I herd that Tallships are happening again in Halifax this summer 2009. I love the parade of sails but there is little promotion of what Nova Scotia really has to offer including local art and craft. Tourists come from all over and you would expect the tourism industry to encourage local artisans to be around, to show the true colours of Nova Scotia. I want to walk down and see hand craft jewelery and paintings while I look at the marvelous ships but INSTEAD I see stuff made in china and cheep toys. I herd some artisans were kicked out by security gaurds last Tallships. They should pay the artisans to come down for events like this instaed of kicking them out!
—Loving Nova Scotia
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2009.
You actually heard that? NICE…
I hadn’t, which is likely part of the problem.
I’m in the heart of the city at all times and I wasn’t aware.
I love the festivals on the waterfront in summer… Buskers, Tall ships… Canada Day… so very nice on a decent day.
And where is the chalk drawing guy for the other 49 weeks a year? Dave had Mad skills.
He should do one in the beer tent…. erotic, yet tasteful.
🙂 bet his bucket would be ringing with change.
P.S. more Bong/Pipe guys… they’re like totally inspirational….
I didn’t exactly enjoy Tallships last time. It was my BF’s mom’s brilliant idea to go. It was an incredibly hot day and just masses of quiet, sweating people trudging from one ship they probably didn’t really care about to the next, passing by stalls of overpriced seafood and the shitty wares the OP mentions. What the hell do the same cheesy hippie wooden tribal pendants and gangsta chains you can get at any county fair or mall flea market have to do with Tallships?
I just can’t wait for the BeaverTail place to open again.
Yum.
The fees HRM charges for setting up during tall ships is probably so fucking high that only the people who sell mass produced shit the OP mentions can afford to get permits to set up shop. That’s why they were likely kicking out local artisans last time: they hadn’t paid the ridiculous fees to set up shop (because they probably couldn’t afford them).
It’s quite pathetic when you think about it.
Meh. Who cares about that local-arts-and-crafts shit anyways? I sure as hell don’t want a canister with a cow painted on the side. Maybe if some of the local arts and crafts were more… How should I say this….? Interesting? Maybe people would like them more and actually kick up a stink about this.
There are interesting local arts and crafts out there, you just have to wade through all the hundreds of homemade soaps and tacky tole painting to get to it 😛
Check out some of the craft shows around xmas, Dr. Fever. Most of the stuff is the same, and a lot of it is boring or just plain BAD, but there are usually a few gems that make trudging to those things (and the admission price) worth it.
I’m wondering how many ships you will actually be able to board this year, and how many will be cordoned off so you can’t even WALK next to them. That fucking pissed me off so bad last time.
Getting drunk on th tall ship Silva at any point in the summer is all the tall ship I need.
Chalkmaster is king.
He is!
and I’m craving to hit the Silva this summer.
If I have to rent the damn thing myself….
Party time over here….
My first & last time taking family to Peggy’s Cove was when I picked up a little lobster trap, with a small shell on it & a little Nova Scotia flag, turned it over -made in china- that did it for me.
No one in Nova Scotia can glue a couple of sticks together with a shell & a small piece of tartan or something ! It has to come from China ?
I personally believe it should be illegal, if there was no other way to fill the trinket trade for tourists, Nova Scotians would fill the void.
oh no it can be done here More, but just not as cheaply. its hard to compete with 3cents per hour labour in china.
look at all your possesions…from electronics to underwear. most are made in china, indonesia, taiwan, bangladesh…and the list goes on.
economics man..we like our shit and we like it cheap.
and oh yeah…viva la tall ships. its something that brings money in. we are going to need that ever moreso in the upcoming year plus.