Saturday, July 23, 200512noon - 8pmAlbany, NY
Uforia Entertainment sponsors The 1st Annual Albany Riverfront Music Festival, a benefit raising funds for Crossroads Center for Children, a preschool for children with autism. The festival will take place at the Albany Riverfront Corning Preserve with live music, DJs, family activities, vendors and fundraising for a much-needed new playground.
The 1st Annual Albany Riverfront Music Festival will be held Saturday, July 23, 2005 from 12 noon to 8pm at the Albany Riverfront Corning Preserve. Admission will be a voluntary donation, and all proceeds will go directly to the Crossroads Center for Children playground fund. The fundraising goal is $30,000.
Uforia Entertainment is sponsoring the inaugural festival in support of Crossroads Center for Children, bringing local and regional performers, DJs, MCs, food, craft vendors, a car raffle, a Latin Hustle Dance Contest and children's activities to the Albany riverfront.
The inaugural Albany Riverfront Music Festival brings together a wide mix of music and community activities while raising money for the Crossroads Center for Children playground fund.
Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra, Sub Zero, Chantal Dominique, Ron Peterson & Lex Norwood, Breeze and The Jimmy Jam Band.
DJ Paponentelo, DJ Kuttmasta Supreme & DJ Gin, with DJ Debonair, J-Bax and Traci Mixx serving as festival MCs.
The event's $30,000 fundraising goal will support a much-needed new playground for Crossroads Center for Children.
Latin Hustle Dance Contest, food, craft vendors, a car raffle and activities for children throughout the day.
The 1st Annual Albany Riverfront Music Festival is being held to raise money for a much-needed new playground for Crossroads Center for Children, a preschool for children with autism.
Admission will be by voluntary donation, with a fundraising goal of $30,000. All proceeds will go directly to the Crossroads Center for Children playground fund.
The planners and volunteers for the Albany Riverfront Music Festival encourage the public to attend, enjoy a full day of music and activities, and support the playground project.
The Albany Riverfront Music Festival was created to help raise funds for a much-needed new playground at Crossroads Center for Children. With the support of the community, sponsors, performers, volunteers and everyone who contributed, that goal became a reality.
The original wooden playground had become worn and splintered and was in need of replacement for the children and students served by Crossroads Center for Children.
The fundraising effort helped make a new, modern playground possible for the students at Crossroads Center for Children, creating a safer and more welcoming place for them to play.
We achieved our goal. The support generated through the Albany Riverfront Music Festival helped turn the need for a new playground into a completed project for the students with special needs at Crossroads Center for Children.
Crossroads Center for Children is a nonprofit education and treatment program for children with Autism and Spectrum Disorders.
Crossroads describes autism as a neurological disorder affecting the function of the brain, with symptoms that typically appear within the first three years of life. The school states that autism is presently the third most prevalent syndrome in the United States and that statistics report at least twenty-two babies are born daily with this syndrome.
Crossroads emphasizes that with appropriate education and treatment there is much hope for these children. The school uses Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as its treatment philosophy and approach to autism intervention and notes ABA as the only method for which empirical research has validated success.
Crossroads provides intensive behavior therapy using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) both at the school and at home.
Crossroads provides services including parent training, sibling counseling, behavior management programs, support groups and other services for children and their families.
Crossroads states that funding is available and provided by the state, counties and school districts, while the costs associated with operating a program like Crossroads are numerous.
The festival is sponsored in part by the following organizations and businesses.
Photographs and interviews are available. Contact the event co-chairs below for festival information.
518-859-4997
sjant1@juno.com
518-421-8442
kendrick@uforiaentertainment.com
For information, to become a sponsor or to make a donation, please call 518-384-3833.
Donations can also be made at any Citizen’s Bank or First Niagara Bank.
Please make checks payable to: Albany Riverfront Music Festival.
View the front and back festival flyers plus the before-and-after playground images.
Watch all six videos from The 1st Annual Albany Riverfront Music Festival one at a time in the larger single-window gallery below.
Saturday, July 23, 2005 • 12noon - 8pmAlbany Riverfront Corning Preserve • Albany, NYBenefit for Crossroads Center for ChildrenSponsored by Uforia Entertainment
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