For part I and II of this series of articles, please see:
http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200506/27060.html
http://en.clearharmony.net/articles/200507/27991.html
During Spring 2005, we contacted several libraries in Lapland and made inquiries about holding a Falun Gong photo exhibition. Several librarians were interested to hold an exhibition during the Spring and Summer. Most of them knew about Falun Gong already and those who didn’t were interested to hold the exhibition and find out more.
On a hot day in July we arrived in Rovaniemi and hurriedly went in to the library to begin hanging the exhibition. The place was next to the entrance so when hanging up pictures people continually passed by. Many people stopped to get a glimpse of the photos. Once again we experienced the deeper meaning of this photo exhibition and the affect it had on our surroundings.
I looked at my watch and told my husband that we still had enough time to finish hanging, after a while my husband replied; it is summertime and we have just one hour left. I looked around and saw that we still had so many left to hang up. All these photos are waiting to let more people know about Falun Gong and about the persecution going on in China. We could not leave before everything was on the wall. We continued quietly and at the moment that we finished, a young boy come over to look at the pictures and in the background we could hear the voice on the loudspeaker say; “We will close the library in ten minutes.”
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| Exhibition in Rovaniemi in July |
Two weeks later my husband went to pick them up. People still wanted to know and understand more about Falun Gong. During the exhibition people had signed their names in the visitors book. Signatures from the following countries could be found: Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Greece, Spain and Canada.
On August 1st, the next stop was Salla. The local Culture Secretary made an announcement about the photo exhibition on the local radio and many people came to take a look.
Photo exhibition continues its tour
From the above experience we understood that we should firmly hang up the exhibition as planned. The exhibition in Taivalkoski began on the 17th of August and the kind librarian helped us to make the exhibition a success. We visited a local newspaper and they conducted an interview that was published on the 22nd in the local newspaper Koillissanomat. Before I left the library I saw that one of the librarians went to look at the exhibition. Her comment in our visitor book made me understand that the truth of the exhibition had reached her heart.
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| The exhibition in Taivalkoski |
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| Visitors could take home a nicely folded Lotus Flower | |
When we returned to pick up the pictures, someone had made more room for the exhibition to make it easier for people to see it. The local people wished us good luck with their smiling faces. This was the eighth exhibition that we held in Finnish Lapland and it will continue.
Originally published in Finnish at: http://fi.clearharmony.net/articles/200509/3252.html
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