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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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Thursday, March 31
What is a visible minority? According to Stats Canada...
by
Todd
on Thu 31 Mar 2005 08:00 PM PST
What is a visible minority?
Am I a Visible Minority? – even though I am a born and raised Canadian of 5 generations in the City of Vancouver?
Do Visible Minority’s have their own culture, or is it simply the non-culture of the Visible Majority?
... Questions Stats Canada's definitions...
more »
Wednesday, March 30
The Return of Sex in Vancouver - April 3, 10, 11 & 12: by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
by
Todd
on Wed 30 Mar 2005 12:23 PM PST
Announcement:
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (“VACT”) is bringing back Episodes 1 and 2 of this hilarious hit series of plays that had sold-out audiences laughing, lusting, crying and cheering for 4 hot Asian girlfriends and the hopeless men in their lives. more »
Sex in Vancouver: Meet the Cast from Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
by
Todd
on Wed 30 Mar 2005 12:18 PM PST
Announcement:
+ Great Picture + links more »
Thank You, Canada, For Letting Us Land Our Plances: Asian American Poets in Vancouver
by
Todd
on Wed 30 Mar 2005 12:12 PM PST
Announcement:
Asian American Poets reading in Vancouver
Our Town Cafe
Friday April 1st, 7pm
Featuring KAZIM ALI, NICK CARBO, TINA CHANG, PAOLO JAVIER, TIMOTHY LIU, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, OSCAR PENARANDA, RAVI SHANKAR, PRAGEETA SHARMA, and EILEEN TABIOS more »
Monday, March 28
Response to Pete McMartin's Vancouver Sun column: Open Dialogue Needed on Racial Cultural Issues
by
Todd
on Mon 28 Mar 2005 02:43 PM PST
Pete McMartin wrote a column today stating that with the projected growth patterns of visible minority immigration to Canada, that we need to take another look at multiculturalism and ask if it is working.
Here's my response.... more »
Sunday, March 27
Still celebrating St. Patrick's Day in Vancouver at Irish Heather
by
Todd
on Sun 27 Mar 2005 10:36 PM PST
We listen to Tim Fanning and his musical friends play at the Irish Heather...
We meet Janek Kuchmistrz, the Green Party candidate for Vancouver Burrard... more »
Friday, March 25
Wednesday, March 23
Monday, March 21
"Here Be Dragons": a meeting of bagpipes and a Cree Indian in Peter C. Newman's new book
by
Todd
on Mon 21 Mar 2005 10:31 PM PST
"In Peter C. Newman's latest book, Here be Dragons, the following
descriptive passage might interest Scottish types. Newman describes a
Hudson's Bay Company executive (from Scotland, of course) who toured
the North with his personal piper. A Cree Indian, on hearing the
bagpipes for the first time, described the occasion to his Chief: more »
Tuesday, March 15
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat a favorite in Vancouver's St. Patrick's Day parade
by
Todd
on Tue 15 Mar 2005 10:57 AM PST
St. Paddy's Day Parade in Vancouver, on a Sunday afternoon. Where elese can you see a dragon boat dressed up as a float with a kilted Chinese Lion twirling a dragon boat paddle?
Check out the GREAT PICTURES!!!! more »
Monday, March 14
My cousin... Tracey Hinder wins CanSpell regional spelling bee in Vacouver
by
Todd
on Mon 14 Mar 2005 09:14 PM PST
Here's a story about my 2nd cousin Tracey Hinder, my mom's cousin's daughter. Tracey is an amazing youngster with an extraordinary aptitude for learning and meeting challenges...
+ Vancouver Sun article links + pictures... more »
Sunday, March 13
Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat float - for the 2nd Annual Vancouver St. Patrick's Day Parade
by
Todd
on Sun 13 Mar 2005 08:28 AM PST
Last year, Gung Haggis Fat Choy was asked to take part in the inaugural St. Patrick's Day Parade for Celtic Fest Vancouver - celebrating all things celtic in Vancouver BC. The parade organizers wanted something multicultural, and they loved the way Gung Haggis Fat Choy fused together Chinese and Scottish cultures in a fun inclusive way. more »
Friday, March 11
Join CBC Radio's Margaret Gallagher & Gung Haggis Fat CHoy in the St. Patrick's Day parade on a dragon boat float
by
Todd
on Fri 11 Mar 2005 02:05 PM PST
"I'll be celebrating my dual heritage," said reporter Margaret Gallager on CBC Radio's Early Edition with host Rick Cluff, referring to her Chinese Malaysian and Irish American parentage, as she announced she would be in the St. Patrick's Day Parade aboard a Dragon Boat... more »
Tales of an Urban Indian - great play at the FIRE HALL Arts Centre
by
Todd
on Fri 11 Mar 2005 02:04 PM PST
REVIEW:
Firehall Arts Centre
March 2-12
I saw the play last week on opening night and I thought that actor Darrell Dennis was extremely funny and serious in his one person play. He definitely touches on all the positive and negative experiences of what it is like being an urban indian, drawing on personal and shared/communal experiences. more »
Monday, March 7
Saturday, March 5
Look for a Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat float in the Vancouver St. Patrick's Day Parade - March 13,2005
by
Todd
on Sat 05 Mar 2005 03:30 AM PST
I just picked up the St.Patrick's Day Parade package for Vancouver's Celtic Fest 2005, to be held Sunday, March 13th 2005.
"It's important to be multicultural and to have these elements in the parade, " says Grand Parade Marshall Steve McVittie... more »
Friday, March 4
Chinese Head Tax Redress: Recent letters to the Editors for Vancouver Courier and Shared Vision articles
by
Todd
on Fri 04 Mar 2005 02:59 PM PST
Here are recent letters to the editor that have appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Courier and Shared Vision magazine regarding their recent articles on Redress for the Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act (1897 to 1947).
...including one by me! more »
Opera Nights at the Pan Pacific Hotel with Heather Pawsey
by
Todd
on Fri 04 Mar 2005 02:30 PM PST
Heather Pawsey will be Just at the Pan Pacific Hotel (Cafe Pacifica)
Sat. March 5 and next Friday night, March 11, starting at 7:15 p.m. more »
Thursday, March 3
Is being an ethnic Canadian a 50/50 split? or is being multicultural 100% x ethnicity(s) + 100% Canadian?
by
Todd
on Thu 03 Mar 2005 12:59 PM PST
What percentage do we consider ourselves ethnic? or Canadian? This idea presented itself to me while I was sitting on the CRTC judicial hearing for Planet Radio presented by CHUM. more »
Wednesday, March 2
Planet Radio - Exploring Vancouver's Global sound - Check out this proposal by CHUM
by
Todd
on Wed 02 Mar 2005 07:19 PM PST
Over the past few days I was involved with the Planet Radio proposal by CHUM Radio, applying for a new FM licence before the CRTC. I had been invited by Prem Gill to be part of their community advisory committee, Prem is host of ColourTV at City TV. more »
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