"Joy Kogawa" travels from Royal BC Museum in Victoria to attend Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese Dinner in Vancouver
Sun, 2009-02-01 11:29 — Todd Wong
Emily Carr, Toddish McWong, James Cleland Richardson, Joy Kogawa, John Foster McCreight (BC's first Premier), King Freezy (Songhees Chief), Emery Barnes... courtesy of the Royal BC Museum. The picture in front, of Robbie Burns' house, 
Joy Kogawa with co-hosts Toddish McWong, CBC "Vancouver at Six" news anchor Gloria Macarenko, and Metro News columnist Catherine Barr
Joy Kogawa with Musqueam elder, Larry Grant
Bill Turner, executive director of The Land Conservancy of BC, with Emery Barnes and Todd Wong
Joy Kogawa with the "Piping of the Haggis" with the debut of the "Gung Haggis Fat Choy Pipes & Drums"
Joy Kogawa with the reading of Burns' poem "A Man's A Man For A' That" with Parks commisioner Stuart Mackinnon, Todd Wong, City Councilors Ellen Woodsworth and Suzanne Anton, co-host Gloria Macarenko, Parks Commissioner Constance Barnes and Councilor Kerry Jang.
Joy Kogawa during the live auction of the special edition bottle of Famous Grouse 37 year old blended whisky - one of 250 bottles produced for auction at Burns dinners around the world. Craig Johnstone holding the bottle valued at $750 CDN, Gloria Macarenko and Catherine Barr. The bottle went was HOTLY contested and went for $750.
The Annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner in Vancouver is a fundraiser for 3 extraordinary organizations: The Historic Joy Kogawa House, Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop and the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team.
The 2009 dinner was held Sunday January 25th, at the Floata Restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown. We celebrated the actual date of Robbie Burns' 250th Anniversary birthday, on the same day as Chinese New Year's Eve, welcoming the Year of the Ox.
Here's more pictures of Joy at the Gung Haggis dinner!
Joy Kogawa with Musqueam elder, Larry Grant
Joy Kogawa with the "Piping of the Haggis" with the debut of the "Gung Haggis Fat Choy Pipes & Drums"Joy Kogawa with Silk Road music doing a Chinese dance with Qiu Xia He, Andre Thibault on Guitar, Adrienne Wong, Gloria Macarenko, Gloria's Brazillian friend.
So Joy.... was there in GREAT SPIRIT!!!