Spotlight on Claire Morris
Claire Morris lives and breathes live music. As an experienced entertainment manager and artist liaison, she founded One Hundred Thousand Welcomes in March 2022, an entertainment management service for venues across the Northern Beaches.
You'll find Claire at gigs across the Beaches, looking after the bookings, promotion and performance delivery - or just supporting her favorite bands. Mostly with her current venue, Avalon Beach RSL, but also consulting with other local venues like Dee Why RSL and Label at Brookvale. Previously, Claire brought live music to The Razza at Narrabeen RSL until it closed in 2022 due to the impacts of Covid.
Claire has worked with national and international acts from Lime Cordiale to You Am I and Ash Grunwald.
Our creative community
The Northern Beaches is home to a higher than average percentage of artists, creatives and cultural workers.
Our local creative community generated $1,16m in economic output and $790 million in value added for the Northern Beaches Council area in 2018/19 (4.2% of Greater Sydney's total Cultural and Creative Sector value). Our artists and creatives are the drivers of a vibrant local economy.
The Northern Beaches creative sector has the 2nd highest number of jobs in NSW for specialised design and photographic services, book and magazine publishing and arts education and the 3rd highest number of jobs in NSW for architects, artists, musicians, writers and performers. Our creative economy supported 7,050 local jobs (6.5% of total jobs in the LGA) and provided employment for 13,207 residents (8.5% of all employed residents) in 2018/19.
Find out more about our local Northern Beaches cultural and creative sector.
Our Local Creatives
Each month we showcase some of the talented people who live and work in our community, exploring the diversity of artistic and creative practices on the Northern Beaches.
Find more of our creative community on Instagram through the hashtag #creativenorthernbeaches. With 5000+ posts, join in and use the hashtag to share your own local creative practice.
If you would like to apply to be or nominate a Local Creative, please email us at creative@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au
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