In 2017, Artistic Director Diane Brown was honoured with the Bra d’Or Award by the Women’s Caucus of Playwrights Guild of Canada for her work advancing Canadian women playwrights, in particular the creation of Advance Theatre: New Works by Diverse Women.Īdvance Theatre: New Works by Diverse Women For the past 28 years, Ruby Slippers Theatre has created, produced and presented provocative text-based theatre from the vanguard of the English and French Canadian canon, illuminating diverse perspectives and social issues. Ruby Slippers Theatre puts diverse female talent centre stage all season long through Canadian plays that are compelling, evocative, engaging and hilarious. Val Patenaude is executive director of the Maple Ridge Historical Society.2017/2018 Season This is your advance notice: diverse women are taking the stage. Please contact the museum at 60 for more details.The museum is looking for additions to our footwear collection, specifically dress shoes. The exhibit will also look at footwear accessories, and other types of winter shoes, including early forms of hockey skates to snowshoes.įrom our archives, newspaper advertisements from Osborne Shoes in Haney illustrate that the average price for a women’s shoe in the 1920s was around $2.85 (approximately $35 today).Ī price list from the Eaton’s catalogue from the same decade, shows “Shoes For Wee Feet” from 75 cents, which would have been just under $10 today. The Maple Ridge Museum has a unique collection of footwear, from infant shoes to early 20th women’s ankle- and knee-high leather boots to crocheted slippers, to the more modern styles. Men and women bound their feet with tape to fit them in shoes that were too tight. The Chinese practice of foot binding was loosely copied in western culture. Although there would have been no contact, the basic idea was the same. The Japanese balanced on high-soled wooden shoes, and that shape was similar to what people were wearing in other parts of the world, such as Italy.
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One of the more fascinating aspects of footwear is the cultural overlap, even from thousands of years ago, when communication between nations would not have been possible, yet our ideas of how to cover the foot were similar. From basic construction and design, to the materials used, our most recognizable footwear has roots in the past. We think of high-heeled shoes as a fashion statement, but centuries ago they were used for a more practical reason: to keep feet off dirty streets. The sandal – perhaps the oldest foot covering known to us, is still being adapted in various forms. Shoes of today are actually adaptions from centuries past. The upcoming exhibition at the Maple Ridge Museum, “All About Footwear,” will look at these messages and showcase our growing shoe collection, starting in February and running until summer. You may choose your footwear based on practical purposes, but that choice also sends symbolic messages. Studies have proven that what you put on your feet can say a great deal about your personality, as well as your economical demographics.
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