Beyond the Land : EcoME, an Israeli - Palestinian Community

A project in New York, NY by Greta Tattelman Parnes
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A documentary about "EcoME," the one-of-a-kind Israeli-Palestinian community living in the desert of the occupied West Bank.
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Funded: $25,495 of $25,000
Dates: May 17th -> Jul 16th (60 days)
Project By: Greta Tattelman Parnes
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Latest News

An amazing opportunity to learn Non violent communication and DONATE to Beyond The Land's campaign.

July 12th - via: kickstarter.com
The 2-days Non violent communication workshop will be Hosted by the amazing community of the Grandhotel Cosmopolis (Augsburg, Germany) and held by Aline Arundhati Mueller and Stephanie Karcher. All the funds payed for the workshop will go towards... (Read More)

How to write about a place which changed everything and nothing? By Elana Leopold

July 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Community meeting How to write about a place which changed everything and nothing? Which was so unique that those who were not there seem unable to wrap their heads around its uniqueness? How to write about home, a home so true to the word that... (Read More)

This first week of building EcoMe By Gadi Kenny

July 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Can’t remember how I heard that Rina, Ilana and their “gang” got settled somewhere around Jericho, establishing the meeting place which together we fantasized about months earlier.   I had a somewhat different idea, but I caught the positive... (Read More)

"I don’t know what happened next other that that we both fell to the floor, held each other, and cried like wild animals for hours" By Ruthie Gerson

July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Sharing, being present for and with each other I have waited a long time (all my life?) for the moment to arrive when I know how to share what’s in my heart. I don’t know when it will come, but I choose not to wait lifetimes for that magical... (Read More)

This is EcoME, It's the soldier that shot me and tried to kill me 30 years ago, and that we met there... By Ismail assad

July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Ismail I confess to you, my beautiful friend, that the heart was unable to write in this time of darkness, But there was a moment I recalled what Jalal a din Rumi answered, when they asked him what is heaven. He said heaven is “an open heart full... (Read More)

I lived in between them, here in between these walls By Salah Shaheen

June 28th - via: kickstarter.com
I lived in between them, here in between these walls, and the hanging date leaves. Years, in this strange place, that became a home.    EcoME. I am Salah Shaheen, and this is my story.   I arrived to this strange place where people are living in... (Read More)

I remember the first residential Nonviolent Communication retreat at EcoMe By Roberta Wall

June 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Roberta and Maya practicing Non violent communication at EcoME I remember the first residential Nonviolent Communication retreat at EcoMe eight or so years ago. I believe this was the first Nonviolent Communication training in the Middle East where... (Read More)

“Why does it matter where I’m from?” He answered. By Noa Dolev

May 31st - via: kickstarter.com
EcoME's Entrance I came to dance.   It was a special workshop we hosted in EcoME, Movement Medicine, and the movement of inner dance connected me slowly to a shared presence.   We met through the eyes first. And then a smiling mouth, sparking... (Read More)

Have you heard of a memory palace? By Greta Tattelman Parnes

May 30th - via: kickstarter.com
עברית וערבית אחרי אנגלית العربية بعد الانكليزية والعبرية Have you heard of a memory palace? It’s basically the image of a location in your mind where you can store memories to make them easier to... (Read More)

EcoME. Such simplicity and such complexity at the same time. By Neta Kind lerrer

May 29th - via: kickstarter.com
EcoME. Such simplicity and such complexity at the same time.   For years, I'm circling the world, searching. Searching for a place where there are people who can speak this language with me, the language of the heart, the inner language. A... (Read More)

I never go to sleep in Ecome By Hed Roth

May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I never go to sleep in Ecome   Until I Go to sleep.   Like a string of spider nets that spread, the conversations spread into the night Like precious gems, the stories stay with me.   At Ecome I’ve learned to say more and less.  I learned that... (Read More)

I had to run away from here to find “EcoME” By Miriam Turmalin

May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I had to run away from here to find “EcoME”.  After years I’ve been living abroad, my attempts to disconnect and create another life there failed. I couldn’t ignore the growing longing and the pain I felt around everything that happened in... (Read More)

This is my mother, She gave birth to me on this day, 31 years ago.

May 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
This is my mother.  She gave birth to me on this day, 31 years ago.   When I watched her singing "Day will come" in this scene, that I filmed for Beyond the land, I wanted to stop everything, to print screen, and just look at her.   To look at my... (Read More)

3rd Text By Amr

May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Somewhere, near you, there is a human being with a growing anger and rage, In reality, each day, people produce roughly enough violence to match the volume of thoughts that flow into our awareness, so that violence is taking over reality. So why... (Read More)

2nd Text by Talya Hirsch

May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
The first thing i saw when entering EcoME was a family sitting in one of the sitting areas, eating dinner and talking to each other. It was an ordinary situation with an ordinary family. Parents, two daughters, you may say little women, in the... (Read More)

Beyond and with you, Land.

May 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Beyond and with you, Land, It's a shaky moment for me.  I was shaking all through this week, afraid from what It's going to bring, even much afraid of what it going to take. Many lives were taken. Many hopes were falling. I mourn and cry and scream... (Read More)

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