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Shen Yun Conveys Beautiful Message of Kindness, Says Canadian Patron

Mar 25, 2025

3/25/2025Updated: 3/25/2025

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Narmin Multani had let her friends know that she was going to be attending Shen Yun Performing Arts, and so they had asked for her review afterwards, she said.

“The detail, the expressions, the costumes—wow—it’s amazing. I’m going to tell my friends to come watch it,” said Ms. Multani, CPA, after seeing Shen Yun at the Living Arts Centre on March 25. “I will definitely tell them to come watch it.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company. Through music and dance, Shen Yun’s mission is to show audiences the beauty of China before communism.

Ms. Multani said so much about Shen Yun had just been “so good,” but perhaps the most touching to her was the spiritual element, and a story-based dance showing the Chinese people who still hold on to faith and tradition despite oppression from the Chinese communist regime.

Ms. Multani said that although it was hard to believe that the religious persecution of Falun Gong is still happening in 2025, the story was well told and meaningful to her.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual meditation practice that teaches the three principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance. Introduced to the public in China in the early 1990s, it became hugely popular through only word of mouth, but the Chinese communist regime banned it in 1999 and began a violent persecution of its practitioners.

“It just really resonated with me. I thought it was really beautiful, but very sad at the same time, but very nicely played out,” Ms. Multani said.

Traditional Chinese culture is a divinely inspired culture, and its civilization was a spiritual one.

Ms. Multani added that she is very spiritual herself, and had been fasting that day for Ramadan, and had seen “so many different lessons” in the various stories and vignettes of the performance.

She felt a key message of the performance was to “keep your culture alive.”

“Keep doing what fulfills you, brings you joy, and if you can’t outwardly express it, keep it inside, but don’t let anything discourage you,” she said.

She also felt Shen Yun conveyed a message of kindness, which she said was much needed.

“I think that more today than before, we need to be kinder, especially with the way things are going in the world. We need to be especially nice,” she said. “We don’t know what everyone’s journey is and other people are going through and I do feel like everyone has their own eyes and those struggles, so I do feel like we should be kinder.”

The performance conveyed this in a way that was “very peaceful, very beautiful,” she added.

Reporting by Lisa Ou and Catherine Yang.

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