Anto Chan is a Queer Chinese-Canadian spoken word performance artist, facilitator, mentor, producer, and writer. He performed his one-person show Love So Far at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2019 and Guelph Fringe Festival in 2024, blending humour, vulnerability, and introspection to explore his history of love and personal transformation. His poetry chapbook Romantic Reflections was released in 2020, and his full-length album InnerGenerational is set to launch in February 2025 at the Replay Storytelling Festival.
Anto is the founder of InnerGenerational: Becoming Ancestors, a Canada Council for the Arts-funded multi-arts community that fosters a safe and nurturing space for Asian diaspora creatives to defy the limitations of the model minority archetype and evolve without fear.
As a practitioner of Expressive Arts Therapy (under supervision), Anto’s work centers on creating spaces for expansion, intersectionality, and self-love through the page, stage, and community. A dedicated creative mentor, he empowers emerging artists to overcome creative barriers, reclaim the stage, and navigate grant writing. His projects are rooted in the transformative journey of soul healing, self-discovery, and intergenerational trauma healing.