Neurodivergent Oregonians and allies are invited to present. Performance art, visual art, culinary art, and nonprofit submissions are due May 25.
Presenter: Coming to the Farmers Market Pavilion May 30: The Eugene Neurodivergent Art and Performance Expo. Host of KEPW’s Underground Echo, Wednesdays at 6 p.m., Echo interviews event organizer Kevin Kopsco:
Kevin Kopsco: My name is Kevin Kopsco. I got a grant from the City of Eugene to put on this event, Eugene Neurodivergent Art and Performance Expo. It’s there to celebrate the arts and performance and culinary art and just to be able to broadcast it because through art is a very poignant way to capture the neurodivergent experience.
[00:00:32] My organization, I started it last year, it’s called Eugene Neurodivergent Support. I started this because with all the things going on, whether globally, nationally, or locally, with my autistic pattern recognition, I saw the writing on the wall and was like, ‘Wow, there aren’t very many safety nets for anybody.’ And they’re just dropping everywhere…