MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n
THE CHINESE embassy in Dublin has circulated a letter to all foreign diplomatic missions in the city to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kindly remind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recipients not to attend a performance by a Falun Gong-linked performing arts company at the Grand Canal Theatre this weekend.<\/p>\n
The New York-based Shen Yun company, due to perform two shows at the newly opened theatre tomorrow, bills its performances as a mix of traditional dance, mime and music. Most of the cast are members of the Falun Gong movement which is banned in China.<\/p>\n
On the Grand Canal Theatre website, the show is described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153weaving a wondrous story of heavenly realms, enchanting dreams, and the classic struggle between good and evil . . . following the tragic erosion of traditional Chinese culture under decades of communist rule, [Shen Yun] endeavours to rediscover a lost artistic and cultural heritage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. According to reviews, the Shen Yun show also features scenes depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.<\/p>\n
The Grand Canal Theatre website states that Shen Yun has performed to audiences totalling more than 800,000 people in 20countries across the world. This is its first show in Ireland.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the Chinese embassy e-mailed a letter marked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urgent and important\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to all embassies and consulates in Dublin. The letter, which has been obtained by The Irish Times<\/em> , draws attention to Shen Yun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s links with Falun Gong and describes the latter as an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illegal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d group. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The embassy kindly reminds you not to attend the show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the letter, which was sent by ambassador Liu Biwei\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secretary, states.<\/p>\n According to the Shen Yun website, the Dublin performances are presented by the Irish Falun Dafa (Gong) Association. All inquiries related to the shows are directed to an Irish e-mail address.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent THE CHINESE embassy in Dublin has circulated a letter to all foreign diplomatic missions in the city to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kindly remind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recipients not to attend a performance by a Falun Gong-linked performing arts company at the Grand Canal Theatre this weekend. The New York-based Shen Yun company, due to perform two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeshailemish.com\/on-shen-yun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}