Announcing the Harvest Twestival!

In the pub the other night, over a few beers (where all the best ideas happen), a group of Twitterers / footballing-wannabees came up with an idea for a tweetup, bringing together the disparate worlds of Karaoke, Twitter and the Harvest Festival.

The result? The Harvest Twestival!

The event will happen on 25 September in a mystery location in deepest darkest London (which means that we're still sorting out a venue...).

As well as meeting the faces behind the Twitter avatars (and checking out whether they really are as good looking as their online appearances), there'll be plenty of songs to be sung with karaoke classics and, while you're at it, do some good for the world (kind of like Band Aid but without Bob Geldof)

In the spirit of our schooling days, we'll be holding a food drive, where everyone's invited to bring a few cans of food, dug out from the back of dusty food cupboards, which we will be donating to a central London soup kitchen. It is hoped that this nostalgia trip will also be a way for the Twittersphere to help those in need.

The idea for the Harvest Twestival came about Tom Malcolm's (Diffusion PR) love for karaoke, Tim Hoang's (Porter Novelli) love for getting people together and Ben Matthews' (Hotwire PR) love for helping those in need.

There'll also be an announcement of a new project that will use the PR community to help charities non-profits and social enterprises, of which more details will be released closer to the time.

It all promises to be a fun evening, a chance to meet up with old friends and meet some new ones, all while doing a little bit to help those who are less fortunate.

Once we've sorted a venue and sponsors for a bit of beer money, we'll also set up an event invite on the Facebook group.

For more information, contact one of the organisers via twitter - Ben Matthews (@benrmatthews), Tim Hoang (@timhoang) or Tom Malcolm (@tommalcolm).

In the meantime, get practicing on your singing voice, dig out a few cans of food, and we'll see you on the 25th!