Auction 2025: Safari!
Animals on the savanna do it, and we do, too! Coexisting through a variety of complex relationships, interactions, and adaptations allows them – and us – to thrive. We’re here to seek the mix that works for each of us. Let’s have some fun with Auction 2025: Safari! as we migrate through our lives.
Find the Auction Team table with information, updates, and volunteer opportunities in Kreves Hall through October.
Our largest annual non-pledge fundraiser for the operating budget, yes, BUT … also a chance to score jams and jewelry, puzzles and some of your favorite things! Is your social calendar feeling poorly? This is your opportunity to bid on dinners and events galore-ly!
Questions? See below for details and links for tickets, donation forms:
- Silent and Live – What does it mean?
- Auction 2025 home page
- Tickets
- What can I donate?
- Deadlines for all donation submissions and item drop off (if applicable)
ONLINE/SILENT AND LIVE formats. What does that mean??
Online/Silent: A selection of items will be offered on the Auction bidding site for online-only bidding from 4:00pm Thursday Oct. 30 to 8:30am Sunday Nov. 2. Tickets to music and plays, jewelry, puzzles, family-friendly activities, homemade jams and breads, bike rides, committee/team baskets, clothing, fix-it advice and services, and more! Find what your heart desires and hone your bidding – and out-bidding – skills!
Live: Saturday evening Nov. 1. Channel your favorite safari animal or come outfitted for viewing from your jeep (optional but fun)! Start with heavy hors d’oeuvres and drinks at 5:30pm, and head to the Sanctuary at 7:00pm for Live bidding on dinners, drink-tasting, events and activities, and a vacation spot or two! Facilitated by our favorite wry-and-dry-humored auctioneers Toni and Allan Morgan. Raise your bid number high – and keep it up! Children will have their fun, too. Childcare with dinner and activities!
AUCTION HOME PAGE:
The Auction home page provides navigation to all that you’ll need to register and purchase tickets, access donation forms, check out the catalog of Auction items, and review the calendar of events.
TICKETS:
Online/Silent only: Tickets/Registration – $5. Find what your heart desires and hone your bidding – and out-bidding – skills! Oct. 30, 4:00pm – Nov 2, 8:30am
Live: Tickets – $15 covers Silent and Live with food and drink. Saturday evening Nov. 1. Food at 5:30pm; Live bidding 7:00pm. Channel your favorite musical theme or song and come dressed in character (optional but fun)! Childcare with dinner and activities! If you need childcare, please purchase your tickets soon with childcare request noted so we can plan appropriate coverage.
DONATIONS and forms:
- What can I donate? So many options! Start with what you’re interested in or what you’re good at doing or sharing! Auction donation suggestions
- Please submit your Live and Silent donations as soon as you’re able! in order to help us post items as we receive them and to prep for the Live auction.
- Donate items or services
- Donate parties or events (and don’t forget to check the parties and events calendar for conflicts)
DEADLINES, hard deadlines!
- Register/purchase tickets early! But if you must delay, deadlines are: Live auction walk-ins until 6:30pm Nov. 1 at the church; Silent online purchase until 9:00pm Nov. 1
- Live auction donation submissions due Saturday Oct. 18
- Silent auction donation submissions due Thursday Oct. 23
- Delivery of items to church: Sunday Oct. 26, 8:30 – 11:30am OR Wednesday Oct. 29, 10:00am – 1:00pm. Please contact auction@dupageuuchurch.org if you cannot deliver your items during these times.
INFO and QUESTIONS
Contact auction@dupageuuchurch.org.