Our theme is ‘Cost of Living’ for the 2024 Addi Road Writers’ Festival. Financial costs are just the start of what that phrase really means. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, we increasingly know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Taking stock of the status quo, we need to think more broadly. What is the existential cost of continually extracting from people’s lives when they struggle to get by? The true worth of maintaining our humanity and sense of connection to a community (local, national, global)? The worth of our creative relationships and our stories? The restorative and liberating role of art, music and literature in our lives in the face of disempowerment, confusion and horror?

Through writing and other forms of storytelling we receive affirmations as well as visions of the future. And it’s through conversation that we develop a shared sense of who and what we are – and what our world can be.

Presented by Addison Road Community Organisation (‘Addi Road’), Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2024 features talks and panels about books, writing, politics and ideas, accompanied by spoken word and music performances on site here at the community centre in Sydney’s Marrickville.

Thanks to Inner West Council for funding support. Thanks also to our bookseller on the day, Berkelouw Books Leichhardt.

$25 online / $30 on the day / $10 students and unemployed

Workshops additional: $10 / $5 concession

tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/addi-road-writers-festival-2024