Walk a mile in someone else s shoes during Sydney Festival â literally
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To truly understand another person s experience, weâre told, first walk a mile in their shoes. It s a well-worn aphorism but still contains more than a kernel of truth.
Now visitors to the National Maritime Museum can try stepping into other people s shoes â literally â while they listen to a recording of their story on headphones.
All the stories concern the migrant experience. The shoes might belong to a Catholic refugee who recalls fleeing Vietnam on a tiny fishing boat crammed with 99 other terrified passengers and the horror of of seeing shoes floating in the water from other desperate refugees who had drowned.