The Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival 2010 with be the 6th festival held on the first weekend in May each year. Having now become an expected community event the festival attracts between 4 and 6 thousand people to the “Big Day” on the foreshore after a week of activities in and around Nightcliff.

The Nightcliff Seabreeze festival offers community groups an opportunity to share their work, skills and talents and its unique theme allows the whole community to take part. The community doesn’t just go to this show, they are the show!

Over the six years this festival has been running all budgets have been met, acquittals and funding requirements addressed and the committee have repeatedly run a successful, family friendly, local community event that just gets bigger and better each year.

The volunteer committee are understandably proud of this achievement - managing one of the largest local events on the NT arts entertainment calendar on a relatively small budget and continuing to build on success and grow with the community. Projects underway which reflect NAMC Inc's commitment to the community and to future growth include:

Seabreeze Website - http://www.nightcliffseabreeze.com to allow more efficient methods of communication with festival supporters/contributors, to increase the public profile of the festival and to provide an advertising base for sponsorship support

Festival planning procedures – To provide the committee with a formal event management structure and to ensure issues that arise each year are addressed effectively the following year.

Artists in Schools program – This program runs from February to May in collaboration with local schools. The festival provides the artist and materials to allow schools to be involved in the festival without the incursion of extra costs or pressure on teaching staff. The artist for 2011 is Christiaan Snoek. Planning has begun on this project to ensure schools have sufficient time to develop curriculum based activities.

Local Business Involvement Program – To ensure local businesses are supported by the festival, rather than being pressured for sponsorship, businesses are encouraged to utilise the festival as a promotional tool and to run sales, promotions or in store presentations over the festival week. Many of the local businesses have adopted this option and then chosen  as well to provide support through prize donations and in kind supply/support. This in turn builds the event list for the festival build up week and raises community awareness without necessitating large advertising campaigns. (If everyone is talking about it, they already know about it!)

Wind Turbine Project - In collaboration with Charles Darwin University and Lash Computing, and thanks to the donation of a wind turbine from a festival supporter, the festival aims to produce more power than it uses, thereby ensuring the festival continues to give back to the community.

At this stage the cost of transporting the turbine need to be met and the committee are currently seeking suitable funding opportunities. Charles Darwin University and Lash computing have agreed to partner in this project and to provide the technical and engineering requirements needed. A site is still to be established.

Community Village – A more sedate environment to allow community groups to take part in ways more suitable to their individual organization, the community village provides a space for community groups to share what they do. There are information stalls, school fundraising stalls, wandering minstrels, a clothes swap and even story time for the kids.