Maria’s Story

Maria’s Story

Fragments and tears; big feelings in each silence that falls between the words. Maria Fotiadis has had a long history with Addi Road, going back to the early 1970s when the Greek community began gathering here in Marrickville, bringing to life what would be formally...
Add Road wins a NSW Multicultural Communications Award

Add Road wins a NSW Multicultural Communications Award

Last night we gathered together again as one when our film ‘Die. Or Die Trying: Escaping the Taliban’ won a NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Award. Our successful nomination was in the Public Interest Award’s category for “outstanding public interest...
Night Songs

Night Songs

‘Here Comes the Night’ sings out over the road out front of the Addi Road Food Pantry in Marrickville. A low-flying plane is coming in to land, adding to the Inner West soundtrack.   The old Them song is a 1960s classic, with Van Morrison’s voice exultant and oddly...
Waltzing Matilda

Waltzing Matilda

  Community can be a strange and unexpected thing. You can’t always advertise and promote or express it easily. Then something special happens – like last night – and everything about what we do and who we are comes together without us even trying.   We hope you...
After a Fashion

After a Fashion

Circular economies. We can all help in creating those. It’s a way of thinking that goes to the heart of Beth’s work at Reunion, her second-hand clothing store on Enmore Road in Newtown. And is one very good reason as to why she has come down to Addi Road in...