Tunarama 2022
60th Anniversary Festival
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd
January 2022
2022 Ambassador Quest now open
Want to become the next Tunarama Ambassador? There's no more tiaras but you will end up with a stunning portfolio of skills and wide experience in the community to further your career or just enhance your life. It's time to lodge your interest.
2022 60th Anniversary Senior Quest now open
To celebrate our 60th year, we're holding a very special, one-off, Senior Ambassador Quest to celebrate our wonderful older community members.
The Senior Quest will be similar to the traditional Ambassador Quest, but you must be aged 60 (or older) on July 1 2021. You will need to find an organisation to sponsor your journey and source an EP-registered charity to raise funds for. Great prizes, new friendships and loads of fun are guaranteed.
How can I get involved?
If you'd like to be an entrant, sponsor or recipient charity, please contact Tunarama NOW - (08) 8682 1300 or admin@tunarama.net. Or click on 'Ambassador Quest' below for more information.
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Tunarama Festival
A little bit of history
On September 16th 1961, a small group of enthusiastic & passionate locals formed a Committee to help promote the benefits to the region of the emerging tuna industry, and so Tunarama was born.
This festival date of the last weekend in January originally coincided with the fishing fleet putting to sea. The fleet sail past, which remains an integral part of every Festival, was a way for friends and family to wave goodbye to their loved ones who were likely to be away at sea for months at a time. A local priest stood on the Town Jetty and blessed the fleet as it sailed away.
Nowadays, with increased technology and the advent of the aquaculture industry - which has seen the end of the tuna poling method - the tuna fishing operations in Port Lincoln have changed but the Festival has remained an eagerly anticipated date on the region's Summer calendar.
Since its inception, the festival has gone from strength to strength - becoming South Australia's largest regional festival and one of the longest continuously running community events in Australia. In 2020, the SA Government announced that the Tunarama Festival had injected approximately $3.1million and created between 600 - 800 jobs into the LEP region. More than 15,000 people attended over the 3 days, with approx. 35% being visitors from SA, nationally & internationally.
The Tunarama Festival is organised by the Port Lincoln Tunarama Incorporated (PLTI) and managed by an annually elected volunteer Committee. Funded almost entirely by sponsorship, grants and donations from individuals, businesses and our community, Tunarama relies on the dozens of volunteers who help make the Festival come to life each year.
2021 Tunarama Committee
2022 Festival Coordinator:
Jane Intini
Office Bearers
President & Public Officer: Sharon Humenick
Vice President and Office Manager: Barb Davies
Secretary: Carolyne Olsen
Treasurer (acting): Nel Taylor
Committee Members:
Belinda Currie (2020/2021 Tunarama Ambassador)
Doug Graske
Noel Linsell
Janice Regan
Debbie Wright
Mike Wright
Life Members:
Barbara Carey; Mic Gill; Sharon Humenick; Noel Linsell; Gary Maclure;
Deb McLeery; Ian McLeery; Kevin Page; Bob Prout & June Prout
