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Welcome to GungHaggisFatChoy.com
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, February 24
Chow Time: Janice Wong featured in Canadian Living Magazine
by
Todd
on Sat 24 Feb 2007 11:17 PM PST
Janice Wong is featured in this month's Canadian Living magazine (March 2007). The article is titled Chow Time: Celebrate Chinese New Year with traditional home-style recipes compliments of the Wong family. It was through an artist's eyes, and with an artist's deft touch, that Vancouver native Janice Wong delved into her family's rich history—which straddled the Canadian West in the 1920s, as well as the political quagmire that was China in the 1930s—to share their fascinating story in the pages of CHOW, From China to Canada: Memories of Food and Family (Whitecap, 2005, $24.95).
-Canadian Living Magazine, Food, p. 163, March 2007 more »
Friday, February 9
Theatre Review: Twisting Fortunes is just like "real dating" - same challenges with dating Asians or Caucasians too!
by
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 »
Friday, February 2
Vancouver Opera's Magic Flute: A journey between cultures to infinity and beyond
by
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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