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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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Wednesday, January 23
FREE fun-raiser for Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
by
Todd
on Wed 23 Jan 2008 07:13 PM PST
Poet George McWhirter was amazed. Media columnist Catherine Barr was in awe! Film maker Ann Marie Fleming had smiles on her face! Blackthorn flautist Michelle Carlisle loved it!
We went to Floata to test-taste the 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy menu. We started with a deep-fried haggis/shrimp wun tun, shrimp-filled haw-gow, haggis/pork su-mei, and vegetarian spring rolls... that was our appetizer.
Sukhi Ghuman arrived with her cameraman Zak to shoot an interview and help taste-test some food for an upcoming episode of The Express on Shaw TV. "The Express is a lifestyle magazine program that brings you an in-depth look at the fascinating people, events, recreation and attractions from Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley." Sukhi asked me about the origins of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, and how I came to create this cultural fusion event that blends Chinese and Scottish traditions. ~~~~~~~~~~
WHAT? VACT’S FUN-RAISER
WHEN? Saturday, January 26, 2008, @ 7:30pm
WHERE? Norman Rothstein Theatre, 950 West 41st Avenue (at Oak), Vancouver .
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Friday, January 18
Banana Boys back again at the Firehall Arts Centre
by
Todd
on Fri 18 Jan 2008 05:40 PM PST
 Banana Boys Firehall Arts Centre January 17 - February 9 , 2008 Last year Firehall Arts Centre brought back Urine Town the following year, after a smash initial run. This year, they have brought back Banana Boys. I saw the play last year and found it a hysterical, fast-paced, action-packed with both ideas and physical comedy. Some of our female dragon boat team members said "Hey what about the Banana Girls?" This play hits the nerves about Asian-Canadian identity. What is it like to be considered a banana? Yellow on the outside but White on the inside. No doubt many Canadian-born Asian Canadians are considered more and more banana with each passing generation, as they lose their mother tongue language, and traditional customs. But can you lose something you never really had? Often times this 5th generation Chinese-Canadian bristles at being asked "Where are you from?" On the other hand, the Asian traditionalists and new immigrants have often asked me "Are you Chinese? You look Chinese... You should speak Chinese!" This play addresses all these issues... the push and pull of living between cultures, while trying to establish your own identity. This Leon Aureus play is based on the original book by Terry Woo. Terry came to Vancouver last year for the rehearsals and the opening night performance, and was really pleased with the Firehall's production. No wonder the play sold out its final nights and has been brought back for 2008. Wednesday, January 16
The Quickie - New Asian Canadian play sneak preview excerpt featured at 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner event
by
Todd
on Wed 16 Jan 2008 12:12 AM PST
 Another Gung Haggis Fat Choy exclusive!!! TF Productions' playwright Grace Chin is back with another "set in Vancouver" play that resonates sexual and racial intercultural politics and social customs. Last year Grace and her writing partner Charlie Cho previewed their first play Twisting Fortunes at the 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner which I reviewed Twisting Fortunes is just like "real dating. This time the writing is all Grace... and she will be performing a sneak preview excerpt onstage with fellow actor Emily Chow, as characters Susan Fan and Regina Cho. What do women really want? Did Robbie Burns have the answer? We know that Robbie Burns LOVED the fair sex and wrote many many poems dedicated to them - the most famous being "My Luv is Like a Red Red Rose." But does a rose smell as sweet whether it is red, or white, or yellow? And what about men and women.... do they smell as sweet whether they are white or yellow? Check out this spicy excerpt that will be presented January 27th at the 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy : Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner.  Can you really know someone in five minutes? And is speed
dating a shortcut to happiness, or a slippery slope to heartache? TF
Productions, the team that brought the city its first "accidentally
Asian" romantic dramedy, Twisting Fortunes—which played to a sold-out
house at the Playwrights Theatre Centre on Granville Island last
year—presents The Quickie, a Vancouver-based, contemporary romantic
comedy that rips a strip out of speed dating, making whoopee, and
cultural collision. In all the wrong places. The Quickie is directed by Ross Bragg (Producer, CBC) with lighting design by Darren Boquist (Walking Fish Festival) from a script by Grace Chin (Event Producer, Scripting Aloud), one half of the TF Productions writing/producing team that includes Charlie Cho (Associate Producer, CBC). TF Productions is grateful to receive in-kind support from the CBC, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) and Scripting Aloud. "A 'quickie' can mean a lot of things. This is a fun play about dating in Vancouver, but it's not only about sex; it's about how readily we judge people before we know who they are, about love at first sight," says Bragg. In this take-out love story, Richard "The Rich" Gupta (Raahul Singh) wants everything, while his buddy Darryl Chu (Alex Chu) just wants the right woman. Susan Fan (Grace Chin) is willing to settle for a man she can put up with, while her best friend Regina Cho (Emily Chow) won't settle at all. The four meet their matches quickly enough at the same speed dating event, yet find the follow-through far from tidy. An amorous woman (Allison Riley), a party girl (Kit Koon), a pretty boy (Phil Gurney) and a toothsome dentist (Victor Khong) further complicate the "girl meets boy" dynamic. The Quickie is the second theatrical production, after 2007's Twisting Fortunes, to be staged after being workshopped at Scripting Aloud, a monthly pan-Asian Canadian scriptreading series active since 2005. A short excerpt from The Quickie will be read live at the Tenth Anniversary Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner event on January 27, 2008 at Floata Chinese Restaurant, 400-180 Keefer Street, downtown Vancouver. Performances: Thurs. Feb. 7, Fri. Feb. 8, Sat. Feb. 9, 8 p.m. Sun. Feb. 10, 2 p.m. Fri. Feb. 15, Sat. Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Venue: Playwrights Theatre Centre (1398 Cartwright Street), Granville Island Tickets: $15 at the door, $13 online via PayPal at www.scriptingaloud.ca/quickie Media: Charlie Cho Co-Producer, TF Productions 778-288-5933 quickieplay@gmail.com Wednesday, January 9
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre Needs Your Support
by
Todd
on Wed 09 Jan 2008 09:20 PM PST
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is hosting a GALA on Saturday. January 26.
That's Gung Haggis Fat Choy eve!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I LOVE VACT... and have supported and attended many of their events over the years including Asian Comedy Night, Sex in Vancouver, Exit the Dragon, Cowboy Versus Samaurai, and Bondage. more »
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