COLD FEET

On Tuesday night, the Bata Shoe Museum launched its latest exhibition, Art & Innovation: Traditional Arctic Footwear, drawn from the museum’s circumpolar holdings and augmented by field trips to Arctic nations including the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Alaska, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Sami homeland in Scandinavia.

Mary Symons, luxury goods publicist, and Grant Ramsay, theatre publicist, contribute to a set decoration at the Bata Shoe Museum.

Two throat singers who performed at the Bata Shoe Museum Arctic Footwear exhibit opening. One was barefoot; the other wore sealskin boots made by her grandmother.

My favourite piece at the exhibit, which included clothing and tools as well as footwear. It is a squirrel-skin parka from Eastern Siberia.  Hmmmmm. Squirrel skin. This puts a whole new light on all those critters in my backyard.