Renée Michaud is a North Bay, Ontario native and member of the Algonquin First Nation community. She is an emerging multidisciplinary artist, community organizer and creative entrepreneur, and the founder of Uneety Wellness and Creative Co. Gender equality, open-mindedness and empathy are important values in Renée’s work that centres around art, music, dance and dialogue to advance community-building, wellness and social causes. At the heart of her artistic offerings is individual and collective healing through creative self-expression.
Bringing her experience in communications and event coordination to this project, Renée is inspired to explore and grow her own community-engaged art practice.

Kseniya Tsoy is a new Canadian artistic producer and community-engaged artist, originally from Uzbekistan. She specializes in designing shared experiences for the public at the intersection of art, social innovation and play. The core of her socially engaged practice is the emphasis on cross-cultural and inter-generational aspects of programming revolving around creative collaboration.
For almost a decade Kseniya has been working with World Culture Open, a global network of cultural creatives, to design and produce community-engaged programs at local and international levels. After moving to Canada, she shifted her focus to public art and place-making and is now dedicated to bringing communities together through projects that make cities more artistic, vibrant and livable.