Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Minoru Yamamoto are featured in the Georgia Straight.   more »

The Powell Street Festival is always a lot of fun.  Lots of food, activities and performances.  I have even appeared on stage with my accordion accompanying Sean Gunn as part of his music ensemble... that was a few years ago.
http://powellstfestival.shinnova.com/

Check out Kokoro Dance Theatre featuring Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget, as well as my friend Harry Aoki with his music ensemble. Check out Walter Quan's "sushi candles" in the "Marketplace".

There is even fusion hip hop, karate demonstrations - lots to do and see!

29TH ANNUAL POWELL STREET FESTIVAL
Hip'pu Pop'pu: celebrating contemporary Japanese Canadian culture

Saturday, July 30th & Sunday, July 31st, 2005
Oppenheimer Park, 400 Powell Street &
Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova Street
Vancouver Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Street
11:30am - 7:00pm

FESTIVAL WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS

Taiko extravaganza featuring several local taiko groups • Contemporary dance by Mariko Tanabe (Montreal), Aretha Aoki and Kokoro Dance • BOX THEATRE: a one-person show for a one-person audience • Musical guests Harry Aoki Ensemble, Sharon Minemoto, Riff Randells, Buttersprites (Seattle), Alcvin Ramos and more • Traditional Japanese tea service • Historical Walking Tours of the Powell Street area • Yugo: a hiphop fusion project featuring DJs, MCs, graffiti art & more • Literary Series featuring Kim Moritsugu (Toronto), Gerry Shikatani (Toronto) & Craig Takeuchi • Eye & Ear, There & Here: a screening of music videos from Canada, the United States and Japan • Remaking the Master's Tools: Pop Culture in Contemporary Short Film and Video • Taiko Workshop for Children & Youth • Naomi's Road: a workshop reading by Vancouver Opera

Celebrating Diversity in Vancouver this week is Pride Week.  I have now been asked to join in two parade groups - maybe because they know I am a fun guy, and have put dragon boats in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.  Maybe next year I will have a Dragon Boat in the Pride Parade.  And maybe next year I will organize a Gay Lesbian dragon boat team...
called the Drag-ON! Queens

In the meantime...

The Vancouver Public Library features 4 authours for a program titled Queer Authors Night

Terrie Hamazaki is a featured author at the Vancouver Public Library reading along with Karen X. Tulchinsky, Charles Montgomery and Daniel Gawthrop.

Terrie Has written & performed for the Fringe and Women in View Performing Arts Festivals. Her writing has been published in various publications. She is a member of the 2005 SFU Writers Studio & also works at a battered womens shelter. She is a former newswriter for Kinesis (published by Vancouver Status of Women).

Our paths have crossed in the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop world - and hopefully one day, we will have Terrie do a writing workshop for us.

Date	Thursday, July 28th 2005
Time	7:00pm
Location	Central Library Alice MacKay room - Lower Level 350 W. Georgia St. Phone: (604) 331-3603
Admission	Free
Co-sponsor	Vancouver Pride Society

The Chan Centre hosted a special show of GRACE in the Telus Theatre.  Joe Laughlin and Jaime Griffiths of Joe Ink were artists in residence this summer. creating the Move It! community workshop program.   100 of their closest friends were invited for a special showing of GRACE before they head off to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Grace is a multi-media show, or as the buzz word is: New Media.  Joe dances, Jaime uses video camers hooked up to computers that use "motion capture" programs that display the images on both a rear screen and a front scrim.  The result is amazingly beautiful.  Sometimes we just go to symphonies or music concerts just to hear the beauty in music, not for any particularly didactic storyline.  Grace is like that.  It is an exploration of beauty of movement, image and the interaction thereof.

Chan Centre director Dr. Sid Katz welcomed the audience by saying that he first saw Joe Ink performing in New York, then London - each time surprised that the performers were from his home town of Vancouver.  Finally it was time to get together and give the Chan Centre space over to these very creative visionaries.  The Telus Theatre is a black box space - with upper and lower balconies.  Floor seating can be configured in any possibility.

more later...

This is a reminder that VACT's new show has some fun nights planned. It's a great way to wind down a summer evening in Vancouver without mosquitos. The saga of Elizabeth, Jenna, Shari and Tess continues ...   more »

It was a busy weekend in Vernon. The Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival is an incredible gem. Expanded to three weeks, it wrapped up this past Saturday night. I saw their closing production of Pirates of Penzance and attended the cast party afterwards. All the festival participants were thrilled that a representative from Opera Canada magazine even came to Vernon to attend the final 3 shows and cast party.   more »

Kalamalka Lake is a bee-you-ti-ful site for the inaugural Vernon Dragon Boat Festival. I went barefoot in the sand for most of the day, and I was helping load and unload team from the beach. Every now and then I got to steer, drum or paddle for a team.

Saturday morning was beautiful sunshine - very appreciated after the rainstorm on Friday. I drove in Friday night, found the race organizers and volunteered my services - they are the Alberta Dragon Boat Race Foundation - an Alberta equivalent to Water's Edge or Foundation 2000. Turns out I will be meeting them in San Francisco for combined Men's and Women's teams... very cool!

Calgary's Dynasty boats were used. I met the developer Gary - He explained that compared to Gemini dragon boats - teams have more rooms per seat and it helps to maximize a team's reach and potential. The deeper gunwale is good for rough weather - as Saturday morning the wind blew up and the race organizers sent the teams out in white caps.

Kelowna and Penticton races have postponed races due to whitecaps. But give the teams credit for rising up to the challenge. Before the first race was called, the wicked wave action knocked one drummer into the water. And another team came in and exchanged their steers for the services of the race director himself. This first set of morning races were technically "Orientation Races." Timed races took place in the afternoon, and they set up the seeding for Sunday.

Pacific Reach was the only team up from Vancouver (I didn't have enough paddlers to run a Gung Haggis Fat Choy team - but one of our paddlers joined a local Vernon women's team, and she is thrilled with this race). Magic Dragons came from Calgary as a conglomerate of Calgary team.s Just Add Water was the top Kelowna team, Desert Spirit travelled the length of the Okanagan Valley from Osoyoos, and Extreme Current came from Kamloops.

Top teams were:
1. Pacific Reach (Vancouver)
2. Extreme Current (Kamloops)
3. Magic Dragons (Calgary)
4. 100% Juiced sponsored by Sun-Rype (Kelowna).

Top Women's teams were:
Extreme Curves (Kamloops)
Just Add Water (Kelowna)
followed by... I forget...

A cup was awarded to the overall best team - no surprise - Pacific Reach.

After the finals - there was a FUN race! All top fastest 4 times... and everybody was agreeing to stacking a team to beat Pacific Reach... PR said "Bring it on!" Ended up being Kamloop's Extreme Current with some paddlers from Magic Dragons + me as drummer.

A water skier was pulled up by the Pacific Reach dragon boat team. They pulled an adult female for about 250m, to the approving roar of the audience from the beach and dock. I will definitely be back for next year!

Here are photos from the Eric Neighbor Carving Quintet Tent at Sea Vancouver Festival - Maritime Point site. July 7-10, 2005   more »

Here's a message from Adrienne Wong, my favorite Asian Canadian actor, writer, director and producer.... also former dragon boat paddler and flag-grabber... and simply involved in so many things in Vancouver's theatre community. Enjoy....   more »

Early in January 2005, I did an interview for The Source, a bilingual newspaper in Vancouver. Nigel Barbour met me at Library Square and we chatted at Guttenberg's...   more »

Changing immigration and settlement patterns, intermarriage, the state of elders and voter participation, present many challenges for Greater Vancouver's Chinese Canadian population.   more »

We all had a lot of fun at the inaugural Fraser Valley Dragon Boat Festival - held at Harrison Lake. All the paddlers integrated very well. The Drunkn Dragon paddlers brought lots of humour and teasing to the boat. The CC Riders bring some centering, The GVRD 44 Cheeks paddler/steers brought his camera and love for the team. And our GHFC paddlers provide the structure and the foundation. And when combined - a heckuva lotta fun!   more »

The Harrison Festival of the Arts, has always sounded real cool. But I have never managed to find my way out to Harrison since 1989. This year there is a dragon boat race, the inaugural Fraser Valley Dragon Boat Festival put on in conjunction with the Festival of the Arts. Looks like I will finally get there.   more »

The Vancouver Folk Fest opens today with an always eclectic always multicultural program. Matt Chan and Paul Belan of No Luck Club will be doing some collaborative work as well as their own showcase on Sunday morning at 11:15 called "Welcome to the Funkateria" Check out the Folk Fest schedule. Catching my eye are:   more »

Joy Kogawa will be Mark Forsythe's guest on CBC Almanac's Open Line (690 AM) from 1 p.m. to 2 pm, this Friday, July 15. A few copies of Obasan will be given away to lucky listeners!   more »

Well... we almost did it... finish our dragon boat head and tail. Our beautifully conceived and designed contemporary and multicultural dragon boat head and tail is amongst the first contemporary designed heads and tails that we know of in the world. Our tail looks absolutely gorgeous. The red tail sinuously curves above the simulated curving water of the design. (picture to appear soon.) Curves are definitely sexy. And we worked more curves into the head too! Curves on the tongue, on the snout, along the back. SEE PICTURES!   more »

Lots of fun with the obstacle course. We had a great start going through the slalom... until I realized I had run out of buoys, and wondered what I was supposed to be doing.   more »

Robert Yip of Ottawa also sends this link to the CTV televsion newstory on Gim Wong in Ottawa at the Canadian War Museum with Jack Layton. PICTURES!   more »

Here's a message from my friend Robert Yip in Ottawa that he took of Gim Wong: Here are some photos I took in Orttawa at the June 30 media interviews at the Canadian War Museum. PICTURES!   more »

Sea Vancouver is a multi-venue festival.  We started off at 9am, from the Creekside site for the dragon boat regatta.  There were many booths on the blacktopped site North of the children's playground - but very few festival patrons.  Thank goodness for the dragon boat teams that made the site come alive.  We pitched tents and laid out blankets as 35 odd teams sit up a mini-tent city for the day.

A stage set up featured live musicians, lots of food and merchandise booths.  Dragon boat paddlers watched the races from the Creekside dock platforms overlooking the squatter boats.  3 races for each team.  A 100m, 250m, and a 500m race.  Unfortunately, the race grid always rotated high seed with low seed teams, so we never got to race many teams of the same calibre as ourselves.

Following the race's conclusion, we invited the dragon boat team to check out the Maritime Point site.  Paddler Dave Samis and I ate some donairs for lunch, then started working on carving the dragon boat head.  Our carving site was much busier than on either Thursday or Friday.  People come  up to the booth, seeing the sign "Gung  Haggis Fat Choy" and asking if we are serving haggis as a food dish.  "No," we reply, "It's a multicultural carving booth.  Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a concept of cross-cultural integration which recognizes BC's Scottish and Chinese ancestry.  We race dragon boats and host a Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner.

 
"Oh... I've heard of that before.
"I've seen the tv show."
"Do you have any haggis won ton here now?"
"When is your next dinner?"
"How can I join a dragon boat team?"

Well, I guess we are doing the right job.  People's concepts of multiculturalism are being pushed.  Responses are generally always very positive.  They like what we are doing.


 

Congratulations on your 1st 1000 metre race and 250m sprint + Obstacle Race prep...    more »

If you could create a "dream festival" for the city of Vancouver, what would you do?

Would you bring together some of the city's institutions such as the Vancouver Maritime Museum, it's most famous sites and locations such as Granville Island and Kitsilano Beach, set up some concerts at Plaza of Nations, beat in some dragon boat and kayak races, stir in some UBC Opera with Vancouver Opera musicians for the H.M.S. Pinafore, sprinkle with Vancouver historical figures and wrap it up with a multicultural taste.

There is great potential and learning pains for this new "signature festival" for the City of Vancouver.  Sea Vancouver is a large festival with a diverse and wonderful scope.  I am simply amazed at what is happening.  And I have only been on the Maritime Point site for Thursday and Friday, carving away at my little dragon boat head, as part of Eric Neighbor's Carving Quintet.  We have a tent facing the entrance to False Creek.  Eric Neighbor is carving a sea siren, and a contemporary dragon head that was fitted to a dragon boat in front of our tent today.  Michael Dangeli is carving a First Nations canoe prow piece based on a bear with a special head.  Mari is carving a Chinese phoenix, also well known in Japanese mythology.

If the question is: What is Vancouver? Then our little carving tent of 4 booths certainly represents Vancouver's cultural diversity, and it's relationship with the sea, and the earth.

Bob "Rabbie" Brinson and myself (Todd Wong) are carving contemporary dragon boat head and tail, based on our Scottish-Chinese-Canadian logo for our Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team.  I explain that we are carving a blending of the Loch Ness Monster and a Chinese Dragon, as we access the cultures of BC's "two solitudes" - the Scots and the Chinese.  Two cultures that both immigrated to BC and helped settle it in their own ways - seemingly at odds with each other, but intertwined throughout the building of the railway, the Janet Smith murder, and so many other things throughout BC history.  And now today inter-married into so many families.

We are on site from 11am to 7pm from July 7th Thursday to July 10th, Sunday.  Maritime Point is one of the locations where people line up to take a ferry to go visit "Tall Ship Island" where in the middle of English Bay are moored barges with historic sailing vessels tied up.  I saw the Sailing Parade take place on Thursday when the boats lined up in Burrard Inlet, came under the Lion's Gate Bridge and sailed out around Stanley Park.  Very cool.

At Maritime Point.  We are the visual arts display.  There are many people coming by watching what we are doing, asking questions about dragon boats, First Nations traditions, wood carving, etc.  Inevitably we get into conversations about what defines cultures.  Today, amongst ourselves, we talked about the use and definitions of First Nations words, after Bob and myself were listening to CBC Radio One.  While we thought that it was very positive, Mike Dangeli and his fiance, both First Nations,  argued the opposite.  Out of respect, I will not use the word in question - but there are many words from First Nations culture that have been integrated and misappropriated into Canadian English language.

Eric and Bob were interviewed this morning by both Global TV and CBC Radio.  They had to be on site by 6am - people came by the tent and said they heard them on radio, and it was a good interview.  Hopefully more people will be interested in what we are doing as carvers of wood, and expressing culture through artistic expression.

Walking around the Maritime Point site, there are the usual food stands... including Vera's Burgers, Hawaiian Shave-Ice, Donairs and kebobs, Fries and Mini-Doughnuts.  Here are the usual commercial displays for cars, Intuition lady razors, Chocolate bars, and the Starbucks frappucinos.  The most interesting displays are: the Global TV's "win up to $1000" booth, where people grab monopoly money blown around in an enclosed booth;  the RenFest booth - promoting pirates of the Renaissance period where you can have your picture taken in a stock hold thingy... pirates are roaming the site with foam swords, doing piratey things.  I confronted one "Asian" pirate who was talking in a "fake" Scottish-Pirate accent.  I accused him of Brigadoonery, and identified myself as Grand Chieftain of Clan Gung Haggis Fat Choy.  He asked me where was my kilt.... oops - forgot if today!

The best display are The Real Royal Engineers, people dressed up as 19th Century settlers and royal engineers, from the time of 1860, when BC was first being settled by Caucasians.  They demonstrate  how people lived, cooked, hunted, etc.  They are using our cedar wood chips to fire their wood ovens.  They sleep in tents for the entire 3 nights - through last night's rain.  They know the history of the time, and were very knowledgable answering my questions when I asked why they had Chinese china plates and boxes with Chinese lettering.  The sailors said they had just travelled from Canton city in Southern China.  They were very interested in my story about how my father's father, Wong Wah, came to Canada in 1888 to run a Chinese general store, and my grandmother's grandfather Rev. Chan Yu Tan arrived in 1896 to help the Chinese Methodist Church.

Walking around Maritime Point to Kitsilano Beach we discovered the stage for HMS Pinafore, put on by UBC Opera.  Since most of the musicians were from Vancouver Opera, we talked to our friend Mark Ferris,  VO concertmaster.  Mark immediately thanked us for inviting him and his partner to come up to paddle dragon boat races in Vernon in two weeks.  It was a nice little production - very enjoyable listening to Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera underneath trees with a wonderful sunset on English Bay in the background.  Because of the long day, we left at intermission, so I could get home and start doing preparation for our dragon boat races at Creekside Park / Science World in the morning.  Our first race in the Sea Vancouver dragon boat regatta is a 10:30am, but we will be meeting as a team at 9am.  Races include a 1000m, 250m and a 500m race.  Sunday we do an obstacle dragon boat race.

As a brand new event, there is much potential, and many challenges to make it better.  Some things work, and some things don't work - such as booth and site locations, mixing and matching performers and venues.  For instance, the beer garden at Maritime Point is a beautiful location with a wonderful view of the tall ships, English Bay and the entrance to False Creek - but it's practically empty!  Big name performers with a proper stage would be a wonderful draw.

But this is such a cool festival with a very "Vancouver vibe"!  There are theatrical troupes walking around pretending they are fisherpersons, synchronized swimmers, and even Vancouver historical figures such as lifeguard Joe Fortes and Vancouver socialite Janet McGillicuddy.  Very Vancouver!  Congratulations - you have a new signature festival!

Here's an interesting review of SeaVancouver Festival by Steve Burgess for The Tyee::
http://www.thetyee.ca/Entertainment/2005/07/09/SeaFest/

"What is Canadian Culture?" a friend asked me the other day.  "When I think of Japan," he said, "I think of pagodas, sushi, samauri... what do we have in Canada? Beavers?  That's not culture!" He stated.

In Canada, Culture is what you make it.  Culture evolves according to the people are are active creating it.  I have been called a cultural engineer because I actively create cultural events such as my signature event "Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner.

But culture lives and breathes and sometimes you have to change it's diapers.  Today I discussed culture with Michael Dangeli who is a First nations artist and performer.  We are sitting inside our "carving tent" with our wood carving projects, and discussing how through time, cultures get appropriated by individuals, absorbed into societies and emerge in new forms. 

We have been discussing the origins of dragon boat racing, since we have a dragon boat on display in front of our visual arts carving tent just behind the Vancouver Maritime Museum.  We are part of the Sea Vancouver Festival, as artists and presenters.  Dragon Boats originated in China, further developed in North America and the rest of the world, and now has entered a kind of sports metamorphosis.  Dragon Boats have also been appropriated by Breast Cancer dragon boat teams as a method of exercise and support groups.

I also told Michael about how "Chop Suey" and "Fortune Cookies" are not from China originally - but originated in North America to beome "Chinese traditions"... at least in North America.  It is an example of how cultural values and customs transform in a new land.  Witness how Scottish deep fried bread called Bannock travelled across Canada and became absorbed into First Nations cuisine.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a cultural fusion.  It is a blend of cultures.  It is a cultural evolution.  It is representative of the traditions and values that the immigrating cultures of Scotland and China brought with them.  And it is representative of how their descendents adapt to living in this new land, while trying to retain some sense of ethnic ancestral culture while living in a present day "Canadian culture".

Below is a description of Canada's Cultural Mosaic according to Frommer's

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/canada/0216020043.html

Canada's Cultural Mosaic -- Canada has sought "unity through diversity" as a national ideal, and its people are even more diverse than its scenery. In the eastern province of Québec live 6 million French Canadians, whose motto, Je me souviens ("I remember"), has kept them "more French than France" through 2 centuries of Anglo domination. They've transformed Canada into a bilingual country where everything official -- including parking tickets and airline passes -- comes in two tongues.

The English-speaking majority of the populace is a mosaic rather than a block. Two massive waves of immigration -- one before 1914, the other between 1945 and 1972 -- poured 6.5 million assorted Europeans and Americans into the country, providing muscles and skills, as well as a kaleidoscope of cultures. The 1990s saw another wave of immigration -- largely from Asia and particularly from Hong Kong -- that has transformed the economics and politics of British Columbia. Thus, Nova Scotia is as Scottish as haggis and kilts, Vancouver has the largest Chinese population outside Asia, the plains of Manitoba are sprinkled with the onion-shaped domes of Ukrainian churches, and Ontario offers Italian street markets and a theater festival featuring the works of Shakespeare at, yes, Stratford.

You can attend a native-Canadian tribal assembly, a Chinese New Year dragon parade, an Inuit spring celebration, a German Bierfest, a Highland gathering, or a Slavic folk dance. There are group settlements on the prairies where the working parlance is Danish, Czech, or Hungarian, and entire villages speak Icelandic.

Gim Wong arrived safely back in Vancouver airport this evening.
His family met him at the airport, and he was also met by good
friends.

I talked with Sid Tan this evening, who went to meet Gim.
Sid is also the representative for the CCNC (Chinese Canadian
National Council) that has helped to sponsor this 83-year old's
motocycle ride across Canada.

Sid reported that Gim looked good, if a little tired.  
By 9pm, Sid and friends were having a bite to eat after meeting 
Gim and family, who were then safely on their way home.

Below is Sid Tan's announcement detailing Gim Wong's expected 
flight arrival.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Yo Folks. Gim Foon Wong, 83-year old intrepid cross-country 
motocyclist, arrives on Air Canada 195 
at 8:05pm today, Wednesday July 6. 

We plan to have a press briefing in a few days 
and a welcome home dinner to thank Gim and his family. 

Gim left Victoria on June 3 and is flying back to
Vancouver from Montreal. 

His goal was to arrive in Ottawa on July 1 topublicize the 
growing Chinese head tax and exclusion redress movement.
He succeeded admirably in both. 

Arrival was to be very low key but I plan to go to airport 
to welcome him back. Gim is a true Canadian hero. Take
care.  anon    Sid   ph - 604-433-6169

We are getting ready for the Sea Vancouver Regatta on July 9 & 10. Our first race will be Saturday 10:30 - race #7. It is a 1000 metre long distance race with a turn at the 500 m. point.   more »

Today we set up the Gung Haggis Fat Choy banner at the tent displaying wood carving.  Our dragon boat head and tail, carved and designed by Bob Brinson and myself, will be featured along with a siren and dragon head by Eric Neighbor,  a phoenix by Mori, and a First Nations wooden prow figure by Michael Dangeli.

We have a great site, overlooking the entrance of False Creek and English Bay.  The beer garden is beside us, as is Vera's Burgers.  Construction Ink will also be doing a play using the small bay between Vanier Park and Heritage Harbour just North of the Maritime Museum.  This will be very cool, because the acting will take place in a little dingy on the water.  The actors are mic-ed and speakers line the little bay.

Over the next 4 days, Bob Brinson and I will be at the tent from 11am to 7pm - Thursday to Sunday.  We will finish carving our dragon boat head and tail, then paint it.  And we will be promoting our special brand of cross-cultural fusion between Scots and Chinese influences, creating something very multicultural... and something very Canadian.  Watch out for some surprises! 

Come down and see us at the tent.  Maybe we will even create a draw prize for our visitors!

Gim Wong successfully completed his cross Canada ride for redress in Montreal tonight at a fundraising dinner attended by over 100 people.

Various community leaders spoke to thank Gim for his heroic efforts and leadership in mobilizing the community to pressure the government for redress. A representative of the City of Montreal gave a solidarity message on behalf of the City. Over $3,000 were raised to help pay for Gim and his
son Jeff's expenses.

Prior to the dinner tonight, Gim visited James Wing, Montreal's youngest surviving Head Tax Payer at the hospital. They had a very good and long discussion (hour and a half). Walter will forward the photos of Gim and James as well as from the dinner later.

Yesterday, Monday, the reception and signing of the Montreal City hall Book of Honour was a success, as we got good media coverage from CFCF television and the Montreal Gazette. Also representatives from all the different
Chinese community associations in Montreal participated and the City of Montreal reiterated its support of the Redress campaign.

Much thanks to the main organizers, Walter Tom, Jack Lee, Timothy Chan and Kenneth Cheung. The unity of the various community organizations including the Quebec Chapter of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, the Chinese Canadian National Council, and the Chinese Canadian Redress Alliance was strengthened by Gim Wong's valiant efforts for Redress.

The organizers in Montreal purchased a plane ticket for Gim. He will be flying back to Vancouver tomorrow.

All of us involved in the Redress Movement in Montreal owe a great debt of thanks to Gim and his son Jeff for sucessfully and safely competing their ride for redress. Gim is an inspiration for all of us.

William Dere
for the organizing committee in Montreal

click here for more stories on this website about Gim Wong and Chinese head tax redress go to:
http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/
ChineseHeadTaxissuesGimWongsRideforRedress

Dances for a Small Stage X

July 4 + 5, 2005

Mike Dangeli is a very cool guy.
It has been a privilege to work in his studio "House of Culture" while Bob "Rabbie" Brinson and I are carving our "Scottish-Chinese-Canadian" Dragon Boat head for the Sea Vancouver Festival.

Click here to see pictures of our Dragon Boat head carving

Check out Mike's works of art, and if you call him up, say "Toddish McWong sent me!"

New work by Mike Dangeli

Check out my photos dangeli_northwind has invited you to view a photo album on Yahoo! Photos Hey there, Another month has gone by and I have produced some more work for the world (and myself) to enjoy. I am in the beginning stages of planning a special Feast and will be having many works dedicated strictly to that so I am eager to share those when they come to life...until then...Mike View New work by Mike Dangeli