We are looking forward to seeing you at our next Creative Connection Club, a space for Neurodivergent adults to connect over creative exploration.
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When & Where
Date: Thursday 13th November 2025
Time: 7 to 9pm (please do not arrive early – doors open at 7)
Location: Viking Hall, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs, CT10 1NU (see “Access & Transportation” details below for public transport and car parking details.)
What is the Creative Connection Club?
The NDFT Creative Connection Club is a programme designed to complement our regular social meetups and coffee mornings, offering a dedicated space for Neurodivergent adults to explore a range of creative activities shaped by community interest. Each month, sessions are facilitated by professional artists and practitioners, with a focus on creativity, connection, and environmental sustainability.
Free Weaving, Workshop Details
This workshop offers a tactile, low-pressure space to create a textile-based abstract artwork using a simple frame and everyday materials like thread, fabric scraps, ribbon, and wool. Working with processes such as wrapping, knotting, layering, and optional stitching, participants build their piece gradually — like painting with textures rather than pigment.
The process is designed with Neurodivergent experience in mind. Vicki developed this approach as a visual artist with AuDHD, frustrated by the structure of traditional weaving, she began to works somewhat akin to a textile version of a Jackson Pollock painting. This process embraces impulsivity and randomness while offering just enough containment — the frame provides structure, but how you fill it is entirely up to you. It suits both those who prefer order and repetition, and those who work best through spontaneity and expressive freedom.
The early stages involve repetitive wrapping — rhythmic and grounding — while later stages allow for more play, detail, or dense layering. You can go slow and methodical or fast and intuitive. There’s space to talk, share stories behind your chosen materials, or work in focused silence. The activity meets you where you are.
Basic materials are provided (fabric scraps, ribbon, wool, thread), but you’re encouraged to bring your own and even add small objects, such as trinkets or buttons — especially anything with personal meaning or history. These small gestures of memory become part of the work itself.
No experience is needed. The activity is gently guided over two, two-hour sessions on 13th November and 11th December. You don’t need to attend both sessions. You can work on one weaving per workshop or work on a larger one over both sessions. The workshop offers space for exploration, sensory engagement, reflection, and making without pressure.
Workshop schedule
- 7-7.15pm – welcome and settling in
- 7.15-7.30pm – initial instructions
- 7.30-8pm – free weaving
- 8-8.10 – break
- 8.10-8.50 – free weaving
- 8.50-9pm – wrap up and close
Facilitator Bio
Alt-Text Generator Assistant said:Vicki Salmi is a working-class visual artist with an MA in Fine Art. Her practice centres on her late-diagnosed AuDHD. She’s a prolific maker grounded in mark-making and layering. It’s a rebellious, automatic, process-driven exploration of chaos and order, impulse and control, hyperfocus and distraction, imperfection and perfectionism, sensory overload, procrastination, joy, and frustration—embracing contradiction.
She’s faced discrimination for how she speaks and the materials she uses, but accessibility and authenticity matter more than conforming to imposed standards.
Her film The Joy and Anxiety of ADHD Thought Process was shown at Light Up Ramsgate 2024 and Elevate Slow Conference 2025. She’s exhibited in various group and solo shows, including at Turner Contemporary.
She’s an Outside-In Ambassador and part of upcoming shows at The New Art Gallery Walsall and Christie’s London.
She’s recently been invited to write a chapter on Neurodiverse Aesthetics for a book on Disability Research and Enquiry.
Is the Creative Connection Club for you?
Who are our workshops for?
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are for Neurodivergents adults from all backgrounds and all abilities, whether diagnosed, self-identifying or questioning*.
*Neuro-curious (questioning whether you might be Neurodivergent) and self-diagnosed/self-identifying individuals are absolutely welcome.
Who are our workshops NOT for? (must read)
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are not for anyone seeking unpaid emotional labour from our community.
Additionally, they are not a place for you to carry out research, arrange consultations or solicit feedback or gather information for your own agenda.
Finally, they are not for anyone being paid to attend on behalf of an organisation.
If you have a feeling that this might be you, please send us an email at info@ndft.org.uk and we’ll do our best to assist you appropriately.
The only non-Neurodivergent people welcome at this event are support-people/caregivers and potentially venue staff.
Only adults who are 18 years old or older can attend our events. Even if accompanied by a parent or guardian, we cannot allow under-18s to attend. This policy is in place to ensure the safeguarding, safety and well-being of everyone involved, including yours.
Welcome Pack & Code of Conduct
We ask all participants of our Creative Connection Club to read, agree and comply with our code of conduct, therefore ensuring the safety of everyone involved as well as their own.
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Access and Transportation
Travelling by Public Transport
Bus Stop ‘Baptist Church’ with buses 8A breeze; 8X breeze; 9X; 69; 946; Loop.
Travelling by Car
Carparks (charges apply), from closest to furthest to venue:
Crofts Place; Albion Street; Chandos Square; Broadstairs Station (train station).
Free street parking:
All street parking spaces labelled as “pay and display” are free after 6pm across Thanet. High street; Pierremonth Avenue; York Avenue; York Street; Belvedere Road; The Vale.
See our venue’s visual story below for visual information about access and transportation.
Venue’s Visual Story
Our visual story is a handy document that shows you what to expect about the venue and where things are. Read it before you come, we hope it helps you enjoy our Creative Connection Club even more!
Is Booking Required?
We recommend booking in advance because we limit the number of tickets available to book for safeguarding reasons. Therefore, once maximum capacity is reached, we won’t be able to let anyone else in.
You don’t have to book a ticket to come, however, it’s the only way to absolutely guarantee your place for the Creative Connection Club.
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