Discover Creative Careers - Teachers evening

Careers in the Creative Industries: How to inform and educate the next generation of creatives.

Join us at Ravensbourne University London for this event for teachers, careers advisors and people who work with young people.

As part of Discover Creative Careers week, we are hosting a night of talks by incredible people working in the creative industries. Hear from speakers working in film, design and media industries and how their sectors are changing. 

If you work with young people, this event is for you. You will come away with more knowledge, information and advice to support young people in their future decisions.

The event runs 5pm-7:30pm on 21st November 2024 at Ravensbourne University London SE10 0EW.

5-5:30pm – Registration and refreshments

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Talks from industry professionals, sharing their knowledge and advice for the next generation of creatives.

Siraaj Mitha and Katie Fisher

Katie Fisher is a south London based architect and educator seeking to empower agency and collaboration in the built environment. She is the founder of the socially engaged design practice CARD Projects (Collaboration, Agency, Research, Design) and was named this year as an RIBAJ Rising Star. Katie seeks to empower agency in the built environment through her work teaching Architecture at Ravensbourne University, her extensive mentoring experience, ambassador and committee work at the Architects Benevolent Society and as an RIBA Council member.

Siraaj is an architect and the Director of Open City Accelerate, a programme that encourages young people from under-represented backgrounds to explore careers in the built environment. Siraaj also teaches Postgraduate Architecture at the London School of Architecture in East London and is passionate about educating and diversifying professions in the built industries, as well as creating an equitable landscape to study and practice across the sector.

Kofi Opoku-Ansah 

Kofi is a Visual effects artist, and Co-founder of Luminary Studios.  

With over 13 years of industry experience in the VFX industry, working on feature films, episodics and commercials for the likes of Marvel, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Apple and more, Kofi has navigated the industry as a freelancer, before recently co-founding Luminary Studios, a VFX studio set out to provide VFX for Film, TV and commercials. 

Abi Meats

Abi Meats is co-founder of ‘RUDE’ and author of ‘I am Creative’. ‘I am Creative’ is being published by Hachette and released next year. It’s all about introducing kids to the creative industries as potential career paths and unleashing their creative super powers. RUDE was founded 25 years ago by Rupert & Abi Meats. As trained graphic designers they launched a t-shirt label which soon grew into a creative street brand.  RUDE’s reputation soon earned them commissions as graphic artists, often commissioned for their colourful hand drawn typography. Rupert draws and creates original artwork for the shop and for project commissions. Abi heads up mural work and animation projects and also looks after their Art & Coffee Shop 'Everyday Sunshine'. They work out of their screen print studio in Stoke Newington, London.

Raine Peake

"A highly experienced Strategic leader with an Innovative and Entrepreneurial approach, over twenty years experience in Ecommerce and Bricks and Mortar. Currently working at New Look heading up the Marketing and Customer Growth teams through innovation and technological change with Customer and Profit at the core of the transformation strategy.  Focuses on blending art and science with Data, which has been honed over various roles including Digital Director at both Jigsaw and Mint Velvet, Customer Director at Arcadia and Head of Merchandising and Visual Merchandising at Farfetch. 

I started my career as an allocator and worked in Merchandising, Branch Merch and International before moving into Ecomm. I am a passionate advocate for the industry and also for demystifying how to have a long career and helping my teams and colleagues. 

Apart from this I also live in Surrey and spend my time with family or can be seen running by the river."

 Tyler Evans - Broadcasting and TV 

"My name is Tyler Evans and I am a Broadcast Engineering Graduate from Ravensbourne University. I moved to London from a small town in Ireland as I was told that if you wanted a career in television, that there was nowhere better than London and Ravensbourne specifically. 

I realised pretty quickly that I wanted to venture down the route of Cameras and Vision within broadcasting and in my second year at Ravensbourne I began freelancing on small jobs such as school boy rugby and non league football. From there, I used my contacts at Ravensbourne and platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn to help gain further experience in broadcasting. Today, I work as a Camera Operator, Graphics Operator, Vision Switcher and Vision Technical Assistant in both the Broadcast and Infotainment industry. 

I consider myself very lucky as I am still very much at the start of my journey at 24 years old and at just over one year out of University. I have been blessed with opportunities both within the UK and overseas. I have worked on football within all 4 of the professional English football divisions, as well as international football tournaments such as the UEFA Women’s Euros, FIFA Futsal World Cup and the Asian Cup. In terms of other sports I have worked on many International Cricket Test Matches, the T20 World Cup, European Volleyball Championships, Men’s and Women’s Premiership Rugby, NFL London, International Coffee Championships, World Aquatics Championships and more."

6:30pm – 6:45pm – Talk from Mae Yip, the founder of Eric the creative careers app

ERIC is a free app helping young people break into the creative industries and become work-ready. The app makes it effortless for you and your students to find local & remote entry-level schemes, programmes and initiatives. 
 
ERIC partners with hundreds of creative employers, charities and training providers across the UK and is the fastest-growing creative career app, with over 130,000 app downloads. 

6:45pm – 7:00pm – Q&A for the panel

7pm - 7:30pm – Refreshments and networking.

7:30pm – Event finishes.

At this event you can also meet academic and outreach staff from Ravensbourne University, to discuss future support for young creatives.

You can book your free place now!

Any questions, get in touch with us on [email protected]