The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118253 Message #2556294
Posted By: Ebbie
03-Feb-09 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ideas-Arts/Culture Ctr for Touri/Locals
Subject: RE: BS: Ideas-Arts/Culture Ctr for Touri/Locals
Thanks for your thoughts!
* We find that a good many tourists do look for contact with locals and local history. For more than 12 years I was caretaker/docent of a house museum here and the people who toiled up the hill to it were uniformly great. I think that just about anyone who steps outside their ship-regimented/sanctioned routine is already more than halfway to 'great'.
* The JACC is kind of a museum- they have a one-room exhibit of local art; some of it is wonderful.
* We realize that we need to get the word out to the cruiselines. We do have one advantage there; JACC is already on their screen and we would only enhance it.
* The director of JACC has emailed me back saying that she wants to talk with us after their next extravaganza, their Wearable Art show. That community show is always a hoot, sometimes outrageous, but always creative.