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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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Sunday, February 25
Seattle Gung Haggis Fat Choy Seattle: Scots-Americans enjoy a big success for a first initiative south of the border!
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Todd
on Sun 25 Feb 2007 01:22 PM PST
report of Gung Haggis Fat Choy Seattle: Two months ago, Bill McFadden phoned me and said he would like to co-create a Gung Haggis Fat Choy event in Seattle. He wanted to recognize my creation and bring me down to Seattle to create a benefit dinner for the Caledonian and St. Andrew's Society of Seattle - funds raised to go to the North West Jr. Pipe & Drums, in their quest to attend the World Championships in Scotland.
My musician friends Harry Aoki and Max Ngai join me in Seattle. Max is an Australian born Chinese who moved to Canada at age one, who loves to play Celtic violin. While I have played with Harry on occasions since 2003, and Max has played many times with Harry - the three of us, have never played together before. more »
Thursday, February 15
Kyoto Journal: Multicultural Webfinds - a story about Gung Haggis Fat Choy!
by
Todd
on Thu 15 Feb 2007 10:13 PM PST
Kyoto Journal is a non-profit quarterly magazine based in Kyoto, it's objective is to present throught-provoking perspectives from Asia. Author/moderator Jean Miyake Downey has written: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Asian-Celtic Robbie Burns New Year with Toddish McWong in Vancouver – Turning the "East-West Dichotomy" Inside Out
http://www.kyotojournal.org/10,000things/098.html ~~~~~~ Jean moderates the feature called 10,000 Things which is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.
Somehow she thinks Gung Haggis Fat Choy fits into this perspective. Jean and I have exchanged e-mails, and she wrote the following piece based on our conversations and what she found on www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com
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Friday, February 9
Theatre Review: Twisting Fortunes is just like "real dating" - same challenges with dating Asians or Caucasians too!
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Todd
on Fri 09 Feb 2007 06:09 PM PST
Twisting Fortunes
February 6, 7, 8, 9,
8pm
Playwrights Theatre Centre (1398 Cartwright Street)
on Granville Island.
Tickets $10 at the door.
Whether or not you have dated an Asian or a Caucasian, you will relate to this play. Playwrights Grace Chin and Charlie Cho, have created a witty and sharply funny play about dating (or non-dating) in Vancouver's cyber-café culture. Filled with hip pop culture references that clash with traditional dating expectations, Twisting Fortunes explores the netherland of dating culture's "do's and don'ts" while adding an inter-cultural spice with references and comparisons to dating Asians and non-Asians. more »
Wednesday, February 7
Preview: Twisting Fortunes - an accidentally Asian comedy play opens this week
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Todd
on Wed 07 Feb 2007 06:49 PM PST
Twisting Fortunes was one of the special surprises at the 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner on January 28. I have known the playwrights Charlie Cho and Grace Chin for a number of years through our mutual connections with Ricepaper Magazine - where both have been editors.
GHFC always tries to highlight Asian Canadian literary and arts, and the TF press release looked like something exciting and fun. Charlie Cho sent me an excerpt that was witty, sharp and punchy, and still made social commentary about Asian-Canadian culture. see pictures! more »
Friday, February 2
Vancouver Opera's Magic Flute: A journey between cultures to infinity and beyond
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Todd
on Fri 02 Feb 2007 11:57 PM PST
Why would Vancouver Opera take a perfectly good Mozart opera and spend it's largest single event budget to try to give it a First Nations twist?
Why would Vancouver Opera consult with First Nations artists to create costumes and dances and set designs reflective of First Nations art and culture, when the Magic Flute was a 1791 production set in a faraway land, filled with Mozart's newly learned knowledge of Free Masonry and Masonic rituals?
The real question is not simply "why not?" but rather "Why hasn't something like this been done before?"
All the pre-event buzz of a First Nations Magic Flute was worth it. All the endless rounds of community and cultural consultations working with the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council, was thorough on every level. All the Where Cultures Meet public presentation/forum events at the Vancouver Public Library and the Chan Centre peaked people's interest and challenged their notions of opera and culture. I reviewed the November 8th event Can Cultures Merge? more »
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