insights
I first saw Falun Gong being practiced in a park in Sweden seven years ago. I was in Sweden for my girlfriend’s wedding. A group of friends were walking through Gothenburg and we saw some people doing the exercises.
Melbourne practitioners held the Victorian premiere of the Truth Compassion Forbearance Art Exhibition at the busy city corporate building at Exhibition Street, Melbourne from the 9th – 17th June 2005.
After several weeks of planning, Falun Gong practitioners, in conjunction with the Australia Chinese Cultural & Art Association Inc, held the grand opening of the Uncompromising Courage art exhibition at the Royal Queensland Arts Society on the Gold Coast.
A western practitioner took a photo as a record. On return to his Sydney home, however, he found that a Falun clearly shows in the middle of the top part of the photo.
The amazing stories in this book are first-hand accounts of people from all walks of life who recovered from serious, or in many cases, terminal diseases through practicing Falun Dafa.
My relative taught me some of the movements of the exercises and also gave me the book Zhuan Falun.
Upon returning home, I started to read the book eagerly. After reading it once, I continued to read it for the second time, then the third time. I have now read the book sixty times already.
Sandstorm was made to help reveal the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners currently occurring in China. The persecution is well-documented by Human Rights organizations and various governments around the world, but it is very difficult to get information out of China, as there are extensive methods utilized to block information from getting to the outside world and to the citizens within China.
It was nominated for four categories of awards including Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Drama and Best Feature Film, and won Best Feature Film and Best Drama.
Inside China a most
bitter wind descends
making
cold of many
a heart.
A ‘Party’ that would
prolong a persecutions
end,
forge lies where
truth departs.
On February 16, 2005, the “Uncompromising Courage” Art Exhibit was held in the York Hotel in downtown Sydney. More than 40 works of art by Falun Gong practitioners were displayed.
