Tunarama 2022
60th Anniversary Festival
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd
January 2022
Welcome Hazel Manning - Quest Coordinator
Hazel has joined the Tunarama team in a volunteer capacity to manage both versions of the 2022 Ambassador Quest. Hazel brings a wealth of community experience to the role and can't wait to get out there and find our next Ambassador and Senior Ambassador. Please get in touch with Hazel here.
2022 Ambassador Quest now open
Want to become the next Tunarama Ambassador? Tiaras are optional - but you will end up with a comprehensive portfolio of skills and wide experience in the community to further your career or enhance your life. It's time to get involved with this iconic and influential program that means so much to our community.
2022 Helping Hand Senior Quest now open
A very warm welcome to the wonderful Helping Hand who have come on board to sponsor the Senior Ambassador Quest. Helping Hand are a leading, South Australian aged care service provider who have a strong presence in Port Lincoln and the wider LEP community. Please visit them here www.helpinghand.org.au or contact the Port Lincoln office on (08) 8683 7501 located at 15 Liverpool Street, Port Lincoln.
'Helping Hand deliver personalised and professional services to meet the needs of older people from all backgrounds. Their core values of compassion, respect, excellence and community show in everything they do'.
The Senior Ambassador Quest is very similar to the traditional Ambassador Quest, but you must be aged 60 (or older) on July 1 2021. We can help match you with a sponsor and/or beneficiary if you're not sure how to begin that process. Great prizes, new friendships and loads of fun are guaranteed. Go to the Ambassador Quest page for more information.
How can I get involved in the Quests?
If you'd like to be an entrant, sponsor or recipient charity, please contact Tunarama NOW - (08) 8682 1300 or admin@tunarama.net. Or visit our Ambassador Quest page for more information or click on the Apply Here button to email us direct.
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Tunarama-Festival
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
2022 Quest Coordinator: Hazel Manning
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
