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Welcome to GungHaggisFatChoy.com
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2009 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 In 2004, we presented the debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton including haggis served with plum or sweet and sour sauces.! For 2005 it was haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 saw the creation of Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet - Watch for more surprises in 2008! On-line tickets at Tickets Tonight - Vancouver's Community Box Office or NEW PHONE NUMBER 604-631-2872 $2.50 extra 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 cell: 778-846-7090 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Sundays 1pm -3pm and Tuesdays 6pm-7:45pm 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 over 12 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. We also raced at Harrison Lake and Sea Vancouver regatta. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 778-846-7090 e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GungHaggisFatChoy 2007 Performers
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Monday, January 15
Jan 15 - Sublime, entertaining, and full of surprises - Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night
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Todd
on Mon 15 Jan 2007 11:59 PM PST
"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something brewed," is how I always describe the GHFC World Poetry Night. And then sometimes we just make things up as we go along... that is how creativity works. What else could you expect when the host of Co-op Radio's "Creativity Rocks" program Ariadne Sawyer gets together with Gung Haggis Fat Choy creator Todd Wong? ~~~~ A little bit of Scottish music on this side... a little bit of Chinese poetry on that side... a little bit of Robbie Burns from Ian Mason, and a strange hybrid Chinese/Scottish dragon dance to bagpipes in the middle of the poetry readings. more »
Thursday, December 28
January 15th, Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night at Vancouver Public Library
by
Todd
on Thu 28 Dec 2006 11:58 PM PST
Check out the new January events brochure for the Vancouver Public Library.
Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night is the feature picture.
see the 2007 poster on the attachment!
Yup... that's me underneath the mask. more »
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Review: Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night - Jan 16
by
Todd
on Tue 17 Jan 2006 01:32 PM PST
Once a year, the World Poetry Reading Series at the Vancouver Public Library colludes and collides with the alignment of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day, and is marked by the appearance of Toddish McWong. This intersection is called Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night.
Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Olea-Mujica are great friends to work with, as we built a program to entertain our audience as well as inform them about Chinese and Scottish traditions while serving up new Canadian writers, proud of their Scottish and Chinese ancestral roots. Following an introduction by Vancouver Public Library Community Programs Librarian Barbara Edwards, piper Joe McDonald led a parade of the performers into the Alice Mackay Room, around the back, up the side and across the front. The original tune was appropriately titled "Gung Haggis Fat Choy." Special guests...Fiona Tinwei Lam, Alexis Kienlen, James Mullin, dancer Yan Yan & friends + PICTURES!
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Saturday, January 14
Saturday afternoon in Kitsilano - Oh the people you meet!
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Todd
on Sat 14 Jan 2006 07:11 PM PST
Kitsilano is a great neighborhood. Filled with low income basement suites, students, expensive waterfront homes. I went for a walk on Saturday afternoon with my girlfriend to pick up a birthday cake for my father. Little did I know it would be such an adventure.... We bump into Stephen Owen, Shirley Chan, Philip Owen, James Mullen, and visit Notte's Bon Ton french pastry + Vancouver Kid's Books. more »
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Friday, January 21
Fred Wah shines at Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry night event
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Todd
on Fri 21 Jan 2005 01:06 PM PST
Fred Wah held the audience in thrall as he read his poems at the recent Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night reading January 17, at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch. Wah read poems from his many works such as Diamond Grill and the collection Waiting for Sasketchewan which had won him the Govenor General's Award for Poetry. Wah chose many poems to fit the evening's hybrid theme, many of them about food. He spoke about how food transcended cultures and recalled the foods he had grown up with. Just over 100 people attended the evening and listend to Wah speek about his experiences growing up hybrid between his father's mixed Irish, Scottish and Chinese heredity and his mother's Swedish family while growing up in Canada's not always multicultural-friendly communities. more »
Sunday, January 16
Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night at Vancouver Public Library - tomorrow!
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Todd
on Sun 16 Jan 2005 01:10 AM PST
At 7:30pm bagpiper Joe McDonals will "pipe" the performers into the Alice MacKay room at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch. The evening of poetry and music will include singalongs, some poetry by Robert Burns and references to Chinese New Year. We blend together Canadian contemporary poets born in Scotland, China, or of Chinese or Scottish ancestry. Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night addresses what came before, what is in-between and what is beyond.
We feature poets Fred Wah, Joe McDonald, Dugald Christie, Shirley Sue-A-Quan + hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Alejandro Olea-Mujica + Todd Wong - Me! more »
Friday, January 14
January 17 - Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night at Vancouver Public Library
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Todd
on Fri 14 Jan 2005 10:10 AM PST
World Poetry and Gung Haggis Fat Choy come together for one night - January 17th, 7:30pm at the Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch - Alice McKay Room. 350 Georgia St. Vancouver.
Check out our fabulous GHFC World Poetry Poster more »
Tuesday, December 7
Gung Haggis Fat Choy Poetry Night Summary - January 17, 2005
by
Roland Tanglao
on Tue 07 Dec 2004 06:08 PM PST
Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night!
WHEN: 7:30p.m. Monday January 17, 2005WHAT: A very special intercultural poetry night celebrating Robbie Burns day and Chinese New Year featuring
Hosted by Todd Wong
for more information contact Todd Wong 604-987-7124 or e-mail gunghaggis@yahoo.ca Thursday, November 25
January 17, 2005 Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night poster
by
Todd
on Thu 25 Nov 2004 10:50 AM PST
Here is the 2005 poster for Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night. January 17, 2005, 7pm Monday evening. Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver - Alice Mackay Room Featured poets are: Fred Wah, winner of Governor General's Award for Poetry for his collection "Waiting for Sasketchewan", writer of 17 books including "The Diamond Grill" a bio-fiction work of prose poem examining growing up mixed race in a Chinese cafe in Prairie Canada. Fred is a retired English professor from University of Calgary, and is the self-described son of a Canadian born Scottish-Chinese-Irish father and a Swedish born Canadian mother. Dugald Christie, born in Scotland, winner of World Poetry Series Lifetime Achievement Award. Shirley Sue-A-Quan, born in China, writer, jounalist. Joe McDonald, born in Canada of Scottish ancestry, singer/songwriter and player of bagpipes, keyboards and harmonica. Hosts are Todd Wong (5th generation Chinese Canadian and creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy), Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica (respectively born and raised in Canada and Chile).
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