Film Screening; flop?
Monday night’s film screening did not feel very “successful”! Although it ran well, there were only 6 people present (myself included)! Some who I thought had said they would come, didn’t appear! And no-one came who I didn’t at least have an inkling might come! This was in spite of plenty of posters around the town and details in the local newspaper events listings!
What can be done to get more people along to something like this? Was it just one bad date, or a bad time of the week? If you’re in the Dereham area please do post any comments on when and where you might like to come to film screenings in the town. I know several people have said they were interested but couldn’t make Monday 11th.
I want to show another film in Dereham; “The Power of Community”. But it’ll only work if more people are interested and able to show up for it! So please do let me know when and where you would like to see this.
In organising the screening, a couple of avenues have opened up to screen the films for other groups or gatherings. So this might be the way forward! The most likely looking of these at present is at Adam Jackson’s Treehouse Party on 4th July 2009
If a Transition Initiative is really to develop in Dereham then we need to begin forming an “Interim Steering Group” who will then organise further film screenings and other events to raise local awareness of Peak Oil and Climate Change. If you’re interested in this please do let me know. If there are several people out there, a good starting point might be to gather together to watch the new film about Transition, called “In Transition”. It is being shown for the first time on Saturday 23rd May at the Transition Network gathering in London, and also streamed over the internet from 2:45pm. If I hear from interested people before then, we can arrange to meet somewhere to watch the film on-line and then discuss together how to take Transition forward in Dereham.
Here is a trailer for the film;
There are more details about the film at www.transitionculture.org/in-transition
