Film about Peace Park in Middle East To Be Screened at Yale

“Bridging Waters: Creating a Peace Park on the River Jordan,” a documentary about an environmental sanctuary for peace in the Middle East spearheaded by an Israeli environmentalist (and 2007 Yale World Fellow), will be shown on October 29 at the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art, 190 York Street, Room 250, at 5 p.m.

Produced and directed by then Yale juniors Sofia Solomon and Reid Wittman, “Bridging Waters” follows a brainstorming session in Jordan in May 2008, at which architects, environmentalists and planners from Yale, Israel, Jordan and Palestine hatch out ideas for a sustainable ecosystem on the Jordan-Israel border.

Alan Plattus, a professor of urbanism and architecture at Yale School of Architecture and director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop, led the Yale delegation. Environmentalist and peace activist Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli director of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East, is a major proponent and driving force of the project. The site of the project, at the ruined Rotenberg Hydroelectric Station of the Palestine Electric Company, is believed by some biblical scholars to be where the entrance to the Garden of Eden was situated.

The film screening will be followed by short remarks and Q&A with Bromberg, Plattus and other members of the Yale design team. For additional information, email andrei.harwell@yale.edu or contact the YUDW at 203.764.5696.