2025 • COMING SOON •
2025 • COMING SOON •
More information coming soon about Common Senses 2025!
Common Senses Festival
A month-long multi-faceted citywide event in Omaha, NE | April 2022
Common Senses Festival aims to create conversations, acceptance and lasting change in our neurodiverse community. Through powerful programming in visual arts, performance, science and beyond, Common Senses illustrates how we are all different, yet all the same.
Thank you for making Common Senses Festival a massive success!
Common Senses Festival positively impacted inclusion efforts for the Omaha autism community.
This includes:
Over 5,000 attended festival events
122 families experienced “Up and Away” performance
29 organizations represented at the “Don’t Just Dim the Lights”: An Arts & Inclusion Symposium
138 voices heard during Timbre Talks: Lifting the Unique Voices of the Autism Community
Explore what happened at Common Senses 2022
that engage all the senses through visual art and technology
for and from neurodiverse communities
on emerging research and inclusive practices
What People Are Saying
“What an incredible event. Our son on the spectrum has been to the installations and has been engrossed in all of them.”
— Festival Attendee
regarding the interactive installations hosted at KANEKO
“Today proved that balloon flights are for everyone- the ages of our balloonists ranged from 2 to 57!”
— Matthew Gutschick, Artistic Director at The Rose
regarding the ”Up and Away” Performances
Meet our 2022 Creators
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Stephanie Keeney Parks
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![Dr. Matthew Goodwin]()
Dr. Matthew Goodwin
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![Lisa Porter]()
Lisa Porter
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![Matthew Lerner, Ph.D.]()
Matthew Lerner, Ph.D.
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![James Coleman]()
James Coleman
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![Sean Ahlquist]()
Sean Ahlquist
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![Roger Ideishi, JD, OT/L]()
Roger Ideishi, JD, OT/L
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![Caren Zucker + John Donvan]()
Caren Zucker + John Donvan
Who We Are
Common Senses is a production of
Autism Action Partnership
