking brilliance.

Too often, our deepest struggles are simply the friction of trying to survive in environments, institutions, and ways of living never designed for us.

Neurokin Arts Festival is our chance to build the worlds we actually need. This is a sanctuary to safely share our unique stories, and a soft place to land as we hear our own truths echoed back to us by our neurokin. 

To the rest of our community: we invite you in. Come to our events, hear our stories, and experience what happens when the world shifts to a more accessible, gentle way of being. In witnessing our world, you will find that we are a vital, beautiful part of our collective fabric - and perhaps, in the spaces where our hearts and minds connect, not so very different after all.

The festival began at Castlemaine Goods Shed in June 2023 and expanded in 2025, to be both online and in person at Campbells Creek Community Centre bringing together Neurodivergent people from across Australia. Neurodivergent creatives at all ages and stages of their careers were supported to present their art and workshops within community. In 2027, we ask you to support Neurodivergent people to shine and share their stories within your own local communities.