The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Management Committee held thier annual ‘Friends of the Gallery’ Morning Tea Meeting on Wednesday, 9th Feb, 2022, at the Eudunda Hall.
The ‘Friends of the Gallery’ Morning Tea marks the birthday of the founding of the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery, and as has been tradition, the current Eudunda Citizen of the Year, Helen Schiller was asked to cut the cake to mark the occasion.
Helen Schiller Cuts the Cake at Friends of the Gallery Morning Tea 2022
To a smaller gathering than the previous year, due to a spike in COVID warnings causing some last minute cancellations, Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Management Committee Chairperson Dot Bonner spoke of challenges and triumphs during the year, and of the exciting things planned for the year ahead by its Volunteers and Committee.
Chairperson Dot Bonner Explains Future Plans at the Friends of the Gallery Morning Tea 2022
The Morning Tea is also traditionally where friends annual membership is paid, and Dot explained that Membership has remained the same for the last 25 years at $10, but in that time everything has risen in cost the Committee we will be increasing membership slightly next year.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO STILL SUPPORT THE GALLERY One year Friends of the Gallery this year remains at $10 or the 3 year membership for $30
or consider becoming a ‘Gold’ Friend of the Gallery for $100
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Web Shop is Open Aug 5th 2021
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery (EFHG) had been planning for quite some time to sell some of the books they have online.
Chairperson of the Gallery, Peter Herriman explained that he and Gallery volunteer Samuel Doering who is currently in London, having successfully completed his undergraduate studies at the New College of the Humanities, had been collaborating online to establish the online sale of books. Peter explained,
“The Gallery has been going for approximately 24 years, and has had a ‘web presence’ quite early on, since the days of the Southern Goyder Telecommunications Network (SGTN) in 1999 to 2000. They took on thier own web identity about 2001, and it remains an active website, sharing news about the Gallery.
“Adding the online sales is a significant step for the Gallery. Samuel & I launched the shop part of the website last Thursday Night without much ‘fanfair’ locally.
“Samuel had done a fantastic amount of work posting regularly, with fantastic research, stories and photos on the Heritage Gallery’s Facebook page over the previous year, and built up a great contact network. When Samuel posted the advert (shown above), we were very happy to see that people were keen to find books about our region, and were snapping them up immediately.
“I truly believe it has been Samuel’s hard work in promoting the Heritage Gallery in the first place which had allowed his post to be seen by so many through Social Media that saw the immediate response we have had. You can image that Samuel and I were beaming from ear to ear.
“Having the online shop will help ‘Future Proof’ the Gallery, especially in the current turbulent times of COVID lock-downs where the Gallery cannot be open, at least we can still spread the word about our great district to the rest of the world through our books.
“We would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to those who made early purchases and to let you know that the books will be on thier way real soon.”
You too can explore the web shop, it only has 11 book titles at the moment, with more to come and if you are local you can still buy online, any time of the day or night and pick the books up when the Gallery is open without incurring a shipping fee. Please also tell others about this new service.
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery is run by volunteers and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm.
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery has four window displays at the front of the building.
This time we feature one of the windows on the left of our main entrance (where Caroline Reese who reported for the Eudunda Observer used to operate from).
Hat Display at the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
Thank you to Volunteer and Committee Member Delilah Balmer for this great display. Well Done!
If you haven’t had a look in the Gallery for quite a while, Pop in! Open Friday, Saturday and Sundays every week.
Please note that our open times are: Friday: 10am-2pm Saturday: 10am-2pm Sunday: 10am-2pm
The Gallery windows display was busier than usual our window dresser this month has also featured the ANZAC service and the Air Force 100 – Centenary of Air Force in our front window.
Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Window Display Feature ANZAC Day & 100 years of RAAF
On 31 March 2021, the Royal Australian Air Force marked 100 years of service to Australia and on April 25th Australia Remembers with the National ANZAC Day services.
Thank you to Volunteer and Committee Member Delilah Balmer for this great display. Well Done!
The Gallery would also like to thank the generosity of John Stephens, President of the Eudunda RSL for the loan of the Airforce uniforms used in the display.
If you haven’t had a look in the Gallery for quite a while, Pop in! Open Friday, Saturday and Sundays every week.
Please note that our open times are: Friday: 10am-2pm Saturday: 10am-23pm Sunday: 10am-2pm
