Sarah Saleh (left) with Emily Radford and Cocoa the Conscious at our Addi Road ‘Word on the Street’ Poetry Slam from Youth Week. You can watch a video of the night here.
Addison Road Community Organisation is very happy to see our volunteers acknowledged this week at the Inner West Council’s 2021 Amy Large Volunteer Awards.
Living legends of multicultural children’s services in Sydney, Vivi Germanos Koutsounadis and Judy Finlason. Photo by Vivi Martin.
Emma, Sarah, Pokes, Will and Josh are down here again at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. Except for Sarah, who has come visiting her sister Emma, they all live in a big share-house in Newtown.
Addison Road Community Organisation is delighted to announce the creation of a new opportunity for Indigenous artists to showcase their work during NAIDOC Week.
The inaugural Addi Road Writers’ Festival announced itself as ‘An Unruly Idea’. Our slogan captured an undercurrent of idealistic disruption that charged the day with energy, marking out the nature of what will now be an annual event.
Addi Road Writers’ Festival takes place this coming Saturday afternoon. See here for panels, themes and times. There is a beautiful open area outside the hall where people can picnic and relax.
“All at once the torches flare / The inner door flies open / One by one they enter there / In every style of passion …” (Leonard Cohen – The Guests)
The Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2021 marks the first step towards an annual literary and storytelling event in Sydney’s Inner West: Saturday, 1st May, 12-6pm at Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville.
We came together at Addi Road recently to acknowledge the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st. Wild weather had forced us to delay the event by a week, but that only intensified the feeling; an energy that’s absolutely present in the video of you can see here now.
