United Kingdom: Practitioners Participate in the Birmingham Art Festival (Photos)
By a UK practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 15 and 16, 2007, practitioners took part
in the UK's biggest free arts festival. This was the sixth year that
practitioners have been invited to join. Many watch a demonstration of the exercises People surround the Falun Gong booth Practitioners' procession in closing ceremony of the art
festival During the festival, practitioners' stall was located in the centre of
Birmingham. As festival-goers gathered around, practitioners distributed
leaflets to them and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises. Practitioners felt
people's concern and in terms of Chinese people's attitude towards the leaflets,
there was a significant difference to last year. Most people were happy to
receive leaflets; many people sent their blessings for the peaceful appeal which
Falun Gong practitioners are carrying out against the persecution. Many Chinese
people stopped in front of our stall, watching practitioners' exercises
demonstration and carefully listening to practitioners' explanations before
taking a copy of the Epoch Times editorial, the Nine Commentaries back
home with them. One practitioner saw four young Chinese students in front of the
stall and then gave them an information VCD and a Chinese Nine Commentaries,
and they all strived to be the first to get a copy. There was a music stage not far away and the sound from the loudspeakers was
deafening. Some of the spectators said with surprise when they saw practitioners
doing the exercises, "The rock music is so noisy, how can they be so
tranquil?" The peaceful and tranquil exercises attracted passers-by and
people watched practitioners doing the exercises with interest for quite a
while. Many people asked about the exercise practice site and expressed their
wishes to learn. A guy from our neighboring stall watched practitioners doing
the exercises for a long time on the first day. The next day, when practitioners
were doing the exercises, he learned the exercises along with them. As well as manning a stall, practitioners also joined the stage performances,
performing a couple of traditional-style dances. Falun Gong practitioners in
Chinese traditional dress also demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises on the
stage. During the day, when the festival concluded, the Falun Gong group also
took part in the closing parade activity.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/9/20/163051.html
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