Today, Thursday the Twelfth is Twestival

Wow just under a month ago, this was but another crazy

“wouldn’t it be cool if” idea.

Now, today, there will be 175+ cities across the globe partying for a purpose for charity:water.
Some are already beginning, “Hello Sydney & Auckland” and some are just beginning the last restless nights sleep before the big day “Sweet dreams LA & Vegas“.

Like a tribe of nervous parents to be and happy families we await the start of our big moment!
And not unlike a birth today begins the prospect of a new life for thousands of people in developing nations.

The prospect that the money we raise on this day will go to giving them back their hope, their future, their children’s education, their health, their family life, all taken away from them as they did not have access to clean water.

I know these problems seem huge and you may ask yourself, what can I do to help? I am only one person! But one person acting in unison with many others, unite like one drop of water in a huge wave, and in pursuit of a single goal, together we can make a huge impact. Through Twestival and charity:water we have that opportunity.

Watch this and then call all your friends: we have a plan, a party and a purpose

http://www.vimeo.com/3170682

Ok now you are all pepped up, this is what you need to do:

1. Call, text, tweet, blog, visit all your friends and tell them you are going to Twestival Amsterdam

2. Assemble them all and at 18:00 head here: SPACES, Herengracht 124-128, 1015 Amsterdam

3. Present, or Buy your ticket on the door.

4. Come in party, donate, tweet, and be amazed at the possibilities you have created!

This is your moment to show the twiterverse, and the world, that Amsterdam can make a difference.

Come to Twestival and be the change the world needs!

Online Ticket Sales end at 17:00 hours but tickets are available on the door.

Watch Amsterdam Twestival live tonight from 18:00 CET

For those of you who cannot make it - too bad!  You’re really gonna miss out on the fun. But we are lovely folk and don’t want you to miss out totally so please tune in to the Live Earth website

SEE YOU THERE!

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Het team in Amsterdam Team bestaat ui:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

Tomorrow we meet in SPACES

Tickets

As of 13h today, 169 of the 355 of our lovely followers have bought or reserved tickets! Have a look at the roll list here, if there’s anyone you’d like to meet up with tomorrow night send them a Tweet! Other than the great cause charity:water Twestival is about meeting the social networking community in your area and finding out what makes this the greatest platform for change, development and fun.

Other than great Tweeple… we promised you Food and Beer!

Food & Beer

Our caterer for the evening will be Coen Alewijnse from campagna.nl
You’ll be happy to know your borrel food will be included in the 5euro ticket
All you have to do is bring the money for a few beers, and a tshirt and the dancing & magic will happen!!

Imagine you get to have a great night with fantastic music, food and drink, all the while you know that you are raising money to bring vital life services to those most in need.

Line Up

Ancilla Tilia hosts live performances from DJ Lady Ace, DJ M-Cecile, DJ DaShank, VJ deChe

With vocals from Farah Day & Gringo Yank, sax from Local Hero, cello from Djoeke Klijzing, percussion from El Bongo & Twestival dance from Anne-May, you will agree this is a great line up for the benefit of charity:water

Sponsors

We’d like to thank another great sponsor in Amsterdam Mediamatic

Thanks and we welcome you onborad for this fantastic event.

Twee-shirts

To mark the occasion of Amsterdam’s first Twestival we have partnered with Funshirts.nl to make exclusive tshirt.

You can buy it online now and it will also be available on the night at SPACES.

They are only €10 with €6 direct to charity:water which you will agree is a great deal!

A little bird told me

Don’t forget to check out our viral video which is now featured on the official Twitter Live Earth Channel

Check it and the others out and pass them along to spread the message!

Another thing you can check out to spread the message, and get all your friends along to this great party is to download this invite via email, blog, facebook, hyves, twitter or whatever means works for you.

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Het team in Amsterdam Team bestaat ui:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

Twestival is growing exponentially around the world, so many people are going to be involved in this

Make sure you are one of them….

Videos

Just a few videos to remind you of the great idea behind the fantastic night we are planning for you on the 12th!

Jennifer Connelly appeared in a public service announcement in the US to highlight the reality ONE IN SIX people on the planet face everyday..

and to really get you moving watch this video with a track by Beck

Here in the Netherlands we have some of our own online stars getting in on the action.

Coverage on www.erwinblom.nl

On Saturday Twestival Amsterdam features in the renowned blog of twitter evangelist Erwin Blom (@erwblo)

Check out his intervew with our own @steviefrancis on how Twestival Amsterdam came about and what inspires us to do what we are doing for this fantastic city and this amazing charity!

Mobypicture #Twestival Stream

Mobypicture Netherlands online social picture sharing site and our partner, has become the online picture sharing partner of Twestival Worldwide. So if you are talking about Twestival to your friends, planning your outfit for the 12th or modeling the Twee-shirt you bought, you can have take part and share the experience, follow these easy steps!

1. Join mobypicture.com and join the Twestival group

2. take a picture with your mobile or iphone

3. upload to mobypicture.com

4. tag it #twestivalams

On the night your picture will be projected not only at Amsterdam Twestival but at Twestivals all over the world in over 185 cities! And we will have some other news with this stream so make sure you use it and you never know who will see your photo!

Here are some of the pictures so far:

Dublin Twestival Team

Amsterdam Twestival Team in SPACES

Sponsor’s

We’d really like to thank our latest corporate sponsor Cap Gemini

If you or your business would like to come on board and partner with us for this amazing opportunity please contact us at @amstwestival or email

Of course everyone who buys a ticket is also doing their bit, remember 100% of all money raised goes to charity:water to bring clean water to families who really need it!

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

More news hot off the wire…..

Twee-shirts

We have two very cool “twee-shirts” on sale for Twestival.

To mark the occasion of Amsterdam’s first Twestival we have partnered with Funshirts.nl to make 2 exclusive tshirts.

One is on sale online now and the other will be available exclusively on the 12th Feb at SPACES.

They are only €10 with €6 direct to charity:water , available in a variety of Ladies and Gents sizes! Perfect to mark the occasion, or even as a geeky valentines for that special someone.

Tickets

We heard your voices and we arranged a special deal for our Twitterinos in Netherlands!

Tickets are now available with two options to pay!

Pay in Advance: via Credit Card or via PayPal

or

Reserve and pay on the door.

Make sure you get your ticket by one of these means before the event, so we can get all your food and drink ready to ensure you have a great night!

Talent!

On the topic of a great night we have some amazing talent waiting for you on the night!

Ancilla TIlla - I’m sure you are as eager as I am to meet her, well this will make you happier, she’ll be roaming the venue on the night with a camera to interview visitors to Twestival for online streaming, youtube and ustream! Get there early to ensure you have your moment with the lady herself!

Al Bongo is just confirmed!!!! Accompanying DJ Lady Ace from 8ish courtesy of exprezz.info kicking it late will be DJ M-Cecile

Our own in team talent of @graney @blockfish & @avmaster will be handling our online streaming they are taking video link-up requests from around the world - we’re on from 6pm till midnight, live all over the planet!

There will also be a picture streaming set up by Mobypicture to link all cities around the word in one single channel. Check it !

Oh have you seen our brilliant viral video? check it out masterminded by @brandcells. Spread the word, send it to your mates…

Only 6 days left…. make sure you are not left out … So Get A Ticket, Get a Twee-Shirt and be prepared for a fantastic night.

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

We need a few more pieces of equipment for the event

For the livestream we are looking to borrow/steal a DAC (Digital Analogue Converter) aka Video toaster contact @blockfish

DJ daShank’s decks are in Canada, and he’s opening the show, so we need to beg, borrow or steal a set of Technics with a Rane mixing desk.

We don’t want to have to resort to thievery so please let us know if you have any of the above items to lend us on the 12th

If you can help us out in anyway it would be great!
You can also contact us on our mobiles @brandcells (Isabelle) 0634471018 / @steviefrancis (Steve) 0621282777

See you all next Thursday!

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

How many of you have bought your tickets?

We need to know numbers by Monday…

We don’t need much to get this event up and running, right now - it’s a numbers game. We want to feed the hungry tweeple and to do this we need to confirm with the caterer no later than Monday 9^th Feb on numbers., beer, entertainment, livestream, back channel are all in place to have a great evening.  We need the majority of people to buy their tickets by this weekend so we can confirm the numbers for food and bar by Monday.

Please click on the “Tickets” button (at the top of the page) to order your tickets and tell your friends to do the same!

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

We’d like to take this opportunity to send a big thank you to our sponsors so far. And a reminder that 100% of proceeds from the event are going to charity: water helping them to provide clean safe drinking water

A huge thank you to our €500 sponsors: @aaronkelly on behalf or Crossroads Amsterdam , Partners at Mastersearch and @rvandenhoff over at Mindz .

Unfortunately this is still not enough. We need a total of €6000 to hit our target of providing 2 wells to water starved areas. We are currently €4500 short - which means we need 9 more sponsors before next Thursday. The whole event so far has been done on a budget of zero and purely by and for the community.

Thanks to the extra volunteers who’ve gotten involved to help us pull off our ambitious plans for next Thursday: @dare2be, @blockfish, @avmaster, @mathys, @roelandp and Twestival mobile support www.mobypicture.com

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

Twestival Amsterdam Exclusive, FHM sex-columist and playboy fantasy pin-up model of the year - Ancilla Tilia will play host to over 500 innovators, change agents and early adopters at the inspirational SPACES. building on the Herengracht, 12th February 2009.

At 6pm the full evening’s entertainment will commence, kicking off with DJ daShank playing soul funk and rare groove and we will be debuting new international hip hop sensation Gringo-Yank featuring Rip City, Cap Master and DJ A-dam.
Headlining the entertainment will be a special funked up jazz-soul arrangement with Farah Day on vocals, Voice Over Cello keeping the atmosphere strictly lounge with soulful-trance accompanied by Local Hero on saxophone._Expect moody smooth soulful tunes with a modern mix of white labels and classics. Bucking the trend, sensational female DJ’s Lady Ace and M-Cecile will spin uplifting old skool disco and dance classics before closing the night with some groovy techno.

Limited availability tickets available above. You can follow the developments of the event and join Amsterdam Twestival’s groups on Hyves, Facebook & LinkedIn.

Amanda Rose, one of the organisers of Twestival Global, said “We’re already blown away by the global reception and how keen people are to invest their time and energy for free, to the Twestival and get behind charity: water. Social tweet ups like this are a great way to meet the faces behind those avatars while raising a lot of money for a fantastic cause. Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all event proceeds will go directly to support charity: water. projects in developing countries, which will positively impact the lives of thousands.”

Isabelle O’Kane spokes-person for the Amsterdam Twestival team added “We first met just 2 short weeks ago but the power of our team and our networks has enabled us to create a really important event and Amsterdam is really buzzing with conversations about Twitter and Twestival”.

charity: water. commented “We’re thrilled that the Twitter community around the world is coming together to bring clean, safe drinking water to those in need by raising funds and awareness with an event on the scale of Twestival. This is an amazing opportunity to bring the cause and its message to a global community.” 

#twestival

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

Well the last few days have been really productive for the Amsterdam Twestival team and we’re really pleased to announce our fantastic line up…

At 6pm the full evening’s entertainment will commence, kicking off with DJ daShank who will warm up the atmosphere  with soul funk and rare groove. Headlining the entertainment at the inspirationally designed SPACES. on the Herengracht will be a special arrangement with Farah Day on vocals and Djoeke Klijzing on violon and cello, they’ll be keeping the atmosphere strictly lounge with soulful-grooves accompanied by Local Hero on saxophone. Expect moody smooth tunes with a modern stylised mash of white labels and classics. Later on during the night, sensational DJ Lady Ace and DJ M-Cecille will spin uplifting old skool disco and dance classics before closing the night with some groovy techno.

We’d like to send a big thank you to all artists for helping out Charity: Water!

More on tickets- these will be available on this website via a link which we hope will be up and running within 24 hours - they won’t be long selling out given the level of early interest we’ve been getting…so be sure to get in early as we have a limited number of places.

Just to get you even more hyped about this amazing event, check out the photos of our wonderful venue SPACES.

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation

Thank God Its Friday… your party weekend kicks off with some great news!

Friday was the deadline we set ourselves and we reached our goal.

We have found you a brilliant location in the heart of Amsterdam perfect for Amsterdam’s Twestival.

Based on the Herengracht, SPACES. is the ideal location to bring us all together for one night in aid of charity: water

Further details of the evening and your entertainment will be posted on Wednesday after we sit down with Frederique to see if our plans work for her and the SPACES. Team. There will be cap on numbers so as soon as we have agreed capacity with spaces we will communicate the number of tickets which will go on sale, and you can run and grab one for yourself!

We have set the price at €5.00 100% of which goes direct to charity: water

In fact 100% of all money raised goes to the charity!

We are in discussion with sponsors and have a sponsorship plan in place and  we definitely need more sponsors, doubtless some of you will get calls from us next week.

Big THANK YOU to the team down at Mindz.com who are our first sponsor, and also to Kitty Leering for some wise words and guidance.

Thanks for your support we will update all platforms once we have the ticketing in place and lots more info for you.

Enjoy your weekends and we hope you don’t get too wet

Twestival Amsterdam
@amstwestival

Individually the Amsterdam Team are:
@elfinamsterdam - Main Contact:
@steviefrancis - Venue & Sponsorship
@brandcells - Press & PR
@cloudmash - Entertainment
@kittynel - Online Communities
@graney- Networking & Tech
@dare2be - Communications & Translation