Banner and Button Making on June 10

We're going to be holding a pasta dinner and banner and button making workshop to prepare for No King's Day the following weekend. We'll be set up to design, trace, and paint banners of 4x15 feet and 5x20 feet. However, with preparation, other sizes are possible. We'll also have a button maker and button-making supplies for 2.25-diameter buttons.  We may do some digital and music production as well. It's time to go big or go home in preparation for "Liberate Our Lowcountry- Five Weeks For Freedom." 

The production session will be held at 32 Sowell St. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (The Home of the Brave) and the home of Wendy Temple and William Hamilton. Tuesday, June 10, 6 pm until we're done. You can sign up on Google Calendar online at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Y2twbTZjMzM2cGhqZWI5aWM0cTNnYjlrYzRvamFiOW9jY3E2NGI5bTZjcmo2Y2hwNnBnbTZjaGk2MCB3amhhbWlsdG9uMjk0NjRAbQ&tmsrc=wjhamilton29464%40gmail.com

With properly prepared materials, we should be able to have lots of impressive material on the street for the big "No Kings" weekend, which promises to be the biggest series of Social Justice actions in the State of SC in 50 years. It will begin our Liberate the Lowcountry, Five Weeks for Freedom Campaign which in turn starts a year-long campaign to redeem the entire American Republic before July 4, 2026, the 250th. birthday of the United States of America. 

You can see how the process of making banners and buttons works in this photogallery, which documents twn years of this sort of effort by Lowcountry Up is Good. https://photos.app.goo.gl/KSahZqZavp9DpsEH6

Most banners are painted on canvas, hall runner drop cloths. By far the best available are from Chicago Canvass. You can order them on Amazon. You should order your in time to have them blocked and prepared before the event. Two good sizes to start with are

4 feet tall by 15 feet long. 

5 feet tall by 20 feet long. 

On Monday, we'll be "blocking" the raw canvas, which means we'll paint it with white paint. This makes it stronger, making it easier to keep clean and allows us to sprinkle the front with reflective glass beads, which helps make them pop at night. We use recycled paint, which we have plenty of. Bring your canvas by before Monday so we can prepare it. One or two people to help really speeds the process up. 

On Saturday, we'll begin by painting any banners we already have traced. Once it is dark, we can start tracing and painting all the new ones. Designs need to be prepared like a coloring book in PDF in the appropriate proportions. We use our data projector to put the design on the canvas and then trace with carpenters pencils. 

Button making, image left, is easy and a great way to reach and involve people. We currently have the only button machine in active use in the progressive community, but they're not expensive and once you have the hang o fit, we hope to see more deployed. 

We'lll be serving a simple PASTA dinner with Vegan and Meat Sauce and a basic salad. We love to cook and If you do too, but you don't like to paint, make buttons or design stuff, we'll have plenty of work in the kitchen. 

If we have the people, we want to do some online content development and produce some music and video recordsings. The MAGA is loud. We plan to get bigger and louder.. After this workshop, you'll be able to do all this stuff yourself. 

However, it is more fun to do it this way, with a house full of excited, positive people. 

If you are a MAGA toying with the idea of attempting to be present at this event, please reconsider. 32 Sowell is the home of the brave. We aren't your Mother's Southern Liberals. You won't be here long. We won't tolerate you in the house or yard. My Republican neighbors won't tolerate you on the street.  The police won't want you in either location. 

Please give us your input and ideas

William J. Hamilton, III
wjhamilton29464@gmail.com
(843) 870-5299