Tags: Browncoats

• Jayne Hat Knit-A-Thon

  Our dear friends, the Austin Browncoats, have a wonderful idea that we fully intend to swipe capitalize on. For the past few years they have run a Jayne Hat Knit-A-Thon as part of their Dragon*Con convention booth.
  This year, we’ll be taking a page from their fundraising book and holding our own convention Jayne Hat knit-a-thons. The first will take place Nov 18-20 during the Pure Speculation Festival (aka Pure Spec) and will be used to raise the necessary funds to purchase yarn [...]

• ~ Jayne Hat Knitting Lessons in Edmonton ~

  Live in Edmonton?
  Interested in helping the Alberta Browncoats with their annual fundraising efforts?
  We are looking for people to knit Jayne Hats for us to sell at conventions and Can’t Stop the Serenity (CSTS) events. Proceeds from the hat sales help fund our annual CSTS event in Edmonton each June. Fundraising efforts by the Alberta Browncoats benefit Equality Now, Kids Need to Read, and the Edmonton Youth Emergency Shelter Society.
  We will be holding our first Jayne Hat knitting lesson on Thursday, August 25th at The [...]

• We may be small but we are mighty!

  Are you sitting down? You really should be!
  The final numbers for Edmonton’s CSTS are in.
  Total Raised: $7320.71

  Disbursements:

  Kids Need to Read: $860
  YESS: $1615.18
  Equality Now: $4845.53

   
  This year we saw a 35 % increase in attendance and nearly doubled last year’s total of $3773! In two years we’ve raised $11093.
  Thank you so much to our 2011 Sponsors:

  Happy Harbor Comics
  Christie Communications
  Yardstick Software
  Canadian Historical Arms Society
  Up Yer Kilt Scottish Gifts
  Silverlight Studios & Indulgent Interludes

   
  Special thanks to Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, cast of The Guild, James [...]

• Browncoats: Redemption

  The Alberta Browncoats Society is thrilled to announce that Edmonton is one of the seven cities that will receive a pre-view copy of the fan made movie Browncoats: Redemption.  We’ll be screening the movie following Serenity on June 27th.
  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 [...]

• Can’t Stop the Serenity – Edmonton 2010

  Welcome to the home of the Edmonton 2010 Can’t Stop the Serenity (CSTS) event. CSTS is being planned an organized by the Alberta Browncoats Society, a registered non-profit organization in the province of Alberta, Canada.
  What is Can’t Stop the Serenity?
  Can’t Stop The Serenity is a global series of screenings of the film Serenity, held to raise money and awareness for Equality Now, an international women’s rights advocacy group. Can’t Stop The Serenity events are held on (or around) June 23, [...]

• Big Damn Heroes cross stitch

  Browncoats are some of the most interesting and talented people in the ‘verse. Don’t believe me? Feast your eyes on this shiny donation from Amber T of the BC Browncoats.
  Amber has designed multiple different cross stich patterns celebrating our favourite renegade Firefly crew and Edmonton is fortunate enough to have been presented with one to include in our silent auction.
  Want to know how she did it? Check out Ambers patters here.

• Got your PhD in Horribleness?

  Seems we’ve gotten on to a schedule of posting a new goodie update approximately every two weeks. You should visit us more often.
  Not everything we’ve collected for CSTS Edmonton 2010 will be auctioned off. Some items will be used in prize draws and some are still up-in-the-air. Course, that doesn’t stop us from wanting to brag like crazy about the goodies we’ve managed to get our hands on. Our donors are the best!
  This week’s sneak [...]

• shiny goodness

  CSTS Edmonton 2010 is still 10 months away but we think now is a very good time for you to start putting your pennies, nickles and dimes into your piggy bank. You’ll want to have lots of cashy money available next summer to get your hands on our shiny goodies.
  Thanks to some generous Browncoats we’ve begun collecting items that will be going up for auction at the CSTS Edmonton event.  Observant individuals will notice that some of our [...]