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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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Wednesday, January 31
Performers at Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2007 - where to see them next!
by
Todd
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 06:30 PM PST
* Listen to Priya Ramu, host of CBC Radio's "On the Coast" - 690 AM, 3pm to 6pm
* go see Twisting Fortunes with Grace and Zen and Charlie!
* come out to a traditional Burns dinner (Ian - we can start a "Young Burns Club" as an auxilliary to the Burns Club of Vancouver)
* see Qiu Xia He perform at Capilano College on Feb 2, at "Night Bird Singing" concert before Silk Road Music goes for an extended tour in Toronto Feb 4 to March
* recognize Heather Pawsey at the Vancouver Opera's Magic Flute, or see her at "Night Bird Singing," at Capilano College on Feb 2
* see Leora Cashe Feb 11th at Terry Fox Theatre or on March 11 at The Cellar for a Joni Mitchell tribute set at The Cellar on March 11... or most Sunday mornings with Jaye at the Centre for Spiritual Living, at the Masonic Hall.
* see Margaret Gallagher on "Living in Vancouver" on CBC TV with fello hapa Jennifer Burke.
* come to see No Luck Club at the Anza Club on Feb 2, for the CJSF Anniversary party!
* recognize Lensey Namioka's books at the stores, or the libraries!
* come to Harry's First Friday Forum at the Nikkei Heritage Centre for intercultural music and discussion.
* say Hi to Carl, when he does his cound gigs at The Roxy or around town.
* catch Joe McDonald with Brave Waves, Mad Celts or solo around town...
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Wednesday, January 24
Glasgow's "Back of the Moon" plays at St. James Hall on Robbie Burns Night
by
Todd
on Wed 24 Jan 2007 08:26 PM PST
Here's an event from the Rogue Folk Club, if you aren't attending a Burns supper on January 25th
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Thursday, January 25th 8pm
Back of the Moon
St James Hall (3214 West 10th Ave)
Tickets: $23 ($20 members) more »
Gung HAGGIS RAP Choy - Robbie Burns Address to a Haggis set to rap music
by
Todd
on Wed 24 Jan 2007 10:10 AM PST
To my dear Scottish Friends...
literary friends...
musical friends...
intercultural friends...
Here is something to welcome Robbie Burns Day Eve.
My new musical gift to the world for Robbie Burns Day: Gung HAGGIS RAP Choy (see MP3 attachment below) more »
 1 AttachmentsWednesday, January 17
"All Mixed Up" - Book launch dedicated to creative Hapa (mixed race Asians)
by
Todd
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:27 PM PST
The editors of "All Mixed Up," a chapbook dedicated to the writing,
art, photography, and social commentary by and about Hapas (mixed race
Asians), announce a celebration for the publication.
-- Thursday, January 18, 2007, 6-8 pm, Centre A, 2 West Hastings Street
Vancouver contributors include:
Margaret Gallagher, Kelty McKinnon, Mark Nakada, Debora O, Haruko Okano and Fred Wah, Michael Tora Speier more »
Monday, January 15
Martin Luther King: a dream for peace and harmony beyond racism
by
Todd
on Mon 15 Jan 2007 05:16 PM PST
This is a great way to celebrate a day dedicated to the memory of a man who wanted to improve the lives of all people. And in particular, to imagine a day and a country without racism. But we have to work for it - if we truly want it. We have to provide service to help create the world we want to live in. more »
Saturday, January 13
David Suzuki Park? In Vancouver's Marpole neighborhood?
by
Todd
on Sat 13 Jan 2007 03:01 PM PST
Both David Suzuki and Joy Kogawa grew up in Vancouver's Marpole neighborhood, but their families were removed from their homes in 1942, because of the internment of Japanese-Canadians. All the homes and properties of West Coast Japanese-Canadians was later confiscated and sold - without their permission. The park site is in the neighbourhood where Suzuki's family, as part of a Japanese fishing community, lived bef or e being interned by the Canadian government during World War II. more »
Wednesday, January 10
CBC's Dragon Boys... Body count and community impact
by
Todd
on Wed 10 Jan 2007 11:58 PM PST
Dragon Boys was one of CBC's most hyped new shows for January 2007. Because it dealt with drugs, gang violence and prostitution in the Chinese communities of Vancouver and Richmond, it broached sensitive issues. Cultural consultants were brought in, but did it help or hinder the show? more »
Gung Haggis Fat Choy update for January 10th
by
Todd
on Wed 10 Jan 2007 04:57 PM PST
Just confirmed today... Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan is attending. This will be the second time he has attended as Mayor, in addition to two previous times as a city concillor. Mayor Sullivan definitely has Scottish ancestry... and he's learned to speak Chinese
Haggis is ordered. I really like haggis from Peter Black and Sons, from Park Royal South, in West Vancouver. I have used it every year since 2002. When I don't use it, there's usually complaints. This is a nice spicy family secret recipe. I have never "gagged" on a Peter Black haggis, as I have on other haggis. Peter and family attended last year and had a great time. Peter even gave the Selkirk Grace. more »
Sunday, January 7
Dragon Boys, CBC mini-series premieres Sunday January 7 - inside scoop from Kwoi
by
Todd
on Sun 07 Jan 2007 04:12 PM PST
CBC's Dragon Boys is the heavily anticipated drama about Chinese gang life in the Vancouver/Richmond community. I first heard about the project when my friend Jim Wong-Chu (Asian Canadian Writer's Workshop) became one of the cultural consultants for the project. Jim was excited, because this was the first time CBC or CTV was creating a mini-series on Chinese Canadians. There would be lead roles and story themes - not just supporting roles in side bar stories.
See the story in the Georgia Straight where Dragon Boys director talks about the importance of having community counsultants filmaker Colleen Leung and Jim Wong-Chu: http://www.straight.com/article/dragon-boys-shoot-for-truth.
Also check out what Jim wrote about Chinese Canadian history for the In Context section on the Dragon Boys website.
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Saturday, January 6
What to expect at the Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2007 Dinner
by
Todd
on Sat 06 Jan 2007 12:27 PM PST
Arrive Early: The doors will open by 5:15 pm. All seating is reserved, and all tables are placed in the order that they were ordered (except for special circumstances such as a major sponsor hint hint). We find this is the most fair, and it encourages people to buy their tickets earlier to ensure a table closer to the stage. We expect a rush just prior to the posted 5:30pm reception time. This is the time to go to the bar and get your dram of Glenfiddich or pint of McEwan's Lager - specially ordered for tonight's dinner. Ohhh.... but we might be having a special sponsor for drinks. We're working on it. more »
Friday, January 5
Year of the Pig stamp launched today in Toronto
by
Todd
on Fri 05 Jan 2007 11:56 PM PST
Feb 18, 2007, marks Chinese New Year of the Pig. Canada Post celebrated with a new stamp in Toronto today on January 5th. The Pig Year should be filled with good feasting and friendship. It is also a very good year for people born in the Year of the Rat, like me! ~~~~ Check out these stories. more »
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