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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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Monday, April 28
Rita Wong and Gary Geddes big winners at BC Book Prizes Gala
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Todd
on Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:41 PM PDT
The winners of seven BC Book Prizes, as well as the recipient of the fifth annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, were feted before an audience of authors, publishers, media and friends.
Todd Wong and Leanne Riding, co-presidents of Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop attended the ceremonies. ACWW secretary Ann-Marie Metten is also on the board of the BC Book Prizes. more »
Saturday, April 26
Raymond Louie hosts Wayson Choy reading
by
Todd
on Sat 26 Apr 2008 05:25 PM PDT
When: April 28, 7-9PM
Where: Mekong Restaurant, 1414 Commercial Dr.
Admission: Free -
Wayson says this about Raymond Louie:
"Raymond emerges from the world I’ve described in my stories. His parents came here with next to nothing, and he worked his way up and proved himself again and again. He understands the struggles immigrants face because he’s been there. His success is an amazing Canadian story. Fortunately, there are still chapters yet to be written, and I would trust Raymond to invest his integrity and his wisdom of the past to secure in those pages a just and equal future for all. more »
Sunday, April 20
BC Book Prizes Soiree: meeting authors
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Todd
on Sun 20 Apr 2008 11:43 PM PDT
We went to the BC Book Prizes Soiree, held this year at the swanky Metropolitan Hotel, home to Diva Restaurant. All the nominated authors for the 2008 BC Book Prizes were there, and it was announced that Gary Geddes was being awarded the 5th Annual Lt. Governorès Award for Literary Achievement. Gary wasnèt there as he lives outside of Victoria and will be there next week for the BC Book Prizes Gala. But attending were other award nominees such as Meg Tilly and Mike McCardle. more »
Saturday, April 19
Poet Gary Geddes recieves 5th annual Lt. Gov's award for Literary Excellence
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Todd
on Sat 19 Apr 2008 05:19 PM PDT
Gary Geddes is descended from Scottish ancestors from the Northern tip of Scotland. He wrote me: "Just Scots fisherfolk from the north coast who fished in Orkney waters for herring, until they were all fished out. Then they came over here and did the same nasty thing to the salmon. The family name comes from the ged, a North Atlantic sea pike. The people of the geds, totem animal and all that. Nasty little bite they have, too.".... more »
Friday, April 11
Joy Kogawa reads "Naomi's Tree" at Vancouver Kidsbooks.
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Todd
on Fri 11 Apr 2008 11:59 PM PDT
It was a good event for the launch of Naomi's Tree. So good that all the books that had been delivered in advance to Kidsbooks sold out. We were holding two extra copies, so I passed them on to two people who didn't have any. They were both very thankful..... It's a beautiful story that spans across an ocean, beginning in the "Land of Morning" - Japan, and travels over the Pacific Ocean to the "Land Across the Sea" - Canada. The story also spans many generations. And along the way it also briefly tells about the internment of Japanese Canadians during WW2. more »
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