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I think what they love about the program

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is they see themselves in the work and

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it’s not something that is unrelatable

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to them so just today I had a student

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come up to me and say I’m a Buddhist and

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so when you were talking about the art

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form of the mandala as a Buddhist

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practice I felt personally connected to

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it and I think that’s what is unique

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about the MEI program as well because we

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are working in South Asian art forms and

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so the chances of a student especially

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in diverse schools seeing a reflection

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of their culture their identity

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reflected back to them is priceless and

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it’s something that I wish I had when I

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was growing up I’m very very happy that

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monster r/t is doing the may program

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because I feel it’s also important to

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kind of connect with other artists

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teachers kind of network as well in

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terms of like just understanding who are

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the people out there who are actually

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kind of working to the same common cause

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as you

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I love teaching I love teaching kids and

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to people to go into a high school

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environment and to share my passion for

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teaching and dance and then also it for

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it to be a cultural experience it’s

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awesome to really feel like you belong

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and like that your culture is accessible

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in this kind of you know environment I

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think is a really wonderful thing and I

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think it’s also really great that kids

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who aren’t of the culture get exposure

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to it so that’s my favorite part of it I

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think just like bringing people together

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and like uniting them through dance

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we’re here at Indus community services

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and we just did a launch event for our

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new monster arts for youth at heart

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program which is our seniors program in

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collaboration with industry mmunity

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services we are providing professional

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South Asian artists to give workshops

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for free to the seniors in our community

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in music dance poetry and all the other

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art forms as well the collaboration

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between these two amazing organizations

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demonstrates their leadership in

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delivering impactful programming to

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residents of Mississauga we are proud to

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have funded this project there were very

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positive impact or not

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members we all look forward eagerly to

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participate in this group events as you

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might have noticed already we are all

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full of energy excited and full of zeal

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for life this past Friday July 20th and

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Saturday July 21st

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Mississauga was home to the eighth

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annual Bollywood monster masher one of

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the largest South Asian events in Canada

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the event brought over 80,000 guests to

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our Mississauga downtown core at

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celebration square the two days of

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festivities celebrates South Asian arts

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and culture of food and entertainment

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the benefits to our community extend far

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beyond two days the festival directly

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creates many long-term full-time

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positions 30 full-time seasonal

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positions for you

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hires over 200 artists and performers

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and provides community service

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opportunities for over 300 volunteers

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every year it also generates millions of

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dollars in visitor spending and supports

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dozens of local Mississauga businesses I

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was pleased to attend the Bollywood

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monster mashup with my colleagues from

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Mississauga lakeshore and Mississauga

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Erin Mills and provide greetings from

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our premier Doug Ford hi this is Bonnie

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Crombie mayor of the great city of

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Mississauga tonight we’re at

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celebrations square at the largest South

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Asian festival in all of Canada at the

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Bollywood Monster Mash up that this is a

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very special time in Mississauga’s

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history it’s a big transition time you

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know we’ve had great leadership and

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we’re moving on to write the next

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chapter of our history and events like

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bollywood monster mashup are defining in

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our legacy

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they’re a perfect example of a great

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success story they are introducing

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people to new things to performances

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that they didn’t know much about that

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they’re experiencing and enjoying that

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they’re finding that they’re not alone

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that they other people are doing the

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same and that these organizations are

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showing how diverse our city and

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province is I think it’s just a great

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way to bring people together and the

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beauty of Vikas and his genius is that

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he’s always fusing

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together it’s just such a multicultural

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society so the fact that he you know

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takes everybody of every color and every

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talent mixes different types of music

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and instruments together it’s just a

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beautiful you know rendition of what the

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country is I think I remember coming to

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Canada in 2011 and I was losing my

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community a lot and 2011 had the first

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Bollywood mashup right so I didn’t have

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a chance to attending one of the event

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and trust me it feels like home this is

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the South Asian Committee where they

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come from different countries you know

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what bind them together is the culture

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and music which comes from Bollywood as

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is the perfect platform to bind them

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together

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