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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:
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Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information
phone: 604-987-7124-
e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca
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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
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Friday, May 9

Wallace Chung collection at UBC: A national treasure about immigration to BC
by
Todd
on Fri 09 May 2008 11:58 PM PDT
The Empress of Asian brought many Chinese to BC. Wallace Chung painstakingly rebuilt a model of it.
The Vancouver Sun featured a April 16th story about the Chung Collection $5 million, 25,000 items and UBC = a collection with special meaning by Kevin Griffin.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=40d15d80-bc3f-4d79-b040-285019e20c9c This is significant because Dr. Wallace Chung has always held a life-long interest in the history of Chinese Canadians. He accumulated and donated his 25,000 item collection donation to the University of British Columbia. The feature piece is a beautiful large scale model
ship, the Empress of Asia, which Dr. Chung spent many years reconstructing. I have known Dr. Wallace Chung and his wife Dr. Madeline Chung for many many years. They have been friends of my parents. Dr. Madeline delivered me as a baby almost 48 years ago, this Sunday, May 11th. At the opening day of the 1986 Saltwater City display, she excitedly told people that I was One of my boys! Dr. Wallace was Chair of the Chinese Cultural Centre at the time. A few years ago, I created programming for Asian Heritage Month at the Vancouver Public Library, and introduced Dr. Wallace as he gave a slide show on the history of Vancouver Chinatown. They have both been great philanthropists to the City of Vancouver, giving generously not only to the U.B.C,, but also to the Maritime Museum and the Chinese Cultural Centre.
Here’s an excerpt from Vancouver Sun April 16:
The collection includes documents,
rare books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass,
ceramic ware and other artifacts relating to the Canadian Pacific
Railway, the Asian experience in North America, and B.C. history.
Wallace Chung said he hopes the collection helps educate young people about the country’s history.
“I hope it shows people what hardships
Chinese people went through before they reached the stage they’re at
today,” said Chung, a vascular surgeon and professor emeritus at UBC’s
faculty of medicine.
“It really tells us what it means to be
a Canadian. Even though we were badly treated initially, we now have
landed in a very fortunate position. That story is told in all the
artifacts and documents.”
As a child, Chung was obsessed with the
Empress of Asia for two reasons: it was the ship that brought his
mother to Canada from China, and a poster of the luxury ocean liner
hung in his father’s tailor shop in Victoria.
[…]
Here’s a link to a sampling of photos from the collection, including one of Mr and Mrs Chung, and the Empress of Asia.

Asian Comedy Night returns - May 9 & 10 at the Roundhouse
by
Todd
on Fri 09 May 2008 04:09 PM PDT
9th Annual Asian Comedy Night: Etch-YOUR-Sketch 2! MAY 9 - Friday - 8pm
SKETCHOFF!#$%!! People's Choys Award MAY 10 - Saturday - 8pm
 Roundhouse Community Theatre 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver www.roundhouse.ca
Asian Comedy Night is always funny. Lots of stereotype bashing, lots of Asian-type jokes you can relate to, or grew up with.
Host Tom Chin has also performed at the 2005 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner event.
From the explorASIAN website:
Come CHEER the Etch-Your-Sketchers 2 on! Wild, ZANY, Gut-aching, peeing in pants - FUNNY! Ask anyone from the 2007 competition. Celebrity Judges award the coveted Vancouver Rice Bowl to one team only - Winner takes all! The second night, teams are judged by the audience - measured by YOUR applause. The highest decibel readings take 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize. We have 9 teams entered this year to battle it out for the coveted Vancouver Rice Bowl and PEOPLE's CHOYS Award. 3 brand new teams with 6 returning teams promise an evening of hilarity, camaraderie and just plain ol' fun and laughter!
Celebrity judges include: Ms. Lainey Lui, eTalk Entertainment Reporter and founder of laineygossip.com; Ms. Lauren Toyota, Host and Segment Producer with MuchMusic's Going Coastal; and Edmond Wong, local actor “The Professor” on CBC’s Dragon Boys. This is an event - you don't want to miss!
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at door - plus service charges. Tickets at the Roundhouse Community Centre or by phone at 604.713.1800 or online at www.vact.ca Group rates, please call 778.885.1973

Sunday, May 4

Good Asian Drivers Tour comes to Vancouver and Richmond
by
Todd
on Sun 04 May 2008 12:47 PM PDT
There are good Asian drivers and bad Asian drivers.... just like good and bad non-Asian drivers.Vancouver is known for its large Asian population, and Richmond even has more Asians, and lots of "Rice Rocket" drag racing. But what happens when you mix social commentary with busting stereotypes of Asian drivers? Melissa Li and Kit Yan's "The Good Asian Drivers Tour" is one of the featured performances for the 2008 explorASIAN festival, celebrating Asian Heritage Month in Metro Vancouver. The following is from the explorASIAN website:  CANADIAN PREMIERE "If
you’re gay, bisexual, transgendered, Asian, queer, an artist, a poet, a
performer, or if you’re just a supporting ally, then come out and enjoy
our show!" - Melissa & Kit Melissa Li is a singer-songwriter
who has been performing in the Boston area in the United States for
over 8 years. She and her tour partner, nationally recognized
transgendered slam poet Kit Yan, are going on a cross-country road tour
this spring and summer, lovingly dubbed "The Good Asian Drivers Tour". Together,
this radical duo will traverse the United States and cut across four
different time zones, at least 30 states and over 20 major cities,
including two cities in Canada. They deliver honest and personal
stories through their music and poetry about being queer
Asian-Americans, while proving to the nation that they are indeed good,
if not excellent, drivers. They’re so cute you might just want to adopt
them. The social impact will be tremendous, especially in areas
of the United States where the voices of these under-represented groups
are not often heard. In addition, the tour strives to inspire youth and
provoke dialogue on gay rights, transgendered issues, feminism, and the
marginalization of minorities. Richmond and Vancouver are the only two Canadian stops on their North American tour. Don't miss this show! Q&A after the show. http://www.goodasiandrivers.com/
Friday, May 2

Korea report from Barb Waldern: May Day and Korean Western weddings
by
Todd
on Fri 02 May 2008 10:36 PM PDT
My friend Barbara Waldern is in Korea, teaching English. Each month she sends a letter back to friends - which I publish on www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com Dear friends,
May Day greetings. May 1st is a bigger event here
than in Canada. Fireworks were displayed at the city stadium. Public
and other workers had actions.
May 1st is close to a national
holiday called Children's Day when children receive gifts and get a
week of sports and other activities instead of classes in public
school. That's May 5th, otherwise known as Cinco de Mayo.
Well, another month has passed, the 10th. I feel more at home and I'm getting to be as busy as I usually was in Canada.
May 1 ushered in summery weather. Yesterday, the air temperature was 24 to 30 degrees Celsius in different regions. Nah, nah.
I
feel more integrated, especially because I have regular friends and
activities and can communicate better. March-April is a period when
many foreign teachers come and go because March is the start of the
school year and, therefore, some foreign teachers I was hanging out
with have left. But others remain. I can manage primitive conversations
in Hangul (Korean)--with plenty of one to three-word utterances. But
then, you can drop the subject most of the time, there are no
prepositions, and there are very few pronouns. I'm creating a binder
full of short dialogues. I really need to work on vocabulary. So I've
been making flashcards using cut-out pictures from flyers. I've just
labelled many household items.
I
went to a Korean wedding. They called it a Western wedding, but not.
Sure they wore Western apparel, mostly, except for the gloves, which
few weddings in our part of the world boast. The parents participate
in the ceremony, for one thing. The mothers walk up the aisle and light
candles then sit facing each other before the bride and groom make an
entrance. There is no best man or bride's maid. The official is a
layman, in this case a school teacher. Clergyman or state officials do
not have to be present. The bride and groom hold hands but they don't
kiss. Actually, it's hard to determine when exactly marriage occurs
during the ceremony, even if you know Korean. The official just talks
about each person of the pair, expresses honour for the parents,
discusses the sanctity of marriage and family, wishes the couple well
and announces them married. Then there is a song. But no festivity.
There is a meal but no music and dancing. Lots of photography, and all
members of both families pose together for pictures before the couple
poses with friends. After the photo session, the couple meet in private
with the parents wearing traditional costumes. At that point,
expressions of honour are made and sometimes the parents present money
to the couple. So, I think this kind of wedding is very different from
a "Western" wedding.
April
does bring in festivities, all the same. The cherry blossom festivals
initiate a series of festivals that continue until November. There are
different festivals going on around the country this weekend, for
example (bamboo, paper, film...). I never made it to the Cherry Blossom
Festival here, which is famous nationally. The main display of trees is
at a naval academy, the Kor-US base being in the town where the
festival occurs, and I haven't been keen on going to the military base.
But I toured other places full of cherry trees.
April
brings showers. On April 9, a majority conservative government was
elected, backing up a very right wing, pro US president. The government
is madly wrecking relations with North Korea and deregulating and
privatizing everything it can. After being elected on a platform of
rectifying the economy, particular in view of climbing unemployment and
temporary work, the government just announced it will sack 10,000
public workers.
However,
the Free Trade Agreement with the US is not confirmed by the US
Congress and may not be. There are issues about trade in beef, tariffs
and other things. The negotiations for a Canada-Korea FTA are very
shaky and it will take a lot of luck to keep them going forward.
So
we'll see how teaching in Korea will develop. The gov. also wants to
overhaul English language education nationally. But it's the Korean
teachers of English who might lose job security. They're already
getting worried, and so are the private institutes. My institute took
some measures to increase the practice of English and it only
strengthens my employment, as long as the kids continue to like me. A
Korean co-worker, however, is taking time off to go away and get more
English language "immersion" (in the Philippines). Some Korean teachers
I know are trying to get more certification and seeking more time with
foreigners for practice of English.
I have a lunch date so I will sign off for now. I'm very hungry.
Take care all,
Barbara
Thursday, April 24

CCNC launches 150 Years Culture Online Project - celebrating Chinese Canadian history and culture
by
Todd
on Thu 24 Apr 2008 08:07 PM PDT
The following is from the webiste at http://www.ccnc.ca/cc150/
The Chinese Canadian National Council is proud to present the Chinese Canadian 150 Years Culture Online Project (CC150). This exciting new online project showcases writers, musicians, videographers and artists in the Chinese Canadian community. CC150 brings together a special collection of exceptional work, based on the theme of 150 years of continuous Chinese community in Canada with many submissions from youth. more »
Friday, April 18

Music for a New World special concert April 20 at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver
by
Todd
on Fri 18 Apr 2008 06:37 PM PDT
And I know and have performed with many of the featured musicians. Silk Road Music's Qiu Xia He and Andre Thibault have performed at Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner & First Night events since 2004. In the past few years I have become a big fan or Orchid Ensemble's Lan Tung, as she plays her erhu.....
This incredible collaboration brings together 17 of Vancouver’s best world music artists in a one of a kind partnership in which influences from around the world mix into a melting pot of sights and sounds. Centred on a spirit of cooperation and collaboration, Music for a New World celebrates the diversity of world music. more »
Thursday, April 10

Tonight: Joy Kogawa reads her new book "Naomi's Tree"
by
Todd
on Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:44 PM PDT
Place: Vancouver Kidsbooks - 3083 West Broadway, Vancouver ... Please Note: Tickets are fully redeemable toward Joy Kogawa's books on the night of the event ... more »
Thursday, April 3

Vancouver Province: Vancouver to embrace Tartan Day on April 6
by
Todd
on Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:46 AM PDT
Here's the first public media acknowledgement that Tartan Day is officially happening in the City of Vancouver.
Indeed, the city of Vancouver, province of BC, and country of Canada - all trace it's historical beginnings to Scottish pioneers.
+ Vancouver Province story:
Vancouver's lads and lassies have until Sunday to press their kilts and dust off their sporans for the city's first official Tartan Day.
Council will declare today that Vancouver is joining a long list of cities around the world that celebrate their Scottish roots on April 6. more »
Sunday, March 30

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is happening! The city is turning pink!
by
Todd
on Sun 30 Mar 2008 10:19 PM PDT
This festival celebrates the blossoming of the city’s 36,000 Japanese flowering cherry trees and is the brainchild of Linda Poole. I guess it was a sign of times to come when I first met Linda at a special cherry tree planting at Vancouver City Hall in Novemember 2005. That was the symbolic planting of a graft from the cherry tree at Joy Kogawa House, the very tree that has now inspired Joy's new children's book "Naomi's Tree"
Check out the many events programmed for Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. There are photography workshops, cherry trolley tours, picnic lunches and more! more »
Tuesday, March 18

Vancouver Sun: The next celebration - Toddish McWong helps to spread the word about Tartan Day
by
Todd
on Tue 18 Mar 2008 02:10 AM PDT
The Vancouver Sun wrote a story about Tartan Day coming up on April 5th, and how it isn't grandly celebrated in Vancouver. New York City has a huge celebration which they call Tartan Week. Last year we had a wee celebration at Doolin's with a kilt fashion show and a scotch tasting by Johnny Walker. Our Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team participated in the kilt fashion show, and we ended up on the Kilts Night poster for Doolin's. more »
Monday, March 17

Gung Haggis Fat Choy parade dragon and paddles on flickr
by
Todd
on Mon 17 Mar 2008 12:17 PM PDT
Being in a parade doesn't allow you to take pictures of your group, so it's always interesting to find pictures on flickr.
Steven Duncan took some pictures of us setting up. Check out his flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/9057324@N08/sets/72157604144696435/ more »
Sunday, March 16

Gung Haggis Fat Choy puts a dragon (not a snake) in the 5th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.
by
Todd
on Sun 16 Mar 2008 11:36 PM PDT
The 15 foot long Chinese dragon undulated up and down in the air above the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Vancouver’s Granville Street. A mini version of the larger 10 or 20 person dragons used in Chinatown Chinese New Year parades, it jerked hesitantly. Five Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team members carried short poles sporting a yellow body with red scales and blue and yellow ridge......
A Chinese dragon in a St. Patrick’s Day Parade? Didn’t St. Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland?
Ahh… but this is multi-inter-cultural Vancouver. Dragon boaters paddle in kilts, and bagpipers perform in the Chinese New Year Parade. And the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner serves up deep-fried haggis won tons. Welcome to Vancouver! more »
Wednesday, March 12

Wayson Choy gives "spirited" reading for Vancouver Cultural Olympiad
by
Todd
on Wed 12 Mar 2008 09:31 PM PDT
Wayson Choy came back to Vancouver to read from his upcoming book, "Not Yet a memoir of living and almost dying," Wayson is famous for his first novel "Jade Peony" and its' subsequent prequel "All That Matters"which was nominated for a Giller Prize..... On Tuesday night, Wayson talked about his second heart attack, and his conversations with ghosts. more »
Monday, March 10

The secret is out: Fortune Cookies aren't really Chinese...
by
Todd
on Mon 10 Mar 2008 11:42 PM PDT
They were always written in English, never in Chinese. Our friends had their own Fortune Cookie factory near Chinatown. I even toured in it.
Jennifer 8 Lee has now written a book called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. She writes how so-called North American "Chinese food" is really not Chinese at all - but Mainstream American......
Lee exposes all the myths about North American Chinese food, myths that Chinese-Canadians and Chinese-Americans have known for generations - but White Americans are just learning about. Geez... first the Easter Bunny, then Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, and now Fortune Cookies! more »

Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC honours Brandy Lien-Worrall
by
Todd
on Mon 10 Mar 2008 11:22 PM PDT
On Saturday Night, CCHS honoured Brandy Lien-Worrall for leading the CCHS writing workshops, which singlehandedly helped fund and make a reality the Edgar Wickberg scholarships for students studying Chinese-Canadian history. Brandy really is an amazing and inspiring person. Not only did she succeed in editing the Eating Stories anthology over the summer and seeing it through to publication in November, but she did it while fighting a serious bout with breast cancer. On January 1st, I named Brandy to a list of Chinese Canadians that inspired me for 2007. more »
Monday, March 3

Mini Shum speaks at "Double Happiness" film screening for UBC centennial celebrations
by
Todd
on Mon 03 Mar 2008 11:35 PM PST
I loved the film Double Happiness by Mina Shum. It was like a grittier Canadian version of Joy Luck Club. It starred Sandra Oh, as a young Asian Canadian woman trying to reconcile her love for her non-Asian boyfriend and her traditional Chinese Canadian parents. Sandra Oh won a Genie award for her role in Double Happiness. How timely that Mina Shum will speak about this movie, since Oh just hosted the Genie awards on March 3rd. UBC is celebrating 100 years, and Mina Shum has been invited to screen and give a director's talk with the audience. Following information from www.100.ubc.ca/events/more-info/15
- 2008 UBC Centenary Screening Series - Double Happiness by Mina Shun, preceded by short film Scattering Eden
The UBC Film Production Alumni Association presents The 2008 UBC Centenary Screening Series February 5, March 11, May 20 & November 18th (For UBCO listings see Learn More) Screening of the hit debut film followed by a Q&A session with Ms. Shum about her experiences making the movie. www.ubcfilmalumni.org Please join us for a screening of the hit debut feature film Double Happiness directed by UBC Film alumna Mina Shum, preceded by the short film Scattering Eden
directed by fellow alumna Nimisha Mukerji. Following the screening will
be a lively Q&A moderated by Nimisha, where audience members will
be encouraged to ask Mina questions about her experiences in filmmaking. Double Happiness, starring Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy)
in her first feature role, was a ground-breaking film researched,
written and directed by Mina Shum, and had a significant impact in
Canadian cinema. In addition to the film becoming a touchstone for the
Asian-Canadian community, Mina herself has been a role model for future
generations of filmmakers. Vancity Theatre- 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3M7 UBCO
Screenings : SSC 026 Student Services Centre Theatre (3333 University
Way, Kelowna) at 6 PM, free admission. Please contact Denise Kenney
at (250) 807-9632 or denise.kenney@ubc.ca for further details. - Vancity Theatre- 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver
- March 11 6:00pm-10:00pm (604) 683-3456
Wednesday, February 27

CUPE BC holds its first "Worker of Colour Conference": Jenny Kwan shares personal story of growing up and not fitting in
by
Todd
on Wed 27 Feb 2008 12:14 AM PST
Moe Sihota rocked the house at the opening session on Monday night. Jenny Kwan told her personal heart-warming story about the journey to find her cultural and political identity.
It's the first ever "worker of colour" conference, hosted by CUPE BC. I am attending as a member of CUPE 391, Vancouver Library Workers. We have four members attending the conference.
This morning's session opened with a panel discussion featuring Dr. Sunera Thobani (UBC Professor, Women's Studies), Raj Chouhan (MLA Burnaby Edmonds), Jenny Kwan (MLA Vancouver Mount Pleasant), and Sid Chow Tan (Founding co-chair of Head Tax Families Society of Canada).
Each speaker talked about their own experiences in dealing with racism, as well as their community activism and what they saw as ways to address it. And each speaker received standing ovations. Thobani talked about racism in society, and the challenges of racial profiling in the wake of 9-11 and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Chouhan talked about his community work as founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, and how it is important for unions to be active. Tan talked about the Chinese head tax redress campaign, and how unions have been leaders in racism a century ago, and how they helped lead the CCF party and overturning racist legislation in 1947.
For me, the most powerful talk came from Jenny Kwan. I have heard her speak a few times, but this was the first time I have heard her speak about the challenges of growing up as an immigrant in a strange culture. Kwan arrived in Vancouver at age nine, but never felt that she felt in. She explained how challenging it was for her mother to go to work, so her father could attend ESL classes in order to get a better job. She described reacting against her immigrant parents, and speaking only
English to them, when they could only understand Chinese. She also described thinking that she was useless, and nobody would miss her if she died.
The turning point came when Kwan revisited her birthplace of Hong Kong, and saw the life her parents left behind so that they could come to Canada to build a better life for themselves and their children. She then realized and appreciated the sacrifices they made, and she buckled down returning to SFU to complete her studies. Kwan also became a community activist, working as a legal advocate. In an effort to make a greater positive change for people's lives, she became the youngest ever councilor for Vancouver City Council in 1993. In 1998, she became the first Chinese-Canadian cabinet minister as Minister of Municipal Affairs.
But it hasn't always been easy. Whether it was because she was young, a woman, or a person of colour - Kwan was not treated with equal respect. She shared stories from both her time as a city councilor and a MLA when male white opposition colleagues did their best to belittle and intimidate her.
For me, Kwan's story drove home the struggles that many people of colour face, not only from racial discrimination at school, or in the work place, but more importantly the struggle to fit in and find a cultural identity that is not in conflict with parental expectations and mainstream integration. These same themes were repeated in the workshops that conference attendees sat on, addressing multicultural and racial issues in the union, the workplace, the community, political arena, as well as racial profiling.
I attended the workshop titled "Walking the Walk in the community." It was led by Sid Chow Tan and Shashi Assanand. With 14 other union brothers and sisters, we shared our own experience of racism, and issues of colour. We discussed barriers to equal opportunity and also suggested solutions to these challenges. Everybody came up with ideas that could help combat racism, as well as to promote cultural understanding. We left the workshop feeling positive and vowing to take these informative ideas back to our unions and workplaces.
Tomorrow.... expect more of the same!
Monday, February 25

Global TV News: Todd Wong and Gung Haggis dragon boat team interviewed for story on BC's cultural diversity
by
Todd
on Mon 25 Feb 2008 10:21 PM PST
Watch GLOBAL NEWS on Tuesday Feb 26 -
6pm
TOMORROW!
Everybody knowns that BC's cultural diversity is one of the best things about living in BC. Where else can you celebrate almost all the world's cultures worldly cuisines in a single city, go dragon boat racing, go to First Nations pow wows, enter a St. Patrick's Day parade, and learn bangra dancing?
Todd Wong (me)
was interviewed on Feb 17th for a Global TV story celebrating BC's 150 years.
I talk about cultural diversity in BC, and am seen with the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team, paddling in the background.
Cultural diversity
is the topic, Todd and the Gung Haggis dragon boat team will
represent it to Global TV viewers. Our dragon boat team itself has a good mixture of not only Asian and Caucasian paddlers, but also one paddler with Iraqi heritage and 3 paddlers with both Asian/Caucasian DNA.
I also explain the history of the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner, which celebrates not only the Scottish and Chinese pioneer histories of BC, but also "everything inbetween and everything beyond."
From Global TV producer/reporter Elaine Yong:
We
did a poll asking people what they thought were the things that made BC
a world-class place, and people/culture/diversity was one of the top 10
responses. To illustrate some of BC's amazing culture and diversity, I
thought you would be a great person to profile. But of course, we need
some viz of you doing something, and since we missed the dinner, the
dragon boating would be great, as well as another example of cultural
diversity. The story is scheduled to air Feb 26.
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