As we ring in the new year and say farewell to 2013, it’s a great opportunity to celebrate the success of the 2013 Can’t Stop the Serenity season and thank those who have worked so hard to make it possible. Over $110,000 was raised for Equality Now and other charities by countless volunteers across the world, which brings to total raised since the begining of CSTS to over $900,000! This achievement could not have been realised without the tireless energy, enthusiasm and dedication of the volunteers on the Global Team and at each of the local events. On behalf of the Global Steering Committee (GSC), please accept our congratulations and our thanks.

The Global Team have given countless hours behind the scenes for over a year, and we would especially like to thank Dave Catoe, Stephanie Leisure, Liam Merrick, William Pace, Sheilah O’Connor, Phil Towle, and Julia Svaganovic (as well as their families for allowing them to give so much).… Read more…

Congratulations to Melanie Fischer, winner of this year’s Can’t Stop The Serenity promotional art contest. Melanie’s winning design will be used around the world to publicize this year’s charity screenings of Serenity for Equality Now.

Please keep in mind that this is preliminary artwork only, and we’ll be working with Melanie to make a few tweaks to get it ready for its big debut. As soon as the final artwork is ready, we’ll make it available to organizers and supporters in a variety of formats and sizes.

Please join us in congratulating Melanie! You can follow her on Twitter at @browncoat2x2.

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Voting is now closed for the 2011 Can’t Stop The Serenity Art Contest! We will be announcing the winning entry soon!… Read more…

The Browncoats have spoken!

The Can’t Stop The Serenity promotional art contest is back for 2011!

In its five-year history, Can’t Stop The Serenity has raised more than half a million dollars for Equality Now. We can do even more good works this year, but only if people show up! That’s where you come in. Since we’ve been doing this for half a decade now, the novelty factor has worn off, which means it’s more important than ever before to build excitement for CSTS. The logo, poster and t-shirts are critical tools for raising awareness about the event, building excitement, and getting people into theaters around the world.

Think you’ve got what it takes to design this year’s official artwork? Then read on to learn the rules for this year’s contest:

THE SHINY STUFF:

• The winner’s artwork will be used as the basis for the T-shirt, poster and promo for CSTS 2011.

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…

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…

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…

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…