twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

WOW! What a fabulous night we had on Thursday evening, at the Melbourne Twitter Festival, the Twestival!

The very brilliant Lou Pardi was our MC for the evening, welcoming everyone and introducing the crowd to the concept of the Twestival.

Lou was followed by Rebecca Scott, the founder of STREAT Melbourne, who spoke from the heart about the journey which lead to her to establish this Social Enterprise to help stop youth homelessness.

Whilst we were listening to these inspiring people, our mouths were filled with treats from the Abbottsford Convent Bakery, Pan Asian Bakery and Chillipadi followed by some delicious macarons from LuxBite.

Beer and wine flowed courtesy of Red Hill Brewery, Dal Zotto Wines and Prentice Wines.

A surprise visit from Father Bob was a lot of fun. He arrived to show 'Solidarity'to the great cause. He is a great bloke, you really should follow him on twitter @FatherBob an follow his adventures!

Melbourne Artist, Jeff Martin, showed his tremendous support for this event, by donating a wonderful art piece entitled PORK. This auctioned piece was SOLD for almost $3000 to Red Hill Brewery. Thank you so much to you both.

 

The generosity of everyone who attended this heart-warming evening resulted in us being able to raise $6705.00 to give directly to STREAT Melbourne. I  hope that with this donation, Rebecca’s' vision for the future of 100s of STREAT carts are now just that little bit closer to reality.

The evening would not have been such a smooth operation without the following people who pitched in to help out. So big thanks to:   Sunisa - STREAT Melbourne, June Tan, Wendy, Nastassia Milevoj, Ruby, Charlotte McGee, Shanny at Cafe Elevenses585 and the team from 1000 Lux

If you were unable to attend please continue to support STREAT and eat at their food cart in Federation Square, or visit their Coffee Cart in Melbourne Central, where you can join the fight against youth homelessness 'the delicious way'!

Many thanks again to the following for supporting this event:

FOOD AND BEVERAGE SPONSORS

PANASIAN CHAPEL *  CHILLIPADI * ABBOTTSFORD CONVENT BAKERY

LUXBITE   * DEL ZOTTO WINES * PRENTICE WINES * RED HILL BREWERY

AUSTRALIAN FARMERS DIRECT * PLUMM GLASSWARE

                

SILENT AUCTION DONORS

JEFF MARTIN * LUXBITE * HEALTHY BALANCE FITNESS  * PIERRICK BOYER  * EMMA & TOMS

LE PETIT GATEAU * HAUL * LILYEM SKIN AND BODY  *  OMAH’S RESTAURANT * CYCLESTYLE AU

SO ETHIC * MEZZANINE WINES * THE BLACKMAN HOTEL * 100th GALLERY 

Last but most certainly not least, please watch the very lovely video package that Joel and Marcus at 1000Lux have put together. I feel they have captured the essence of our event and true spirit of STREAT.

Twestival Melbourne - STREAT (Same Day Edit) from 1000 LUX on Vimeo.

Finally, we just want to send out a massive thanks, not only to those who were there to support the event on the night, but to the many who were unable to attend. We certainly appreciate all those who tweeted, retweeted and offered their kind wishes to make this night a success for Streat.

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU from the team at Twestival Melbourne!

The Twestival Melbourne event held at the STREAT offices last night was a huge success.

That is due to the support of those who attended and those who donated and assisted with the event.

Your generousity has been amazing. Brilliant!!

Please enjoy this Video created by 1000Lux who captured the heart of STREAT and Twestival.

http://www.1000lux.com.au/

Posted by Jane Mills

The day is finally here, TWESTIVAL kicks off in less than an hour today and aren’t we all excited?

Over 200 cities are over the globe are participating in thier own cities to raise for for a nominated local charity and 60+ Cities will be joining  the world-record setting global live stream!

If you’d like to link, watch, or even join in the global discussion go here:  http://urdb.org/twestival

Click “join event” and login with twitter – and you can then join the chat, ask a text question or even a video question if you want to appear on camera!

Good Luck to all the cities participating and I can’t wait to see everyone from around the world on this historic day!!

Love and peace xo

Bhakti

Jeff Martin Artwork – PORK – Value - $3500

http://www.jeffmartin.com.au/news%20and%20events.htm

www.gouldgalleries.com

Gould Galleries – Victoria

270 Toorak Road, South Yarra,

Victoria 3141, Australia

+61 3 98278482

Macaroon Tower from Luxbite – Value - $160

http://www.luxbite.com.au/

38 Toorak Rd Sth Yarra 3141

+61 398 675 888

@ LuxBite

Healthy Balance Fitness - 3 x Bootcamp/Boxing courses – Value - $204

http://www.healthybalancefitness.com.au/

PO Box 2196

Wattletree Rd P.O. 3145

Victoria  Australia

0414 288 434

@HealthyBalanceF

Pierrick Boyer - Masterclass Patissier course for 2 – Value $224 -

http://www.pierrickboyer.com/Home/Pierrick_Boyer.html

Pierrick Boyer, Melbourne - Australia

Pastry Chef - Culinary Consultant

0431 366 703

@PierrickBoyer

Le Petit Gateau - Voucher for large cake – Value - $50

http://www.lepetitgateau.com.au

458 Lt Collins St

Melbourne Vic 3000

03 9944 889

Haul - iPad Cover  - Value - $79

http://www.haul.com.au/

29 Best Street,

North Fitzroy

Victoria Australia 3068 

+613 9486 7810

@haul

LilyEm  Skin and Body - 30-minute massage & 60 minute facial treatment – Value - $150

http://www.lilyem.com.au/

236 Lennox Street

Richmond, VIC 3121

03 90782222

@lilyememily

Omah's Restaurant - voucher – Value - $100

http://www.omahs.com/

Port Melbourne and Hawthorn

(03) 9676 9917

CyclestyleAu - Rectangular Wicker Basket- $79

http://cyclestyle.com.au/

+61 409 606 773

@CycleStyleAu

So Ethic - Unidot Bamboo Sunglasses – Value – $150 -

http://www.soethic.net/

38-44, Rebecca Walk, Batman Park, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

+61 (0) 450725511

@SoEthic

So Ethic - Pure and Green hamper – Value - $100

http://www.soethic.net/

38-44, Rebecca Walk, Batman Park, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

+61 (0) 450725511

@SoEthic

 So Ethic - Como No vegan boots – Value - $150

http://www.como-no.fr/como-no.fr/Bottes.html

http://www.soethic.net/

38-44, Rebecca Walk, Batman Park, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

+61 (0) 450725511

@SoEthic

So Ethic - Make Me Iconic cushion, mug and tea towel set – Value - $150

http://www.makemeiconic.com/

http://www.soethic.net/

38-44, Rebecca Walk, Batman Park, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

+61 (0) 450725511

@SoEthic

The Blackman Hotel (Art Series Hotel) - One night accommodation (art series hotel) – Value $350

http://www.artserieshotels.com.au/Blackman

Art Series [The Blackman] Melbourne

452 St.Kilda Road (entry via Arthur Street),

Melbourne 3004 VIC

03 9039 1444

100^th Gallery - Space in 100th Gallery and Online Gallery– Value - $836

2 walls in one hundredth gallery (1 x 2.6m and 1 x 3.0m) for 2 weeks (Value $616 inc. GST)

Concurrent online exhibition on 100thgallery.com for up to 10 works for 4 weeks (Value $220 inc. GST)

10% sales commission on works sold during the exhibition to be donated to STREAT

 http://100thgallery.com/

49 Porter Street Prahran VIC (Not yet open to the public)

+61 (0) 413 00 1234

@100thGallery

Thanks to the generousity of highly aclaimed artist Jeff Martin we have this wonderful painting up for Auction to raise funds for STREAT Melbourne.

This framed exciting artwork will be Auctioned with no reserve at our Twitter Festival fundraising event on Thursday March 24.

If you are interested in being the proud owner of this wonderful piece entitled PORK, please let us know in the Comments section of this blog.. consider it an impromtu Auction site until we get our live Auction site up and running.

For futher information on Jeff Martin and his insiders world of Kitchens around the globe and his artwork check out his website http://www.jeffmartin.com.au/news%20and%20events.htm

Make sure you get on down to the event - buy your tickets today. Wonderful food, drinks and entertainment provided.

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