[12339] in APO News
Silkscreening moved to Sunday 6pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine Olsson)
Tue Oct 27 20:33:29 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:33:09 -0400
From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: Catherine Olsson <catherio@mit.edu>
CC: apo-silkscreen@mit.edu, apo-news@mit.edu, apo-pledges@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4AE78F7F.5020603@mit.edu>
Oops! Apparently that's the same time as Movie Game Night The Game The
Movie, so let's move it silkscreening to 6pm on Sunday 11/1. Sorry,
Xavier! You all should totally go to MGNTGTM, it'll be a blast =)
- catherio
Catherine Olsson wrote:
> 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
