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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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Saturday, October 27
THE JADE RUBIES, book launch by Valerie Wong Oct 28
by
Todd
on Sat 27 Oct 2007 01:11 PM PDT
My cousin Valerie Wong is having a Vancouver book launch this weekend.
It is an independently published work of fiction.
JADE RUBIES - book launch
Sunday, October 28th, more »
Thursday, October 25
Saturday, October 13
Theatre Review: The Dunsmuirs is a well-acted immigrant rags-to-riches story with a healthy dose of Scots-Canadian culture
by
Todd
on Sat 13 Oct 2007 01:29 PM PDT
The Dunsmuirs: Alone at the Edge
Oct 5-20, 2007
Presentation House Theatre
333 Chesterfield Ave.
North Vancouver
This is a wonderfully interesting play about one of Canada's most controversial and rags-to-richest Scots-Canadian Robert Dunsmuir. The coal miner who became a coal baron then Premier and Lt. Governor of the province while he was employing Asian minors as lower paid scab labourers in his Nanaimo/Cumberland mines. more »
Friday, October 12
The DUNSMUIRS - a theatrical telling of the enigmatic BC historical figure who employed Chinese labourers
by
Todd
on Fri 12 Oct 2007 12:30 PM PDT
Rod Langley has written a play about Robert Dunsmuir and his family. Learn about The Dunsmuirs who built Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, and how Robert Dunsmuir became the 5th richest man in North America, on the backs of Asian coal miners in Nanaimo/Cumberland.
Check out this play about Robert Dunsmuir, the BC Premier who spoke out against anti-Asian legislation... partly because he employed Japanese and Canadian coal miners at lower wages. more »
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