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>>Melissa: The MAD program was
good for me because

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I learned a lot about myself

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as a person, as a dancer and
as an entrepreneur.

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>>Wali: It’s helped me develop myself
as an artist

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and given me platforms to perform
and engage with other audiences

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and build my career.

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>>Indiana: It’s kind of like a mentorship program.

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>>Nick: They’re paying you

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to put out your content
which is unheard of.

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>>Asad: We started with 300 followers,

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now we have 4,000 followers.

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>>Rohan: So it’s been useful to get that
information

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in all the workshops.

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I’m still marinating on…

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on things that were brought up
in earlier workshops, months ago.

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Really loved what we learned in the
workshop before this,

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from different people like Danny and
learning about the arts presenting

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world within Ontario.

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>>Jessica: Um, there is something that Krystal Kiran said:

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to not only embrace…

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just one side of your culture, your heritage
or where you come from,

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but to embrace all sides of your um
of your culture and where you come from.

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>>Melissa: So some things that I’ve
learned in the workshops so far

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that really stood out was really

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looking at the demographics

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and what we need to do in order to get
our target audience

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and really specifying specific goals
and not just having kind of a general goal.

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When you get nitty gritty and really decide
what your

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target audience is, that’s how you’re going
to get the people and the fans to come and to stay.

1:19

>>Wali: The session that we had with Vidhi
was super enlightening.

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I wish I’d learned about a little bit earlier,

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to be honest, in my career as I was
building this because

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some of the things
that she was talking about

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are…are like gems
in terms of growing yourself.

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>>Indiana: We see this as a holistic
program

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cause you’re not just learning or
–about creating your content

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but then it’s also how to put that content
out there.

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Cause we would not have this exchange
otherwise like

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if it wasn’t for MAD, we would
still be trying to figure out the whole

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social media, influencing, and knowing
your insights and target audience.

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But just having somebody to talk to one on one and be like okay, you know,

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this is how you should plan your goal,
this is how you should do it

2:01

or these are some of the pointers.

2:03

>>Saad: We learned a lot of
organization to start with.

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Uh…finishing up stuff and deadlines.

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>>Ria: We’re honestly really pumped to

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see the final product of our MAD episode,
we just saw it over lunch and we’re like

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[Dramatically] Ohhh!
We feel so famous and fancy.

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[Both giggle]

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And it’s kind of just nice to reflect on our
journey

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and what we’ve done over the past few
years.

2:27

There’s footage in there from us

2:28

teaching and performing like
4 years ago and it’s…

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it made us actually emotional to look at it because we’re like

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look at all that we’ve done.

2:36

>>Ravi: I made a bio page for the first
time

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and since I created it last week
I’ve been getting hits like non-stop every…

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you know…it’s really good.
Especially since this morning

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we posted a…a little documentary thing,

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I just been watching it, I’ve been getting
messages and pinging on my phone.

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Like I…I keep going on and on about the
video because I honestly that was one of like

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one of the wickedess productions we’ve every had.

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>>EnKaye: You know, if you are doing
well for yourself,

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why not take the opportunity to get more
skills,

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more resources, more training
to push yourself even further.

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And I think beyond just the chance
to perform

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and, you know, put your craft out there
and work with others,

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I think the skills training aspect of it is what

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really makes me want to recommend this
to anybody who wants to keep doing this thing.

3:14

>>Shivani: We literally struggled a lot
in order to get our show.

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So you can say that we were,

3:19

you know, that particular plant who was almost about to die,

3:22

but when MonsterARTity came into
picture

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it watered us, we got nurtured,
we’re blooming right now.

3:29

Right now we have a lot of fans or people

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reaching out to us.

3:33

>>Ria: It’s nice to be able to connect with other artists.

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I think that’s been pretty amazing
for us because usually we’re in our own

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little bubble of creating and performing,
so it’s nice to…

3:43

see other dancer artists,
but also other artists.

3:46

Like we’re connecting with musicians as
well and it’s nice to see their perspective.

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>>Devin: It helped me to discover a lot of
confidence and hidden abilities in myself

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that I otherwise wouldn’t have known
I had.

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