About Event Mentor
Who are we?
Event Mentor is a collaboration between event management practitioners Kristie Walker, Tam Pay and communication specialists Matt and Ruth Clare from Mono Design. We have met every Monday night for the past two years once the children are in bed. Over countless cups of tea and a truckload of chocolate, we created Event Mentor
Kristie Walker and Tam Pay have provided full event management for: Black Saturday recovery workshops and anniversary events (including Flowerdale, Kinglake, Marysville), Big West Festival, Chinese New Year Festival, Community Chef building launch, Golden Plains Festival, High Vibes Music Festival, Manningham Spring Festival, Meredith Music Festival, Midsumma Carnival, Spring Fling Street Festival and The Village Festival - among many others.
Ruth and Matt Clare are a husband and wife team who run Mono Design, a graphic design, illustration and copywriting studio that has been providing expert communication since 1996. Mono Design has a particular passion in working with community and not-for-profit clients such as: CFA, City of Whittlesea, Moreland City Council, Brimbank City Council, Darebin City Council, Knox City Council, Parliament of Victoria, Department of Education and RMIT University. They have created brands and designed marketing materials for many festivals and events including: High Vibes Music Festival, Spring Fling Street Festival, MoreArt, Fawkner Festa, Glenroy Festival, Coburg Carnivale, Pascoe Vale Festival and Northern Exposure arts festival to a name a few.
Why is it called Event Mentor?
Like any mentor, we hope you can benefit from our years of event management experience. By sharing our insider tricks and tips we aim to help you make your event planning easier.
Simplicity is the key
The driving force behind EM is trying to find a way to make the complex world of event planning as simple as possible. Simple guides. Simple writing. Simple design. Simple to use.
Your success is our success
The event mentor team all donate a lot of time to the event industry and are passionate about its success. This is just another way of trying to help events in Australia be as good as they can possibly be. If you have found Event Mentor helpful we would love to hear your story and share it with other members.
Creating an event community
EM is a place where people can feel connected to the event industry, share information and benefit from others in the event community.
Our thoughts are not for sale
Because we receive no outside funding the information included in our guides has not been influenced by any external source. Everything EM produces is extensively researched, independently written and advertising is not accepted.