A Mile in My Shoes, an interactive giant shoebox

Especially for the 27th edition of Winternachten international literature festival (the summer edition), art project ‘A Mile in My Shoes’ by the British artist Clare Patey (Empathy Museum), comes to The Hague. In this interactive ‘shoe box’, visitors can exchange their own shoes for those of a known or unknown fellow human being. During a short walk they hear the life story of the owner of the shoes through headphones. An ode to empathy!

A Mile in My Shoes
The collection of shoes and stories grows with every exhibition. The stories range from a surgeon to a sex worker, a florist to a refugee covering different aspects of life, from loss and grief to hope and love and take the visitor on an empathetic as well as a physical journey.

Opening hours
A Mile in My Shoes Spuiplein
Thursday, June 9 – Wednesday, June 15: 12:00-18:00
Thursday, June 16 – Saturday, June 18: 12.00-20.30 hrs.
Sunday, June 19: 12.00-18.00 hours

A Mile in My Shoes in Zuiderparktheater
From June 22 through July 17 on Wednesday afternoons and in the weekend
On Wednesdays from 13.00-16.00.
On Saturdays and Sundays from 12.00-16.00 (closed on Sunday 26 June)

Admission free and reservation not required

A production of
Writers Unlimited / Winternachten international literature festival The Hague
Clare Patey / Empathy Museum

In collaboration with
Zuiderparktheater The Hague
Festival De Betovering

A Mile in My Shoes is made possible by a contribution from the Dutch Foundation for Literature/Letterenfonds and the Municipality of The Hague.

More information about Clare Patey.