Puddle Dock Village Festival | Performers and Presenters

Gray Baldwin

Gray Baldwin (they/them) is a board-certified music therapist and creative arts therapist with over 30 years of experience supporting healing through trauma-informed, affirming care. They will take part in events on July 30 and August 2.

Haley Bezon

Haley Bezon (she/her) is the founder and executive director of Hearty Roots, a nature-based resilience program that helps youth build confidence, connection, and emotional wellbeing through outdoor experiences. She joins the event on July 9.

Annie Blair

Annie Blair (she/her) is a Walpole-based practitioner of Social Presencing Theater, a body-based practice that invites reflection, connection, and meaningful change. She will join the July 30 and August 2 events.

Larraine Brown

Larraine Brown (she/her) is a writer, director, and theater organizer who uses the arts to explore personal and societal healing. She will participate in the July 24 event.

Laetitia Brundage

Laetitia Brundage (she/her) is a music therapist and teacher, and yoga instructor, who explores life’s complexities through songwriting, using creativity and vulnerability to process themes of grief, trauma, and spirituality. She will participate in July 13 and August 2 events.

Peter Bruun

Peter Bruun (he/him) is the co-founder and executive director of Studio B and the organizer behind the Puddle Dock Village Festival. Peter will join the event on July 30.

Sophia Bruun

Sophia Bruun (she/her) is an international yoga teacher, sound facilitator, DJ, and space holder. She will lead a Cacao Ritual at the conclusion of the closing event for the festival on August 3.

Castlebay

Castlebay, featuring Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee, has been blending the musical heritage of New England and Celtic lands since 1987. They perform at the July 5 event.

Char Corbett

Char Corbett (she/her) is the executive director of Healthy Kids, a child abuse prevention agency serving Lincoln and Knox counties. She brings her insight and commitment to youth wellbeing to the event on July 9.

Jim Doble

Jim Doble (he/him) is known for creating participatory sound environments that support wellness and connection through vibration and tone. He will offer a sound bath on July 27.

Ed Epping

Ed Epping (he/him), a New Mexico-based artist and retired professor of art from Williams College, has spent the past decade focusing on The Corrections Project, a multimedia exploration of justice and incarceration. His work will be exhibited from July 17–24.

Phylicia Ghee

Phylicia Ghee (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer whose work centers ritual, memory, and the body as a site of healing and transformation. Her exhibition will be on view from July 26 to August 3.

Alison Hartman

Alison Hartman (she/her), who has practiced acupuncture for over 35 years in Maryland, now speaks and writes about grief and loss following her son’s death from an unintentional overdose in 2017. She is featured in the event on July 8.

Antonio “Cuba” Jackson

Antonio “Cuba” Jackson (he/him) is an abolitionist, civic leader, and entrepreneur who spent nearly a decade in Maine’s prison system. Cuba takes part in the July 20 event.

Jenny Jordan

Jenny Jordan (she/her) is a resident of Alna and musician who regularly turns to singing as a healing outlet. She will perform at the closing reception for Keith Plummer's exhibition on July 13.

Norman Kehling

Norman Kehling (he/him) spent 30 years in Maine’s prison system and now advocates for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. As founder of Helping Incarcerated Individuals Transition, he will participate in the July 24 event.

Lady Brion

Lady Brion (she/her) is a poet, activist, and educator whose work centers on those affected by justice systems. As Maryland’s Poet Laureate, she brings her powerful spoken word to the event on July 24.

Mackenzie Kelley

MacKenzie Kelley (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated woman in long-term recovery and the program director of Reentry Sisters. She takes part in the festival's July 20 event.

Nicole Lund

Nicole Lund (she/her) is a prison abolitionist, artist, and writer pursuing a master’s in counseling psychology at the University of Maine at Farmington. She explores justice through creative expression and policy critique in her weekly Daily Bulldog column. She shares her work at the July 24 event.

Meg LeMay

Meg LeMay (she/her) is the director of education & engagement of Maine Youth Thriving where she leads statewide efforts to foster resilience, wellbeing, and equity for young people. Meg co-organized and is participating in the event on July 9.

Crystal McLain

Crystal McLain (she/her) is a trauma-informed Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) who specializes in stress management and body-mind awareness. She presents as part of the event on August 2.

Erasmus Moore

Erasmus Moore (he/him) is a Midcoast Maine musician who joins Silvermoor Bramble in performance during the opening of Phylicia Ghee’s exhibition on July 26.

Cody Mower

Cody Mower (they/he) is the author of "Stranger in My Own Skin," a memoir on community and self-love, and advocates for veterans and the LGBTQIA+ community through their writing. They will share their writing and its role in healing at the July 13 event.

Jade Nelson

Jade Nelson (she/her) is a seasoned yoga teacher, retired bodyworker, and passionate educator dedicated to sharing self-care wisdom and empowering others to nurture their mind, body, and spirit through mindful practices. She will be participating in events July 30 and August 2.

No Spring Chickens

No Spring Chickens is a musical duo composed of Linda (Blaze) Picceri and Michelle Tanguay. They perform during the July 24 closing reception for the Ed Epping exhibition.

Bruce Noddin

Bruce Noddin (he/him) is the founder and former executive director of the Maine Reentry Network. In 2022, he was appointed to the Maine State Workforce Board by Governor Mills and to the Maine Recovery Council by Senate President Jackson. A person in long-term recovery, Bruce joins the July 24 reentry event as a speaker and facilitator.

Keith Plummer

Keith Plummer (he/him), a self-taught artist from Damariscotta, Maine, creates sculptures from wood, bone, and metal that are part of his healing from trauma. His work is featured in the July 5-13 exhibition, where he is also participating in related events.

QueenEarth

QueenEarth (she/they) creates work blending original music, digital art, and storytelling for racial justice and equity. She will perform and talk about her work’s role in healing at the July 13 event.

Shapir Rosenberg

Shapir Rosenberg, MD, specializes in Psychiatry and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, with a passion for end-of-life care, teaching, and the medical humanities. He joins Alison Hartman in presenting on July 8 at the Peace Gallery.

Jamie Silvestri

Jamie Silvestri is a professional art therapist and the founder of ArtVan, a mobile arts therapy nonprofit serving youth and communities in Maine since 2004. She joins the event on July 9.

Linda Small

Linda Small (she/her) works to expand restorative justice in Maine as executive director of Reentry Sisters. A Columbia University Leadership Fellow and doctoral student, she shares her insights at the July 20 event.

Hawthorne Lindsay Smith

Hawthorne Lindsay Smith (she/her) is a classically trained singer and violinist and performs as Silvermoor Bramble during the opening of Phylicia Ghee’s exhibition on July 26.

Sam Thomas

Sam Thomas (he/him) is a pianist who shares his music and story to honor the humanity of those affected by the justice system. He performs at the July 17 and July 24 events.

Sara Trunzo

Sara Trunzo (she/her) is a singer-songwriter and community organizer whose music and activism are rooted in rural life and resilience. She performs at the August 3 closing event of the Puddle Dock Village Festival.

Danielle Ward

Danielle Ward (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated woman in long-term recovery, certified recovery coach, peer support specialist, and an advocate for people living with mental health and substance use disorders. She takes part in the July 20 event.

Alexandra Whitney

Alexandra Whitney (she/her) is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who integrates body-based approaches to help clients heal from chronic stress and trauma, restore nervous system balance, and reconnect with a sense of wellbeing. She joins the event on August 2.

Maya Williams

Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who served as Poet Laureate in Portland, ME. from 2021 to 2024. Ey will share eir writing and its role in healing at the July 13 event.

Lauren Woodcock

Lauren Woodcock (she/her) is a pyrographic artist who uses woodburning as both a creative outlet and a personal coping skill for managing anxiety. She will offer hands-on pyrographic drawing during Ed Epping’s demonstration on July 19.

Carol Zahner

Carol Zahner (she/her) lives in Walpole, Maine, and practices Social Presencing Theater to support individual and collective insight through embodied awareness. She will offer an experiential introduction to this work on July 30 and take part in the August 2 event.

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