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 get involved.
These partnerships help create a space where community members can connect with supportive organizations, discover new resources, and celebrate autistic pride together.
Opportunities include:
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.
Host a Community Table
Community Tables are designed for nonprofits, advocacy groups, community programs, and individuals who want to create welcoming spaces for shared activities and connection.
Instead of traditional outreach booths or information tables, these spaces invite people to do something together.
For many autistic and neurodivergent people, communication flows more naturally when attention is shared with an activity. A game, craft, puzzle, or collaborative project creates a comfortable environment where connection can happen without pressure.
Community Tables are our way of modeling and celebrating that style of interaction.
Some tables might host card games or tabletop activities. Others might offer small crafts, interactive demonstrations, or hands-on challenges. The goal isn’t simply to present information — it’s to create moments where people can connect while their hands and minds are engaged.
Community Tables are free to host, because the goal is participation and community building rather than sales.
Tables may be located indoors on the first floor of the Chattanooga Downtown Library or in the outdoor library space, depending on the activity.
If you would like to host an activity and help create one of these spaces, we invite you to apply.
Event Partnerships & Underwriting
Autistic Pride Day is made possible through collaboration with organizations, businesses, creatives, and community leaders who believe in creating spaces where autistic people can celebrate identity, community, and pride.
Many of the experiences that will happen throughout the day exist because community partners asked a simple question:
“What can we contribute?” Then they stepped forward to help make it happen.
Some partners support the event through underwriting or in-kind donations, offering services, materials, or experiences that become part of the celebration itself. Others collaborate with us to host activities or programming that bring their unique strengths into the day. These partnerships allow Autistic Pride Day to grow into something richer than any one organization could create alone.
This first Autistic Pride Day is already being shaped by incredible community contributions.
Creatives on the Go Party Co and The Craft Cottage are donating creative experiences that invite people to make and explore together as in-kind donations. Tea with Iroh is offering a tea room experience through an in-kind donation that creates a space for guests to slow down, connect, and share a peaceful moment. Chattoonie is bringing cosplay actors to spark imagination and playful interaction, while REconnect Nature School is creating youth activities that encourage curiosity and exploration. Northern Light Behavioral Consulting recognized how much their clients enjoy Bubble Mania at other community events and stepped forward to underwrite that experience as an in-kind donation. Barking Legs is managing and hosting the Open Mic Info Dump, giving community members a space to share their voices, passions, and interests with an engaged audience.
These partnerships are what transform the event from a gathering into a community-created experience.
If your organization, business, or creative group has an idea for how you might contribute — whether through underwriting, in-kind donation, collaborative programming, or another unique offering — we would love to hear from you.
Created Together
Autistic Pride Day is being created by the community, for the community. Through markets, shared activities, and partnerships, each contribution helps shape what this celebration becomes.
If you have questions, ideas, or would like to explore ways to participate, we invite you to connect with us.
However you choose to participate, we’re grateful to have you as part of it.
