Unfortunately Mattias Schertell had to cancel his speak about social media tomorrow, but there’s no reason for making a sad face. We have secured a great replacement speaker: Tomas Wennström! Yes, THE Tomas Wennström who created Sweden Social Web Camp on Tjärö this summer. Tomas also runs the blog/podcast What’s Next and the web services hittarecept.se and vackertväder.se.

As a leading figure on the Swedish social media scene Tomas has a lot of experience and observations to share with us. His talk will introduce us to the ways simple services on the web can be transformed into successful business models, with his own projects as examples.

Do not miss this opportunity to see a real web legend speak in Karlshamn! Whether you study digital media, or have a company that’s looking into using the web, you will find all this very interesting. And don’t forget that there’s also a great speak about modern charity efforts by Tomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, music entertainment, auctions, raffles, food and snacks. Get your tickets today!

Twestival Karlshamn börjar synas mer och mer i media! Dels har vi en vacker banner i Commersen (tack igen för att ni sponsrar), med tillhörande omnämningar i artiklar och krönikor. Dels har vi fått en artikel i BLT och snart även i Sydöstran (bara i döda träd-versionerna än så länge).

Även online omnämns vi på ett antal ställen, bl.a. i affärstidningen CSRI i Praktiken.

We are very proud to present the donated artworks by the artists Franco Costa, Anita Larsson and Lena Frank. They have been given to us completely for free with the hopes that they will help raise money for the Akvo Foundation.

We have decided to auction the artwork off on Tradera. The auction will be fully public, starting today, and anyone will have the opportunity to make a bid online. All auctions close on the evening of the Twestival event, on 10 september at 20:45. The winner of each auction will be able to pick up his or hers artwork at the end of the Twestival, or we can arrange to have it sent by mail at the buyer’s expense.

The auctions can be found here:

• Franco Costa: Light of Norway
• Anita Larsson: Tankar om blått
• Lena Frank: illustrated poems Blomma, Dammsugare, Hus, Livboj, Natur

All artwork will be on display the entire evening, and we will set up a computer for people to make any last minute bids. The venue features free wifi, so if you are very eager to win an auction you can bring your own laptop. Just a friendly tip

Here is some additional information about the artists and their artwork (in Swedish):

Franco Costa

“Light of Norway“, grafiskt blad 12/120. Utropspris 3000:-

“Franco Costa hyser stor kärlek till naturen och har ett genuint miljöintresse. Det syns också på hans målningar som ofta har blommor och landskap som motiv.

–Ni svenskar har stor respekt för naturen och där har vi italienare mycket att lära av er, säger han.

Men han engagerar sig också i samhället på andra sätt. Han har gjort en hel serie grafiska blad om tsunamikatastrofen. Bildernas budskap är att vi måste visa solidaritet med människor i nöd världen över.
Intäkterna från försäljningen av bilderna har gått till hjälparbetet efter katastrofen och för det har Franco Costa fått ett tackbrev från självaste George Bush.

Han har också arbetat med FN:s jordbruksorganisation, FAO som har sitt säte i Costas hemstad Rom och gjort en hel serie målningar på temat Mat åt alla. Och i Vatikanen hänger hans målning Never More Holocaust, Aldrig mer förintelsen.” — Källa: BLT 050324

Anita Larsson

“Tankar om blått“, blandteknik 2006. Utropspris: 1500:-

“Anita Larsson är konstnär från Karlshamn. Hon är en av de 16 Blekingekonstnärer som nu ställer ut på Kroma i Ronneby.

–Konst är ett personligt uttryck, en reflektion. Man gräver i sig själv /…/. Jag ser varje människa som en isolerad enhet med en egen tolkning av världen. Ingen annan kommer åt ända in. Där finns ens innersta—en rikedom.

Anita Larsson arbetar med måleri och grafik. Hon växlar, eller som hon säger, vandrar mellan dem och blir pånyttfödd.” — Källa: BLT 081121

Lena Frank

Fem illustrerade dikter. Utropspris: 300:- styck

“–Jag skriver det man tänker på och upplever varje dag. Sådant som de flesta tar för givet och inte ägnar en tanke åt.

Lena Frank har skrivit ned sina vardagliga tankar sedan hösten 1997.

–Då plötsligt lossnade allt. De två första böckerna jag gav ut tog form på pappret framför mig på två kvällar.

Hon säger att dikter inte ska behöva analyseras.

–Det ska vara tänkvärda väsentligheter i livet, säger Lena Frank. Det är därför jag brinner för mina dikter.” Källa: Sydöstran 050712

The final details of the event have been decided and we have managed to put everything together into a programme for the evening.

We begin at 17:00 with some live music, mingling and snacks. At 17:30 Gourmet Grön will start serving food for those who have bought such a ticket.

When everyone has arrived (hopefully) at 18:00 we start the event with some words from the organizers, after which it’s time for Tomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson from the Akvo Foundation to present their work and the project we will be sponsoring during the evening.

Following Tomas’ talk there will be a short intermission before we will be given a short introduction to social media by BTH teacher Mattias Schertell at 19:00.

At 20:00 Lisa Bouvier and the Pop Messengers will enter the stage to play some pop music for us. People will be free to mingle about as they please.

The evening is ended at 20:30 with a raffle and the end of our online art auction, before we close the doors at 21:00. For those who don’t want to go home quite yet there will be an unofficial party at Harry’s bar afterwards.

Tonight we are proud to present our joint project with the Akvo Foundation: an effort for safe drinking water and the empowering of women in Gimbichu Woreda, Ethiopia. See this short video presentation:

Click here to view the embedded video.

You can follow the project’s status at the link above. As you can see, there’s still around €4000 needed to pull it off. Because every donation will be equally matched by Aqua for All, we have a real chance to raise the required €2000 on the night of September 10!

We are also very honored to be listed as an official Funding Partner of the Akvo Foundation. Hopefully this night will only be the first in a series of efforts for clean water and sanitation together with Akvo.

So please get your ticket for Twestival Karlshamn today, and help us help the people of Ethiopia to a better life.

We have now released tickets for the event. Buy them through Amiando.

Thanks to NetPort we can offer tickets that include food and drink from Gourmet Grön. The number is limited, however, so get a ticket quickly if you want to be sure of getting something beyond snacks to eat.

Some ticket types will also be valid as lottery tickets. By being generous to the Akvo Foundation you will have the chance to win lots of fun and interesting things and services from Karlshamn’s local merchants.

We hope we will see you at the event on September 10!

Our new posters are printed and ready to be plastered to walls and bulletin boards around town. Design is by Fredrik with some help from the Twestival media kit.

We would like to express a big thank you to Alltiprint for sponsoring us with free digital printing on nice coated paper.

A big thank you to all our fans on Facebook! There are exactly 100 of you to be exact. This is the magic limit that allows you to create a custom URL for a Facebook fan page. You can find us on http://www.facebook.com/twestivalkarlshamn.

Fan number 100 was Sofia Brändewall. Thank you Sofia for your support! You will recieve a free copy of Kim M Kimselius’ children’s book “Kinesiska Draken” when we see you at the event.

Here’s a video from Stockholm World Water Week where Akvo.org’s Thomas Bjelkeman and Juerg Staudemann of UNDP discuss the world of water wikis. Akvo.org is the target of our donations, and water wiki is part of their work to spread knowledge about clean water through the world.

Link: http://blip.tv/file/2497039

Thanks to the fantastic assistance of NetPort we have now secured a charity venue for september 10. We will be in the large hall called Deltat in the center of the main building at Östra Piren. Here’s a map of the location.

View a larger interactive map

We really want to thank NetPort for their great help with this! We could not have done it without them.