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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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Tuesday, November 28
Head Tax Families Call on Federal Government for Good Faith Negotiations - nearly 500 people show up
by
Todd
on Tue 28 Nov 2006 05:59 PM PST
Sid Tan sends the following - My pictures to follow soon:
Highlights of this HTFSC event (November 25/06) will be on Saltwater
City Television broadcast on $Shaw TV on Wednesday November 29 at 8:00pm
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9:00pm. Includes full presentation by Grace Schenkeveld, Lillian Lim,
Jack Layton, Ujjal Dosanjh, Libby Davies, David Cadman and me. Also 15min.
doc of the rally and information line at SUCCESS and CCC last year.
Enjoy, enjoy... more »
Friday, November 24
Chinese Head Tax: Jack Layton and Ujjal Dosanjh to mark anniversary of turnaround moment
by
Todd
on Fri 24 Nov 2006 12:24 PM PST
Here's the latest from the Head Tax Families Society planning the anniversary of last year's
pivotal moment when Head Tax Redress became an important election issue for the 2006
Federal election. Here's my article from last year's important event:
Chinese Head Tax: Protest in Vancouver Chinatown more »
Tuesday, November 7
Globe & Mail: "Head-tax Hip Hop" features Trevor Chan in Toronto
by
Todd
on Tue 07 Nov 2006 04:18 PM PST
Trevor Chan and the No Luck Club created a hip hop / mash up, titled "Our Story" that addresses the head tax issue, using actual historic sound bites that were racist descriptions about keeping Canada "White" and about the threat of the "Yellow Peril." It is the 2006 equivalent version of a protest song.
Earlier this year on January 14, I wrote about their musical/oratoria montage: "Our Story" head tax sound bites and turn table hip hop by No Luck Club
Now the Globe & Mail is writing about them, as they invade Toronto, bringing the head tax issue to the ears of Toronto's hip hop and just plain head tax hip culture.Head-Tax Hip Hop
Special to the Globe and Mail
November 3, 2006
'We don't want Chinamen in Canada. This is a white man's country and white men will keep it so." The speaker's voice, sampled from our not-so-distant past, is but one of many shocking historic sound bites that Vancouver instrumental hip-hop trio No Luck Club spread throughout the cinematic beatscape of Our Story on their just-released album Prosperity.
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