TYS preparing for 2010 Mural Tour

TYS x Loyal Kaspar from MVMT on Vimeo.

Um, were getting ready to do a mural tour in the Philippine Islands this summer. Heres a taste. Check out www.trustyourstruggle.org in the coming weeks for info on a NYC an Berkeley CA fundraiser for this tour.

-Rob

HUGE HUGE Thanks go out to Loyal Kaspar, Eric Camins, Ebenezer bond from World Up, and Mikey One Soul for helping us get this video thang together. Shout out to Vanessa Nisperos!

Rooftop Legends Opens Saturday 8th!

This year's RTL (Rooftop Legends) features a ton of artists, from TATS Crew, Wayne, Trust Your Struggle Collective, Rimix, Marthalicia, etc etc so you do not want to miss this! Fundraiser for New Design High School so come support!

RTL
curated by Jesse Pais
May 8th 3pm - 7pm
$5 - 25 donations at the door
New Design High School rooftop
350 Grand st NYC (lower east side)
music supplied by DJ Enuff

La Pena Time Lapsed Video

El Relevo by Trust Your Struggle Collective at La Peña from Trust Your Struggle on Vimeo.

The timelapsed video from La Pena. Check it out and please share....
-TYS

La Pena + Ryse Center

Just got through speaking in front of hella people in Oakland. La Pena has a nation of millions behind them yawl seriously. there was hella people there! The Embodiment Project, Marc Bamuthi, Singer Valerie Troutt, and got to see Yuri Kochiyama again....The mural at La Pena is Done and a time lapsed video of the process is on the way...

Peep the Ryse Center

Ryse is a dynamic youth center located in Richmond, California. Scott La rockwell, Bounce, and myself painted a mural there about four years ago before it opened. Since then it has helped guide, save, and involve hella young people in the transformation of their city. Were going back to paint a new one. Stay tuned....
-Rob
TYSC

Birthdays + TYS Fundraiser

Birthday Party for the homies Yolanda & Ora

Dress Code: Hybrid Hottie, Future Fly, Spaceship sexy!

Live DJ's
Burlesque and Drag Performances!
Art Auction and Body Painting
Future Survival Pack Prize for Best Costume.

LOCATION: SPUTNIK- 262 Taaffe Place, BK , NY (Btwn Willoughby & Dekalb)
Saturday March 20, 10pm-4am
Door $5

*All proceeds go to support Trust Your Struggle's Mural Tour PI 2010. We elect them as the designers of our future! TYS will be selling limited silk screened posters and original works of art!

Borish Solo Show "Elegy" Opens Fri. March 19th in BK

Borish of TYS will be having his first solo show in Brooklyn this month, please come out for the opening night. Heres the info:

ELEGY

New Works by Borish (Mincho Vega)

A new series of paintings and illustrations focused on the "mourning poems" of a post 1492 contemporary Brown America .

March 19th - April 20th 2010

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY MARCH 19TH
7pm - 10pm
w/ DJ Rabbi Darkside
Pupusas + tallboys

@Fresthetic
560 Grand St
Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211

*The artist will be selling limited silk screen posters for a special price of $10 for opening night, so come early!*

Erin Yoshi & Pablo Serrano at Pueblo Nuevo in Berkeley

Here's a sneak peak of the installation...

Memorias de Ti installation at Pueblo Nuevo from Trust Your Struggle on Vimeo.

Opening reception
Saturday February 6th 2010 7pm -12am
Music Provided by
DJ Angela Blanca with a special performance by Los Rumberos Del Barrio

Artist panel discussion
Thursday February 11th 6:30pm


Memorias de ti, is a collection of works by photographer Pablo Serrano and muralist Erin Yoshi completed in 2009. The collection is part of a much lager project called Memoria Viva, of the Human Rights organization, REINICIAR, in Colombia, S.A.. Memorias de ti tells the story lived by the family members and survivors of the political genocide against the Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica). Since its creation in 1985, the wave of state sponsored violence has claimed more than 5,000 lives of the Patriotic Union. The objective of this collection is to emphasize the power of memory as a tool of resistance and hope.

www.pueblonuevogallery.com
1828 San Pablo Ave #1
510 452 7363

La Peña Mural Unveiling, Berkeley, Califas

Here is the information for the upcoming mural unveiling for La Peña Cultural Center:

La Peña Cultural Center presents:

TYS New Mural
Sunday February 07, 2010. Lobby Area. Noon - 3pm. Free.
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley.
510-849-2568 www.lapena.org/event

La Peña kicks off its 35th Anniversary celebration series
with a mural commissioned by the Trust Your Struggle Crew

The community is invited to the Dedication of a new mural by the Trust Your
Struggle collective in the La Peña's Lobby Area. The artists are Erin Yoshioka,
Shaun Turner, Robert Trujillo, Cece Carpio, Miguel Perez, and Ben Rojas.

The Trust Your Struggle artists collective painted a new work of art, a colorful mural
inside the café lobby of La Peña Cultural Center representing part of the history and
legacy of the center. The new mural, celebrates La Peña's 35th Year and this public
unveiling launches the series of events planned to celebrate the anniversary, including
an all-day street festival on Saturday, June 5, 2010.

Pictures and more information:
www.lapena.org/event/

Bullets & Love 3 @ Fresthetic

For a 3rd year in a row our family over at Fresthetic will be putting on the "Bullets & Love" mannequin show. Every year a group of visual artists design and create/paint mannequin busts which all come out hella dope. Come through to this year's show, trust us, you won't be disappointed. Here's the info:

We are very excited about this year's Bullets & Love show, it plans to be bigger and better than ever!!! We have a really dope roster of artists contributing this year. We also have a very delicious h’ordeuvre selection by our homies at ELOTE.

ELOTE is a very yummy Mexican cantina style restaurant that also has a world collection of Tequila.

BULLETS & LOVE 3
Its 3rd Annual Mannequin ART Show
February 11th – March 9th
Opening reception Thursday, February 11th, 2010
560 Grand St
Brooklyn New York

7-10pm

Music by DJ Trixter

H’ordeuvre selection by ELOTE

Featured Artists:

M.Tony Peralta • Destroy & Rebuild • Sylvia Ortiz • Kevin Champeny • Zees & Ms Mensen • See One • Leo Tecosky • Margauxtron • Josh Diaz • Juan Doe • KA • Marthalicia • Nelson Caban • Rob Fokused • Munish Asnani • Sofia Maldonado • Savior ElMundo • CEKIS • SALO • Made in BKLYN • Bonafide Rojas • Mincho Vega

Red "What is that, Velvet?" Cupcakes and Sangria By E.SOTO

La Peña: In Progress.

TYS is honored to be painting a mural inside of the well known La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California. In a state of not being done just yet, it is coming together. Shout out + hug to our folks there, Susie Lundy and Sarah. More to come.

5am working hard painting a mural at historic La Peña in Berkeley

Oree at La Peña dancing with Trust Your Struggle from Trust Your Struggle on Vimeo.

Oree with the 5am get down while the Trust Your Struggle crew paints a mural at the historic La Peña in Berkeley California.

TYS New Years Eve-Bay Area

If youre in the bay and looking for something to do on new years which is affordable, come through and say hello.We'll be chillin, drink in one hand, paint brush or can in the other...

CECE Live Painting at SOB's -DEC 8th

Cece will be painting something special tommorrow night at SOB's in NYC. Come through if you have the time.....

Saturday 21st, BK NY

Come out and support TYS member Robert Trujillo and Ana Bravo (and a bunch more super dope artists) this coming Saturday in BK. We'd love you see you.

Skylight Gallery @ Restoration Plaza
1368 Fulton St. BK
4-7pm

HOMEMADE Saturday, Nov. 14th Berkeley Califas

onstage emcee Yosimar Reyes
performances by..
DJ Santero
Mia Zuniga
Diskarte Namin
Bang Data
BRWN BFLO
Los Rakas (special guests)
DJ Leydis

The Great Tortilla Conspiracy will be grilling quesadillas emblazoned with the art of Favianna Rodriguez, as well as Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes.

Slideshow of recent murals painted in Central America by the Trust Your Struggle Collective

4X4.FilmFest 4 digital visions from 4 analog visionaries

$10 advance/students $12 at the door
Doors open at 9pm @ La Peña Cultural Center

Shows (TYS Members getting down)

BAY AREA:

Ok folks in the Yay Area, come out and support Bounce and Cece, who will be a apart of the Tabi Tabi Po Show Tommorow in San Francisco .The informacion is below:

OPENING RECEPTION: FRI November 13, 2009 7PM-10PM

Show is open until: Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 9:00pm
1000 Howard Street, SF, CA

1:AM gallery presents “Tabi Tabi Po,” an exploration of Filipino Folklore creatures through Urban Contemporary art featuring artists of Filipino descent. The Kapre, Manananggal, Dwende, Tikbalang, and Aswang are just a sampling of these haunting creatures that will be brought to life in this exhibit.


Annd, if you havent been to the Asian Resouce Gallery to Check out Erin Yoshi, you need to get over there because she has work up with long time homies, family, and collaborators Tiffany Eng and Joy Liu. The information is as follows:

Accomplices-
Profiles of Asian Women

TIFFANY ENG. SYLVIA LA. JOY LIU. ERIN YOSHI

October thru November 2009

ASIAN RESOURCE GALLERY
310 Eighth Street/ Harrison
Oakland Chinatown
OPEN M – F, 9AM – 6PM
For more info: Greg 510/ 532-9692

BROOKLYN:

Tres/Rob will also be in a show with the Coup D' etat Crew in Brooklyn on November 21st. Lots of homies in this show, check out Cekis and Ana Bravo!
Come through and see us at any one of these events....

Memoria Viva Process video

BIG props go to YOSHI and SHAUN BURNER for putting this together. No doubt these two were exhausted when they put together this time lapse, but the result came out pretty fresh!

Bogota Memoria Viva from Trust Your Struggle on Vimeo.

CECE Carpio & Erin YOSHI in 120z. Prophet!

Big props goes to Yoshi and Cece for getting the front page shot by Martha Cooper on the 120z. Prophet site. Heres the shot, go to the site to see more. Good work yawl, you deserve it. Thanks to the Younity crew for putting such a beautiful show together. So many talented artists, graf heads, youth, and all around dope community were in attendance last night. Its good to see folk come together like that. Keep it going!
-Rob/Tres
TYS Calamity

Younity Presents FRESHER! This Saturday in NYC

YOUNITY PRESENTS: FRESHER! AN ECO-ART EXHIBITION Third Annual Exhibit Features 40 Female Avant-Garde Artists Who Recycle & Create Art for the Earth

Back for its third annual show, YOUNITY presents an eco-art exhibition entitled FRESHER!, opening October 3, 2009 at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side section of New York City. Running until October 23, 2009, the exhibit is not the average "white-wall" art show; the all-female collective will transform the art space into an eco-funhouse of raw materials and street art. Elements such as graffiti, photography, design and construction are used to connect ideas about consumerism, environmentalism, health, and renewable energy. The private press hour from 6pm-7pm will grant access to notable, oft-unseen artists right before the public unveiling of work at 8pm. FRESHER! features main-stay YOUNITY artists such as Lady Pink, Martha Cooper, and AIKO while introducing emerging artists such as China Morbosa and Amanda Lopez.*

YOUNITY Presents FRESHER!
PRESS HOUR: 7pm-8pm
Opening Reception: 8pm - 11pm
October 3, 2009 - October 24, 2009
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
between Rivington Street and Delancey Street
F train to Delancey

*Also showing is Yoshi and Cece from Trust Your Struggle!

SENSOREAL Opening This Saturday, 26th BKLYN

Hey peoples, please don't miss out on the Hustlenomic Family getting sensitive with the Avant Yard group for a dope show going down in Brooklyn, Saturday 26th. All happening at 124 Washington Ave, at 5pm.

Music by DJ Brainchild (BK) and Wonway Posibul (Bay Area) and visual arts by: BORISH, YOSHI, and MIGUEL BOUNCE PEREZ (of Trust Your Struggle), Crystal Clarity, Juan Doe, Tony Peralta, and many more. Live silk screening by Mikey 1SOUL & Dylated. Food & drinks.