Moana Market
A second-Sunday market inside the Pioneers Memorial Hall at Moana, run by the community association that exists to keep the hall standing.
About this market
The Moana Market runs inside the Pioneers Memorial Hall, one of the more noticeable buildings above the Moana beachfront, on the second Sunday of every month from 9am to 1.30pm. The hall is the reason the market exists rather than the other way round, which is unusual enough to be worth stating up front.
Small, indoors, and the same faces most months
This is a hall market rather than a lawn full of gazebos, which in an exposed coastal suburb south of Adelaide is a sensible arrangement in either season. The stall list has a stable core the association names on its own site, including a badge and magnet maker, a knitwear stall, a handmade design stall and a rock and mineral seller, and around them the usual monthly rotation: a gluten free bakery, hair accessories, arts and crafts, cards, soy candles, jewellery and photography. There is a sausage sizzle. The market's scale suits a Sunday morning walk down from the Nashwauk Crescent car parks rather than a dedicated trip across town. The hall is a City of Onkaparinga community venue, which is how a building this size stays available to a volunteer association at all.
Market at a glance
Plenty of community markets say they support a local cause. This one is the local cause.
The Moana and Seaford Community Association was established for a single purpose: to raise the funds that manage and maintain the Moana Pioneers Memorial Hall. The monthly market is one of the ways that happens, and it runs inside the very building it pays to keep open. Buy a jar of something at a stall and you have contributed to the roof over the stall.
Good to know before you go
Second Sunday, 9am to 1.30pm, and it is a compact market so an hour covers it comfortably. Bring cash, because a hall market of this size will not have card facilities on every table. The hall is on Nashwauk Crescent close to the Moana beachfront, with parking on the crescent and the surrounding streets, and the beach itself is a short walk if you want to stretch the morning out. Moana is at the southern end of the Adelaide metropolitan coast, so the McLaren Vale cellar doors are a few minutes inland. This is Kaurna country.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When is the Moana Market held?
- The second Sunday of the month, 9am to 1.30pm, at the Moana Pioneers Memorial Hall on Nashwauk Crescent.
- Who runs it?
- The Moana and Seaford Community Association Inc, which was set up to raise funds to manage and maintain the Pioneers Memorial Hall the market runs in.
- What sort of stalls turn up?
- A regular core of local traders covering badges and magnets, knitwear, handmade designs, rocks and minerals, alongside a gluten free bakery, hair accessories, arts and crafts, cards, soy candles, jewellery, photography and a sausage sizzle.