FREE Community Weekend

Join us for our spring exhibition opening of Exhibit A: Investigating Crime and Footwear. Admission is free all weekend (April 20 + 21) and everyone is invited! Enjoy a full schedule of exhibition tours and family-friendly hands-on activities including crafts, make-your-own puzzle, and prizes. Visit our website for the full schedule.

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Calling Emerging Playwrights

Have you ever wanted to learn how to write a theatrical play? Join us on April 27 from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm for Dramatic Soles: Writing Plays and Perspectives in Someone Else’s Shoes as we welcome Canadian Playwright Steven Elliott Jackson who will teach new and emerging playwrights to explore the writing process as inspired by footwear and crime.

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Love 1980s fashion and film?

Discover the lasting impact of the 1980s on fashion, culture, film and television during a panel talk presented by the Bata Shoe Museum and The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts and Design (CAFTCAD) on Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00 pm. Moderated by celebrated journalist Nathalie Atkinson, panelists Nishi Bassi, Suzanne Boyd, and Allisa Swanson will share their insights on the cultural significance of this dynamic era.

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Clog Planter Workshop

Join us for an exciting workshop celebrating the fusion of art, nature, and footwear design hosted by artist and professional gardener Wendy Woodworth on Saturday, May 18 from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the creative potential of wooden clogs by transforming them into one-of-a-kind planters.

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Oumou Sangaré concert at Koerner Hall

Our friends at the Royal Conservatory of Music will be hosting an exciting concert at Koerner Hall on April 20! Hailed as “one of the great queens of Malian music” (Rolling Stone), charismatic Grammy and UNESCO Award-winning vocalist Oumou Sangaré’s music is defiantly uplifting, full of buoyant West African grooves, hypnotic melodicism, and her joyful, soulful voice. Over her acclaimed career, "The Songbird of Wassoulou" has worked with pioneering Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, sung on Herbie Hancock’s Imagine project, released 11 solo albums, and been cited as an inspiration by the likes of Alicia Keys, Aya Nakamura, and Beyoncé.

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