It’s Twestival day! There are Twestival events taking place all around the world today, and as of 8AM the global total of funds raised for Concern Worldwide is a marvellous $210,160. So it’s time for Oxford to do its bit too.

A quick reminder of today’s events:

10am: Coffee Morning at the Jam Factory

2pm: Social Media Debate with The Phone Room. Follow @oxtwestival on twitter for reports from here (and from all the events)

7pm: Main Oxtwestival gig at The Living Room. Invisible Vegas, Will Phipps and Ben Walker providing great music, plus a raffle and auction.

Hope to see you later!

Let me share with you few words from the charity we are supporting:

‘Hi Sylwia,

I just wanted to get in touch on behalf of Concern Worldwide to thank you so much for organising Oxford Twestival. We’re really excited about all the events next week and it is great to see that so many people across the UK are getting involved and organising events.

Unfortunately we don’t have many regional offices and so don’t have the resources to come along and support all the UK Twestival events personally (although we will be going to the London, Belfast and Galsgow Twestivals) but I still wanted to offer you any support we can provide for the evening.

It would be great to hear more about what you have planned, and if we can provide you with any information on our work or materials such as collection boxes for the night then please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Good luck with all the planning and preparations – I hope you all have a fantastic night and thank you so much once again for supporting our vital education work. If you haven’t already seen it you can visit our Twestival site for more facts and figures about our work http://www.concern.net/twestival.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Kind regards

Robyn Cummins

Fundraising Development Executive’

Robyn will also join our panel tomorrow to say few words!

In case if you are still not convinced please navigate over to this site to see what they do and how much it costs. It’s crucial that our kids and children of other nations receive proper education, but in some countries circumstances we ourselves might take for granted become a challenge - challenge which in many situations can stop this crucial process in development of cultures, nations, well - at the end of the day entire planet.

Yes, it’s an iPhone app icon!:)

For all Apple lovers we have an iPhone app which will help you to follow developments globally as well as let you make donations!

Check it out on iTunes!:)

Last year we were asking you to join us and support Twestival this way…

This time we are hoping you will join us again, this time for charity working towards better access to education. I have asked on Qik last week what education means to you (offering free tickets too;), so you still have time to join the discussion about it. I really like this comment:

What do you think? How did education change your life? What would you do, who would you be without it? Do let us know and maybe grab a free pair of tickets too;)

It’s getting very close to Oxford Twestival 2010, and we have a cracking line-up of acts for you to come and enjoy at the Living Room from 7pm on the 25th March 2010 (all funds of course going to Concern Worldwide). And as tickets are sold online and emailed straight to you, you’ve still got time to book your ticket!

So, what have we got in store for you? Well as well as the raffle and auction for items donated by our wonderful sponsors, we have three great acts for you to enjoy:

Ben Walker

Invisible Vegas

plus local musician Will Phipps.

Hope to see you there!

Oxford Twestival 2010 Virtual Box Office

Hello, I’m Ji Ho PARK.

You might see some post or tweet has various grammar errors.

Yes, they were written by me.

However, my brilliant organisers fix these error as soon as possible.

I’m a 3rd year @Oxford_Brookes student and my subjects are Arts management & Media.

I’ve the interview with Twestival HQ blog (Posterous) as an assistant organiser of Oxford Twestival.

Would you see it please?

From today, BrookesBus (U1, NU1, U5, NU5) commuters can see our advert on screen.

Yes! Oxford Twestival 2010 advert is there!

Oxford Brookes University provided this space for us to promote this Thursday’s event, so many thanks to Oxford Brookes University & Everybody’s BrookesBus

(@Oxford_Brookes & @sustainableOBU)

Well you can! We have donation tickets available if you wish to help our cause Concern Worldwide. Simply visit our virtual box office, go to buy tickets and choose one of the donation options.

The afternoon of Twestival day, the 25th of March 2010, we are hosting a debate about Education, Charity Fund-raising and Social media. As a small gift for the panelists joining us, we have prepared a little surprise!

It’s Cup Cake!

We will have Twestival cup cakes, made for us by The Cupalicious Bakery (@CupaliciousCake).

Many thanks to them for their work and generous discount.

Don’t forget you can still order your tickets for the evening event too, come and join us!

We have emphasised Twestival is not a Tweetup party.

This is a charity festival for 72 million children, who haven’t had the opportunity of primary education.

As of now (12:09AM, 23th March 2010), we have raised ￡148, and thank you so much for all your generosity so far!

These videos are provided by Concern Worldwide, the recipient of Twestival 2010. They show their primary education programmes at work in Ethiopia, Malawi and Haiti respectively, so you can see how your donation or purchase will be spent. We want even more children to get the chance of education like in these video clips.

Oxford Twestival is for you all to enjoy.

However, your one day’s entertainment could make all the difference for a child.

Thank You

Oxford Twestival 2010 Virtual Box Office: http://www.amiando.com/Twestival2010_Oxford.html