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Silkscreening training: 1st session Fri 7pm. RSVP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine Olsson)
Tue Oct 27 20:26:16 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:25:35 -0400
From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-silkscreen@mit.edu, apo-news@mit.edu, apo-pledges@mit.edu
Hi all,
As promised, a slate of silkscreening trainings will begin this Friday,
assuming people can come. Meet at 7pm in the APO office, ***RSVP*** with
"yes"/"maybe"/"can't make it but interested in the future", and if you
want to print something to keep, please bring it yourself! (Any cotton
shirt will work great. Got any old boring career fair shirts you want to
do something cool with? We also have practice materials but you can't
take them home with you =S)
This week we'll start by learning **printing and heatsetting**. These
are the most basic silkscreening skills, and I hope to get everyone who
attends fully trained in them! In order to get checked off as fully
trained, basically I or another silkscreening master has to watch you do
the skill by yourself and you have to answer a few questions about the
process. Once you're checked off, you're all ready to practice this
skill for a real silkscreening run.
(Pledges, if you want silkscreening to be your chapter skill, this is a
key training to attend. Brothers, even if you already know
silkscreening, I can get you officially checked off with my new
hand-dandy checklist if you come, and then you can feel confident that
you actually have all the know-how to do a run yourself. We'll need lots
of printers for UMOC coming up - you know you want to help us!)
In the coming weeks, keep your eyes peeled for training in the other
three skills: **emulsion**, **exposure**, and **screen-building**. I'll
definitely re-run all these trainings to make sure that everyone who
wants to get trained this term gets a chance. Also, UMOC is coming up,
and there's a potential Philippines fundraiser that will need hands if
it happens, so your training will be put to good use fast.
As I said, please RSVP! If you want to learn silkscreening this term,
even if you can't come to this training, let me know =)
Thanks, all!
YiLFS,
- catherio
