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Johnny Trinh

JOHNNY D TRINH is the Artistic Director of Vancouver Poetry House; Founder of Stage to Page Performance Society; and Interim Executive Director of Historic Joy Kogawa House. Additional highlights: Artist-in-residence at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, Banff Spoken Word Residency Alumnus. Trinh holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Community-Engaged Art and Autoethnography. “It takes a community to build an artist ... whether we are nurtured by it, or resist against it.”