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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, July 29
My last week of July... filled with intercultural incidents
by
Todd
on Sat 29 Jul 2006 04:50 PM PDT
There is never enough time to write about everything I do... but for the past week - here are some intercultural highlights and thoughts:
July 20th Tang Concubines;
July 22/23 - Vernon Dragon Boat Festival;
Wednesday - Fireworks - July 26th;
Thurday night - COPE fundraiser BBQ at Rowing Club more »
Tuesday, July 25
Busy weekend.... dragonboats in Vernon on Kalamalka Lake.
by
Todd
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 03:37 PM PDT
Great vacation in Vernon / Kalamalka Lake...
We had so much fun!! Lots of stories to share...
memorable moments:
hot hot hot weather....
swimming off the private dock at Deb's parents' lakeside home
kayaking and canoeing at the dock while sipping drinks and eating watermelon. Watching lightning / thunder storm from the hot tub at Pinnacles Resort on Silver Star Mountain...
Pulling Ashleigh on water skis with a dragon boat.... OH - did I forget about the dragon boat racing?
We did two 200m sprints + 500 sprint, then a 1000 m race with turn on the Saturday. PICTURES more »
Thursday, July 20
Kalamalka Lake is my weekend destination for kayaking, canoeing and... dragon boat racing!
by
Todd
on Thu 20 Jul 2006 04:01 PM PDT
This weekend, the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team heads to Kalamalka Lake for dragon boat racing. It is one of the most beautiful lakes I have seen in BC, and I love canoeing and kayaking on it.... PICTURES more »
Vancouver Aquarium - July visit with friends from Alaska
by
Todd
on Thu 20 Jul 2006 03:22 PM PDT
I have always loved visiting the aquarium since I was a small child in the 1960's. My father would take us even before Skanna the killer whale was there, in the BC Tel pool - tiny by today's standards. We even have home movie footage of the killer whale that was trapped and put on display by fishermen in Pender Harbour in the late 1960's. I believe that this was the start of the learning curve about orcas in BC. My brother grew up studying marine biology, and later supervised the wardenship program for the Michael Biggs / Robson Bight wilderness refuge area for the orcas near Telegraph Cove, BC. .... PICTURES more »
Monday, July 17
Thursday, July 13
Outrigger Canoeing: The Lotus Ironman race on Burrard Inlet with Gung Haggis paddlers
by
Todd
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 11:01 AM PDT
Two Gung Haggis paddlers climbed into a six person Hawaiian outrigger canoe to race in one of the Lotus Iron races. The calm water of Burrard inlet sparkled under a blue cloudless sky on July 1st as Gail Thompson and Dave Samis paddled with a Lotus Sports Club outrigger team. The 11km race is 22 times longer than a 500m dragon boat race.... + PICTURES more »
Sunday, July 9
July 9th - Gung Haggis dragon boat team practice: preparation for races in Kent WA
by
Todd
on Sun 09 Jul 2006 11:51 PM PDT
The Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team is getting ready to go to Kent/Seattle dragon boat races, just south of Sea Tac airport on Lake Meridien. It is part of Cornucopia Days in Kent WA....
We had a mix of veteran paddlers, rookies, and brand new beginners. A full boat of 23 paddlers... okay... a wee bit heavy. It was important to prepare the team for the races in Kent WA, for next week, so we started off with some warm-up, then did a 500m race piece. It was a little bit ragged, so we did some exercises for timing and technique, before working on our starts, and finishing off on another race piece....
The Cornucopia Days festival has a real small-town America feel to it. The streets are closed off.and stalls lined the curbs. There is music, and amusement park rides. The bars are open, and so is the beer garden. There is no great variety of multicultural music, arts and culture like in Canada... but there generally is classic rock and roll, country music and an Elvis impersonator or two. more »
Saturday, July 8
Storyscapes Chinatown: "Spiritual Kinship" - Todd Wong
by
Todd
on Sat 08 Jul 2006 02:08 AM PDT
Here is my contribution to Storyscapes Chinatown, bringing together stories of interactions between First Nations and Chinese peoples in Vancouver. I was very pleased to bring a Creation Story to tie in the spiritual kinship between these two cultural groups. I have always personally felt a spiritual bond to First Nations peoples... This particular story about the Mongolian birth mark on First Nations people was told to me by an elderly First Nations man that I met at the mouth of the Capilano River in North Vancouver.... PICTURE more »
Storyscapes Chinatown: "Know Where You Come From" - Rhonda Larrabee
by
Todd
on Sat 08 Jul 2006 02:06 AM PDT
This is my cousin Rhonda Larrabee. Actually she is my mother's cousin, as Rhonda's father Art Lee, was the elder brother to my grandmother Mabel (Lee) Mar. Rhonda is incredible. She has singlehandedly resurrected the Qayqayt First Nations Band. When she first applied for her Indian status, she was denied and was told that the Qayqayt "didn't exist anymore." Disappointed, she was shocked because clearly she existed, and her brothers existed, and her mother's siblings still existed. A few years later... she applied again and was granted status. She was told "I guess you want some land now too." PICTURE more »
Storyscapes Chinatown: "Celebrate Our Differences" - Joe Wai
by
Todd
on Sat 08 Jul 2006 01:47 AM PDT
This is my cousin Joe Wai. Joe's mother is my father's eldest sister. Our grandfather Wong Wah, came to Canada at age 16. He was soon managing his uncle's store which became the largest Chinese drygoods store in Victoria's Chintown.... Joe is an architect who has made many contributions to Vancouver's Chinatown. He w PICTUEas the architect for the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives, the Chinatown Millenium Gate, The Chinatown Parkade, the West End Community Centre... and many other buildings in Vancouver. more »
Friday, July 7
Storyscapes Chinatown premieres on Saturday - check out my "Creation Story"
by
Todd
on Fri 07 Jul 2006 03:21 PM PDT
I am part of 23 story tellers gathered to share stories of interactions between Chinese and First Nations people in Vancouver.
Check out Storyscapes Chinatown exhibition during the Chinese Cultural Centre's Arts and Cultural festival held on July 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. The exhibition will be in the courtyard of the Centre (50 West Pender), as well as on the corner of Pender and Carall. Please spread the word! An invitation to the exhibition will follow next week. more »
Thursday, July 6
Kilts Night Vancouver - moved to 1st Thursday of the Month
by
Todd
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 01:27 PM PDT
It's a wee tradition in Vancouver to wear your kilt on Kilts Night. Kilts Night started at the Atlantic Trap and Gill a few years ago... but moved to Doolin's Irish Pub Jan 1st Kilts Night at Doolin's....
Doolin's Irish Pub
654 Nelson Street at Granville Street Vancouver BC more »
Tuesday, July 4
Grouse Grind: The day after the day after Canada Day
by
Todd
on Tue 04 Jul 2006 12:40 AM PDT
The very first time I did the Grouse Grind, it was on Canada Day in 1999 or 2000. There was snow at the top of the Grind... and people were skiing on Grouse and Cypress Bowl. Phenomenal.
Today.... I did the Grind with Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team members. Some of the paddlers had done it last week, and the chance for me to do it for the first time since Trevor Linden was traded back to the Canucks, was too much to resist. I think that time we finished the Grind in about 1 hour. I used to do a lot of trail running, and could really sprint up the steps with style. more »
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