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Asian. Acoustic. Urban. Electronic. Poetic Lyrics. Infectious melodies. Gein Wong is an a spoken word poet, playwright, video artist and music composer who weaves emotion and power throughout her art. She is an 2010 Ontario KM Hunter Award Nominee in Theatre. Her works focus on obvious things like gender, class and race....as well as things a little less obvious, like gender, class and race. Her works have been heard and performed across Canada, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, East Asia and the United States. Her CD Thousand Mile Voice is a warm and distinctive blend of East Asian acoustic instruments and electronic brushed beats. Ancient instruments like the erhu (Chinese violin) and the dizi (Chinese flute), intermingle amongst synthesizers, pianos, spoken word, western violins and hand drums as if they had always belonged together. Gein is a New York Kundiman Poetry fellow and is featured on the Dig Your Roots Canadian Spoken Word CD. She is classically trained in piano and french horn and has trained with the renowned erhu (Chinese violin) virtuoso Shao Lin. Currently, Gein is writing and creating sound and video design for Eventual Ashes’ newest multidisciplinary theatre production ‘Hiding Words (for You)’ about a secret language, called nushu, that Chinese women created when they were not allowed to read and write. As well, Gein is working on the Movement Project's series of interactive multimedia stage productions. The first of these movement is entitled How We Forgot Here, which invites passengers to board Canada’s only Indigineous-run airline. Gein’s second CD ‘Burning Money for You’ will be released at this show. As well, Gein resides in Toronto where she is Artistic Director o Eventual Ashes and the the Asian Arts Freedom School.