ABOUT US
JOIN THE NAMCI COMMITTEE!
We are seeking new Committee Members who have an interest in the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival! If you're keen to help improve the environmental sustainability of the festival, ensure the program reflects our diverse community and be involved in a robust community arts organisation with financial stability, get in touch.
WHEN:
Dates TBA
TIME:
6.30pm
WHERE:
Nightcliff Sports & Social Club, 11 Camphor Street, Nightcliff
CONTACT:
Chairperson, Andrew Arthur on Mobile: 0428 153 355
Committee participation involves 6 meetings a year AND/OR involvement in 1 of our 3 'Working Groups'
influencing the festival vision and ensuring we are a strong, vibrant and relevant organisation.
Contact us at:
Join a Working Group - anyone can join:
Enviro Working Group
This Working Group is welcoming aboard anyone with a passion & enthusiasm for supporting Seabreeze in their Environmental Sustainability Initiatives: Eliminating single use plastic from our festival. Encouraging our stall holders & punters to invest in & support alternative utensils that are compostable or reusable.
Stakeholder/Sponsorship & Funding Working Group
This Working Group is welcoming aboard anyone with passion & enthusiasm for fundraising, making the festival financially viable and/or looking after our generous stakeholders & sponsors.
Festival Shaping Working Group
This Working Group will hit full swing mode in January and is welcoming aboard anyone with ideas and passion for adding to and strengthening the general output & activities of the festival and supporting the lead up preparations.
The Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival is a week of art, music and culture in May. It kicks off at Sunset Park on a Friday arvo/eve in early May, 'Sunset Park PM', followed by a full day of events along the Nightcliff foreshore, 'A Day on the Foreshore' and runs throughout the week 'Branching Out' into spaces and venues in the community who may not have the capacity to physically join us outdoors on the foreshore.
Seabreeze began as, and remains, a strongly volunteer and community supported festival. In 2004 a group of artists, small businesses and community organisations joined forces to create a community festival. Senior Kungarakan Elder (Litchfield area), Kath Mills was invited to join these initial meetings and named the potential festival 'Seabreeze'.
A year later the org became an incorporated, not for profit organisation, affectionately known as NAMCI - Nightcliff Arts, Music and Culture Incorporated and 2005 saw the inaugural Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival hit the foreshore with colour and culture.
The aim of the Festival has held strong in providing a local forum for all facets of the arts including visual arts, music, dance, circus, performance, spoken word, exhibitions, and workshops.
Performance platforms provide opportunities for our artists to grow and develop while encouraging cross cultural diversity and collaboration amongst our community. Staging an event such as this has been built on long standing collaborations and partnerships across the wider community.
PAST FESTIVAL TEAMS
2019 Development Manager
Shannon Millar
2019 Community Liaison
Bryn Wackett
Festival Coordinators
2019 - Kirstene Ost
2018 - Bryn Wackett
2017 - Melinda Trickey
2016 - Alex Galeazzi
2015 - Jenny Milne
2014 - Steve Lees
2013 - Bryn Wackett
2012 - Miki Ensbey
2011 - Andrew Arthur (inkind)/Miki Ensbey
2010 - Melodie Murphy
2009 - Andrew Arthur
2008 - Dixi Joy Bankier
2007, 2006, 2005 - Joint Voluntary Committee Members & their friends would take on & share ALL festival & site coordination roles in these years inkind. During this time, the festival grew and funding options for more helping hands came aboard.
Production & Site Logistics Coordinators
2019 - Ahva Dub
2018 - Miki Ensbey (early lead up) / Jo Edwards (later lead up)
2017 - Andrew Arthur/Duane Preston
2016 - Duane Preston/Angus Robson
2015 - Vanessa Spinelli/Angus Robson
2014 - Miki Ensbey
2013 - Ahva Dub
2012 - Christine Cleary
2011 - Andrew Arthur (Inkind)/Miki Ensby
2010 - Andrew Arthur (Inkind)
2009 - Andrew Arthur (Inkind)
2008 - Ben Convery
2007, 2006, 2005 - Paul Bayetto (inkind)
Volunteers Coordinator
2019 - Jeremy Garnett
2018 - Jade Erlandsen (early lead up) / Rebecca McLean (later)
2017 - Jeremy Garnett
2016 - Peter Burheim
2015 - Elise Fenn
2014 - Bryn Wackett
2013 - Shayde Douglas
2012 - Sarah Katz
Admin
2019 - Jeremy Garnett & Bryn Wackett
2018 - Melinda Pizanias
2017 - Melinda Trickey
2016 - Billee McGinley
2015 - August onwards - Billee McGinley
2014 - December onwards - Jenny Milne
Publicist
2016, 2015 - Sue Camilleri
2014 - Steve Lees (Inkind)
2013 - Bryn Wackett (Inkind)
2012 - Miki Ensbey/Andrew Arthur (Inkind)
2011 - Andrew Arthur/Miki Ensbey (Inkind)
2010 - Melodie Murphy (Inkind)
2009 - Andrew Arthur (Inkind)
2008 - Dixi Joy Bankier (Inkind)
Site Assistant Coordinator
2017 - Saul Dalton & Josh
2016 - Andi Egan
2015 - Vanessa Spinelli
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 - Greg Cocks
Food Stall Coordinator
2019 - Celina Padilha & Leanne Karaitiana
2018 - Celina Padilha
2017 - Angus Robson
2016, 2015, 2014 - Di Henry (Inkind in 2014)
2013 - Ahva Dubb (Inkind)
2012, 2011 - Ross Dudgeon
2010, 2009 - Traci Myles
Dance Stage Coordinator
2019 - Lizzi Webb & Kristy Ziolek
2018 - Jinu Mathew & Bryn Wackett
2017 - Jinu Mathew & Marita Smith
2016 - Catherine Hansen
2015 - Bryn Wackett
2014 - Jenny Milne
2013 - Thevi Chelliah/Jenny Milne/Bryn Wackett (Inkind)
2012 - Bryn Wackett (Inkind)
2011, 2010, 2009 - Ausdance NT (Inkind)
2008, 2007, 2006 - Ausdance NT & Corrugated Iron (Inkind)
2005 - Ausdance NT (Inkind)
Community Village Coordinator
2019 - Kim Yates
2018, 2017 - Jennifur Strudwick
2016, 2015 - Beck Bryen
2014 - Ulys Poirier
2013 - Shayde Douglas
2012 - Wolfie McBride (Inkind)
2011 - Billee McGinley (Inkind)
Blues On The Cliff presented by First Sunday Blues
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 - Andrew Arthur (Inkind)
Sand Sculpture Coordinator
2019 - Natasha Fyles & Staff
2018 - Natasha Fyles & Staff
2017 - Natasha Fyles, Sara Scrutton & Amrah Vuillermin
2016, 2015 - Sue Camilleri/Yogi Kathiravel
2014 - Margaret Johnson, Natasha Fyles MLA & Staff (Inkind)
2013 - Bryn Wackett, Natasha Fyles MLA (Inkind)
2012 - Sarah Katz (Inkind)
Witladla Larrakia Space
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 - June Mills (Inkind)
Campfire Jam & Sunset Music Space
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 - Kevin McCarthy (Inkind)
Top End Folk Stage
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 - Top End Folk Club (Inkind)
Jetty Art Space Exhibition Coordinator
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 - Traci Myles,
Jim McDougall & Nightcliff Community Bank
2012, 2011 - Traci Myles & friends (Inkind)
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 - Joint Voluntary Committee Members
Spoken Word Stage
2018 - Jennifer Dowling
2017 - Jennifer Dowling
2016 - NT Writers Centre
2015 - Joint Voluntary Committee Members
2014 - Top End Comedy Club
2013 - Paul Bayetto
Public Art Space Coordinator
2018 - Alison Dowell
2017 - Alison Dowell
2014 - Markus Dixon
2013 - Bryn Wackett/Markus Dixon (Inkind)
Urban Art Installation Coordinator
2018 - Hannah Illingworth & Taylor Smith
2017 - Hannah Illingworth
2016 - Hannah Illingworth
2015 - Markus Dixon
The Ripple Effect
2018 - Environment Centre NT
2017 - Bryn Wackett
Program Design
2019 - Adriana da Silva
2018 - Wes Franklin
2017 - UniPrint NT
2016, 2015, 2014 - Ness Cotton Designs
2013 - UniPrint NT, Charles Darwin University (Inkind)
2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 - Roka Graphics NT
Website Design
2016 - Caddie Brain & Brendan Phelan
2015, 2014 - Travis Taylor
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 - Melodie Murphy
#WasteWiseSeabreeze Team
2019 - Celina Padilha, Organics AG & NSF Enviro Working Group
2018 - NSF Enviro Working Group, Lakeside Drive Community Garden & Environment Centre NT - with special mention to Georgia Glen, Dirk Peek, Celina Padilha & Waste Free NT
2017 - NSF Enviro Working Group
NAMCI COMMITTEE for 2019 Festival:
Chair - Andrew Arthur
Vice Chair - Leigh Davis Morley
Treasurer - Katherine Marchment
Secretary - Jennifur Strudwick
General Committee Member - Celina Padilha
General Committee Member - Leanne Karaitiana
General Committee Member - Lia Gill
General Committee Member - Albert Dellabosca
General Committee Member - David Rourke
General Committee Member - Lash Lisson
General Committee Member - Marko Ogden
General Committee Member - Russell Smith
Members of the Association for 2019 Festival:
Meghan Bailey
Miki Ensbey
Jack Tinapple
Bryn Wackett - Public Officer
New Members & Membership Renewal welcome - CLICK HERE
WORKING GROUPS for 2019 Festival:
Enviro Sustainability Working Group
Chaired by: Celina Padilha
Bryn Wackett
Lia Gill - The Mulch Pit
David Rourke
Georgia Glen - Lakeside Drive Community Garden
Lou De Mattia - COOLmob
ALL WELCOME - Contact Celina nightcliffseabreeze@gmail.com
Sponsorship & Finance Working Group
Chaired by: Andrew Arthur
Katherine Marchment
Jennifur Strudwick
Russell Smith
Bryn Wackett
ALL WELCOME - Contact Andrew nightcliffseabreeze@gmail.com
Festival Shaping Working Group
Chaired by: Leanne Karaitiana
Celina Padilha
Nicole Burge
Jennifur Strudwick
Lash Lisson
Lee Davis Morley
ALL WELCOME - Contact Leanne nightcliffseabreeze@gmail.com
PAST COMMITTEES & MEMBERS:
Members of the Association for 2018 Festival:
Andrew Arthur
Meghan Bailey
Miki Ensbey
Jeremy Garnett
Anita Jonsberg
Barry Jonsberg
Vicki Kerrigan - Marketing & Promotion Support
Natalia Nour Obeid
Marko Ogden
Jasmina Sesar
Roy Smith
Russell 'Rusty Rhubarb' Smith
Peter Stretton
Jennifur Strudwick
Paz Tassone
Karen Thomas
Jane Tonkin
Felicity Watt
Bryn Wackett - Public Officer
2018 Festival Enviro Working Group
Chaired by: Celina Padilha
Bryn Wackett
Natalia Nour Obeid
Dirk Peek
Georgia Glen - Lakeside Drive Community Garden
PERUSE 2018 WASTE MANAGEMENT REPORT
2017 Festival Enviro Working Group
Chaired by: Andrew Arthur
Bryn Wackett
Vanessa Spinelli
Richard Willan - NT Field Naturalists
Jacqueline Taylor - Keep Top End Coasts Healthy
Billee McGinley
Jennifur Strudwick
Celina Padilha
Peter Stretton
PERUSE 2017 WASTE MANAGEMENT REPORT
PAST COMMITTEES for Festival Year:
2018
Sara Scrutton
Louise Weber
Jennifer Dowling
Sulal Mathai
Celina Padilha
Natalia Nour Obeid
Vicki Kerrigan
Karen Thomas
Jasmina Sesar
Paz Tassone
Felicity Watt
2017
Sara Scrutton
Bryn Wackett
Jane Tonkin
Felicity Watt
Vanessa Spinelli
Jennifer Dowling
Sulal Mathai
Roy Smith
2016
Frances Brougham
Sara Scrutton
Jane Tonkin
Bryn Wackett
Caddie Brain
Vanessa Spinelli
Lee Treacy
Andrew Arthur
2015
Janice McEwen
Jane Tonkin
Bethany Nolin
Billee McGinley
Jessie Davis
2014
Janice McEwen
Jane Tonkin
Bethany Nolin
Billee McGinley
Jessie Davis
2013
Andrew Arthur
Jane Tonkin
Bibiana Wong
Jennifur Strudwick
Jenny Milne
Billee McGinley
Chris McBride
2012
Andrew Arthur
Jane Tonkin
Bibiana Wong
Jennifur Strudwick
Jenny Milne
Miki Ensbey
Billee McGinley
Chris McBride
2011
Andrew Arthur
Jane Tonkin
Jennifur Strudwick
Miki Ensbey
Jenny Milne
2010
Andrew Arthur
Jennifur Strudwick
Miki Ensbey
Jane Tonkin
Traci Myles
Andrew Dembski
Melanie Reid
2009
Andrew Arthur
Melodie Murphy
Jennifur Strudwick
Jane Tonkin
Susan Lewis
Traci Myles
2008
Andrew Arthur
Frazer Tahau
Jurgen Mulzer
Pauline Joy
Paul Bayetto
Jane Tonkin
Jenelle Saunders
2007
Pauline Joy
Andrew Arthur
Kim Pradier
Caroline Tapp
Colin Simpson
Jenny Milne
Jane Tonkin
2006
Pauline Joy
Andrew Arthur
Paul Bayetto
Kim Pradier
Jenny Milne
Chelsea Collins
2005
Pauline Joy
Andrew Arthur
Paul Bayetto
Kim Pradier
Jenny Milne
Kerone Byrne
Chelsea Collins
Nina Ambjerg-Pedersen
2004 - Inaugural
Pauline Joy
Andrew Arthur
Paul Bayetto
Fabrizio Calafuri
Gwendolyn Castuikum
Kim Pradier
Caroline Tapp