Tracy Lavigne is a Registered Nurse and one of the Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Consultants with the North Simcoe Muskoka Hospice Palliative Care Network.  Tracy is a dedicated healthcare professional with extensive experience in palliative care across all sectors, including community, acute care, and frontline nursing, She has supported the palliative care needs of those from newborn to older adult. Her background also includes specialized roles as a palliative care navigator and educator, giving her a broad and compassionate understanding of the patient and family journey. Tracy’s focus is on the full palliative care experience, recognizing that comfort extends beyond physical and practical needs to include social, spiritual, and psychological well-being. She is known for demonstrating compassion and kindness while fostering greater understanding and commitment to quality palliative care throughout the region. 

Peyton Keeler-Cox is a Barrie–based photographer and artist. Captivated by documenting the human condition and experience through uncovering themes of memory, grief, space, and relationships. Peyton has completed her BFA in Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her practice stems from investigating and activating the archive and seeking truth and understanding in the world and people around her. She is driven in being a vessel for others and exposing the deeper complexities in the feelings and relationships we each have. 

Molly Steels is a Toronto-based artist and arts administrator originally from Bradford, Ontario. By worldbuilding in tandem with family archives, Steels blends the past into the present. Here, she creates surreal conceptual spaces using photography as a tool for connection across time. Steels’ work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals across Canada, including The Aurora Cultural Centre, Sankofa Square, Artspace TMU, Gallery 44 and Contemporary Calgary during Exposure Photography Festival’s International Open Call. Steels holds a BFA in Photography and a minor in Sociology from Toronto Metropolitan University. 

Clare Bolton is a writer and workshop facilitator.  Her poetry and prose have been published in a variety of anthologies.  An associate member of the League of Canadian Poets, Clare recently published her first chapbook, The Dead are in the Guest Room. 

Clare is excited to share poetry in a gallery space surrounded by the artwork of Marlene Hilton Moore. Inspired by her Celtic heritage and the presence of wonder found in the natural world, she strives to create poetry that is clear and true.  

Dorothy Sjöholm holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC where she studied under Susan Musgrave. Her stories and poems have been published internationally in various literary journals, and her most recent book is a novella in verse (why the telephone stopped ringing. Piquant Press.2019). She enjoys hosting workshopping sessions in her home and has recently completed two new manuscripts. She is delighted to have this opportunity to respond to the evocative art of Hilton Moore. 

Kathleen Wildman is a poet who hopes to never stop evolving as a writer. She has facilitated writing workshops and gratefully learned from many incredible writers including, Libby Scheier, Susan Musgrave and Molly Peacock. Marlene Hilton Moore’s work has been a gift to be inspired by for this event. Kathleen is glad to be a part of The Wednesday Poets who share her love of words. 

Jeanette Winsor is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto and has been imagining and writing for as long as she can remember. Her short stories have appeared in several publications, including CanWrite Anthology and The Antigonish Review. She is the author of three novels in The Silver Cape Cove Series, as well as a biography. She looks forward to sharing her poetry—sparked by the inspiration of The Wednesday Poets—alongside the exhilarating work of Marlene Hilton Moore. 

Sandra Fraser is an independent curator, writer, and researcher specializing in modern and contemporary art. For nearly three decades her curatorial practice has been grounded in careful research and attentive collaboration, and she is known for producing exhibitions that are both timely and resonant, often engaging broader questions of cultural production and place. Deeply invested in how museums create meaning and foster a sense of belonging, Fraser approaches curating as a critical and ethical practice, attentive to context, audience, and lived experience.

Fraser has a Masters in Art History (York University), certificates in Museum Management and Curatorship (Fleming College) and Research Analyst (Georgian College), and a BA in Art History (University of Toronto). She has held senior curatorial roles at Remai Modern, the Mendel Art Gallery and MacLaren Art Centre, and previously taught Art History and Gallery Studies at Georgian College. Fraser currently teaches in the Museum and Gallery Studies program.

Julietta Singh is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Richmond. A postcolonial scholar and nonfiction writer, her work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to race, ecology, and inheritance. 

Singh is the author of three books: The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021), No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018). She is also writer and co-director of the experimental feature documentary, The Nest (NFB Canada, 2025). 

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, her scholarly work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her nonfiction work has been celebrated in venues such as The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, Literary Hub, and the New York Public Library. Most recently, Singh has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Princeton University’s Humanities Council, and Arizona State’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. 

She lives with her family on Powhatan lands in Richmond, Virginia. 

Marlene Hilton Moore: has defined a distinctive profile in Canadian visual arts marked by outstanding achievements at local and national levels, particularly in the complex arena of Public Art and Monuments.  

Marlene has been a recipient of many Public Art Commissions over the last twenty years. Significant works include the prestigious Valiants Memorial in Ottawa, Two Freedoms, McMurtry Gardens of Justice in Toronto, Wiidookdaadiwin in Simcoe County, The Volunteers, Halifax and Ad Astra, a monument to the 100th Anniversary of the RCAF, CFB Borden.  

Marlene Hilton Moore has an extensive public exhibition schedule of solo and group exhibitions. Her sculptural and photographic work engages the human form, with a focus on the stereotypes that pressure women in today’s society as well as concerns regarding our human relationships as a whole.  

In 2014 Hilton Moore received the City of Barrie’s Excellence in Arts Award. In 2010 she retired from teaching at the School of Design and Visual Arts, Georgian College following a distinguished 25-year teaching career.   

Ray Dillard has toured internationally for over four decades. Late 2025 saw the release of Flying, a project featuring Ray with collaborators Doug Romanov and James Metcalfe. His projects included several video and audio recordings of the music of American composer Steve Reich, in celebration of Steve’s 85th birthday. This work features a website co-developed by Ray featuring the history, significance, and future of Reich’s seminal work Drumming on its 50th Anniversary. Dillard has also completed his 20th recording project for the renowned percussion ensemble NEXUS, a group he has been working with since 1983.  

Ray’s considerable recording credits include Grammy and Juno nominated projects with artists and ensembles from the United States, South America, Europe, Japan and Canada. He has completed his fifth project with the TorQ Percussion Quartet, this time with The Elora Festival choir. He completed a new solo recording with The Elora Singers in the summer of 2023. Ray’s non-classical projects include projects for Julia Crafton, Don Bray, Hawkins Johnston, Beth McKeen, Ed Moll and Martha Johnson of Martha and The Muffins fame. His acoustic jazz recordings include Ellis Marsalis, Paul English, Bruce Dudley, Joe LoCascio, and Marvin Stamm. His work includes such diverse styles as Symphonic, Pop, Jazz, Experimental, Roots and World Music. For over 25 years, Ray has been active as one of the three founding members of the experimental music ensemble JMR Abstract, having produced both of their CD releases. This ensemble created a great deal of material “virtually” during the Covid-19 Pandemic. 

Ray currently resides in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. He is a principal instrument designer for Dream Cymbals and Gongs Inc., a Toronto based cymbal manufacturing company. He also produces and plays on numerous recording projects. He continues to be fascinated by many aspects of physics.