Arlington, VA - July 20 & 21, 2012

[Weblynx]

We're back at the same venue, but a month later this year.

Location: , 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA
Dates: July 20 9:50 PM (Doors open 9:30) & July 21 1:00 PM (Doors open 12:30)

All info is on our . Also, our is open.

Tickets on sale through the .

We'll also be doing item donations again for and .

In addition to Equality Now our proceeds will be going to these other fine charities: and .

This year I actually managed to take pictures of all our awesome prizes/auction items. Please take a look .

Last edited by Weblynx on Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:30 pm, edited 3 times in total.

Hooray! Glad to see Arlington back.

Will you be screening Dr. Horrible as well this year? P.S. - Really enjoyed last year's event.

danislee, we are still waiting to hear from Mutant Enemy about Dr. Horrible. We sure hope the cities can show it.

Tickets on sale through the . We've also finalized our additional charities and will be taking item donations again this year. Details are in the first post.

I've listed all our shiny prizes & auction items .

Can I please please please put the image of the chain mail Jayne Hat up on Pinterest?

Let me ask the guy who made it. I don't think he'll mind, though.

He has no objections, so you're good to go

And it's there!

We are sold out for Saturday, but there are still tickets available for Friday. But get them soon: they could sell out at any time!

So how did it go? Did Friday sell out? Did the chain mail Jayne's hat go for lots and lots?

The Jaynemail hat went for $225 (bought by a grandfather teaching his granddaughter how to be a Browncoat). I think Friday was close to selling out, but I'm not sure it made it. I don't have ticket numbers yet, but we made a great deal of money at auction alone. So many generous people in our audience. I'm pretty overwhelmed actually.

I am proud to announce that we have beat our previous record and will be donating over $5600 to our charities this year. The exact total won't be in until we get our payment from the cinema, but it should top that number in the end.

We had (approx) 250 people on Friday night, even in the rain they were standing in line for almost an hour before the doors open and almost 300 (sold out) on Saturday. Our auctions did gang busters and we saw more money than normal coming in this year. I chalk this up to us taking credit cards for the first time, people don't mind spending more that way.

For other cities that are not taking credit cards, you really should. Here is a free and easy way to do it: https://squareup.com/
All you need is a smart phone with an internet connection to make it work.

Thanks to everyone for making our event such a wonderful success. Photos will be posted on our site soon!

Johnny Hunter
Organizer - Arlington CSTS

https://www.facebook.com/DCCSTS

That is wonderful! Congratulations. How great to see that many people still want to come out for a Can't Stop the Serenity Event.