DROMKEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

What is a Volunteer?

Volunteering is an activity which takes place through not for profit organizations and is undertaken not for financial gain, is done of your own free will, is of benefit to the community and is not to be considered a precondition of paid employment.

Why Volunteer?

Volunteering gives you the opportunity to actively enhance the quality of community life. Dromkeen acknowledges that volunteers have worthwhile skills, life experience and expertise that is a valuable resource and has made a commitment to support volunteers.

Volunteering at Dromkeen can provide you with the opportunity to:

• Be part of one of the worlds unique galleries
• Share your skills
• Learn new skills
• Develop employment networks
• Stay active and involved
• Give something back to the community
• Simply have fun
• Engage in work considered to be worthwhile

Book Conversation Workshop Volunteers

Some Possible Tasks

SUNDAY AFTERNOONS

• Sunday from 1pm -4pm
• Take visitors around, welcome and show them the exhibitions, explain history, grounds etc

MAILOUTS

• Fill envelopes with information on up and coming events at Dromkeen, which are then sent to schools throughout Victoria

ARCHIVAL WORK

Some of the tasks that would be undertaken alongside collection staff

• Sorting matt frames for artwork
• Assisting in packaging for traveling exhibitions

HANGING EXHIBITION

• Working together as a team with collection staff to correctly hang artwork in any or all of the gallery spaces

CARING FOR BOOK COLLECTION

• Dusting and sorting the library of children’s literature and picture books

 
Volunteers at the art room clean up

These are just some of the selection of work you can be involved in and training will be included in all activities.