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18 April 2025

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2025

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2025. Saturday 17 May. 11am to 6pm. Theme: “free expression”...
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8 April 2025

Ye Olde World

Addi Road is a helluva interesting place. On Monday nights the community centre comes alive to the clanks (metallic), clonks (wooden), shouts and groans (human) of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA).
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Candy Royalle
8 April 2025

Remembering Candy

Candy Royalle was a powerful voice, a poet, a storyteller, and a tireless champion for the visibility and empowerment of women artists of colour. A mural is being created in her honour at Addi Road.
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Keyna Wilkins, composer and musician, at Addi Road, February 2025
8 April 2025 / Human rights, Social Justice

Music of Joy and Resistance

"'Hearts for Gaza’ is not just about charity or politics. There's a musical side to it that draws in a different kind of audience. Through what we do as artists and musicians, we're able to show people that hopeful, positive change is still with us, still inside of us."
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19 February 2025 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice

Familiar Friends

Smriti and Kamal have come for Wednesday Night Lights. “We walked here,” Kamal says, though neither indicates quite how far that might be. As it so happens, they are five hours early...
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13 February 2025 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice

Making Connections

Making the connections between food relief, wraparound services, community and well-being at Addi Road’s Wednesday Night Lights.
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Photo: Carol at work mending garments with fellow volunteer Jen.
3 February 2025 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

A Stitch in Time

At the heart of our community is Carol, a dedicated volunteer whose passion for sustainability and helping others led to the creation of A Stitch in Time—a free mending program run through Addi Road. With a simple yet impactful mission, Carol provides anyone in the community with the opportunity to bring in clothing that needs minor alterations, mending, or patching, giving well-loved garments a second life instead of letting them end up in landfill.
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19 October 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

Love Is…

Each week Addi Road runs its Wednesday Night Lights to offer free sit-down meals with a host of wraparound services. We're grateful to our partners and everyone who comes along to make the night what it is.
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Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown and its monthly Cook-up, September 2024
12 October 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

Bringing the Community Together

Every month at Common Ground in Camperdown, Addi Road’s Food Pantry Cook-up brings the community together for a day filled with good food, warm company, and much-needed support.
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18 September 2024 / Arts & Culture, Human rights, Social Justice

Home Spirit

Each year on 17 September it is Australian Citizenship Day. Addi Road Community Organisation was honoured to welcome Tony Burke MP and over 200 people to take part in their citizenship ceremony in Sydney today – as well as celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ceremony as a vital part of Australian life.
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