**Seattle, WA USA - Sept. 17th (Registered)**

Traevynn · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:02 pm

The Seattle Browncoats are proud to present the 6th annual in support of Equality Now on September 17th, 2011 at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle! - 2700 24th Ave E, Seattle, WA

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What's in store this year? Here's the plan... however, as any Browncoat knows, "what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar." :wink:

Tickets for the full evening are on-sale now for $30, and are available until midnight, September 8, 2011. Ticket link: http://www.cstsseattle.org/tickets.html

The Event ticket includes admission to Serenity, light refreshments after the movie, and admission to the concert. Event tickets may be purchased at the door on the day of the event on a space-available basis.

Movie-only tickets will be available online through September 15 for $15 and at the door for $17.

Commemorative T-shirts and tote bags will be available for pre-purchase online and at CSTS. Our shiny designs are above and you can order one of each! :mrgreen:

NOTE: All tickets and pre-purchased merchandise will be distributed at the theater on September 17. (no, we will not be mailing tickets. please pick them up at Will Call).

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.cstsseattle.org.

Schedule of events:

4:30 p.m. - Doors open. Concessions, Browncoat swag, and musician CDs will be available for purchase.

5 p.m. - Serenity will begin (Blu-ray).

7 p.m. - Directly after the film, we will hold the main raffle drawing. You must be present to win!

7:30 p.m. - For those remaining for the full event, we'll head upstairs to mingle, share food and drink, and marvel at the splendor of costumed individuals.

8:30 p.m. - Back by popular demand! Live music by , , and . Their Firefly-inspired and original tunes are always crowd pleasers!

9:30 p.m. - A special raffle drawing

10:00 p.m. - A fun-filled evening comes to a close, and your generosity has benefitted many fine charities.

MORE INFO FOR THE CURIOUS:

Can't Stop the Serenity Global: CSTS is a unique opportunity to indulge your geeky side while doing some good! Since 2006, fans have organized screenings of Joss Whedon's Serenity to raise funds and awareness to support Equality Now in their work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world.

was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses.

RAFFLE SWAG

The raffle is one of the most anticipated elements of Can't Stop the Serenity. Companies and individuals support our cause by donating all kinds of great things. We separate those items into about 6-10 raffle packs (depending on how many items we get). In front of each pack is a list of what's inside and a little bucket. If you want to try to win that raffle pack, you may drop as many raffle tickets as you want into its bucket. The more tickets you put in a single bucket, the more chances you have to win!

Immediately following the screening of Serenity, we will draw for the raffle winners and call out the numbers on the raffle tickets. You must be present to win. If your number matches, you get to walk away with all that great swag.

We will also be having an extra-special raffle pack with the primo goodies in it for the event ticket holders. We will draw that winner after the live music. (See for details.) Again, you must be present to win.

Raffle tickets cost $1 each and will be available for sale here online and on the day of the event. You can purchase as many as you want after seeing the merchandise.

If you are interested in donating to the raffle, please contact us at info [at] cstsseattle [dot] org.
This year CSTS Seattle proceeds will be distributed as follows: Equality Now (75%), SB Charities (15%), Northwest Harvest (5% plus food donations), and MOHAI (5%).

Traevynn · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:09 pm

More great news! And an updated Raffle prize list! :shock:

is offering a very special prize this year, and you don't even need to buy a raffle ticket to win!
All CSTS Seattle ticket holders will be entered in a drawing to win two weekend passes to Emerald City Comicon 2012 and an exclusive backstage meet-and-greet with one of the media guests (for the winner and a guest)! :mrgreen:

The value of the passes alone is a huge donation, but the meet-and-greet opportunity is above and beyond the call of generosity. The meet-and-greet is exactly what it says: exclusive. It will be almost private access to the star (TBD) and an opportunity to take a photo with him/her and get something signed.

The raffle is one of the most anticipated elements of Can't Stop the Serenity. Companies and individuals support our cause by donating all kinds of great things. We separate those items into about 6-10 raffle packs (depending on how many items we get). In front of each pack is a list of what's inside and a little bucket. If you want to try to win that raffle pack, you may drop as many raffle tickets as you want into its bucket. The more tickets you put in a single bucket, the more chances you have to win!

Immediately following the screening of Serenity, we will draw for the raffle winners and call out the numbers on the raffle tickets. You must be present to win. If your number matches, you get to walk away with all that great swag.

We will also be having an extra-special raffle pack with the primo goodies in it for the event ticket holders. We will draw that winner after the live music. (See for details.) Again, you must be present to win.

Raffle tickets cost $1 each and will be available for sale here online and on the day of the event. You can purchase as many as you want after seeing the merchandise.
If you are interested in donating to the raffle (yes, there is still time to do so), please contact us at info[at]cstsseattle[dot]org.

In addition to the raffle, we have some really top-notch swag this year that will be auctioned off. Prepurchased raffle tickets not used in any raffle baskets can be used at their face value ($1 each) for auction items. In other words, if you buy a raffle ticket and would rather use it for an auction item, you may do so if you win the auction and the ticket is intact (you hold both portions of the ticket).

Some of the shiny swag available this year in raffles and auctions is listed here (in no particular order) (donor in parentheses):

•set of Firefly drawings from Quicksilver Fantasies (Kaylee, Serenity, Mal, Zoe, and Jayne) (Betsy Mott)
•handmade flower barrettes in Jayne hat colors from scarywhitegirl.etsy.com (Dawn Vogel)
•Sci Fried "Future Tense" CD (Seattle Geekly)
•River Triumphant statue (it's out of stock at Things from Another World, but we have one!) (Kikki Amos Harper)
•Norwescon Seattle Browncoat badge signed by writer guest of honor Jim Butcher (Karen Axtell)
•The Book of Joby hardback novel autographed by author Mark Ferrari (Mark Ferrari)
•design a signature drink for Firefly night (mid October) at AFK Tavern (AFK Tavern)
•"Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale" graphic novel autographed by writer Zack Whedon, artist Chris Samnee, and editor Scott Allie (Andrea Howe)
•Lace and Blade and Lace and Blade 2 autographed by editor Deborah J. Ross and authors Mary Rosenblum and Dave Smeds (Deborah J. Ross)
•River Tam and the Fireflies T-shirt (S) (Stephanie Duchin)
•More Firefly and Serenity DVDs and Blu-rays than you can shake a stick at (Bierta Barfod and others)
•Drill Baby Drill T-shirt (XXL) (Stephanie Duchin)
•Chuck seasons 1-3 DVDs (Bierta Barfod)
•closeup of River's eyes "Miranda" poster (Stephanie Duchin)
•Star Trek collectible plates from Hamilton Collection (complete set [8 plates] of "First Ever Star Trek Plate Collection") (Betty Bigalow)
•Star Trek collectible plates from Hamilton Collection (selections from "25th Anniversary Star Trek Plate Collection") (Betty Bigalow)
•2 passes for a Queen of Seattle paddle wheel cruise (Queen of Seattle)
•MisCon SB Charities badge signed by writer guest of honor Carol Berg and trade paperbacks of Flesh and Spirit and The Spirit Lens both autographed by author Carol Berg (Carol Berg)
•SpoCon Patricia Briggs guest of honor badge signed by writer guest of honor Patricia Briggs and a hardback of Bone Crossed autographed by author Patricia Briggs (Seattle Browncoats Charities)
•Set of 4 Firefly advertising posters signed by designer William Pace (laminated) (William Pace of the Utah Browncoats)
•complete, unopened set of Star Trek collectible Pez dispensers (Robyn Haaf)
•2 antique kimonos (1920s and 1950s) (Bierta Barfod)
•Union of Allied Planets passport and CSTS ticket (distributed at LA CSTS) (William Pace)
•Hobbitesque print (165/250) by Mark Ferrari (Mark Ferrari)
•Dragonflight One print (21/250) (1st of 3 covers for a graphic novelization) by Mark Ferrari (Mark Ferrari)
•Fan Club Exclusive Edition Alliance money pack (QMx)
•Startled Wonder print (138/250) by Mark Ferrari (Mark Ferrari)
•Firefly by Mark Henderson poster
•The Guild Tink poster (Things from Another World)
•Bellerephon 2516 Champions poster by John Anderson (Square One Printing)
•Firefly Drinking Songs CD by Bedlam Bards & Marc Gunn
•On the Drift CD autographed by the Bedlam Bards
•Browncoats: Redemption remastered DVD 2-disc special edition (Big Damn Fan Films)
•Reaverized DVD (Illusionext & Square One Printing)
•a pack of shiny stuff (DreamStrands Comics)
•Browncoats pack (beaded bookmark, fabric fortune cookie w/ Browncoat-themed fortune, pair of earrings) (Cats Dreaming)
•Annoy-a-tron (ThinkGeek)
•Serenity hanzi (Chinese characters) pendant (DragonWeave Jewelry)
•Done the Impossible DVDs (Done the Impossible and Mars from the Seattle Browncoats
•Serenity Sake T-shirt (L)
•Serenity Sake pint glass
•Finding Serenity and Serenity Found (Smart Pop Books)
•"One for One" Serenity comic (Dark Horse Comics)
and much more!

Lioness · **Posts:** 2430 **Signal Origin:** Toronto

Wow! That's a very impressive list!

Traevynn · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:19 pm

Thanks Lioness! We also received 2 passes to the Jet City Comic Show and lunch at the show for the winner and guest with star William Katt (probably best known for his roles in The Greatest American Hero and Carrie) ()
It's really coming down to the wire and ticket sales are slow so I've got my fingers crossed that we get a lot of walkups on Saturday otherwise it's not looking promising for an event next year. Sigh...

samatwitch · **Posts:** 766 **Signal Origin:** Vancouver, BC

Thinking of you today and wondering how it went.

Traevynn · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:47 pm

Thank you, Gayle. I appreciate the good thoughts. We had a little over a hundred people come for the full event. Not too many walk-ups this year, possibly due to other festivals, the closure of the major highway nearby and event fatigue by folks who have come every year previously.
We covered the expenses with the attendee tickets so we're relieved by that. The raffle brings in the money for the donation and we'll be counting that up today. We tried having a silent auction along with our raffle and that didn't do as well. Partly from lack of time and IMHO, partly from the high starting bids for some of the items. People who come to our events aren't willing to start bidding at $100 for a print of a a picture. We did have some better luck with the two items we auctioned off live after the movie. We auctioned the Blu-Ray disc of the movie that we had just shown and we auctioned the Jet City Comic Con tickets and private lunch with William Katt.
A lot of the credit for getting the audience involved goes to our fantastic emcees. They are entertainers to the max and the folks love the "show".
I'll put more on the "what worked" and "what didn't work" threads later. For now, I'm recovering with coffee and going to see a friend's movie short at the Maelstrom International Fantasy Film Festival.
Overall, I'm pleased with how it went this year but we will most likely be scaling back next year and possibly even do an affiliate event. Andrea & I are just plain tired. Yawn...

samatwitch · **Posts:** 766 **Signal Origin:** Vancouver, BC

Congratulations! It sounds like a fun time. Maybe next year I'll make it.

Traevynn · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:01 pm

Our photographer, Kat Cheney, put together a video with several hundred shots of our event and added background music from Vixy & Tony. You might even see a familiar face or two! :wink:

PS. I couldn't figure out how to embed a video that isn't YouTube so the link will have to do.

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