date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:31:39 +0100 from: "Humphrey, Kathryn (GA)" subject: 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Young person initiative on climate ch to: "Geoff Jenkins (E-mail)" , "Mike Hulme (E-mail)" Geoff/Mike, Please see the email exchange below about an educational initiative on the Day After Tomorrow. I spoke to David Warrilow about it and he wondered if either of you might be interested in fielding some Hadley/Tyndall scientists to help with the events? If you could have a think about it and let me know that would be great- phone number below. Kind Regards Kathryn Humphrey -----Original Message----- From: Humphrey, Kathryn (GA) Sent: 15 June 2004 15:41 To: 'ukdelegation1@hotmail.com' Subject: FAO David Warrilow/Sarah Hendry: 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Young person initiative on climate change Sarah/David, Please see the exchange below on an idea for an initiative involving the Day After Tomorrow and Film Education which is part of the Film Council (DCMS' remit). After a conversation with David King they want to show screenings of TDAT to school kids and them get them to debate it afterwards. From a Defra point of view, they're looking for an expert who can go along and help with the debates. Also mentioned funding, as a matter of course, but it looks like Fox is footing the bill. From an education/Article 6 point of view seems like a very good idea to me; do you have any thoughts on whether we could field anyone or if you want to get involved in any other way? There is a meeting on Thursday so if you have any pressing comments you can send them to me before then if you have any free time. DTI seems to be leading. Hope all is well in Bonn! Kind Regards Kathryn -----Original Message----- From: Chambers, Paul (SEP) Sent: 15 June 2004 14:45 To: Porter, Mike A (CD) Cc: Humphrey, Kathryn (GA) Subject: RE: 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Young person initiative on climate cha nge Mike It does look very good to me. I'm sure we and GA will want to be involved - let me know how you get on after Thursday and we can circulate details to Henry and others. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Porter, Mike A (CD) Sent: 15 June 2004 14:30 To: Chambers, Paul (SEP) Subject: FW: 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Young person initiative on climate cha nge Importance: High Paul, Thought you should be aware of this one . First impressions are v.favourable. Would have thought we could usefully ( for corporate profile, if nothing else) supply an expert at the screenings alongside someone from DTi. Paul Richards talks about funding - but I'm not yet clear what for - as most of the elements he mentions are being covered by Fox. I'm attending a meeting on this Thursady a.m at DTi - if you have any views gratfeul if I could have them asap. Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Richards Paul (Mr PA) [mailto:Paul.Richards@dti.gsi.gov.uk] Sent: 11 June 2004 15:02 To: Grout Nick (Mr ND); Hernandez Tino (Mr AF); 'Kirsty.Pearce@dfes.gsi.gov.uk'; Porter, Mike A (CD) Cc: Kass Gary (Mr GS) Subject: 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Young person initiative on climate cha nge Importance: High Nick Tino Kirsty Mike For Mike's benefit, the background to this is: Dave King met Lord Puttnam for lunch and the 20th Century Fox film 'The Day After Tomorrow' came into the conversation. They agreed that the film could be a useful vehicle for raising awareness about climate change amongst young people. A call from Lord Puttnam to Fox led to a call from Fox to Dave. Fox, needless to say, were keen to take something forward. This led to a meeting between Fox and Dave and to us then receiving the proposal below from Fox. I have been asked to lead on our initial response to the proposal and I am seeking your help in doing so. On the face of it, the proposal looks very good. In our initial response, I would like to give an indication of interested parties within Government, who might provide funding, how this initiative dovetails with our other activities and, in practical terms, who will be doing what. So that we can begin to explore these issues I wonder if you would be free to attend a short (no more than hour) meeting next week. My preference would be Wednesday 16th. Could I thus ask you to let me know by midday on Monday whether you are willing to help in developing our initial response and, if so, whether you or a colleague are free to attend a meeting here in 1 Vic Street on Wednesday (timing to be dependent on most convenient time for everyone). Happy to discuss. Many thanks. Paul Paul Richards Public Engagement with Science and Technology Team Office of Science and Technology Department of Trade and Industry Bay 4136 1 Victoria Street London SW1H 0ET Tel: 020-7215-6146 Fax: 020-7215-3830 E-mail: paul.richards@dti.gsi.gov.uk Dear Gary and Antony, Good to meet you last week. We have since spoke to our colleagues in Home Entertainment and Film Education and we have come up with the following proposal. Film Education ([1]www.filmeducation.org) is a body supported by the film industry through the Film Council, charged with bringing film to children through the National Curriculum. One of their key initiatives is National Schools Film Week, which runs from October 11 - 15 (October 25 - 29 in Scotland). We propose to screen the film to secondary school children in the locations listed below on Thursday . Each screening would be followed by a panel discussion featuring experts in the fields of science, technology and the environment. The screenings would target students of geography, science and citizenship. (Others tbc ?) Film Education will facilitate the cinema bookings and recruitment. This service will be free of charge. Fox will provide the print and supporting publicity content free of charge. DTI will provide the experts and cover their expenses. Also, we may need a host or moderator at each event which ideally should be covered by the DTI. Film Education will use Fox publicity materials and DTI content to produce a downloadable pdf study guide to accompany the programme. Film Education will also look to do separate screenings for the "Young and Gifted" programme on this date. Ian Wall will come back with further detail on this. Film Education publicists will work with local newspapers on the project. Again, this is an area where the DTI can be very involved. Fox HE will look at providing some sort of bounce back mechanic for the DVD launch. For example, an "£X off" voucher redeemable against the DVD at a retailer tbc. Suggested locations (300 seaters): London Birmingham Manchester Bristol Newcastle Glasgow Edinburgh Sheffield Liverpool Cardiff Nottingham Norwich Brighton Belfast. The first stage of such an exercise would be to forewarn teachers via an e-mail alert before the summer holidays begin. Please let us know if this is the sort of activity that you are happy to support. Best, KB ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only. Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. 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