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Sea Vancouver dragon boat regatta review: Gung Haggis dragon boat team

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for articles on the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team:see http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/29/1847817.html

Hi everybody,

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.

First instructions said, go to the right of the first buoy… I went to the right of the buoy marked “1”
(Oh… they meant go past the the yellow buoy, and go to the right of the orange buoy with the little boat taped to it.”

Instructions said “Go around the squatter boats.”
So… I headed around the squatter boats…
I didn't realize I had already done that with the little boats taped to the buoys in the slalom course – duh!”

Our final race time was 6:3? most teams were finishing in 4:?? or
5″??  Obviously the later teams would do better after watching the
first teams.  We were the 3rd team out there, and so we did not
have much of a chance to see what the other teams were doing, or to
plan for it. Winner of the $3000 draw prize was Team Momentuum – an all
women's recreational team – which proved that everybody had a chance to
win.

Anyways…. sorry for making you all paddle so much.
We had fun, Great spirit on the team, very welcoming to the paddlers
from CBC, Hydro Dragons + Coro from Abreast in a Boat.  These
paddlers were very appreciative of being welcomed in and felt
comfortable to do more races with us – such as possibly Harrison and
Vernon.  Wonderful expression of Gung Haggis warmth and spirit!

Great jobs to the three sets of lead paddlers, Everybody did a fine
job… Deb gave us great humour and confidence.  Steering was good
(other than the slalom course).  Picking up the plastic animal –
that was funny!  We did a good job!

Our time for the 1000 m. was 6:57.  Lots of teams finished 5:??
one team did 7:00+ Team Sauder with more paddlers than us.  We did
very well with 16 paddlers.

Not sure of the times for the 250m or 500m races.  Again – very
decent for 17 paddlers.  We used the regatta to have fun and
change up lead strokes for each race.  People responded to the
challenges.  Everybody is learning to paddle “outside the box.”

I'd do it again – that was fun!
But I would still complain that the Saturday regatta format is not kind
to novice or low-level recreation teams like us – who constantly must
lose for the benefit of the Comp and Hi-Rec teams.

We race next week for medals at Harrion Lake in the inaugural Fraser Vally Dragon Boat Festival.

Cheers, Todd

RESULTS

Saturday
500 Metre Final – 6-16 Boats – Winner gets 2006 Alcan Entry
1. 1:58.720 FCRCC Mixed
2. 2:00.350 Pacific Reach
3. 2:10.180 Specialty Subaru WRX
4. 2:11.750 TD Lightning

DragonZone practice prize goes to Vancity Thunder.

Sunday
Obstacle Course 6-16
Pacific Reach had overall fastest time at 4:03.xxx.

Team Momentum was winner of $3000 prize.

for articles on the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team:see http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/29/1847817.html

Gim Wong: July 1st CTV television story on “Ride for Redress”

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Robert Yip of Ottawa also sends this link to the CTV televsion newstory on Gim Wong:

Todd, a link to the CTV story with some pictures of
Gim Wong in Ottawa at the Canadian War Museum with Jack Layton.

Includes a quote from The Min of Justice  that
“The matter is right now before Cabinet……”

Robert

click here for more stories on this website about Gim Wong and Chinese head tax redress go to:


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Wong began his 'Ride for Redress' at Victoria B.C.'s Beacon Hill Park on June 3, and has been heading east ever since.

Wong began his 'Ride for Redress' at Victoria B.C.'s Beacon Hill Park on June 3, and has been heading east ever since.

Wong not only wants the government to compensate the few surviving Chinese-Canadians who paid the tax, but also issue a formal apology.

Wong
not only wants the government to compensate the few surviving
Chinese-Canadians who paid the tax, but also issue a formal apology.

NDP Leader Jack Layton says 'Many lost their lives building the railroad.'

NDP Leader Jack Layton says 'Many lost their lives building the railroad.'

Veteran rides across Canada in head tax protest

CTV.ca News Staff

Gim Wong may be old, but he hasn't lost his fighting spirit.

The 83-year-old is making a cross-Canada trip to convince lawmakers
to redress the Chinese Head Tax that cost more than 80,000 immigrants
from China approximately $23 million between 1885 and 1923.

Factoring in inflation, that would be equivalent to more than $1 billion today.

Like many of Canada's first Chinese immigrants, Wong's parents were
each forced to pay a $500 head tax when they arrived in 1906 and 1919
to their new home — a huge amount of money at the time.

Now, Wong not only wants the government to compensate the few
surviving Chinese-Canadians who paid the tax, but also issue a formal
apology.

The levy was originally imposed to discourage immigration from
China, in the years after Canada had relied on cheap, reliable Chinese
labour to build the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the late 1800s.

The Chinese workers were paid less than other labourers, however, and often made to do the most dangerous jobs.

When the railway was completed in 1885, prevailing anti-Chinese racism led to the imposition of a so-called head tax.

The tax started at $50, and climbed to $100 in 1900. By 1913, the
fee was $500. Then, on July 1, 1923, Ottawa effectively banned Chinese
with its Chinese Immigration Act.

Unless prospective immigrants from China were diplomats, tourists,
merchants, scientists or students, they were not welcome in Canada.

Commonly referred to as the “Chinese Exclusion Act” because of its
ban on almost all persons of Chinese descent, it was only repealed in
1947.

Wong and his son Jeffrey began their “Ride for Redress” at Victoria
B.C.'s Beacon Hill Park on June 3, and have been heading east ever
since.

A veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Second World War,
Wong plans to ride his motorcycle into Ottawa wearing the uniform he
wore when he fought for Canada.

When he gets there, he hopes to put the issue directly to Prime Minister Paul Martin.

“If I see Paul Martin, I'll say to him, 'get off your
foot-dragging,' ” Wong said at a press conference in Toronto on
Wednesday. “He can issue a formal apology. And don't tell me that will
cost money.”

NDP Leader Jack Layton wants to see Wong succeed.

“Many (Chinese immigrants) lost their lives building the railroad,” Layton told CTV's Rosemary Thompson.

“And (Wong) is a veteran, (he's) fought for this country, and yet we
still have a government unwilling to say any words of apology.”

Yew Lee, of the Canadian Council of Chinese Canadians, is also angry an apology has never been given.

“I think Mr. Martin should stop listening to his lawyers and bean counters and start listening to his heart,” Lee told Thompson.

“Because I sense he knows what the right thing to do is.”

There is a chance the government is listening to people like Wong,
as Justice Minister Irwin Cotler acknowledged an apology could be on
the way.

“The matter is right now before cabinet,” Irwin Cotler told Thompson. “It's being considered.”

Calls for compensation aren't unprecedented, and have, in fact, even be answered.

In February 2002, New Zealand became the first Commonwealth nation
to issue a formal apology and issue compensation for its own head tax
on Chinese immigrants.

In Canada, the federal government apologized in 1988 to Japanese Canadians who were detained during the Second World War.

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Gim Wong photos from Ottawa – from Robert Yip

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Here's a message from my friend Robert Yip in Ottawa that he took of Gim Wong:

Hi Todd, thanks for setting up the website. Here are some photos I took
in Orttawa at the June 30 media interviews at the Canadian War
Museum. Going in 3 separate e-mails. 

Robert


Gim Wong stands with federal NDP leader Jack Layton holding an
enlargement of the head tax certificate in front of the Canadian War
Museum.  Gim Wong, a WW2 veteran wears the uniform that he served
for Canada in. photo courtesy of Robert Yip.

Gim Wong, with son Jefferey and NDP federal leader Jack Layton, address the media in front of the Canadian War Museum.  photo courtesy of Robert Yip.

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Sea Vancouver Festival: Saturday Review from Creekside to Maritime Point

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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.

 

Sea Vancouver Regatta – Team Review and Congrats for Gung Haggis dragon boat team

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Hello Everybody

Congratulations on your 1st 1000 metre race.

Yes... we did have fun... that was the main thing.
Sorry we did not have a full boat - that would have
been funner.

But we could do a practice with 16 people, or we could
do a race with 16 people.  We did the race.  Oh - but
it was 1000 m!  But we did not come last!  our time
was 6:57 with 16 paddlers.  Another team came in over
7:00.

Our 250m race had a good start - we were neck and neck
with the other low-seed team, as well for our 500m
race we had a great start and were neck and neck with
the other boat there too!

Okay important stuff!

Sunday Obstacle Race

Meet: 9am
Do warm-ups - have some team building exercises...
introduce new people to the One Finger Lift, as our
tradition is only to do it for Sundays...
Race time is 10"15 which means martialling at 9:45.

We will plant spies to watch the first boat do the
obstacle race.

After the race, I invite everybody to come to Maritime
Point for veiwing the Dragon head and tail carvings
that Bob and I are doing.  Deb and Dave have helped
out so far.

Oh... 7 paddlers from the CBC crew joining us for Sunday.
Full boat.  I will be steering.





Sea Vancouver Festival review: a “dream wish” event for the city – Very Cool!

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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? Todd's definition + Frommer's Guide

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“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 has now arrived safely back in Vancouver

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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

Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team readies for Sea Vancouver Regatta

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Good Practice on the water tonight for our Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team.

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.

Our second race will be a 250m sprint.  The third race will be a
500m final.  We practiced rate changes, 180 degree turns, starts
and learning each others names.  The latter is important because
we have welcomed 6 paddlers from other teams, and we had 3 first time
paddlers, and 2 second time paddlers on the boat tonight. 

Everybody had lots of fun and has remarked how welcome they have felt
coming out to practices.  “We practice inclusivity,” I have told
them.  “Everybody who comes out is important and brings something
special to the team.  We had some mini race pieces with other
teams on the water.  Very friendly!  Lots of greetings and
teasing each other.

After Sea Vancouver… our next races will be the Fraser Valley DBF @
Harrison Lake on July 16th, followed by the inaugural Vernon DBF on
July 23/24.

for articles on the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team:see http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/29/1847817.html

Dragon Boat Wood Carvings at Sea Vancouver

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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!