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Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra

Brass Liberation Orchestra

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

Join us for a Trash Orchestra Benefit in preparation for our tour to Seattle's Honk Fest West. Performances by Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra and the East Bay's amazing Brass Liberation Orchestra. With the help of Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, we'll be showing the film Honk You Very Much -- a documentary about radical street bands -- and Auto Re-Vision -- a short doc about a handful of kids sealed in a room, who convert an automobile into an array of musical

Friday March 7th at 7:00pm
at the Pacific Cultural Center
Seabright & Broadway
$10-20 sliding scale

We estimate the trip to Seattle will cost the band about a thousand dollars. Would you be willing to kick-in $100 to help with the journey? Trash Orchestra is a grassroots shoestring endeavor. Your cash will help fight tyranny.

If you value spirited community rebellion, please shower us with modest sums.

Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a community project, a performance and marching percussion band, whose instruments are composed exclusively of recycled and reclaimed materials, focused on anti-authoritarian struggles and mutual support for groups making radical social change.

More information, music, upcoming performances, video, and photos can be found at our website at http://trashorchestra.org

Thanks for considering helping us. See you on March 7th.

Rico Thunder
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra
http://trashorchestra.org

P.S. If you'd like to help with the benefit, boy, that would be swell. We're just us, and we need all the help we can get. Call Whitney at 831.427.0350

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A Trash Orchestra Benefit Invite (3/7)

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Defense of Market Drummers	Wed Jan 23rd 4pm Santa Cruz Farmer's Market
In past weeks police disrupted and dispersed public assemblies of drummers. But this time the Community, with the help of the Trash Orchestra and Food Not Bombs, repeated their victory of January 9th and renewed community outrage against keystone kop kapers cracking down on an accepted weekly tradition--the Farmer's Market Drum Circle! Indymedia.

Support for Market Drummers	Wed Jan 9th 4pm Santa Cruz Farmer's Market
Last week the ever-present drum circle was evicted from their spot under the tree in the parking lot by police using the new 15-minute law (persons cannot be in any city parking lot longer than 15 minutes). Join us to protest that eviction and reclaim that public space! Indymedia.

Last Night DIY Parade and Street Party	Sunset, Dec 31st Lot behind Saturn Cafe
"The parade is not merely a celebration, but a celebration of the power that we all have when we gather together to make something happen. Not just a street party, but a party to reclaim our streets." Trash Orchestra returns to the event that gave it life in 2005! Website.

Rally and March Against the LRDP	Wednesday Nov 7th 11am Baytree Plaza, UCSC
"The future growth of UC Santa Cruz has been decided without the meaningful participation or consent of the student body, and in disregard of Santa Cruz residents' concerns. On November 7th, we will vocalize and make visible our opposition to UCSC's Long Range Development Plan." Website.

Gault Elementary Halloween Parade	Saturday Oct 27th 9am Branciforte Ave, Soquel Ave, & Seabright
The 59th (!) annual celebration begins with a costume parade -- featuring Trash Orchestra -- and ends with games, food, music and more. Parade begins at Branciforte Elementary and ends at the Gault School on Seabright.

Free Skool Community Picnic	Saturday, Sep 22nd, 1pm Ocean View Park
Come play with us in the park. Students, teachers, organizers, community members, friends new and old. Bring food to share and stuff to play with. They'll be music by the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, workshops/skill-sharing, some disorganized frolicking and games. Meet Free Skool folks and get involved for next quarter. Website.

Aromas Day Parade!	Sun Aug 26th, 2pm Downtown Aromas
What more could you want? A small town parade, country-style breakfast, art, artists, pony rides, and farm animal petting zoo, and a parade that locals call the Beer and Trash Festival, featuring appropriately enough, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra. The Parade is at 2:00 and not to be missed!

Support Alette! UCSC March & Rally	May 2007 UCSC, Kerr Hall
This is a fucked up incident whatever way you look at it. When the UC regents came to UCSC late last year, the students protested in an attempt to hold them accountable for nuclear weapons contracts, labor dealings, and tuition hikes. The university brought cops from UC Berkeley who overreacted to the student protest and turned violent. In a very typical cop move, they charged the protesters who were attacked with assault. They are still threatening to suspend and bring charges against the only black woman who was charged. Join Angela Davis in this march/rally to voice our outrage at the unfair treatment of Alette, and how it represents a traditional hostility towards communities of color on campus and growing repression of student & worker rights. Photos.

Free Skool Community Picnic	Saturday, May 4th Noon to 4pm Ocean View Park
Come play with us in the park. Students, teachers, organizers, community members, friends new and old. Bring food to share and stuff to play with. They'll be music by the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, workshops/skill-sharing, some disorganized frolicking and games. Meet Free Skool folks and get involved for next quarter. Website. Audio.

Guerilla Drive-In 5 Year Anniversary	Friday, April 20, 8pm Check for location
This spring Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In celebrates its five-year anniversary with a showing of Dr. Strangelove in GDI's original Harvey West location on Friday April 20th at 8pm. The five-year anniversary showing will feature subversive short films, food, entertainment, and music. Trash Orchestra will be there. Website.

UCSC Anti-War Demonstration	Monday Feb 5th UCSC Baytree Plaza
By invitation of Students Against War -- the demo postponed, but Trash Orchestra is not put off so easily. We show up anyway. The University of California Administration -- managers of the Livermore Weapons Labs, deep investors in the Military-Industrial economy -- needs a good bit of shaking up. CANCELLED - didn't quite achieve critical mass. Next time.

UCSC College 9 & 10 College Night	Tuesday Jan 23rd UCSC College 9 & 10
A 45-minute interactive performance -- a mix of musical improv, interspersed with brief philosophizing, and finally an interactive jam including everyone in the audience. Focusing on ecology and a remembrance of Elfland upon which Colleges 9 and 10 were built. Audio.

Santa Cruz Farmer's Market	Wednesday Jan 17th 5pm-6pm Cedar and Lincoln
Playing guerilla-style at the Farmer's Market (since we didn't get the okay from the market manager). Either in the farmer's market proper, or across the street at the church. In any case, we are not the hippie drum jam, so don't get confused.

Last Rights Parade	New Year's Eve, July 5th Cedar Street, Santa Cruz
Join us for a sorrowful funeral parade for our first amendment rights and right to privacy. A protest against the city's failure to resolve the Police Spying Scandal. A demand that city managers put truly adequate and power-full restrictions on police power to spy on us. A funeral, a parade, and civil disobedience.

Free Skool Community Picnic	Saturday Jan 20th Ocean View Park
Come play with us in the park. Students, teachers, organizers, community members, friends new and old. Bring food to share and stuff to play with. They'll be music by the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, workshops/skill-sharing, some disorganized frolicking and games. Meet Free Skool folks and get involved for next quarter. Website.

2006 Last Night DIY Parade	New Year's Eve, Dec 31st, 2006 Pacific Ave, Downtown
Again, Trash Orchestra returns to it's roots as part of the Last Night DIY parade, this time culminating with a huge street party at Santa Cruz' de facto town square. Last Night DIY Website.

South Central Farm Solidarity Action	July 9th, 2006 Front St / Pacific Ave
On July 9th, people paraded through downtown Santa Cruz as part of the international days of solidarity with the South Central Farm in Los Angeles. Marchers carried colorful anti-development signs and banners, handed out leaflets, taped posters up everywhere, and played improvised drums. Photos. Audio.

2005 Last Night DIY Parade	New Year's Eve, Dec 31st, 2005 Pacific Ave, Downtown
Trash Orchestra first began as a part of the Last Night Parade in Santa Cruz on New Year's Eve 2005, genially thrown together in a non-organized, non-structured manner. Though the collective has grown since its humble beginnings, the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-thrift-store-pants mentality has remained. Photos.