Where Have You Been In These Shoes?:

Diaspora Dialogues at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Are there stories to be told by your shoes? Diaspora Dialogues and Bata Shoe Museum certainly think so…

October 3, 2009
Sunrise to sunset
Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor Street West

At this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, we team up to create a living, growing poetry garden cultivated with photos of your well-travelled shoes. As the number of photos grow, so too will the poetry created in the moment by on-site Toronto spoken word artists.

The installation will become more beautiful and multifaceted as audience members have their shoes photographed and added to the display.

They’ll also be asked to give a short answer to the question, "Where have you been in these shoes?" which will be included with the photograph.

As the shoe photo-stories multiply, our resident spoken word poets will select those that are particularly inspiring and create on-the-spot poems, written and then performed aloud.