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Member of Provincial Parliament for Mississauga Expresses Gratitude to Shen Yun

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Member of Provincial Parliament for Mississauga Expresses Gratitude to Shen Yun
Ontario member of the provincial parliament for Mississauga-Malton Deepak Anand and his wife, Aruna, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Mar. 24, 2024. NTD
MISSISSAUGA, Canada—Deepak Anand, member of the provincial parliament for Mississauga-Malton, enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Living Arts Centre on March 24. Mr. Anand thanked Shen Yun for performing in Mississauga once again and expressed his appreciation for what Shen Yun’s performance means for the local community.
“I just want to say thank you to Shen Yun for coming again, coming back, coming many times when we want to talk about the divinity, when we talk about bringing people together,” said Mr. Anand.

“This is a great way. Many times we cannot travel the world, but when the world comes to us, we are able to connect with the world. It’s a lot of effort, a lot of energy, a lot of hard work. And I would say thank you to the organizers, thank you to the participants, thank you to the volunteers for bringing the world to us. Thank you so much.”

New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has been the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company since its inception in 2006. Its performers come from all around the world, united in their mission to revive traditional Chinese culture and the beauty and goodness of China before communism.

Shen Yun currently has eight equally sized companies that tour the world simultaneously, delighting audiences in over 200 cities across more than 20 countries and spanning five continents.

According to Shen Yun’s website, Chinese culture is founded on the spiritual teachings of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and Shen Yun’s performance presents the close connection to the divine that the ancient Chinese had.

As a Hindu, Mr. Anand shared what spirituality meant to him.

“When we talk about the religion, we talk about the belief. We believe that the religion gives us a direction, takes us on the right path. Yes, there are distractions. Yes, sometimes people get distracted in their self-interest, but that does not mean religion, faith, belief is wrong. What it means is we need to continue to work to bring everyone together on the path of divinity, of spiritualism and faith.”

Mr. Anand also talked about the importance of the values presented in the story-based dances included in Shen Yun’s program.

“When we went to the school, and we talk about the morality, ...  bringing everything together, [Shen Yun’s] message through the visual, through the storyline, I think this goes back to what we learned in childhood, and I think as a human being we need to be continuously getting trained on morality. So that’s something which I would say was great to see.”

Mr. Anand highly recommended Shen Yun to the people in Ontario and encouraged them to go see the performance.
“We need to appreciate the hard work, effort, and energy, and the only way we can do [it] is if we come here,” he said.
“When you come here, when you applaud the people, you see them, that gives them more energy to perform better—when the artists, performers see the people smiling, hear the claps, that gives them more courage to do more and come back and do and deliver best. So I would say if you haven’t seen it, please come and see it.”
Reporting by NTD and Wandi Zhu.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.

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