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Home to my passions for my inter-cultural adventures, Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner event. Save Kogawa House campaign, Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team, Find what you are looking for by 1) scroll the topics links, 2) use the search function ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat. We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event. We practice Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks. Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams. Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 604-987-7124- e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008 WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve. WHEN: 6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY doors open 5pm WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant, #400-180 Keefer St. CULTURE: Our Performers create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond! FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner 2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton 2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet 2008 - Scotch tastings! Watch for more surprises in 2008! Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill . Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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Sunday, November 21
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain - Vancouver Premiere: I meet film maker Karen Cho
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Todd
on Sun 21 Nov 2004 11:55 PM PST
It's Sunday Afternoon, 4:30 pm. The Grey Cup game is playing and the BC Lions are losing. I am at the Firehall Arts Centre for the 2nd showing of In the Shadow of Gold Mountain,
Film maker Karen Cho, is in town for the Vancouver premiere of her NFB documentary. Victoria was the day before yesterday. Calgary is tomorrow. Winnipeg is next. Her tour is also being hosted by Chinese Canadian National Council, providing her with support and contacts in each city she visits.
This is Karen Cho's film about head tax redress and the survivors. The film opens with scenes of many Canadians celebrating Canada Day. Narrator/director Karen Cho explains that July 1st, wasn't always a happy day of celebration for all Canadians. In fact, for Chinese Canadians, it was known as a Day of Humiliation. Because it was July 1st, 1923, that the "Chinese Exclusion Act" came into being.
Karen explains that she came to learn that while her British grandparents were enthusiastically welcomed to Canada, her Chinese grandparents faced unparalleled racial discrimination, having to pay a $500 head tax while other immigrants were given free land. This movie is Karen's personal journey in meeting the remaining known survivors who paid the head tax and their widows and children.
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Saturday, November 6
Karen Cho interview about her NFB film "In the Shadow of Gold Mountain"
by
Todd
on Sat 06 Nov 2004 04:20 PM PST
Karen Cho couldn't understand why half of her ancestors had to pay a hefty head tax to come to Canada while the other half were embraced by this country with a promise of free farmland.
The Montreal-born film director began to ask questions of her Chinese grandmother Susie Woo, now 85, and her British granny Ethel Wood, 80, about why their mutually adopted country had treated the two families so differently.
The Vancouver premiere of the film In the Shadow of Gold Mountain will
be November 21 @ 11:00am and 4:30pm at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280
East Cordova (at Gore). more »
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