Bata Shoe Museum & Diaspora Dialogues

Where Have You Been In These Shoes?

Camellia Koo - Toronto, Canada

Multimedia Installation

A living, growing poetry garden cultivated with photos of the audience’s well-travelled shoes, inspiring in-the-moment poetry created by Toronto spoken word artists. This 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 poets will select those that are particularly inspiring and create on-the-spot poems, written and then performed aloud.

Parental guidance advised