The Revesby Community Festival is an annual event where locals and children
attend, to learn about different activities/services available and enjoy performances,
rides and food. This year’s festival was on March 20 and Falun Dafa practitioners
also participated in the event.
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There
were some difficulties in securing a stall at the event. On the day, the event
organizer helped practitioners to look for a space. Finally, a friendly plant
stall holder gave us one of her stall spaces.
Activities included an information
stall, flyer distribution, folding paper lotus flowers and an exercise demonstration.
It seemed that some locals were unfamiliar with Falun Dafa. Practitioners took
this opportunity to constantly perform the exercises, behind and beside the stall.
The environment was very peaceful.
Later on in the day, organizers arranged
to have practitioners do two short stage performances. One was a traditional Chinese
dance, featuring a beautiful costume and Chinese musical instrument. The second
was a demonstration of the Falun Dafa exercises. On both occasions the audience
watched with interest and was moved by Dafa’s peaceful and righteous field.
After
the event practitioners gave paper folded lotus flowers to the organizers and
the stallholder, who offered her extra stall space, to thank them. They were deeply
moved when they learnt that the lotus flower is a symbol of peace and purity in
Eastern culture.
An organizer said that he would invite Falun Dafa to attend
upcoming community festivals.
During the day a practitioner noticed that
the plant stall holder had sold many plants in a short period of time, which may
be rewards for kindly offering her extra stall space to practitioners.
Posting
date: 24/Mar/2005
Original article date: 22/Mar/2005
Category: Event
