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Shen Yun ‘Really Something Special,’ Says Mississauga Councillor

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Shen Yun ‘Really Something Special,’ Says Mississauga Councillor
Mississauga Councillor Brad Butt enjoyed Shen Yun at the Living Arts Centre on March 26, 2023. NTD

MISSISSAUGA, Canada—Brad Butt, councillor of the City of Mississauga, has been active in the Mississauga community for three decades, volunteering and holding various government positions, and has seen Shen Yun Performing Arts in Mississauga three times.

“We are so pleased that you’ve brought this production to Mississauga, giving us an opportunity to watch it. The work that’s been put into it must be enormous at the end of the day, and we’re just very grateful to have this opportunity to be able to watch this performance live here in Mississauga,” Mr. Butt said at the Living Arts Centre after seeing Shen Yun’s March 26 matinee.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company and has a mission to show, through the arts, China before communism.
For many in the audience, this was a reminder that China today, under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, denies its people freedom of belief and expression. Notably, Shen Yun cannot be seen in China.
“I’m fourth-generation Canadian, so I’ve only seen things from a Canadian perspective, but one of the things I was able to learn a lot when I served as a federal member of Parliament is all these things happening all over the world in different parts of the world and different issues and concerns and levels of persecution and threat to people,” said Mr. Butt.
“So I think it’s important that Canada continues to be a country that stands up and supports people of all faiths all over the world, and if we can learn more about those challenges through song and through dance and through entertainment I think that educates all of us much better and broader as we move forward.”
For Mr. Butt, the performance encompassed “a lot of compassion, a lot of care and happiness, and at the same time also dealing with some of the struggles and some of the unfortunate incidents and misery over the history of China, and that’s important storytelling, that’s important stuff to talk about, and so I’m pleased that we’re given this wonderful opportunity through dance and through song to experience that for those of us that don’t have any history with China.”

“This has been fantastic; I mean, the dancing and the singing and the entertainment has been just great,” he said. “And the other great thing is to be learning the history, such rich, long Chinese history, and to learn that through dance and performance is really something special.”

Also in the audience was economist Dorota Plichta, who is originally from Poland and said she understood what communism and socialism could do to a country.

“The beauty of the show is that you can revive the history here,” she said, “I’m so proud of that performance, that you show the people which completely here was always peace, freedom, the most important thing in our life.”

“It’s powerful,” she said, adding that the power of the show came from the history of it.

“It’s amazing, it’s colorful, it’s powerful,” she said. “Powerful, [in] that it brings you some positive things.”

Reporting by NTD nad Dongyu Teng.
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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