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Dear Colleagues, below is information about a new writer’s group that is starting this month. Please contact me for further info, and there is a link to the event page below. History and Empire on Screen: Writing the Indigenous Character A unique – and free – opportunity for screenwriters to explore how we write historical dramas. Be part of a new writers group. Supported by the Cultural Institute at King’s and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, with UCL Public Engagement, funded by the AHRC When: 10 November, 25 November 2015 and 12 January 2016, 9-5pm (9-11am workshop followed by time and space to write) Venue: The Groucho Club, 45 Dean Street, London W1D 4QB For more information and to participate, contact Sheridan Humphreys [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> / 07966578607 Full details here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/eventrecords/151110-CLASH-Sheridan.aspx * • How do you create characters that are missing from history, and how can stories explore Imperial history and its legacy? * • How do you research a character from a culture that does not have a written history tradition? * • How can writers impact diversity on screen and on stage? This is a writer’s group with a difference. It is a unique and free opportunity to explore these questions alongside fellow writers, led by an experienced screenwriter and doctoral researcher who is studying the representation of Indigenous Australians on film and in TV drama. The aim of these workshops is to develop your own screenplay. Along the way we aim to increase your abilities and confidence to tell stories from the Imperial era with Indigenous characters as the protagonist and antagonist – in other words, to write the untold stories from history for the screen and to create characters who are missing from national narratives of history. During the seminars we will have the chance to engage with scholars from information studies, art history, history and English literature. We will read each other’s outlines and screenplays. And we will write! For more information and to participate, contact Sheridan Humphreys [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> / 07966578607 -- Sheridan Humphreys PhD Candidate English Language and Literature and Menzies Centre for Australian Studies King’s College London Strand, London, WC2R 2LS M: 07966578607 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 2015 CLASH Public Engagement Fellow Research Profile http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/menzies/people/Studprof/humphreys.aspx