Garp
03-02-2009, 20:11
Coming up on February 12th (week Thursday) there is a world wide event occuring, the first annual Twestival.
Twestival is an event principally to bring twitter communities together and raise money for charity, but are open to all attendees. The general plan is for a party of some description, good music, food et al, though each area is organising their own event to suit. Whatever the plans are I'm sure you can guarantee it will be fun. Check out your local event and see whats happening?
The charity behind it all is Charity:Water, you can read more about them here: http://www.charitywater.org/
You can find your local even here (http://twestival.com/) if you consider it might be worth attending.
I've witnessed something amazing out here in relation to this twestival. Last Wednesday a group of 8 of us gathered in downtown Honolulu with the intent on putting a local event into action on short notice. By close of day Wednesday we had a major venue, food, drinks, and one artist. By close of day on Friday we'd raised half the sponsorship money we needed ($1000 of $2000) and had almost a complete line up. By close of play yesterday, not even one week later, we'd raised all the sponsorship money and still have a couple of major media companies both promoting our event and promising more sponsorship money, all of which can go to the charity. We'd got a full line up of local musicians some of whom are "major" in the Hawaiian music industry, plus a full backline PA setup which a pro will be running, and two local famous media people as emcees. It's stunning what these local people can achieve in next to no time. So we're now pushing ticket sales, $20 a head which gets peeps entry, food and two drinks :) 200 tickets to sell, one week to achieve it. Reckon we can do it? :D
Twestival is an event principally to bring twitter communities together and raise money for charity, but are open to all attendees. The general plan is for a party of some description, good music, food et al, though each area is organising their own event to suit. Whatever the plans are I'm sure you can guarantee it will be fun. Check out your local event and see whats happening?
The charity behind it all is Charity:Water, you can read more about them here: http://www.charitywater.org/
You can find your local even here (http://twestival.com/) if you consider it might be worth attending.
I've witnessed something amazing out here in relation to this twestival. Last Wednesday a group of 8 of us gathered in downtown Honolulu with the intent on putting a local event into action on short notice. By close of day Wednesday we had a major venue, food, drinks, and one artist. By close of day on Friday we'd raised half the sponsorship money we needed ($1000 of $2000) and had almost a complete line up. By close of play yesterday, not even one week later, we'd raised all the sponsorship money and still have a couple of major media companies both promoting our event and promising more sponsorship money, all of which can go to the charity. We'd got a full line up of local musicians some of whom are "major" in the Hawaiian music industry, plus a full backline PA setup which a pro will be running, and two local famous media people as emcees. It's stunning what these local people can achieve in next to no time. So we're now pushing ticket sales, $20 a head which gets peeps entry, food and two drinks :) 200 tickets to sell, one week to achieve it. Reckon we can do it? :D