Category Archives: Conventions

CHAS Touch History Expo 2014

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Thank you so much to our volunteers at the CHAS Touch History Expo over the weekend. Nat, Andy, Bev, Kat & Jeri went above and beyond to help us raise funds for some great charities.

Our “Irate Fowl” live action game and charity booth raised $623 CAD this weekend. $500 will be given to Valour Place, a home away from home for military, RCMP and first responders (similar to concept of Ronald MacDonald House) who need to travel to Edmonton for medical treatment. $123 will be distributed to Kids Need to Read.

A celebratory “you’re so wonderful to us” salute to Jeff Tkachuk and Clinton Ouderkirk is also in order. Both donated lovely items to our next round of charity auctions.

Thanks so much to our sponsor CHAS for inviting Adam Baldwin as a guest to their show. He certainly made a number of people’s days.

Adam Baldwin signing the "Support Our Troops" banner at the CHAS Touch History Expo.

Adam Baldwin signing the “Support Our Troops” banner at the CHAS Touch History Expo. Photo Credit: Len Horst

Got a favourite Adam story from the weekend? Share it with us.

Jayne… the man they call Jayne..

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The Canadian Historical Arms Society (CHAS) are celebrating their 50th Annual Show!

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Join us at the CHAS Touch History Expo June 21 and 22 at Northlands (9 am-5 pm) as we host a charity booth. At the CHAS show, we’ll be donating the booth proceeds to Valour Place. Cashy money jars will also be available to donate pocket change (and bills!) to Valour Place or KNTR if you’re not in the mood to shop.

Adam Baldwin will be the featured guests at the 2014 show.

Appearing in a large number of films since 1980, Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard (1980) and moved on to bigger roles in D.C. Cab (1983),Full Metal Jacket (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Independence Day (1996), The Patriot (2000) and Serenity (2005)—in which he reprises his role as the mercenary Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly.

Adam will be signing autographs and participating in photo shoots during the show for a $40 each on Saturday AND Sunday.

Admission to the show is $10 and tickets are available at the door. The show hours are from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Please tell your friends, family, enemies and everyone in between.

This is CHAS first year bringing in a special guest of this magnitude and we’d love to see them succeed. They are also attempting to change the format of their show to put a greater emphasis on history, artifacts, and educating the public.

This show celebrates CHAS 50th anniversary AND the 100th anniversary of the PPCLI here in Edmonton.

EEK! Comic and Pop Culture Fest

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We attended the inaugural EEK! Comic and Pop Culture Fest in St. Albert this weekend and had a lovely time. We saw some old friends (Happy Harbor Comics, 501st Badlands group, Zoltan’s Gal) and made some new ones (Lethbridge Comic Expo, Eek! team). Special guest Stephen Amell generously donated his signature on an item for a future charity raffle and we raised $400 for charity. Not bad for a first year in a new city!

And we’re home… Calgary Expo 2014

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Huge kudos to our amazing volunteer team for all their hard work this weekend. Our booth staff give a lot of themselves to attend the Calgary Expo each year. They pay their own way (gas, food, lodging) and take vacations days from work to make our booth an amazing place to complete all your “guilt free” shopping . Next time you see them give them a big thumbs up for their dedication to our organisation year after year.

Thanks to the phenomenal support of Calgary Expo attendees, we raised a record $5575 CAD for charity! Pat yourselves on the backs; you deserve it!

The breakdown for the funds raised this past weekend are:

*Funds were distributed to G.R.I.T Calgary on April 28th. As YESS, KNTR and EN are all beneficiaries of our on-line auction, we will be completing our donations to these organizations later in May.

Thanks also go out to Matt Stevens (Geekographs) and the South Eastern Browncoats for their donations to our table raffles this weekend.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to Kyla Richards (Kyla Richards Sculpture Studio), Matthew Bryan, Felicia Day, Nathan Fillion and Jason Palmer (Jason Palmer Studios) for their amazing donations to our next charity auction scheduled for this fall!

Calgary Expo 2014

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New shiny goodies. New location. Same old charity fundraising.

Please stop by our Alberta Browncoats booth (#200) at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo (April 24-27, 2013) and help us raise funds for G.R.I.T. Calgary Society, Equality Now, Kids Need to Read, and Edmonton’s Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS).

Calgary Expo 2014 - Floor Map for Booth 200

Click to embiggen – Calgary Expo 2014 Floor Map – Booth 200

Along with our usual Jayne hats, we’ll have some amazing new items at our booth sure to please.

  • James Hance‘s “The Shiny Gang” prints
  • “Serenity Crew” car decals
  • QMx Mal Reynolds dog tags
  • QMx maquettes – Wash, Inara, Book and Penny (Dr. Horrible)
  • ‘Verse related t-shirts (limited quantities)
  • and so much more!

Browncoat Charity: No Power in the Verse Can Stop Us
Got fandom? Want to make a difference in the world around you? Our Calgary Expo panel will discuss the pitfalls and successes of organizing and running a fandom based non-profit.

The panel will be held in the Palomino C room from 11:30AM – 12:15PM on Sunday, April 27, 2014.