BLOGGERS RULE at the Vancouver Opera... Live Blogging for Rigoletto! Opera is one of the most intercultural art forms.  It forces its audience to listen to foreign languages, as it tells stories from different cultures.  Okay, it also presents a lot of stereotypes and racial chariactures t...

Dance Review: Cock-Pit Why men should watch men dance special contribution by Devon Cooke Wen-Wei DanceScotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street, Vancouver)Feb. 24-28, 2009 I spent a fine Friday evening last week watching Cock-Pit, a suitably suggestive and ambiguous title for Wen Wei Wang's equally...

What is typical Vancouver music for the Cultural Olympiad?  I think it is the cultural fusion music of Andre Thibault and Qiu Xia He''s Silk Road Music! For Chinese New Year, Qiu Xia He and Andre Thibault organized a truly multicultural show, featuring many ethnic performers and musical styles ...

Yellow Fellas... Western Canadian premiere at Vancouver Asian Film Festival If you don't know the name Tetsuro Shigamatsu... maybe you've heard his voice.  Tetsuro was the host of the CBC radio show "The Round Up" after the departure of Bill Richardson. I first met Tetsuro many moons ago, when ...

What would happen if a well-known Neil Simon play "The Odd Couple" was played with an almost all-Asian cast? I've always wondered if West Side Story could be set in Vancouver East Side, but instead of Italians and Puerto Ricans... what would happen if the gangs were Italians and Chinese?  East ...

There are good Asian drivers and bad Asian drivers.... just like good and bad non-Asian drivers. Vancouver is known for its large Asian population, and Richmond even has more Asians, and lots of "Rice Rocket" drag racing.  But what happens when you mix social commentary with busting stereotypes...

My friend Barbara Waldern is in Korea, teaching English.  Each month she sends a letter back to friends - which I publish on www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com Dear friends, May Day greetings. May 1st is a bigger event here than in Canada. Fireworks were displayed at the city stadium. Public and other w...

TONIGHT Joy Kogawa is reading her new book "Naomi's Tree" at Vancouver Kidsbooks Date:  Thursday April 10th, 2008 Time:  7:00pm Kidsbooks: Author and Illustrator Events Place: Vancouver Kidsbooks - 3083 West Broadway, Vancouver ... Please Note: Tickets are fully redeemable toward Joy Kogaw...

Gung Haggis Fat Choy puts a dragon (not a snake) in the 5th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon team: Joy, Deb, Hillary, Richard and Michael - photo Julie The 15 foot long Chinese dragon undulated up and down in the air above the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Vancouver’s G...

Theatre review: Banana Boys jabs and pokes fun at Asian-Canadian inferiority complex...  Banana Boys Firehall Arts Centre directed by Donna Spenceruntil February 9th. Bananas are everywhere in Canada.  They are the Canadianized Asians that are yellow on the outside and white on the inside....