Can’t Stop the Serenity is proud to announce that over the past 5 years,we have been able to donate $530,000 (and counting) to charity!

Since the first CSTS events in 2006, we have raised over $500,000 for Equality Now. Our events have also raised over $31,000 for other charities. We have had events in 90 cities in nine different countries, and this year marked the fifth annual event for many of these cities.

Thank you to all our sponsors, organizers, and participants, for contributing to this tremendous success!

We deeply appreciate your commitment in generosity in helping us to support the rights of women and girls worldwide.… Read more…

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors and the amazing generousity of our supporters, we are delighted to announce that the 2010 round of global auctions has raised over $4,000 for Equality Now!

The final total raised is being finalised as we speak, and we’ll be adding it to our ever growing 2010 Global Donation Total soon.

Thank you to everyone who bid on the awesome goodies, and congratulations to the lucky winners! We know that you’ll be enjoying your winnings for many years to come. … Read more…

We have a winner for the Kids Need to Read Drawing! Congratulations to Browncoat Meghan Harrod from Aurora, Colorado!

Kids Need to Read has generously agreed to donate $1000 of books to a school or other worthy organization in Meghan’s honor. KNTR and Meghan will work together to choose a worthy recipient. We’d like to extend our thanks to Kids Need to Read for their generosity!

Also thank you to everybody who signed up for the CSTS Broadwaves! Together we can keep working for the cause in the future.… Read more…

Can’t Stop the Serenity 2010 is coming to a close, but there’s still once last chance for you to support Equality Now and win fantastic prizes! We’re auctioning off a whole host of amazing prizes, generously donated by our wonderful global sponsors.

We’d love you to spread the signal to those in the black, so please tell your friends, fellow Whedon fans and anyone who’ll listen.

Click here to check out the array of goodies on offer!

And while you’re here, why not check out our promo video, featuring Eliza Dusku, Summer Glau and Dichen Lachman signing one of the prizes….

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This month’s issue of SFX Magazine is focused entirely on Joss Whedon, the Whedonverse and the fandom he has inspired. In addition to exclusive interviews, episode reviews, in-depth reviews of the comics and other jossy goodness is an article on the Whedonverse fandom.

Some of our wonderful volunteers were interviewed by SFX Magazine at CSTS San Diego in July – The One True BiX (CSTS Founder), Jen Cummings (Global Steering Committee Chair) and CSTS Organisers James Riley and Michael Doherty.

Thank you to everyone at SFX Magazine for shining a light on our little fan charity enterprise.

Grab your copy this week from local retailers or order online!

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It’s time to start planning next year’s exciting CSTS season of events, and to do that, we need you! Do you have some energy to give, some skills to share and a desire to make Can’t Stop the Serenity 2011 the best season yet? Know someone else who does? Please help us to spread the signal far and wide, and help us build a fantastic team for 2011!

The Can’t Stop the Serenity Global Team help local organizers run successful fundraising events by coordinating and facilitating things at a global level. The team consists of 11 volunteers who generously offer their time, skills and energy.

APPLICATION PROCESS
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The CSTS Broadwaves are a great way to keep up with what’s happening with Can’t Stop the Serenity.

We’d love to see more people informed about what’s going on with CSTS, and Kids Need to Read has generously agreed to help us hold a competition for Broadwave subscribers.

On September 30, we’re going to have a drawing from our list of Broadwave subscribers. Kids Need to Read will donate $1000 worth of books in the winner’s name to a deserving school library or qualified charity organization, like a local chapter of a Boys and Girls Club. The winner will also get a $100 Visa gift card if he or she lives in the United States, or $100 for Amazon or iTunes if the winner lives in another country.… Read more…

Nominations are now open to head up next year’s Can’t Stop the Serenity Global Team!

If you’ve previously run or worked on your city’s CSTS event, and have an interest in being considered for the Global Organizer position for next year’s events, please read the following information and send in your application documents by September 5.… Read more…

Click here for 2010 Auctions!

Pack your bags for a great escape to the Browncoat Ball in Charlotte, NC! This is your chance to win a pair of weekend passes to this amazing event on October 22-24, 2010, plus some musical goodies from BAFTA winning composer, Greg Edmonson.

Head on over to the ebay auction page now and place your bid. This is a truely epic prize, and will be an experience you will treasure for a lifetime! Plus, you’ll be supporting Equality Now!

You will enjoy a full weekend of Firefly activities with a twist of southern hospitality. There are three unique tracks to select from including a historic trolley ride, a whitewater rafting park and the new NASCAR museum.

You’d better rest up after that because then the Ball starts and there is a live band and exciting entertainment.… Read more…

5 Years on and CSTS is still going strong

The 2010 Season is in full swing, and with so much going on, let’s take a moment to look back on an amazing 5 years of Can’t Stop the Serenity.

Since 2006, this amazing event has taken place in 90 Participating Cities in 9 countries spanning 3 continents! Every year, we keep growing! From 41 cities in 2006, 42 in 2007, 45 in 2008, 50 in 2009 and in 2010 there are already 50 cities holding events with more to come!

Over $400,000 raised for charity

And the events are continuing to raise incredible amounts for charity. Since 2006, $416,616.22 has been raised for Equality Now and other worthy charities! 2006 raised $65,900.24, 2007 nearly doubled that raising $106,165.69.… Read more…

Float Out, Patton Oswalt’s Wash-centric comic, comes out June 2nd. To celebrate, Can’t Stop the Serenity is auctioning an original page of the comic by Patric Reynolds. Thanks to Patric Reynolds for this generous donation!

The original page is black ink on white paper. We will auction this page, along with a copy of Float Out this month.

Don’t forget, we are also auctioning Jo Chen’s original cover art for Float Out.

This is shaping up to be a very exciting year for Browncoats! Thank you to our generous sponsors who have given Browncoats these opportunities to own memorabilia from this exciting new piece of the ‘verse!

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We’re very excited to announce that the good folks behind Browncoats: Redemption – A Fan Film for Charity will be giving every CSTS event a chance to show a sneak peak of their film, which will be released in September 2010.

Browncoats: Redemption takes place three months after the events on Miranda and we find Captain Laura Matthews and the crew of Redemption unintentionally thrown into a situation that some view as the potential catalyst for the second unified rise of the Independents against the Alliance, since Unification Day. The Alliance is looking for a scape goat for Miranda while those unhappy with the Alliance are looking for a rallying cry to take action. Through all this, a secret about Laura is exposed that shakes the very core of the crew, threatening to break it up, challenge the trust that she’s earned with the Browncoats, and undo all the efforts she has put into place to keep a sense of peace in her life since the first Unification War.… Read more…

Can’t Stop the Serenity is grateful for the shiny donations we receive, and we love giving our benefactors a spotlight!

Praised for her work on the covers of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Season 8, Jo Chen is a well known name in the comic book realm. Now, her art work is gracing the Firefly ‘verse, too!

Set to hit shelves on June 2nd, “Float-Out” will be a beautiful addition to the Firefly/Serenity cannon and we can’t wait to get our hands on it.

Even more spectacular is the shiny donation bit: the original cover art is being donated to Can’t Stop the Serenity!  From all of us here at CSTS, we’d like to say thank you for the support.

So, what will we be doing with this donated piece of treasure?… Read more…

First off, we want to thank each and every one of our entrants in this years Promotional Art Contest. We had more entries than last year, and they were all fantastic in their own way. It was a tough decision for me personally on which I voted on, as I’m sure many of you experienced.

However, we can only have one “winner” here and that winner is: #5 by Don McMillan from Ottawa, ON Canada. You might remember Don’s work from last year’s promotional art. Congratulations Don, and thanks to all who entered for the hard work they put into their entries.

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All entries are in for the 2010 CSTS Promotional Art Contest. Voting has been extended to March 1, with the winner announced the same day.  Head over to view all the shiny art entries and cast your vote today!

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Official registration is now open for the CSTS 2010 season. A few things have changed in the process from last year, so please make sure to read the instructions carefully.  Registration is also now 100% online, for your convenience.

Please visit our Host an Event! page for all the details about the registration process.

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We are very excited to announce that the 2009 Global Donation Total is almost finalised!

We’re delighted to share that Salem has added to their total, which is now $1,552. Phoenix has also boosted their total, which is now $6,088.06, and Salt Lake City has donated a confirmed $850. The Facebook Cause has brought in $314, and the Last Hurrah Auction raised $4,407.23 for Equality Now.

This brings the “Almost Final” 2009 Grand Total to $136,701.47!

Of this, $123,946.11 has been donated to Equality Now, and other charities have received cash donations of $12,755.36 (as well as goods such as food and warm clothes).

We’re still waiting on a few cities to finalise their 2009 donations so that we can lock in the Grand Total.… Read more…

WANTED 2010 – CREATIVE, ARTISTICAL FOLK

Do you love all things Serenity? Do you love doing good works? Do you have mad artistic skillz?

Then there’s probably no power in the ‘Verse more compellin’ then a request for you and your awesome creativity.

Calling all Big Damn Artistical Heroes… We’re putting the signal out to those of YOU with the guts and artistic skills necessary to create the Official Promotional Artwork for CSTS 2010.

One lucky winner’s design will be featured on t-shirts, posters and promotional material and only one can achieve world fame.

Should you accept this mission and seek to become an artistic part of the CSTS 2010 crew, you’ll have to follow the basic guidelines listed below. The reward is shiny, the cause is mighty and we’re sanguine (as in the hopeful sense of the word) that the competition will be mighty fierce… what with all the amazing and compelling art you’ll be sending in.… Read more…

You! want to work/volunteer/help CSTS 2010 Global Team you really, really do!

This is the (a) call for the CSTS 2010 Global Organising Team, join us to support our brilliant world wide Local Organisers and give to Equality Now and our other causes.

See this post for details about available positions.… Read more…