Toronto, Ontario, Canada - June 18 (registered)

"O Canada Our home and native..."

Yes, I've been singing it around the house. Yay team!

The event was awesome!

One of my volunteers yesterday for organising the auction, prizes and grab bags said one of her friends had gone to the Toronto event and had a great time!

We are pleased to announce, thanks to the generosity and support of our attendees, sponsors and donors, we have raised $7900 CAN for Equality Now!

Thanks to everyone for making our screening a success!

Mel

WOW. That is great news! Plus it sounds like your event was highly successful in terms of having a great time as well as in terms of fund-raising, so kudos all round!

Congratulations, Mel and crew!! What a great way to kick off the 2011 season of CSTS!

Thanks so much!
It makes us very happy to hear that people had such a good time!
We had about 236 tickets sold this year, which is a bit lower than previous years, but people made up for it with their generosity in our auction!

They sure did. I don't think I've ever seen such bidding in all 6 years.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that our bidding will go as well.

It was a great time. We had over 100 people attend the dinner/shindig after the screening.

And thanks to our charming Toronto Browncoat, Sunny, who went around with a donation jar, more money was raised at the dinner. I think it catches those who expected to spend more at the screening who are now sitting down with good food and drink & feeling expansive.

Sounds like a good plan. We only had a few people stay for dinner so I only collected for pizza money.

Great job Toronto. And fabulous idea on putting out a donation jar at a post event meal. might need to "borrow" that next year.

Congratulations! I love reading how each screening has done something unique, and I love the idea of a shindig dinner afterwards, and passing a "donation" jar around.

Here are the details of our event in Toronto this year:

We had approximately 236 attendees this year - our numbers were down a little bit from previous years, but everyone more than made up for it with their generosity at the auction which brought in a whopping $2982 this year! We also had over $150 of straight cash donations during the event and after party as well.

Our total amount raised thus far has been $7900 CAN!

We have sent our donation to Equality Now, and after all the associated fees etc. (and thanks to our dollar,) it worked out to $7900 US! Got to love that exchange rate, for once

We still hope to do a Dr. Horrible screening this year, so that number should hopefully be even higher before we're done!

In the words of our esteemed Cap'n, "Good day."

Mel Fischer