Love it? Hate it? Bemused by it? Whatever you think of Twitter, there’s no denying it’s huge popularity, with Monday seeing it celebrating its fifth birthday.
So what better time than now to hold the next twitter festival – or Twestival – here in Liverpool?
@TwestivalLiv takes place at @PanAm_Liverpool at the @theAlbertDock on Thursday 24th March starting at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £5 and can be bought from amiando.com/Twestival2011_liverpool.html
This is also the place where you can buy a raffle ticket to help raise much needed funds for this year’s local charity Lister Steps (see below for more information about them).
There are lots of fabulous prizes to be won, including:-
- Pair First Class tickets for travel anywhere on the London Midland network from @LondonMidland
- Pair of tickets to see Roald Dahl’s “Twisted Tales” at the Playhouse, from the Playhouse
- 12 months free pass for two to any of Liverpool Acoustic events, from @lpoolacoustic
- Family day pass to the Blue Planet Aquarium
- Family pass to the Beatles Story
- Limited Edition mounted print from Sophie Green
- Large fruit & veg box from @AbelAndCole
- Afternoon Tea for Two from @CupcakesinCity
- Aveda Facial or New Set of Sculptured Acrylic Nails from The Gallery Nails in Old Swan
- Three-hour creative thinking workshop with Dr Nathan Ryder (@DrRyder)
The night will also feature music, cupcakes, and a unique Twestival cocktail – what more could you want?
For full details visit liverpool.twestival.com
Lister Steps is a community based organisation that offers family support services and childcare to families living in and around Tuebrook which is in the top 1% of disadvantaged UK wards.
Lister Steps care for over 700 children aged between 6 weeks and 14 years each week.
Lister Steps operate from a series of 29 leaky portakabins on the site of the Old Lister Drive Primary School. Many of the children who go to Lister Steps experience disadvantage and the organisation works extremely hard to redress the balance and give the children opportunities to learn skills that will help them achieve their potential both academically and socially.
Lister Steps also enables parents to go out and find work, training or continue with their education and achieve their own potential. As well as supporting local families into work they employ 24 local people, many of whom were unskilled and unemployed before working with the charity.
During 2011 Lister Steps need to fundraise £10,000 to carry out essential repairs to their buildings and grounds to ensure that the building is safe and that the children who currently benefit from the services are able to continue to do so in the future.