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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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Wednesday, January 25
Janice Wong featured on Fanny Kiefer Show Friday on Shaw TV Cable
by
Todd
on Wed 25 Jan 2006 03:08 PM PST
 Janice Wong featured on Fanny Kiefer Show Friday on Shaw TV Cable Studio
4 broadcasts in the Lower Mainland (except Delta) on Shaw TV Cable 4
Live at 9:00am weekdays repeating at 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 9:00 pm, 2:00 am
In Victoria on Shaw TV Cable 11 4:00pm weekdays (with a one-day delay)
In the Cowichan Valley on Shaw TV Cable 4 4:00pm WeekdaysStudio 4 with Fanny Kiefer is only available on Shaw TV
Tuesday, January 17
CHOW + Wong X 4 = Chef Stephen wong joins panel discussion on CHOW at VPL
by
Todd
on Tue 17 Jan 2006 02:09 PM PST
Wong, Wong, Wong and Wong: Not a secret Hong Kong Triad but a Vancouver food and history Quartet (we sound very dangerous, don't you think?)
Chef Stephen Wong has now been added to the panel discussion on Chinese food, life and restaurants for Janice Wong's presentation of CHOW From China to Canada: Memories of Food and Family. more »
Saturday, January 14
Saltwater City TV: See how the head tax redress protest got started in Vancouver
by
Todd
on Sat 14 Jan 2006 03:00 PM PST
It was November 26, 2005 when Prime Minister Paul Martin came to Vancouver to sign the
Agreement-In-Principle with the National Congress of Chinese Canadians at the SUCCESS
building in Vancouver's Chinatown.Chinese Canadians came from throughout the Vancouver Lower Mainland to combine their
voices in protest against an "agreement" that contained pre-conditional clauses of "No Apology"
and "No Compensation."
Saltwater City film crews were there to record the action.
Watch Saltwater City on on Shaw cable 4 in Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley. more »
"Our Story" head tax sound bites and turn table hip hop by No Luck Club
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Todd
on Sat 14 Jan 2006 02:17 PM PST
 "Our Story" head tax sound bites and turntable hip hop by No Luck Club Trevor Chan, the laptop samplist, of No Luck Club has created a mashup called "Our Story." It address the head tax issue and 62 years or legislated racism. It is an amazing aural soundscape that splices together historical and documentary sound bites including quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. The juxtaposition of positive and negative statements for racial equlality is striking. January 15th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. This is a great way to celebrate racial equality and justice for all. Listen to such quotes as: "We don't want Chinamen in Canada. This is a white man's country and white men will keep it." "The people of Canada do not wish to make a fundamental alteration to the character of our population" "Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the population the of Canada" "He's telling us what he wants us to know. That's his story not our story." "The government passed a special legisalation which places a tax of $50 on every Chinese entering the country. The Head tax was raised to $100 and eventually in 1903 to $500." "We have suffered political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation. The government has failed us. You can't deny that." Vancouver seethed with racial hatred. An Anti-Asiatic league was formed." "You know how I want to think of myself - as a human being." Trevor has given me permission to post it. Listen to it on Dogma Radio
Gim Wong's "Ride for Redress" featured in Vancouver Sun head tax story
by
Todd
on Sat 14 Jan 2006 12:41 PM PST
Gim Wong's "Ride for Redress" featured in Vancouver Sun head tax story
     I have known Gim Wong for a few years. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces during WW2 when Canadians of Chinese ancestry were unwanted soldiers, and couldn't vote in the land of their birth. Gim is a sweetheart of a man, which is why it is hard to believe that he would ride a motorcycle across Canada to draw attention to redress for Canada's infamous head tax and exclusion act. This past summer Gim drove from Victoria BC to Ottawa ON, to try to meet with Prime Minister Paul Martin. Gim met head tax descendants across the country and also with NDP leader Jack Layton. But sadly the PMO did not respond to any requests for a meeting. When the Paul Martin came to Vancouver to sign the ACE Agreement in Principle, aggreeing to No Apology, and No Compensation to head tax survivors, spouses and descendants - Wong was in the audience. But he still didn't meet with the Prime Minister. Click on my stories about Gim Wong's Ride for Redress Gim's story is also featured in the Karen Cho documentary IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN which was recently shown on CBC Newsworld "Rough Cuts" on January 3 and 7th. Gim Wong's motorcycle diariesSeeking an apology for the notorious head tax
Proud
that he still fits into his RCAF uniform,
Gim Foon Wong, 83, rode his motorcycle to Ottawa to seek redress for the head tax.
Photograph by : Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, January 14, 2006
It was, he admits, a truly nutty idea. Last summer, Gim Foon Wong decided, with history weighing on his mind, that he'd ride his motorcycle from Victoria to Ottawa to have a chat with the prime Minister. He was a spry 82 and weighed just under 60 kg the day he mounted his 315-kg Honda Goldwing and started heading for the nation's political capital. Now, when an octogenarian straps on his motorcycle boots and travels thousands of kilometres across the country to Parliament Hill on his hog, one too heavy for him to right when it falls over, one might think the politicians might want to know what was on his mind. Some did take an interest. New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, for example, met with Wong on Canada Day, when he roared into the capital decked out in his Second World War uniform with two carefully polished service medals pinned over his heart. Toronto Mayor David Miller was moved enough by the old man's trek to write Wong a letter of commendation that now sits on a shelf in his modest home in Burnaby. Prime Minister Paul Martin? Well, that was another story. "I
got within 15 feet of him," says Wong, shaking his head ruefully at the
memory of his one-man effort to penetrate the prime ministerial bubble.
"We let his office know I was coming. But the RCMP pounced on me. I
never got to meet Paul Martin." Read the rest if the story Gim Wong's motorcycle diaries Friday, January 13
Janice Wong's Book CHOW at Vancouver Public Library January 18th + Panel Discussion
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Todd
on Fri 13 Jan 2006 11:59 PM PST
Janice Wong's Book CHOW at Vancouver Public Library January 18th + Panel Discussion
 Wednesday January 18 7:30 pm Free Event Peter Kaye Room, Lower Level Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Janice Wong presents her book, Chow from China to Canada: Tales of Food and Family. A collection of over 50 traditional Chinese village dishes, it contains early photographs, immigration documents, 1940s restaurant menus and handwritten recipes from some of Canada's first ethnic restaurants. Janice Wong, a Vancouver-based artist and daughter of a Chinese restaurateur, has assembled her father's recipes and her family's history in this unique cookbook; Panel Discussion on Chinese food and Chinese Restaurants: Janice is joined by by: Larry
Wong of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society
Here is the inside story on the eventTodd Wong of the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy Stephen Wong, celebrity chef Janice is my 2nd cousin-once-removed. We are descendants of Rev. Chan Yu Tan, who arrived in Canada in 1891. And I only met her earlier this year when she announced that her book was coming out. We immediately bonded, and I have enjoyed helping her promote her book. We did a panel discussion together with Larry Wong at the West Vancouver Library and had so much fun, we decided to do it for Vancouver. Friday, January 6
Mother Tongue TV documentary series launches in Vancouver at Channel M
by
Todd
on Fri 06 Jan 2006 05:03 PM PST
Mother Tongue TV documentary series launches in Vancouver at Channel M The The launch
will show two segments: one about my 2nd segment features Japanese Canadian Kimiko Murakami who was
interned for 8 years in BC. The showing will be followed by a Q&A
session with Susan Poizner,
Tuesday, January 3
Head Tax film: Karen Cho's IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN on Rough Cuts on CBC Jan 3 & 7
by
Todd
on Tue 03 Jan 2006 01:15 AM PST
Head Tax film: Karen Cho's IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN on Rough Cuts on CBC Jan 3 & 7 Karen Cho's IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN is an incredible film that examines the hardships faced by Chinese Canadian pioneers who paid the head tax, and endured the Chinese Exclusion Act, and harsh rascist climate of Canada. Karen is a Eurasian-Canadian, of both Chinese and British ancestry. In the movie, she shares that her British grandparents and family are more outraged at the injustice of the head tax and exclusion act and the refusal of the Canadian government to make redress, than her Chinese side of the family. IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN airs on Rough Cuts on CBC Newsworld on Tuesday Jan. 3rd at 10pm ET, 1am ET and 4am ET. or.... 7pmPT, 10pmPT and 1amPT). It repeats on Sat. Jan. 7th at 3pm ET, 10pm ET and 1am ET (adjust minus three hours for Pacific time zone). It is an incredible film that brought tears to my eyes, and excellent look at the hardships faced by Canada's Chinese forbears, the impact of head-tax and exclusion and how the mighty Lo Wah Kiu (old overseas Chinese) overcame it all. When my girlfriend of British-Canadian ancestry watched the film last fall, she was amazed and angry that the country she grew up in and loves, could have such a deliberately racist history, and still refuse to address redress issues. Interviews with Charlie Quan, Roy Mah, Gim Wong and Hanson Lau and some music by Sean Gunn, writer of the song "Head Tax Blues." Please tell your friends to watch this film documentary, For additional information on Head Tax issues Go to www.headtaxredress.org and www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/ChineseHeadTaxissues Also check out: Todd Wong's short review of In the Shadow of Gold Mountain and his description of meeting Karen Cho at the Vancouver premiere. http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives/ 2004/11/21/189693.html Toronto Star Nov 6, 2004 Interview of Karen Cho Immigrants from China recall woes for Karen Cho Film won't let us Canadians forget `skeletons in closet' by Nicholas Keung http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives /2004/11/6/176305.html Settling the Score: Hope for redress in the Year of the Rooster by Sean Rossiter (includes interview with Gim Wong, who was featured in the Karen Cho documentary “Shadow of Gold Mountain”) http://www.shared-vision.com/2005/sv1801/headtax1801.html REDRESSING THE PAST OF THE LO WAH KUI (includes interview of film maker Karen Cho, Sid Tan and Mary-Woo Sims) http://www.langara.bc.ca/prm/2005/past.htm articles and pictures of 83-year old Gim Wong and his Ride For Redress across Canada http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog?cmd =search&keywords=gim+wong+ride+for+redress |
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