It's Chinese New Year week….
here are some FUN events this week…. after recovery from Gung Haggis Fat Choy Chinese Robbie Burns Dinner recovery….
Tuesday February 5, 2008 – 6:00 PM
CITY COOKS with Simi Sara
Channel 13 in Metro Vancouver
Our cooking dragon boat chef Dan Seto (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C.)
- Lotus Root Soup
- Steamed Pork with Salt Fish
- Green Beans with Fooyi Bean Cake
Check out
TUESDAY to Saturday FEB 5 – 9th
BANANA BOYS
Firehall Theatre
The fun play by Leon Aureas, based on the Terry Woo novel
Back from a hit run last year… manic comedy and Asian identity… or Asian confusion.
THURSDAY Feb 7
CHINESE NEW YEAR DAY
– Kilts Night at Doolin's Irish Pub
FREE pint of Guinness if you wear a kilt.
8:00pm – Raphael to greet you.
Hockey game starts a 7:00 pm – expect music by Halifax Wharf Rats to begin afterwards around 9:30
FRIDAY Feb 7 – 16
THE QUICKIE
– Playwrights theatre centre on Granville Island
– this is the play excerpted at Gung Haggis dinner
– this is by the same group that did Twisting Fortunes last year
purchase tickets online via PayPal at www.scriptingaloud.ca/quickie.
are selling fast, especially for the Friday, February 8 show. Don't
miss it. Last year, seats sold out 36 hours in advance.
Friday and Saturday Feb 9 & 10
OOZOOMAY! UZUME TAIKO
with special guest Ben Rogalsky
Japanese Taiko drums with a multi-instrumentalist who plays accordion along with mandolin, tenor banjo and Javanese gamelan – how can Gung Haggis not resist???
Norman Rothstein Theatre
950 West 41st Ave.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10,
CHINATOWN
NEW YEAR PARADE
12 noon
Place: Parade starts from the Millennium Gate (Pender
and Taylor St.), winds through Pender, Gore and Keefer.
Remember to bring your camera along with family and friends!
Visit www.cbavancouver.ca
for more info.
Poster
Flyer front
/ back
Sunday February 10
CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT
Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden Courtyard
(part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad)
10:30 -11:30
1:30 – 3:30
+ Uzume Taiko
+ Loretta Leung Dancers
+ many many more!!!
download the program: click here
http://www.silkroadmusic.ca/sitefiles/olympiad.htm
DEAD SERIOUS
at CHAPEL ARTS
(CANCELLED due to illness)
2:30pm
featuring soprano Heather Pawsey and pianist Rachel Iwassa
but see them:
Friday, February 15 concert of DEAD Serious
7:30 p.m. at Vancouver Memorial Services and Crematorium / Hamilton-Harron Funeral
Home, 5390 Fraser Street) will TAKE PLACE AS SCHEDULED.
If you would like to make reservations,
please call 604-325-7441.