Friday, 14th August 2026
Connect with the Next Generation of Creatives
Join us! MTNS MADE are hosting Western Sydney Uni teaching staff from the Design Degree, for an info panel session and Q+A. This event is designed for Professional Creatives to learn more about mentoring and knowledge-sharing opportunities with aspiring creatives.
Fri 14 Aug, 5.30-7.30pm at RoseyRavelston Books, Lawson.
Learn about opportunities to:
- Mentor emerging creatives
- Host student work experience or placements
- Present your creative practice to students
- Set a live industry brief or project
- Share your knowledge and professional experience
Enjoy catering by Golden Days Hampers while you connect with fellow creatives and the panel.
Meet the Panel:
Dan specialises in connecting students with the creative industries through work placements, special projects and portfolio events. His work has placed graduates in powerhouse agencies including Apparent, Thinkerbell, ABC and Walterwakefield, as well as more geographically focused placements in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Being a Little Hartley resident, Dan is all too aware of the barriers facing Mountains-based students, who often face long commutes to Sydney based studios. He sees real potential in a network of mountains-based creative agencies collaborating to offer local placements and build talent pipelines that benefit students and local creative businesses alike.
Across all three roles, Michelle is committed to amplifying the creativity and expression found in the West, giving it a platform through her research, her teaching and her own creative practice.
Her practice is drawn to the informal and self-made, and to voices that make themselves heard on their own terms, the spaces, scenes and expressions that build their own momentum without waiting for institutional permission.
As a design educator, she brings her practical industry experience to create space for young people to draw on creativity and visual language to express their cultural, political and social ideas, situating their practice in relation to industry and the broader community.
With a background running design conferences, producing podcasts, writing for design magazines and teaching across the public and private sectors, he currently plies his trade as a Senior Product Educator at Canva Design School. Over his five-plus years at Canva, Matt has focused on making design approachable rather than overwhelming on a global scale. He is a passionate advocate for the democratisation of design, bridging industry with education, and a firm believer that Design Thinking should be taught in primary schools.