Lots of cities have promotional video presentations they use for tourism, economic development or just to help build civic pride. Eden Prairie has one too. I think it happens to be pretty good.
And lots of cities have their videos translated in Spanish, or perhaps even Mandarin Chinese. But in Eden Prairie, we take our position as a small world city seriously. We want people throughout the world to become aware of what we’ve got going on here in the middle of North America.
Through a unique partnership with the students and families at the International School of Minnesota (ISM), the City of Eden Prairie now has its promotional video, called “Eden Prairie Welcomes You“, produced in ten languages: Mandarin Chinese, Danish, French, English, German, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese. The International School of Minnesota is PreK-12 private school located here in Eden Prairie. ISM is part of the worldwide SABIS School Network. We’re proud that Eden Prairie is home to ISM. We wrote the script, but ISM students and families made it come to life. We could not have accomplished with important international outreach effort without their partnership.
You can check out Eden Prairie Welcomes You in the language of your choice at our website at www.edenprairie.org. You’ll find the link under the button the right side of the page called City TV. Or, you can hit this link and it’ll take you right there: The Video.
We want Eden Prairie to be known as a place that welcomes visitors and guests from around the world. We want to reach out to people in their language of choice. We’ve started telling our community’s story in these ten languages. We’ll be adding to the list of available languages as new volunteer translators become available. If your language is not on the list, and you’d like to add it to the list, email me. The more, the better.
