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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, April 29
David Suzuki: The Autobiography... wins the BC Bookseller's Choice Award
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Todd
on Sun 29 Apr 2007 07:36 PM PDT
This is a great book! I received it as a gift from my friend Ian for my birthday last year. Suzuki details many aspects of his life. His time spent in the Japanese-Canadian internment camps is discussed in the chapter "My happy childhood in racist BC." more »
Tuesday, April 24
CBC Radio Studio One Book Club: featuring Jen Sookfong Lee
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Todd
on Tue 24 Apr 2007 05:06 PM PDT
In celebration of ExplorASIAN 2007, the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club is pleased to present Jen Sookfong Lee on Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 to 8 pm, at the CBC Broadcast Centre.
Her debut novel The End of East has been garnering great reviews from across the country. It's an evocative portrait of three generations living in Vancouver's Chinatown, spanning most of the last century. more »
Monday, April 16
Bilingual book launch: Finding Memories Tracing Routs, Chinese Canadian Family Stories
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Todd
on Mon 16 Apr 2007 11:53 PM PDT
Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 PM, the bilingual edition of Finding Memories, Tracing Routes, Chinese Canadian Family Stories will be launched at the Vancouver Public Library. Please come meet the authors and translators of this very unique contribution to Chinese Canadian history. Copies of this bilingual edition will be available for sale that evening ~~~~~ See my pictures and stories from the original english language book launch "Finding Memories, Tracing Routes:" CCHSBC book launch BIG SUCCESS for Chinese Canadian Family Stories more »
Vancouver Sun: A tradition restored - a story about Vancouver Chinatown's Modernize Tailors
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Todd
on Mon 16 Apr 2007 10:53 PM PDT
Modernize Tailors on the southwest corner of Pender and Carrall St. in Vancouver Chinatown is a cultural landmark. It stands right beside the skinniest building in the world, owned by Jack Chow Insurance. As a child growing up in Vancouver, I learned that my Uncle Laddie worked there - the husband of my mother's eldest sister. I also learned that it was run by a man named Bill Wong, the same name as my father. So my father was known as "Bill Wong the sign painter," as opposed to "Bill Wong the tailor."
~~~~ check out this Vancouver Sun story: A tradition restored
Milton Wong's ambitious project has returned his brothers' tailoring institution to its original premises
John Mackie, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, April 14, 2007
Milton Wong has managed billions of dollars in investment funds. His tireless philanthropy helped him earn the Order of Canada.
But he has never forgotten his roots in Vancouver's Chinatown, where his father started Modernize Tailors in 1913 in the Chinese Freemasons building at Pender and Carrall.
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