happy new year!
it's 2020! I can't believe it!? where are the flying cars and cool and gross cities like we were promised in Blade Runner?
It's an interesting time to be sure, but I'm not sure where I fit in all the madness haha. So, that's the last of the free bits of the new book "N'shaytkin" I'm going to load up, you can buy yourself a copy here: http://www.batteryoperabooks.com
Please do!
Battery Opera Books is an extension of Battery Opera, a dance/performance company that I've been working with for about 5 years or so off and on. They are wonderful, amazing people to collaborate with and I can't say enough good things about them!
This is the year I return to arts and academia!
What else can I say, I've missed it and after some time off the road I'm ready to get back into it older and wiser.
Last month in December we did 5 days of performances and I think 7 shows/readings in that time space and it was fun! We reached new audiences and made new fans but it was exhausting because I've been away from the stage for so long. I also take a long time between projects now, I don't crank things out like I used to, that pace can't be kept up. I always took years between books because each book could be promoted all across the country and anywhere really because Indigenous literature is still so new.
The art stuff was all a matter of timing, the right place, the right time and the right content. Then finding exhibitions and people to tour with for shows. Same with the films and music.
I also learned to quit trying. haha.
What I mean is quit trying to get people on the road and or quit trying to get people to see what you've seen because if they haven't done it, they don't have a frame of reference and it goes in one year and out the other. haha.
Plus, some people or a lot of people just don't want to do it, so quit bugging them and get on with it.
Life is for learning and living, so get out there and do the best you can people!
aight, peace out for now!
CB.
ps: here's a link to the mini-tour! photos!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1/albums/72157712445639392
3 comments:
Hey Chris!
I've had the incredible opportunity to listen to you speak about a variety of issues and pieces of work that you have created in my English Course at TRU. I can't say enough how grateful I am for you honesty and willingness to speak your mind. It is an honour to listen to your stories.
Oh, I also enjoyed reading through your blogs! lol
Keep it up in 2020!
Hello,
I am also comming down the chute from TRU. I do think you are right about blogging be being a bit out of date now though. I still do read blogs though. Those are some incredible photos from your tour and I think I even recognize a familiar face from artswells festival community. Thank you for organizing and making art for folks like me to enjoy. The plague of 2020 has been a curve ball for artists especially and I hope you and yours are well.
-dirt
Hi Chris,
I hope that in a post-pandemic world you can continue to write on your blog again. Creativity has been stymied for the last year but I am excited to see what creativity will be brought forward from these newly created perspectives.
Blogging is perhaps no longer contemporary, but still a medium I appreciate.
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