‘Give It Your All’: Future Students Invited to SAE Byron

Bay Info Night on January 16

ROBERT HEYWARD

Future creatives, get ready to kick off the new year with inspiration and direction at the SAE

Byron Bay Info Night on Thursday, January 16, 2025. This exciting event offers a behindthe-scenes look at one of Australia’s top creative tertiary education providers and is set to be a night of discovery, learning, and connection. From food trucks to student success stories, attendees will explore the vibrant world of creative media and technology at SAE’s six campuses across the country.

Discover Your Creative Path

Whether you’re a budding designer, flmmaker, animator, or aspiring music producer, SAE Info Night is the perfect opportunity to dive into your passion.

Explore SAE’s wide range of creative courses, including:

• Design

• Film • Music

• VFX & Virtual Production

• Animation

• Audio

• Computer Science

• Creative Industries

• Games

Guidance and Insight from Experts

SAE faculty will be on campus to offer one-onone guidance, helping future students fnd the right course to match their aspirations and career goals. Attendees will also have the chance to connect with SAE’s student services team, who provide support ranging from academic assistance to career advice.

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Stories, Real Inspiration

One of the highlights of the night will be the student and alumni speakers, sharing their journeys and achievements since studying at SAE. At the Byron Bay campus, guests will hear from Bronte Dunning, a Bachelor of Film Production graduate who has been running her own videography and photography business since graduating in 2022.

“My biggest career highlights are defnitely flming Blues Fest

Byron Bay for the past three years and working recently with NITV for the Australian Women in Music Awards,” Bronte shared.

“SAE gave me the skills and confdence to start my own business and connected me with a wide network of creatives. My advice for new students? Apply yourself in every class and give it your all. What you put in is what you get out. And most importantly, have fun with it!”

A Night to Explore and Enjoy

Attendees will get to tour the campus, enjoy delicious bites from local food trucks, and connect with faculty, staff, and current students. It’s a chance to immerse yourself in the creative environment that SAE is known for and discover how to turn your passion into a career.

Join the Creative Community

Don’t miss this opportunity to step into the world of creative media and technology.

SAE Byron Bay Info Night is open to all future students or anyone curious about a creative career.

For more information and to register, visit the SAE website. Take the frst step toward a career that lights you up!

HAVING had a week or two over the break to kick back, relax, reset and prepare for the rigours of a brand-new year, I decided to meander through the works of one of my favourite writers, the now largely unreferred to, if not outright unreflected upon Englishman – John Galsworthy.

Factoring in the silent ‘w’ in the word ‘writer’, the attempt to be as objectively right as possible, without being obnoxiously self-righteous, is what appeals to me in the writings of those I most esteem. Sensing that I’ve somehow become a better person through having read something that someone else has said, brings me a level of invigoration and pure elevation that I can’t even remotely convey. Which lands me right back into the creative realm of John Galsworthy, the lawyercum-lauded winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature. Being a none too keen-eyed observer of his upper-middle class compatriots, not to mention the everquickening, high-speed train, that is modern life, Galsworthy once noted, “Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel; and they who curb prejudice and seek honourably to know and speak the truth are the only true builders of a better life.”

Intriguingly, Galsworthy met ‘by chance’ and became a lifelong friend of – an as yet unpublished – Joseph Conrad in 1893, aboard a sailing ship bound for Britain, in Adelaide. Which is another mind-boggling example of how two great cultural figures crossed paths to bolster one another,