gohkagan@hotmail.com

gohkagan@hotmail.com

Instagram: @kagangoh / @empowermentalwealth
Twitter / X: @KaganGoh / @mh2mw_project

https://www.survivingsamsara.com/

80 page poetry chapbook entitled NOTHING IS FORGED WITHOUT FIRE.

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Originally from Singapore, Kagan Goh is a Vancouver-based Chinese Canadian multidisciplinary artist: award-wining filmmaker, published author, spoken word poet, mental health advocate and activist. He is the son of Goh Poh Sing — Singapore literary pioneer. In 2012, Select Books in Singapore published his memoir, focused upon his relationship with his esteemed father entitled Who Let in the Sky? Goh’s follow-up memoir, Surviving Samsara, which recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness, was published by Caitlin Press in 2021. Surviving Samsara was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2022 in the creative nonfiction in English category.

The grant has supported my development as a Bipoc Chinese Canadian multidisciplinary Neurodivergent Mad Artist giving me the opportunity to access funds and resources to help me in my personal mission of mental health advocacy and activism through spoken word poetry and storytelling.

By amplifying voices of the marginalized disenfrancised artists of the DTES by creating opportunities through access to funding and resources to create their Art.

The grants have impacted the community by giving opportunities to DTES Artists to create Art that reflects the struggles, challenges, strength, resilience, courage, fortitude and pride built on a strong foundation of unconditional love and solidarity of our common humanity within the community.