Improvised Joss Whedon will be playing at Gorilla Tango Theater Sunday Feb 7, 14, 21 at 3pm and Sunday Feb 28 at 5pm.

From The AV Club: The Improvised Joss Whedon show is a big “what if” scenario in which characters from various Whedon programs (like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse) meet each other.

Tickets are $10.

From the Director: The cast and I have been working really hard to make a fan worthy show and I think we have made something aesthetically, thematically and creatively fun to watch!

For tickets:

• www.gorillatango.com
• (773) 598-4549)
• or at the door the day of

Location: 1919 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647

We are excited to announce the 2010 Browncoat Ball will be hosted in the beautiful city of Charlotte, NC. Save thedates Oct 22-24, 2010. This event will be more than just a fancy shindig with hot cheese. Its going to be an entire weekend of misbehavin’ Browncoats from all over the known ‘verse. There will be plenty of fun, excitement, camaraderie, costumes, train rides and sweet tea & BBQ for all. Its time for gentlemen to get Rhett Butlery and ladies to get their hoop skirts on. The Browncoat Ball is going Southern and if you didn’t know before, you will know now, how fine Southern hospitality truly is. Join the Charlotte Browncoats and the Greenville Browncoats in this celebration of all things Firefly.

The Browncoat Ball website hasn’t been updated yet, but in the meantime, check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYljxEvbg0

The Browncoat Ball Committee

There will be more info at the Browncoat Ball website soon.

Don’t miss your chance to bid on some shiny items!

From the Global CSTS site:

We’re celebrating the end of another year of fantastic events, so the Global 2009 Can’t Stop the Serenity Team, in conjunction with the California Browncoats, are proud to give you the chance to win some fantastic prizes in our online “Last Hurrah” auction. Money raised from the auction will be included in the CSTS 2009 Global Donation Total, which currently stands at US $128,000. Your bids will help us to reach this year’s goal of US $150,000 raised for charity!

95% of the proceeds of this auction will go straight to Equality Now. The remaining 5% will go toward covering any eBay and/or Paypal fees. The California Browncoats will pay any remaining fees in addition to donating their services in carrying out these auctions. If there is any of the 5% left over after fees, CABC will donate it to Equality Now.

This is a wonderful opportunity to own an awesome prize, and help Equality Now fight for the rights of women and girls who can’t fight for themselves, so bid high and bid often!

The various items include:

• Serenity mini-poster signed by Joss Whedon
• Gorgeous photo signed by Dichen Lachman
• Dr Horrible print singed by NPH, Fillion and Day
• Dollhouse Costume Department Tour and signed Felicia Day photo
• and more!

http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/auction09/

Bid now! the auctions will end in about 3 days!

Chicago’s Can’t Stop the Serenity did fantastic this year!

With your help, we raised a 2009 total of:

$4,153.88

$3,115.41 = 75% for Equality Now
$1,038.47 = 25% for The House of the Good Shepherd

I have already given Amy the check for The House and will be writing out and mailing the check to Equality Now tonight.

Once again, thank you so much to everyone who attended this year’s event and and to those who brought items in for our collection drive for The House.

Another big thank you to our volunteers!  We arrived at the theater to set up at 1pm and you guys worked tirelessly at making sure everything was set up and ready for our attendees and really kept the event running smoothly!

Thank you to our local sponsors:

• Graham Cracker Comics
• Busy Beaver Button Co

…and to those of you who donated items during our event!

• Dave Boyd
• Sydney Orr
• Acme Design, Inc
• Nina Marie
• Christopher Esterhammer-Fic
• …and more (need to find my notes!!)

We would really appreciate any comments/suggestions/complaints you might have regarding this year’s event, so please email us or comment at the forum.

THANK YOU!

[ October 10, 2009; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] It’s that time of year again!

Time for the Chicagoland Browncoats 7th Annual Apple Holler Mini-Shindig

Saturday, Oct. 10th

Apple Holler
5006 S. Sylvania Ave.
Sturtevant, WI, 262-886-7100

~ Brunch at 10 AM (brunch ends at 12 noon). Apple Holler does not take
reservations, but please respond at the forum to let me know if you will be attending (and around what [...]