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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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Tuesday, November 27
Hiromi Goto - New VPL writer-in-residence
by
Todd
on Tue 27 Nov 2007 09:00 AM PST
The VPL writer-in-residence program was created by Kevin Chong when he was a VPL Board member. It's a cool program where you can make an appointment and have your work critiqued. ...
Hiromi Goto was one of the featured authors who read to CUPE 391 - on the picket line reading series. more »
Sunday, November 18
Bagpipes and Taiko drums... Look out for Uzume Taiko & Mearingstone Nov 23
by
Todd
on Sun 18 Nov 2007 10:58 PM PST
Four bagpipers... four taiko drums... What could possibly happen?
I have seen Uzume Taiko perform with one bagpiper before...
Uzume Taiko & Mearingstone's performance together should be a musically adventurous evening. I am looking forward to it. There is a long history of Japanese-Canadians and Scottish-Canadians mixing in Vancouver. more »
Saturday, November 17
Falling for Grace: Chinese American Girl meets White-American Boy in New York City - Movie opens in Vancouver
by
Todd
on Sat 17 Nov 2007 12:01 AM PST
I met Fay Ann Lee, director of Falling for Grace, at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. It was Sunday, the final day of VAFF, and Fay had premiered Falling for Grace the night before. Fay is a stunning woman, and very articulate, telling me about how she made the film.... She tells me that across the USA, they have been slowly building the audience market by market. We talked about how Falling for Grace is really a romantic comedgy, not limited only to an Asian audience, likening it to the success that Joy Luck Club had playing to White audiences across America. more »
Friday, November 16
Iris Chang The Rape of Nanking: movie screenings are a benefit to BC Alpha
by
Todd
on Fri 16 Nov 2007 11:27 PM PST
BC Alpha is an organization that has been a strong advocate both for the WW2 Korean comfort women, and the atrocities of the Japanese Army in China - including the rape of 80,000 Chinese women in Nanking....
Thekla Lit is president of BC Alpha. I met her when she joined the Chinese Head Tax Redress campaign. Thekla played an important role in speaking to Chinese Language media. She is an avid human rights activist and respected by many people in the community. Now she is continuing her campaign to raise awareness about "comfort women" and the "rape of Nanking." more »
Eastside Culture Crawl Nov 16-18 - come visit my cousin - artist Janice Wong
by
Todd
on Fri 16 Nov 2007 07:26 PM PST
The East Side Culture Crawl is a lot of fun. There are many studios to check out. Some are in homes in Strathcona, and some are in big warehouses....
1000 Parker is a very big - very busy place. My cousin Janice Wong's studio is at #318. She wrote the book C H O W from China to Canada: memories of food + family - which contains some history of her family growing up in Sask, and our revered ancestor Rev. Chan Yu Tan....
Check out the invitation below from my cousin Janice Wong - and please visit her studio at 318-1000 Parker. more »
Friday, November 9
Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble plays with guitarist/composer John Oliver
by
Todd
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 11:45 AM PST
What happens when you take 5 very talented classically trained Chinese musicians and mix them up with composer/guitarist John Oliver, who likens his style to "an experimental mix inspired by John McLaughlin, Pat Methany Group, Robert Fripp, and World Music, processed through computer granular synthesis?" more »
Wednesday, November 7
Origami Conference come to Vancouver... The best folders such as as Eric Joisel and Robert Lang have come to Vancouver - home of origami master Joseph Wu
by
Todd
on Wed 07 Nov 2007 11:56 PM PST
Origami Conference come to Vancouver...
The best folders such as as Eric Joisel and Robert Lang have come to Vancouver - home of origami master Joseph Wu   Musicians designed & folded by Eric Joisel. Photo courtesy of Joseph Wu. I learned how to fold origami as a child. First I folded hats and fish and boats... then I folded cranes and frogs. By the age of 12, I was folding intricate dragons and reindeer.... then a unicorn from a single piece of paper. November 9-11 is the Pacific Origami Conference at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. ORIGAMI MASTERS is incredible display of over 100 origami pieces created, designed and folded by Origami Masters from 10 different countries. It will be at the Pendulum in the HSBC Building (855 West Georgia) from Oct. 29th and has been extended to November 17th. The viewing hours are:
Check out pictures at the Pendulum Gallery on the PCOC 2007 Flickr gallery! My library friend Yukiko Tosa is one of the conference organizers and she says that the best day to attend is Sat. Nov. 10th from 9 am -6 pm. These are origami models folded by our Conference Attendees coming from all over the world. All these exhibits are free to the public. She has sent posters to each branch, Fine Arts and the Children's Library. Yukiko writes:
My favourite story right now is about Sam Thomas who is a
'Wishing Star' recipient. The Hotel is treating him royally as they
should but you can read his mother's wonderful web update about him at:
Joseph Wu is an incredible origami creator who now makes a full-time living by designing and creating origami figures. Those Stolichnaya vodka ads featuring origami swan, eagle and butterfly were all created by Joseph. You can view them in the "Illustration" category of his website. www.origami.as 
Check out my 2006 story about Joseph. Joseph Wu, origami expert extraordinaire! Here is a Vancouver Sun article about local origami artist, Joseph Wu Look for more press coverage to come. Tuesday, November 6
Nov 10th, Joy Kogawa House event: War and Remembrance featuring authors Ruth Ozeki and Shaena Lambert
by
Todd
on Tue 06 Nov 2007 11:34 PM PST
Nov 10th, Joy Kogawa House event:
War and Remembrance featuring authors Ruth Ozeki and Shaena Lambert       Joy and brother Tim at Kogawa House pre-1942... Joy and brother Tim with neighbood friends - the Steeves boys. Joy at the house when it was threatened with demolition... Joy and Richmond school children during the Save Kogawa House campaign. Joy with old childhood friend Mr. Steevs, at last year's September Open House event. This is going to be an incredible event. The Joy Kogawa House Society has now been incorporated as a society. Ruth Ozeki was the 2007 author for the One Book One Vancouver program at the Vancouver Public Library, launching in May. Shaena Lambert is also an incredibly gifted and moving writer. We are beginning our next phase of fundraising to preserve and restore the house to it's 1942 character, when Joy lived at the house, before the family was sent to WW2 internment camps at Slocan, and before the house was confiscated by the Canadian government. And... Joy Kogawa has suprised her friends and family in Metro Vancouver by popping into town last week to help celebrate her daughter's birthday.... She will attend our Nov 10th special reading event. Yipppeee!!!!  Joy and her daughter Dee Dee enjoy a laugh and a smile with oranges at a family dinner in April - photo Todd Wong 1 Attachments
Centre A presents new INTERSECTION project with an art installation by Koki Tanaka
by
Todd
on Tue 06 Nov 2007 11:23 PM PST
Centre A presents new INTERSECTION project with an art installation by Koki Tanaka
INTERSECTION
KOKI TANAKA Turning the Lights On Intersection is the new art installation at Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. The idea of lighting up the "Carrall Street Greenaway" is intriguing as it links historic Gastown with historic Hastings Street and historic Chinatown.
Exhibition: November 9- December 15, 2007 Opening: Friday, November 9, 8pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 -18:00 Sunday-Monday closed Window Video Projection: From sunset to midnight (Tuesday- Saturday)
Curator: Makiko Hara
Centre
A will
present a new site specific installation by Koki Tanaka for the Intersection project entitled
Turning the Lights
On.
Koki Tanaka was born in 1975 in Tochigi, lives and works in Tokyo , Japan . Tanaka is one of the most watched young Japanese artists to emerge on the international art scene today. Tanaka received his MFA from Tokyo National University of Art and Music in 2006, but has already attracted international attention since early 2000 when he was a student. Tanaka has been invited to many international exhibitions including the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2003 and 2006), the Taipei Biennale (2006), The public Video screening at MOMA, New York (2003) and a recent public screening at Los Angels MOCA (2007). Tanaka was selected for the prestigious International Artist in Residency program at Palais des Tokyo in France in 2006 followed by a solo exhibition. Tanaka is featured on the new edition of “Ice Cream”: Contemporary Art in Culture, A selection of 100 of the most significant emerging artists today. (PHAIDON Press, 2007)
Tanaka has produced numerous site specific installations with video. His lyrical video works characterized by the use of everyday low-key materials, and the movement with a simple gesture by the artist that emotionally works to change our conventional perception to the world around us. In his art practice, Tanaka explores the “infinite possibilities of chances to change our perceptions of the world” by evoking our sense of wonder.
Koki Tanaka is invited for the artist in residency program at Centre A and will create a new video work and installation based on his research on the Down Town East Side area. Tanaka will shoot a video on the moments of people turning on the lights in the city life in many different situations. The final production will be presented in two parts; a video projection at gigantic scale to entirely fill the front window of Centre A facing to the Hastings street at night, together with a site specific installation uses the illuminator of various types inside the gallery. Centre A is honoured to present the first solo exhibition of Koki Tanaka in Canada and the North America .
Centre A gratefully acknowledges the generous support of its patrons, sponsors, members, partners, private foundations, and government funding agencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs.
For more information Makiko Hara, Curator: makiko.hara@centrea.org Debra Zhou, Public Relation: debra.zhou@centrea.org Tel: 604-683-8326
Intersection Lighting up the Carrall Street Greenway
Exhibitions Opening: Friday November 9, 2007, 8pm Media Launch: November 2, 2007 11:00- at Inter Urban Gallery ( 1 East Hastings Street ) Closing Event: Everybody Is Somebody by Paul Wong Saturday December 8, 3:00 – 10:00 pm Intersection is a temporary public art project that involves arts organizations resident at Carroll and Hastings streets in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver founded by the City of Vancouver . It is a part of “Carroll Street Greenway” project that the City of Vancouver has been organized toward the Olympic in 2010. The project is in collaborative production of large scale image projections in windows and on the exteriors of buildings at the intersection of Carroll and Hastings streets. Intersection will include workshops, artistic residencies and exhibitions at the Inter Urban Gallery, and Centre A as well as special public events, to take place in December 8, 2007.
For more information on “Intersection” Please contact: Tim Ma, Public Relation: media@intersection.ca Monday, November 5
Bagpipes and drums Knockout competition this Friday Nov 9th, at Scottish Cultural Centre
by
Todd
on Mon 05 Nov 2007 11:23 PM PST
Bagpipes and drums Knockout competition this Friday Nov 9th, at Scottish Cultural Centre
Imagine bagpipes and drums playing a game of survivor. Going against each other in immunity elimination challenges, until only one bagpiper and one drummer are left standing. This information comes to me from Ron Macleod, Chair of the SFU Scottish Cultural Studies Program. Greetings, the following will be of interest to those who enjoy piping. Courtesy of Ed McIlwaine, President, BC Pipers' Association. Regards, the other Ron The BC Pipers' Association is again presenting a series of piping and drumming knockout competitions. These competitions, through a process of elimination, culminate in a final round at the Association’s Annual Dinner which is usually held the second Saturday in March. WHAT: BC Pipers’ Knockout event. WHERE: Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson (at 73rd Avenue), Vancouver. WHEN: Friday, November 9th. Doors open at 6:30 PM; piping and drumming events start at 7:30 PM. WHO: 9 pipers and 4 drummers will compete COST: Members $6.00 and non-members $8.00 CONTACT: Ed McIlwaine at edward@cantrawl.com OTHER: Come and enjoy a dram or a beer and hear some first rate pipers and drummers at work! The second round of the Knockout will be held on Friday, December 14th, same venue, different players. For anyone traveling from South-East of the Port Mann Bridge, I suggest that you consider cutting across Surrey in some appropriate way and taking the Alex Fraser Bridge, the 91 and 99 over the Oak St. Bridge. |
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