WHAT: The Burns Club of Vancouver's Twenty-first Annual Burns Banquet
WHERE: The Vancouver Club, 915 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
WHEN: January 25th, 2008.
TIME: Dinner 6.45 P.M.
TICKETS: $100.00. Tickets required in advance.
CONTACT: Phone 604 986-8526 to reserve
OTHER: Gentlemen only, Black Tie or Highland Dress.
What: 10th Anniversary
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns
WHEN: Sunday, January 27th, 2008
TIME: 5:30 P.M. reception and appetizers; 6:00 P.M. dinner
WHERE: Floata Restaurant #400 – 180 Keefer Street, Vancouver Chinatown
TICKETS: Adult: $64.50; Students: $54.00; Children (13 and under): $43.50
CONTACT: Tickets available at Tickets Tonight. Call Gung Haggis Fat Choy Productions at 604-987-7124 by January 20 to reserve a table for 10.
FEATURING: Celtic Band Blackthorn, Vancouver poet Laureate George McWhirter, bagpiper Joeseph McDonald and Brave Waves + many special and surprise guest performers!
OTHER:
A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture featuring a 10 course Chinese banquet dinner including deep-fried haggis won ton, and accompanied by music and poetry performances embracing and defying Canada's unique Scottish-Chinese heritage.
10 years, 12 dinners, 3000 people, Vancouver, Seattle + TV special
Who would have thought that 16 people in 1998 in a crowded living room started a tradition that now serves 500 people at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America, and has spun off a CBC television performance special, and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival.
Creator Todd Wong has been interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland, local and national media. In 2007, with bagpiper Joe McDonald and hip hop master Trevor Chan, they created Gung Haggis RAP Choy, a rapper's reading of Robbie Burns' immortal "Address to a Haggis."
Today Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a fundraiser event for Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, and Historic Joy Kogawa House Society. Gung Haggis Dragon Boat team, – helping to create positive examples of inter-culturalism in our community!
Ever had Haggis Dim Sum appetizers?
This is the event that put deep-fried haggis won-ton on the map, and created a haggis dim sum appetizer buffet in 2007. Imagine haggis-stuffed shrimp dumplings and haggis spring rolls.
Sing along to "Scotland the Brave," and Burns' perennial favorite, "Auld Lang Syne;" and the culturally fused "My Chow Mein Lies Over the Ocean," and "When Asian Eyes Are Smiling," plus many more surprises!
Gung Haggis Fat Choy does more than mix East and West. It blends them together and turns them upside down and sideways. It highlights Canada's Scottish and Chinese heritage and pioneers. It breaks down barriers and is an impressive forum for the emerging intercultural Canada where everybody can claim and celebrate Chinese and Scottish culture and everything in-between.
January 25th, 2008. SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games at the SFU Convocation Mall, Burnaby Campus – Look for Dragon Cart racing, Haggis eating contest + human curling event.
January 28th, 2008. Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night Vancouver Public Library – featuring bagpipes, Swedish-Chinese-Scottish-Irish-Canadian poet Fred Wah + Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter + singalongs.
Greetings, a wrap-up for those captured by the conviviality, warmth and fellowship of a Burns Dinner. Lang may yer lum reek! Regards, the other Ron
Two new postings and some reminders.1.
WHAT: Maple Ridge Pipe Band's 41st Burns Dinner
WHERE: Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson (at 73rd), Vancouver, B.C.
WHEN: Saturday, February 9th, 2008
TIME: 6 P.M. for cocktails; dinner at 7:00 P.M.
TICKETS: $45.00 each
CONTACT: Angus Macpherson at 604-939-9614
2.
WHAT: Vancouver Scottish Dance Society Burns Dinner
WHERE: Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson Street
WHEN: Saturday, January 19, 2008
TIME: 6 P.M. for cocktails; dinner 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $50.00 each
OTHER: traditional salute to the Bard, followed by dance performances and dancing for all
CONTACT: Fran at 778-285-1242
3.
WHAT: Greighlan Crossing & the White Spot Pipe Bands Burns Dinner.
WHERE: North Delta Recreation Centre, 11415 – 84th Avenue, Delta.
WHEN: Saturday, January 19th, 2008.
TIME: Cocktails at 6 P.M.; dinner at 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $45.00 each, or, $320.00 for a table of 8.
OTHER: Roast beef, haggis, neeps & tatties. Wine, beer & whisky bar.
Festivities include: Traditional Ode to the Haggis; performances by the Pipe Bands & the White Spot P. B. Highland Dancers; solo piping;
Silent Auction; Whisky Tasting
CONTACT: Sheena at 604-803-5146
4.
WHAT: Clan MacLeod Society Burns Luncheon
WHERE: Richmond Curling Club, 5540 Hollybridge Way, Richmond, B.C.
WHEN: Sunday, January 20th, 2008
TIME: Reception 11:30 A.M.; Luncheon 12:15 P.M.
TICKETS: Adults $25.00; ages 5-12 $15.00; wee ones free
OTHER: Traditional celebration of the Bard.
CONTACT: Bill McLeod at 604-23-0451; email wmcleod@shaw.ca
5.
WHAT: Simon Fraser University Pipe Band Burns Dinner
WHERE: Executive Plaza Hotel, Coquitlam, B.C.
WHEN: Friday, January 25th, 2008
TIME: 6 P.M. cocktails; 7 P.M. dinner
TICKETS: $70.00 Canadian
OTHER: Traditional salute to the Bard; Band performances;
Silent Auction;
CONTACT: For tickets contact Dorothy McLean at 604-463-3421, or, website http:// www.sfupipeband.com/
6.
WHAT: Vancouver Police Pipe Band Burns Dinner
WHERE: Engineers Hall, 4333 Ledger Avenue, Burnaby, B.C.
WHEN: Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
TIME: Cocktails 6:00 P.M.; dinner 7:30 P.M.
COST: $50.00 per person
OTHER: Traditional salute to the Bard; roast beef, bashed neeps and tatties.
Music by the Pipe Band; Tartan Pride Highland Dancers; dance music by "Skystone"; a bar featuring single malt Scotch plus other goodies.
CONTACT: 604-464-8103 or Ed Wagstaff at jeedwag@yahoo.ca
