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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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Friday, January 13
HISTORIC KOGAWA HOME ONE STEP CLOSER TO RESCUE FROM THE WRECKING BALL
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Todd
on Fri 13 Jan 2006 11:27 AM PST
VANCOUVER – The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) announced today that it has successfully negotiated an option to purchase the culturally-significant childhood home of Canadian author Joy Kogawa. Since launching the campaign in December, TLC has been negotiating with the owner to purchase the house so that it can be protected from re-development. Now that those negotiations have been successful, the only task remaining is to raise the funds needed to buy the property.
“This is the one and only chance we have to save this piece of British Columbia’s heritage,” says Bill Turner, Executive Director of TLC. “The owner has given us this opportunity to raise the funds for the purchase and we need the public to act now and make a contribution to this significant historical site.” more »
Friday, January 6
Tea with Joy Kogawa: who will speak on CBC Radio Friday, about redress , Kogawa House, and maybe... Gung Haggis Fat Choy
by
Todd
on Fri 06 Jan 2006 02:12 PM PST
Joy Kogawa called me up late Thursday afternoon to tell me she was going to be on CBC Radio's "On the Coast" program, January 6th - 3pm onwards... and asked what she should say about Chinese Canadian head tax.
I went over to her West End appartment after I finished work and we had tea and cookies, and chatted about almost everything except head tax redress issues.
Joy is an amazing person, she tells me she is exploring the nature of frienships now in her life and her writing. She is amazed at how new frienships have popped out of the ground "like mushrooms" to help propel the preservation of her childhood home. She is amazingly humble, and makes a frowning face when I say that. more »
Sunday, January 1
Joy Kogawa Haiku for the first-ever Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival - coming in the spring
by
Todd
on Sun 01 Jan 2006 08:48 PM PST
Joy Kogawa made the New Year's Eve Vancouver Sun edition on both page E3 and E13.
Linda Poole invites haiku submissions for the first-ever Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival which will occur in March 2006. more »
Vancouver Sun: Non-profit leads fight to save Kogawa home
by
Todd
on Sun 01 Jan 2006 08:21 PM PST
Check out this Vancouver Sun story by Kevin Griffin Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, December 31, 2005
In fewer than 90 days, the south Vancouver home that writer Joy Kogawa grew up in and wrote about in the novel Obasan faces being demolished and lost forever as a physical reminder of the internment of 22,000 Japanese-Canadians in B.C. during the Second World War. In an effort to save the wood-frame house at 1450 W. 64th Ave., The Land Conservancy of B.C. has decided to lead a campaign to raise $1.25 million to save the modest bungalow. more »
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