The mission of The Welcome Home Project is to provide opportunities where veterans and civilians can begin to overcome the historic and often painful divide that separates them in their own communities. The Project uses the documentary film, The Welcome, to bring communities together in creative, healing gatherings with the film and encourages dialogue, education and mutual understanding. Healing means sharing the burden.
See the trailer and Website for The Welcome .
Become a part of The Welcome in your community by hosting or arranging a Community Screening of the Film.
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Synopsis:
"The Welcome" offers a fiercely intimate view of life after war: the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike. As we join them in a small room for an unusual five day healing retreat, we witness how the ruins of war can be transformed into the beauty of poetry. Here our perceptions are changed, our psyches strained, and our hearts broken. And at the end, when this poetry is shared with a large civilian audience, we begin to understand that all of us are a vital piece of the Welcome as Veterans try to find the way back home. Their examples of unflinching honesty, courage and love lift us up, inspiring all of us once again to feel our common humanity, always the first casualty of war.
Host a Screening:
contact: mcmillan@ccountry.net
541-821-4798
"The Welcome" is now complete.
From this point forward, all donations will go toward Distribution, Outreach and Audience Engagement. Help us to make an impact with this film. All donations tax deductible:
Please visit The Marion Institute 501(c)3, our Fiscal Sponsor, to support this important project.