Bata Shoe Museum

Clog Painting
2022-12-02 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | 327 Bloor St W, Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1W7, Canada
Cost: $8/person
Where: Footprints Lecture Room (ground level)
*Please note all participants are required to have museum admission for this day as well. This can be purchased in advanced on Showpass or in-person. Due to limited space, we recommend arriving to the museum earlier.
Come paint a clog in our Arts and Crafts Zone (for PA Day from 1pm to 3pm. Learn about the history of our clog collection and get inspired to make your own! Space is limited ~ first come, first serve. Available for all ages.
Upcoming Clog Painting Workshops:
1pm to 3pm, every PA Day (TDSB calendar) and select Saturdays
Saturday January 7
Friday January 13
Saturday February 4
Friday February 17
Saturday March 4
Friday June 2
For any questions about the workshop, please contact Angie Ma at angie.ma@batashoemuseum.ca or 416-979-7799 x 242.

Community Tours
2022-12-03 12:00 - 12:30, 2022-12-10 12:00 - 12:30, 2022-12-17 12:00 - 12:30, 2023-01-14 12:00 - 12:30
Cost: Included with General Admission
Community tours invite visitors in the community to navigate the museum together with our docent volunteers. These 20 minute tours highlight individual shoes and themes created by our docents including but limited to shoes of status worn by kings and pharaohs, footwear and changing beauty ideals, 18th century economy and methods of collection. We will look at how objects are represented and interpreted through various knowledge and lived experiences within the context of a museum space. We invite participants of all ages, abilities and diverse backgrounds to join us in conversation around culture, humanity and footwear.
Location: Main Lobby
When: Every Saturday starting at 12pm
Space is limited ~ first come, first serve. We encourage visitors to sign up upon arrival to the Museum at our admissions desk.
For any questions, please contact Angie Ma at angie.ma@batashoemuseum.ca or 416-979-7799 x 242.

December Salon Series
2022-12-14 19:00 - 20:00
A Conversation with fashion historian and author Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Contemporary artists, fashion designers, and filmmakers often imagine Marie Antoinette as an eighteenth-century Imelda Marcos or Carrie Bradshaw, obsessed with shoes. But while the queen undoubtedly owned many shoes, there is no evidence that she favored them over any other item of clothing. Like “Let them eat cake,” her shoe lust is a myth that persists because it perfectly fits our notions of her greed and frivolity. It may also stem from the fact that several shoes are among the relatively few articles of clothing belonging to the queen that survive today, and many have made headlines by drawing record prices at auctions. In this virtual talk, Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell will explore the myths and realities of Marie-Antoinette’s shoe collection followed by a Q&A with Director & Senior Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack.
RSVP HERE

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (Yale, 2015), Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History (Running Press, 2019), The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion (Running Press, 2020), Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style (Kent State University Press, 2022), and Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the 20th Century (St. Martin’s Press, 2022). She has written about fashion, art, and culture for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on NPR, the Biography Channel, and Reelz, along with several podcasts. She was a 2020-21 NEH Public Scholar and a 2021-22 USC Libraries Fellow. As well as writing books and articles, she does writing, lecturing, curating, and consulting for the museums, universities, and the entertainment industry.

Holiday Cobbler Workshop
2022-12-28 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: Included with General Admission
When: Everyday from 10am to 4pm (Craft bags on January 1st)
Celebrate the holiday season with our shoe-themed games and crafts for kids and families. Create your own ice skate craft, DIY your own ski ornament, or make yourself a puzzle and so much more! Available for kids up to 12 years old.
For any questions, please email Angie Ma at angie.ma@batashoemumseum.ca or call at 416-979-7799 x 242.
Please note these are drop-in activities. No registration is required.

Felt Slipper Making Workshop
2023-01-08 12:30 - 2023-01-15 16:30
Cost: $80/per person
Friends of the BSM: $60/per person
When: January 8 and 15 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm
Length: 8 hours total (4 hours per class with a break included)
Where: Bata Shoe Museum (327 Bloor St. W.)
Learn how to create your own cozy slippers, and keep your toes warm all winter long! Create a paper pattern, cut your pieces from industrial felt, and assemble with hand-sewing techniques. If you’re super keen, there will be embroidery floss and other embellishments so you can customize the uppers however you like. All materials for this workshop will be provided.
This 2-part workshop will take place in our Footprints lecture room at the Bata Shoe Museum (327 Bloor St. W.) on January 8 and 15. Please present your ticket to our Front Desk when arriving. Each ticket includes admission to the museum. Space is limited to 10 participants and registration is required. Ticket sales end on January 7 at 4:30pm EST.
If there are any questions or concerns, please email angie.ma@batashoemuseum.ca. Refund requests must be submitted 48 hours before ticket start time.
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ABOUT THE HOST:

Allie Davis (they/them) is an Educator and textile artist with a passion for sustainability and upcycling. A self-labelled “dabbler”, Allie loves to try different crafts and believes strongly in the accessibility of hands-on learning. Their specialties are dyeing and mending, and they love to teach folks how to make and repair their own textiles so they will last many years.
Felt Slipper Inspiration
