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Impressions Long Beach: Poster Printing for a Good Cause

By Rick Roth

Ink Kitchen is sponsoring hand-done poster printing at the Impressions show in Long Beach.

Long Beach poster designed by Alyx Spurrier and to be printed live and in person by master flatstock printer Andy MacDougall from Vancouver Island in Canada.

The posters produced will be sold (suggested donation $10) to benefit a non-profit called Care Closet serving unhoused folks in Long Beach.  You can watch them being printed and purchase one at the walkway between the main hall and the back atrium. And you might win a great prize…

Andy MacDougall will be screen printing the posters live on the show floor.

There has been a tremendous coming together of the garment decoration community to make a serious contribution here in Long Beach. The donation already is up to $8000 in cash and additional donations in socks, underwear and t-shirts for the program and we have not even sold a poster yet!

Exhibitors have put aside competition and really have stepped up. Here is a list of the generous contributors (and their booth numbers at the show.) They all deserve a great deal of credit for stepping up.

(L to R)Care Closet Director Duke Givens, and sponsors Mark Bailey (SanMar), Rick Roth (Ink Kitchen,) Pam Ikegami (Ink Kitchen,) and Josh Ellsworth (Stahls) after a tour of unhoused folks around Long Beach.

Exhibitors have put aside competition and really have stepped up. Here is a list of the generous contributors (and their booth numbers at the show.) They all deserve a great deal of credit for stepping up.

Impressions Expo and Impressions Magazine

SanMar 1433

Stahls 1011

Alphabroder 1326

Saati  649

GSF 633

SPSI 2349

Los Angeles Apparel 1519

Avient 1127

Fruit of the Loom 1903

AllMade 2358

ROQ 3109

Gildan 1211

KIWO  2259

Hanes 925

NazDar Source One 1709

One of dozens of encampments of folks around Long Beach. There are an estimated 4000 people living on the streets currently.
This unique program enlists folks living on the streets to paint over graffiti and collect trash (approaching a total of one million pounds of trash collected in three years.) At the same time food, basic clothing and sleeping bags are dispensed to the people. These engagements lead to an understanding of each individual as an individual and they can be eventually helped with whatever services might best serve them, which might be health services, mental health, drug treatment, or job placement.

Please stop by and buy a poster. Please thank the sponsors when you see them. Please feel free to donate at Care Closet’s website.

Not only do you get a great poster and help a great cause but if you buy a poster you enter a raffle to get a free Stahls’ Hotronix 360 IQ Hat Press which normally would cost you $1850! The drawing will be Saturday at 4PM at the Shop Talk booth, you do not have to be present to win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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