GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY EVENTS

Upcoming Gung Haggis Fat Choy events:

January 17, 2005
Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night
Vancouver Public Library - Main Branch

January 28, 2005
SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Highland Games
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby

January 30, 2005 (6 pm)
Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner
Floata Restaurant - 180 Keefer Street, Chinatown - Vancouver

Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner blends together
Scottish-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian cultural traditions, as well
as creating some new ones. This "little" fundraiser dinner for Asian
Canadian Writers' Workshop and the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat
team once started out as a dinner for 16, and now 700 are expected
for dinner on January 30, 2005. Special co-host for 2005 will be
Shelagh Rogers, host of CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada. Joining
them as co-host will be Tom Chin of Vancouver Asian Canadian
Theatre. Performers for the event include bagpiper Joe McDonald
and his band Brave Waves and contemporary hip-hop songstress LaLa.
Also joining them are opera soprano Heather Pawsey; Governor
General's Award-winning poet Fred Wah; Scottish Highland dancing
brothers Vincent and Cameron Collins and many more special guests
such as Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell.

Tickets for Gung Haggis Fat Choy are now on sale at Firehall Arts
Centre Box Office: (604) 689-0926. The earlybird price is $50 regular,
$45 for students, $35 for children 12 and under.

After January 10, the regular price is $60 and $55 for students,
$45 for children 12 and under.

For more information, check out http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com or
contact Todd Wong at:
Phone: (604) 987-7124
E-mail: gunghaggis@yahoo.ca