Ink Kitchen and Impressions are sponsoring hand-done poster printing at the Impressions show in Long Beach this week January 22-24.

The posters produced will be sold (suggested donation $10) to benefit a great non-profit called Care Closet, serving unhoused folks in Long Beach. You can watch the posters being printed and purchase one at the back of the arena area, near the rear registration.

There has been a tremendous coming together of the garment decoration community to make a serious contribution here in Long Beach. The donations made in the past couple years has been $150,000, a significant help to these great programs.

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

https://impressionsexpo.com/

https://impressionsmagazine.com/

One of many dozens of encampments of folks around Long Beach. There are an estimated 5,000 people living on the streets currently.

Care Closet LB is a unique program that enlists folks living on the streets to paint over graffiti and collect trash (approaching a total of three million pounds of trash collected in the past seven 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 in the back of the Arena
Please thank the sponsors when you see them.
Please feel free to donate at Care Closet’s website.