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Autistic Pride Day in Chattanooga features four floors of adventures, special guests, interactive experiences, a silent auction, open mic, and community celebration — built by and for autistic people.
Partner With Us
Autistic Pride Day brings together community organizations, creators, and businesses from across the region. If you would like to host a table, share resources, or participate as a vendor, this is where you can learn more and apply.
Partnership opportunities include:
Step into Your Community
Step Forth: Virtual Volunteer Summit
We’re bringing our community together to step forward, share our strengths, and help shape the work ahead. During the summit we’ll create committees and projects together, based on volunteers’ special interests, skills, and passions.
Inside this group you can:
Introduce yourself
Share your interests and talents
Help shape committees and focus areas
Stay updated on planning and next steps
This space is collaborative, supportive, and community-led. Whether you’re here to organize, create, research, advocate, or help behind the scenes—there’s a place for you.
Step forth. Your strengths belong here.
A First Look at Autistic Pride Day
Something big is coming.
At our March Meet the Board gathering, we’ll be unveiling the full vision for Chattanooga’s first autistic-led Autistic Pride Day.
We’re revealing the location.
We’re revealing the adventures.
We’re revealing the special guests.
We’re revealing how to become a vendors or how to host community tables.
And we’re sharing how four floors of side quests and interactive experiences will come together to amplify, center, and empower autistic voices in a celebration built for us, by us.
This isn’t just an information session.
It’s the first public look at what this day will actually become.
If you want to see how this celebration is taking shape — and be in the room when it’s announced — this is the moment.
Meet the Board - March Gathering
Saturday, March 7th
2–5pm
Downtown Chattanooga Library — First‑Floor Auditorium
This gathering is an open invitation to connect with board members, ask questions, learn more about Autistic Pride Day, and be present for the venue announcement and big reveals. It’s a casual, community‑centered space where people can show up, participate, and help shape what comes next.
Thank you to Our Underwriter
With your support of the first Autistic Pride Day in the Southeast, you are showing how community strengthens community through autistic leadership.
Join Our Market
Our vendor area highlights artists, makers, and small businesses — especially those from autistic, neurodivergent, and disability communities.
Vendors have the opportunity to share and sell their work while connecting directly with the community. This space celebrates creativity, entrepreneurship, and the many ways autistic and neurodivergent people contribute to the cultural and creative life of our region.
Autistic Pride Day is proud to be the first autistic-led pride celebration of its kind in the Southeast, created by autistic leadership for our community. We are looking for vendors who bring unique, thoughtful, and creative work to the event — from art and books to handmade goods, oddities, and curated finds.
Our vendor hall takes place indoors on the 4th floor event space of the library. To respect the library environment, all vending is limited to this designated space, creating a lively and welcoming market atmosphere throughout the day.
This space also hosts one of the event’s main attractions — the Open Mic Info Dump hosted by Barking Legs Theatre— which brings steady foot traffic and an engaged audience into the vendor hall. The market becomes part of the main-event energy of Autistic Pride Day.
Booth spaces include a table and chairs and are available in multiple sizes, allowing vendors to select one or more spaces and curate the layout that works best for them.
Vendor participation helps make Autistic Pride Day possible. Vendor fees directly support the creation of this community celebration.
If you create art, crafts, books, handmade goods, or other products you would like to share, we invite you to join us.