Music Is Art And Summit Educational Resources Team Up Partnership To Benefit Research Facility In Buffalo For Autistic Children Goo Goo Doll Robby Takac At The Helm

Buffalo, NY – Two very important non-for-profit organizations Music is Art and Summit Educational Resources have announced a partnership to raise awareness and bring educational and therapeutic services to children with learning and/or behavioral challenges through music and art. One of the goals of this partnership is to raise funds to build an institute for scientific research on autism and the positive effect that music has on autistic children.

Among the strategies that this partnership will be implementing are fund-raising events such as the Music is Hope CD which will include rare and/or previously unreleased tracks from artists such as Terry Sullivan, Last Conservative, The Juliet Dagger, Agent Me, Klear, Amungus, and Damien Simon, to be released this Fall. A special Music is Art Festival Weekend is planned in Buffalo, NY, including a Music is Art/Summit CD Release Party on October 1, 2005 at the newly established Music is Art Theatre (320 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY) and an Xtreme Wheels Summit Benefit Show on October 2nd (details forthcoming). All proceeds generated from the sale of this CD and from the weekend’s events will be used towards the construction of the research institute.

Robby Takac, founding member/bassist for multi-platinum selling artists The Goo Goo Dolls and president of the Music is Art Foundation, has been instrumental in bringing music and art back into high school curriculums throughout Western New York. His Music is Art Awareness Tour directly addresses the needs of disenfranchised students by reinforcing the notion that self-motivation positively impacts personal satisfaction and fulfillment. It is a free music awareness tour that features a performance and brief lecture from national recording artists such as Last Conservative and The Juliet Dagger.

“The Music is Art Foundation hopes to play a small part in discovering the ever apparent role that music plays in the management and therapy of these special children and adults,” explains Takac. “We hope to aim our attention on the research for a potential cure for autism and other mental disorders associated with this near epidemic-proportioned problem.”

Celebrating over 25 years of service to children with disabilities and their families, Summit Education Resources has grown to become the largest private provider of such services to children with autism and related mental and/or behavioral afflictions in Western New York. The Summit serves children from 42 separate school districts and have reached out to more than 1,000 children and their families.

This exciting and important partnership between the two organizations is a major step towards finding a cure for Autism and other learning and/or behavioral challenges. With music and art as the main tool, hopefully both Music is Art and Summit Educational Resources will achieve their goal of helping these children develop their individual potentials.

For more information, please visit the following websites: musicisart.org and summiteducational.org and goodcharamel.com.