Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival returns to the foreshore
Excitement was in the air as hundreds of people welcomed the return of the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival. See all the pics here.
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Hundreds of people pulled up camp chairs and lay down picnic blankets to settle in for an afternoon of tasty treats, free entertainment and beautiful dry season weather on the Nightcliff Foreshore.
Saturday marked day two of the annual Seabreeze Festival and it was packed with Top End families, tourists and performers.
The Belyuen community was eager to walk through the arts and crafts stalls of the festival, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own piece, Our Dreamings Are Our Strength.
A spokeswoman for the group said the piece was a combined effort from Belyuen School and the community and they had entered it into the festival’s competition.
“We’re pretty excited,” she said.
Performances from the Baby Ballet studio, Rosebery Primary School and the Darwin Performance Academy drew the crowd’s attention to the stage.
The oldest of DPA’s students rocked out to Wolfmother’s Joker and the Thief, while the youngest of the Academy’s pupils melted hearts with a sweet performance to Disney’s Encanto soundtrack.
Decked in simple tees emblazoned with ‘super’ on them, more than 30 Rosebery Primary School students delivered an uplifting performance encouraging self-acceptance.
Emcee and comedian Brent Watkinson applauded the students’ speedy five-minute costume changes.
“I can’t even do that myself, sometimes,” he joked.
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Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival brings local talent to the foreshore
A celebration of the Top End’s community, culture, food and fun has blown back into town, with the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival hitting the foreshore this weekend.
Comedian Brent Watkinson said he was stoked to see the event thriving again after Covid-19 inflicted setbacks.
“It’s the first big Seabreeze for a few years now and I’m excited to see the people’s festival come back,” he said.
“The best thing about Seabreeze is it showcases so many different types of arts — you’ve got dancing there, you’ve got different community groups, you’ve got comedians … all sorts of pickings.”
The free family-friendly festival, which began in 2005, will feature much of the NT’s best talent, with music, dance, visual arts and stalls from makers and community groups.
Visitors will also be able to tuck into a meal as the sun sets, with an array of food vans and boutique bars set up at the festival.
There will be a range of competitions, including sand sculpture and the Jetty Art Space competition.
Darwin rapper Yung Milla’s first time at the festival will be as one of Saturday’s headline acts.
“I’m just keen to see the people, see what it turns out, and the weather is really good so I feel like it’s gonna be a good show,” he said.
Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival runs from 5pm to 10pm on Friday, from 2pm to 10pm on Saturday and from 2pm to 8pm on Sunday at various spots along the foreshore.
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