re: happy new year!

Hello loves, friends, fans and foe,

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

re: 1137

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

continuing with the book "nshaytkin" for you to enjoy, the digital copy.

enjoy.

CB.
ps: click on the image to get it into a readable size!

re: 1136

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here are more pages of my new book "nshaytkin" published by Battery Opera Books. click on the picture to get a full size version to read!!!

re: 1135

Hey lovers, friends, fans and foe,

here's the next instalment of "N'shaytkin: Those that came before us." Writing and researching this book made me realize the roots of our language are at least 10,000 years old. How old is the English language? We found remains just a few hundred feet from my mum's house on the Rez, Kumcheen I.R. #1 that were at least 9600 years old. Those that came before us still are in our blood, our memories our DNA.

It makes me wonder how many times our society rose and fell in that epoch of time. What happened in that incredible length of time? It's amazing to think about. I digress, please, carry on reading, the book started with post # 1133. Enjoy!

Kukstemc,

Chris Bose.
ps: CLICK ON THE IMAGE to make it full size and readable.

re: post 1134

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here is part II of my book preview for the upcoming publication "N'shaytkin: Those that came before us." My first book of fiction, it's based on traditional N'lakapamux stories told to me by my grannie and grandpa, or Yeah Yah and Spah-puh-luh7 when I was a kid. I never forgot them, the delivery or a lot of details. I started writing this book back in 2016 and I'm not sure how a book deal came about with "Battery Opera Books" but I think I might have sent some of it to David McIntosh (publisher/editor) for feedback. I don't think I had any plans at that time to publish it, I just needed direction, because I had written a script, which is included virtually unchanged, in the book. David thought blending or weaving the two together would be interesting and I just went with it, as I generally do with outside advice.

At this age and stage of the game, most of the people I turn to for advice or suggestions are generally on point, because they know my writing style, or art style or whatever and can generally offer good direction or sound opinion on whatever it is I ask of them. ANYWAY, at some point David offered me a book deal and I said "Sure, why not," or something like that, hahaha, and it marks a departure, for now, from Kegedonce publishing. Kegedonce did my first two books of poetry and they were and are awesome to work with, they're also great at telling me what works, what doesn't and so on. I'd like to continue working with them in the future as well, we've talked about a couple projects I'm working on, one is a book of Non-Fiction and is sort of a "how to survive: the art world, the literary world, the film world and more!" I've learned everything through the valuable advice of mentors and I have a ton of life experience, so I figured this would be a great way to share some valuable lessons I learned as I've made my way through the world based on my creative endeavours. The 2nd book we've discussed is a new book of poetry which I'm still working on.

My first book of poetry with Kegedonce was "Stone the Crow," and encapsulated a good 10 years of my writing, some which dates back to 1996 and was in various chapbooks and self-published works. Then my next book with them was "A Moon Made of Copper," and was written in a year or two, almost always on the road for many years, it's an exhaustive, dark and foreboding piece of work. Detailing the wild, crazy times I spent touring for various creative projects and the dark side of that world. When I do readings or tours reading it, surprisingly people really love that book, the darker the poems the better, which really blows my mind. People will come up afterward to get the book signed and tell me which ones are their favourite and I'm always surprised because they look so "normal." haha. This 3rd and in time, upcoming book of poetry is far more balanced as I've been working on it a few years now and is about getting off the road, getting myself balanced and grounded again in my life, changing my lifestyle, habits and generally working on being a great dad and community leader for the arts and indigenous representation in my community. I think it'll be my last book of poetry for awhile and I hope to be done writing it within this year. I'm a slow writer, haha. each book takes a toll creatively and I want to make sure each one counts.

Well, without further ado, here's more of a book preview of "N'shaytkin," please click on the images to read them full size. It will be released this December and don't ask me anymore than that, haha. I'm just the writer. Kukstemc, thanks for coming by and visiting. Stay tuned for more previews.

Chris Bose.

re: post 1133

Hello,

friends, fans, foe and lovers,

I'm still here, I'm certain to the chagrin of some, lol. just kidding. don't take things too seriously, I don't. I was watching some relaxing video of drone footage of Big Sur California and thinking about all the traveling and things I've been able to see in my life. I was and am very fortunate to have done it, but also, it happened because of creativity. The art I make, the films, the words I put to page, the photos, the music has taken me around the world. I've been lucky. Luck is also a lot of hard work and putting in the time to your projects or whatever you're working on. And timing, let's not forget timing, you've got to connected to the mass consciousness to really create something that takes you to the stratosphere.

I'm working on new films, new music, new art and new writing. I've made changes in my life and lifestyle and since I've done that my creativity is flourishing. I'm responding to it. I'm thankful for it. it's my passport to the world and I'm nurturing it again. I encourage you to do the same thing. It is so easy to be defeated and crushed creatively and as a human being if you don't get the right stimuli and responses. You need to believe in yourself and what you're passionate about it. If I hadn't done that and listened to the people that said I'd never get anywhere and do anything I'd probably be dead. A lot of those people certainly are, because they weren't happy. So, they take it out on those around them. Free yourself from those energy life force sucking vampires. They suck. literally. haha.

Anyway, I'll post some screenshots of my new book every day so you can have a read of my new book. Here's a blurb a friend of mine, Jennifer wrote about it:

"N’shaytkin is a non-linear and irrepressibly uncolonial novella by Chris Bose, who brings to life the history of his own people, the Nlaka’pamux. Woven together using five different narrative approaches including storyboards, a first-person narrative, a film script, reports and pictographs, Bose tells the story of how European disease and greed for copper and gold tore apart the Nlaka’pamux way of life. He also tells some old Nlaka’pamux stories about giants and little people, sharing his visions of the ghosts that wander through this novella, bringing warnings of floods, mudslides and breaking dams." 

Jennifer Dales.

Without further ado, here is the book, an advance preview copy from my publisher Battery Opera Books. Click on the image to see a larger readable copy. 

Enjoy,

Chris Bose.