Melbourne, Australia will be participating in CSTS 2009. We'll be shindiggin' in August with Serenity and Dr Horrible!!

UPDATE: CSTS Melbourne's big event will take place on Sunday, 30 August.

CSTS Melbourne is back for another year, this time on Sunday, 30 August at Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank. The festivities begin at 12pm and will include Serenity and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, as well as some very shiny extra special stuff not ever seen before in Melbourne!

Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to win some extremely awesome prizes in the raffle, live auction and costume competition. Prizes include items signed by Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion, Jewel Staite, Ron Glass, Jonathan Woodward, Nectar Rose, Michael Fairman, Sonny Rhodes, Geoff Mandel, Dichen Lachman and more!

We’ll also have a range of merchandise available for sale, including limited edition Kaylee Maquettes! Tickets are $15 advance or $20 at the door. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to celebrate the works of Joss Whedon and raise money for a vital cause – Equality Now!

Check out all the details on our new website - www.melbournebrowncoats.com

If anyone has questions or would like to volunteer to help put on an uber amazing event, please send me a PM or email melbbrowncoats@gmail.com

That is great news. So pleased that Australia is taking part this year.

So far, we have Melbourne and Launceston participating. And possibly an Affiliate Event in Adelaide.

Can you put me in touch with who's running the Melb event so we can get them setup on the CSTSANZ site? I already put Lonny as a screening on there, but as Amanda is not being forthcoming with details again this year, I haven't been able to do any more than that.

I am the organiser for Melbourne.

Melbourne Browncoats will have it's own site up in the next week or so, which will include CSTS and our various charity activites at Supanova, Armageddon etc, and our various social activities.

Ok. enjoy your new website

I'm so excited Does anybody know where it is?

Venue details are still being worked out, and we're trying to fit out dates around the Continuum 5 convention, which will be in Melbourne on 14-16 August (www.continuum.org.au).

As soon as we've got it locked down, we'll post it here!

That's awesome news.

Be sure to send in your reg form if you haven't. I'm only saying this because so far I don't see it updated on the global form. And I'm very happy to see more from Down Under. WHOOT!

Melbourne has been awesomely registered since May 1st! Yay for Aussie screenings!

Cool! There are others I've had email from and I was looking at the bottom of the form and not the top. lol Because a couple people recently sent forms in. All hail dyslexia!

let me know when you get your csts.com page up and running and ill link to it from cstsanz. the melb page has already had over 100 unique hits this month, which is not shabby considering word isn't really out there yet.

Hi everyone!

We have plans to put on 2 (possibly 3?) events this year, and it's all looking very exciting (but a bit hush-hush until we lock away the details). Events will take place in August and September at this stage.

We're in the process of locking down our venue, which will be a new one for this year. It's close to the CBD and if we get it all squared away and shiny like, then it has the wonderful benefit of coming very cheap, which means more money for Equality Now!

We already have some amazing items for our live auction, as well as raffle, trivia and costume competition prizes.

If you're interested in volunteering on the Organising Committee, would like to become a sponsor or donate a prize to the event, please drop us a line at browncoats.dowunder@gmail.com

We'll provide updates here as soon as they're available!

Sounds exciting

UPDATE: CSTS Melbourne's big event will take place on Sunday, 30 August.

There's lots of fun and excitement planned, as well as some amazing raffle, auction and costume competition prizes!

We'll have more details for you soon, including the announcement of the currently so-super-secret-that-we-can't-tell-you-yet location, schedule of events, list of prizes and how to get tickets.