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Wednesday, June 29
The Asian Mystique - author Reading by Sheridan Prasso
by
Todd
on Wed 29 Jun 2005 02:40 PM PDT
Prize-winning journalist and Asia expert Sheridan Prasso reads from her new book The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient. This is a provocative critique of the West's eroticized illusions about Asia and how profoundly these illusions colour our social, cultural, business, personal, and political interactions. more »
Thursday, June 23
Obachan's Garden Film Screening at VPL with director Linda Ohama
by
Todd
on Thu 23 Jun 2005 05:53 PM PDT
As part of Vancouver Public Library's One Book One Vancouver program, there will be many related events designed to help bring the book Obasan to life. Obachan's Garden, is the award winning National Film Board documentary about the filmaker Linda Ohama's Grandmother. Ohama won a 2002 Leo Award for best direction for a documentary. Check out a review of Obachan's Garden on Culture Vulture Please see below for the information from the VPL web page. Obachan's Garden: Film Screening Join director Linda Ohama for a special screening of Obachan's Garden. In 1923, Asayo Murakami left Hiroshima and settled in a fishing village in Steveston, BC. Her family has memories of a happy woman who sang, danced and nurtured a colourful flower garden, but underneath, the memory of what she left in Japan haunted her deeply. Delicately peeling back the layers of her grandmother's life, filmmaker Linda Ohama discovers a painful, buried past. In poignant interviews, Asayo, now 103 years old, recalls life in Japan, her arrival in Canada as a "picture bride," her determination to marry a man of her choice, the bombing of Hiroshima and the forced relocation of her family during World War II. Beautifully rendered dramatic sequences are merged with an exquisite collection of memories, feelings, images and voices. Culminating in an emotional reunion with a long-lost daughter, this film is an intensely personal reflection of Japanese-Canadian history and a testament to one woman's incredible endurance and spirit. |
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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, Dinner 6pm 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 2009! Description of 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner co-hosted with Media colunist Catherine Barr featuring performers: , celtic band Blackthorn, bagpiper Joe McDonald and Brave Waves, Ji-Rong Huang on erhu, Film maker Ann-Marie Fleming, Vancouver poet laureate George McWhirter, Playwright Grace Chin and a scene from "The Quickie" Description of 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner co-hosted with CBC Radio's Priya Ramu, featuring performers: Silk Road Music, Heather Pawsey, Brave Waves, Leora Cashe, No Luck Club, Dr. Ian Mason (Burns Club of Vancouver) Lensey Namioka - Author "Half and Half" Margaret Gallagher, "Twisting Fortunes" (sneak preview of play) Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner with co-host with CityTV's Prem Gill featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 778-846-7090 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 starting March Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm 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 2008 season took us to races in Burnaby, Vancouver, Vernon, Vancouver Taiwanese race, UBC, Ft. Langley. It was our strongest team ever and we are proud of our race performances. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 778-846-7090 e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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