They make events shinier by providing prizes, help us raise more money by donating amazing items for our end of season auction and keep us online.
We’re so pleased to welcome back some long time sponsors and excited some new ones have come on board. The one thing they all have in common? Their love for Firefly and desire to do good works.
This year’s sponsors have been very generous, check them out because your support thanks them for sponsoring us.
Sponsor packs
One way our events increase their fundraising is through raffles and auctions of some awesome shiny. Every event has access to a sponsor pack which often forms the base of prizes.
Keeping flying for 10 years is no mean feat for any event, but it is a real achievement when every single person involved volunteers their time and resources for free.
To celebrate our tenth season we want to highlight some of our history. While many of you have known about us for a while now, one of the greatest things about Firefly is new Browncoats are discovering the series, and in turn us, all the time.
Here are a few things you may or may not know about Can’t Stop the Serenity.
It all began with one man’s idea. The One True b!X wanted to celebrate Joss’ birthday with a charity screening of Serenity, realizing it was a great idea he mentioned it on the message boards.… Read more…
Announcing we’d passed the one million dollar mark in donations was a momentous occasion for us.
This is an achievement that belongs to everyone who ever helped organise, attended, sponsored, spread the signal about or donated to a Can’t Stop the Serenity event. Big Damn Heroes all of you!
To celebrate all the thrilling heroics we want to show the world the amazing Browncoats who made this possible. We’re looking for photos of Browncoats with signs celebrating that globally we’ve raised over 1 million dollars.
We would love pictures of you holding a sign along the lines of:
“Congratulations CSTS on raising $1M for charity from (Your name here) #CSTS1Million”.
It can be just you or a crowd of Browncoats. Have fun with it, be creative.… Read more…
Never been able to get to a screening? Or maybe there’s not been an event in your city.
Then it’s time you thought about running a screening event!
Screening events can be fun and seeing Serenity with Browncoats, both new and veteran, is an amazing experience.
The beauty about screenings is they vary in size depending on how big you want your event to be, from things like small screening rooms for 20 people at a local bar to big events at theatres with a capacity for 300 and everything in between.
In a way, taking on a screening event is a lot like Firefly. To start you need to recruit a trusty crew!
Finding the right venue can be the tricky part but with a bit of research and some thinking outside the box you can find the perfect one.… Read more…
Can’t Stop the Serenity (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. Join us as we aim to misbehave for a good cause!
There are two ways to fight a battle like ours. One is to whisper in the ear of the masses, try subtlely and gradually to change the gender expectations and mythic structures of our culture. That’s me. The other is to step up and confront the thousands of atrocities that are taking place around the world on an immediate, one-by-one basis. That’s a great deal harder, and that’s Equality Now. It’s not about politics; it’s about basic human decency.
