The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show

Now featuring Taylor Morris!

Annual New York Autism Fashion Show.
The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show
Friday, October 1, 2010
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Times Square Art Center
669 8th Avenue (between 42 & 43)
New York, NY 10036
www.timessquareartscenter.com

Click HERE to learn more, donate and/or buy your tickets.

Organized to raise awareness for children with autism, this year’s show will be supporting the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo de la Niñez, Inc. (CIDEN) in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

As you know, early intervention and intense therapy can be life changing for autistic children and their families. Currently, CIDEN, a non-profit school that is structured like a therapy center, offers individual treatment plans that incorporate occupational, speech and language therapies in addition to specialized education and psychology.

The 1st Annual New York Fashion Show aims to raise funds -- and awareness – to directly support CIDEN and its efforts to create a larger more equipped educational environment to aid in the development of these children. We need your help to raise money and awareness to rebuild CIDEN, so that they will be able to offer these children the care and specialized education that they deserve and open their doors to more children in need.

We thank you in advance for your contribution and look forward to a beneficial partnership with you and your company. Our joint initiative will make a lasting impact on the lives of children and families affected by autism, and will ensure a brighter future for those who are less fortunate.

For more information please visit www.panchiedesigns.com.

Comments

[Twyla]

Three cheers and thunderous applause for Frances Gutierrez and her classmates!!!

[John Gilmore]

HI Folks,

This show is being organized, and very well I might add, by Frances Gutierrez, a fashion student at the school where I teach (Media Studies and Poli Sci). She is the mother of a daughter with autism and she has a nephew in Puerto Rico who also had autism. Frances is a dynamo who's heart and head are in the right place.

From what I gather, the situation for kids with autism in Puerto Rica is pretty bleak. It sounds like they are about twenty years behind where we are in New York. This is going to be a great show featuring the talents of the students at the Art Institute of New York City. These kids are so ahead of the curve and hungry to make it that I am sure the next Donna Karan or Versace is in the mix. At the very least it will be very fun and hip, and it supports a cause we can al relate to.

John Gilmore