re: coming home.....

hello lovers,

ahhhh, so you have seen the photos of the wild and crazy "crawling, weeping, betting," exhibition, festival and shows in vancouver, bc at the Unit/Pitt gallery/projects space. i'm not sure how many people were involved? 50? a 100? a 1000? it seemed like it at time, but it was brilliant. and damned.

so, after such a high, i have to come home to my smallish city in the southern interior of BC. kamloops, bc in fact, and it's quiet at night. painfully quiet. i'm often bored. and we've had very long winter, it started in October of last year, and we've had snow until the past week. imagine that. 6 months of snow. it drives you mad. plus the short days. booze helps, but even that turns against you after awhile. haha. 

but now that it's warming up, i'm out every day, hiking, walking, doing art outside, reading, taking photos, anything to get out of the house. it's a strange place, kind of bleak, not much art stuff going on unless you make things happen, which is why i started the arbour collective back in 2011 when i moved back from Kelowna, BC. 

i like it here though, something about this place, not sure what it is yet. 

it does fuck with your head though, traveling to other major centres in canada and then returning home to the silence. i've got my kids here, which is probably the main reason why i'm here still. i'm undecided about that one though. it's nice to return home and chill out and get outside in the hills or along the river, or going for drives. that's why when i'm in the cities, i rarely sleep, i'm out walking the streets, looking up at the towers, or down alleys, or wherever, seeking adventure, and stories. when i get home from touring i'm exhausted and often takes a few days to get back to normal. so now you see what i see when i get home. 

as it is getting warmer, i'll post some nicer photos tomorrow. 

until next time lovers,

c,

re: unit/pitt and battery opera show continued.....

hello lovers,

ahhhh winter, it's still snowing in kamloops, bc, and we still have snow on the ground, but the sun is shining and we've got that "golden hour" of light as i type this out. the kids are eating and i thought i'd take a minute or two to type this out.

here are some more flicks of the vancouver show with david mackintosh.

the final night of performances, music and stories. it was amazing. i was there for the opening night and the closing nights. how it worked was thursday night, 11:30 to 12:30 was a "witching hour" solo performance opportunity for an invited guest artist. they would do what they wanted for an hour inside the unit/pitt at 236 pender, un-interrupted from the audience, who had to stay outside and watch voyeuristically as the artist did their thing.

friday nights 10 - 12 pm, were a cabaret style performance opportunity with guest musicians and a storyteller sharing some story of their choice as well as dancers performing reinterpretations of the 12 stories/poems david and i told in the book published for the event, "crawling, weeping, betting." which were based on our experiences in vancouver, bc.

saturdays, 12-5 pm were guided tours throughout the vancouver based on the 12 stories in the book we published. they were amazing. i was told people wept, or got emotional when the guides took them on various routes through the city and read or told the pomes and stories from memory.

it was an amazing experience, one i'll never forget, and one i wish to repeat now in europe.

gotta go, the kids are done breakfast and demand attention. haha.

kids.

cb

Various Vancouver, BC, photos from the end of February 2014

while shutting down the exhibition at the Unit/Pitt gallery.

"Bitch please,

I'm fabulous!"

a strange toy figure

in the display case at

"Golden Age Collectibles,"

on granville street. 

great comic store.

i also like "lucky comics," 

which is way down on main st.

the "loose moose," downtown vancouver, just off granville 

towards the granville street bridge, it's a heavy metal

bar and i drank with the band "children of bodom,"

a few weeks ago here. it was awesome, 

they drink like champs.

pretty much a great hidden gem in vancity

always blasting great music

and all food is less than $6.00

fuck. yeah.

re: Net-Eth: Going out of the darkness

Hello lovers,

one last post about an upcoming exhibition i'm in Vancouver for soon. come see me. read the poster below. i'll be at the malaspina printmakers location Sept 12, as well as at the Unit/Pitt "god save the queen," show at the Unit/Pitt gallery on Pender. 

come say hi! buy me a beer! haha!

until next time,

cb

ps: as my friend david mackintosh said, "it's chris bose week in vancouver!" haha! 

as always, "click" on the photo

to make it larger and legible!

re: vancity show

happy new years friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i spent the past week in Vancity, as i've had a show at the UNIT/PITT gallery in 15 East Pender, as well a book launch in conjunction with the show. my good friend Cease Wyss curated the show at the gallery, and was a super awesome host, taking me around the city, showing me cool art and giving me a annotated sense of the history of vancity. it's been awesome, got to spend more time on the rez in North Van, and check out the community garden she's got going on on her reserve.

so, it's been a great week for my headspace and the show was great fun, the launch went super, a lot of people made it, and i also read at Cafe De Soleil on commercial drive with my good friend Anthony Metvier, who added a performance art element to his reading by destroying his book at the end of it. haha, it was awesome.

well, a lot of people really helped out, and i'd like to thank Keith Higgens at the UNIT/PITT Gallery, Cease Wyss for curating it, my friends many who made it to the launch and were great sports and good to see, as well as everyone else who made it to the show!

i've included some photos for you to enjoy,


cheers,


cb.

vancity at night from stanley park

at UNYA

cool!?

my friend cease wyss

dragonfly

shell

vancity by day

bracken

culturally modified tree in stanley park!

i love this orca!

my friend Tania's info for her art at Stanley park

her work. 

my chapbook.

just saw this on commercial drive, thought it was cool.

somewhere in van.

beets i helped harvest.

re: vancity show

Hello friends, fans, foe, and lovers,

here's some info on an upcoming show in vancity, we're having the opening reception this friday, if you're in the area, come have a visit.

http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/ill-repute/chris-bose-the-apology/

i'm also publishing a chapbook in conjunction with the show, so do come check it out, the film i finished for the show is being projected onto Pender street, downtown eastside, in chinatown. sweet. 

hopefully it'll disturb people. 

cheers,

cb