United Kingdom: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate Falun Gong Exercises at Birmingham Art Festival (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 11 and 12, 2004, England's biggest free
arts festival was held in the city of Birmingham. Over three hundred arts groups
from England came to the performance. Falun Gong practitioners were invited for
the third consecutive year to take part in the festival and this year they were
the first to perform. Practitioners from Birmingham and other cities were involved in this
activity. On September 11, on the open-air stage, practitioners gave a
traditional Chinese waist-drum performance and fan dance, and demonstrated the
five sets of Falun Gong exercises. The performance received applause from the
audience and in just under thirty minutes the presenter introduced Falun Gong
and its spread around the world. The arena was filled with the Falun Gong music
of Pu Du and Ji Shi. On September 12, the performance was in the Birmingham
Hippodrome Theatre and practitioners added another dance to the performance. During the two-day activity, the organizers of the event also provided stalls
for the art groups. There were always lots of people around the Falun Gong
stall. Some practitioners distributed leaflets and collected signatures for a
petition calling for Chinese dictator and instigator of the persecution against
Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin, to be brought to justice for his crimes. Some
practitioners demonstrated the exercises in front of the stalls. Lots of people
signed the petition and over six thousand leaflets were distributed before the
activity was ended. Lots of Chinese tourists and students received VCDs and over
fifty people asked for information about the local practice site where they
could learn the exercises.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/14/84126.html
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