Addi Road Writers Festival 2022 – The People

by Mark Mordue | May 13, 2022

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 takes place on Saturday 14 May. We begin at 12 midday and end at nightfall. Two venues are being used at the community centre. Twelve panels, over 30 writers in conversation and another ten ‘hot spots’ with speakers,...

Easy Rider

by Mark Mordue | Apr 13, 2022

Easy Rider? Get your social justice motor running? Or at least pedalling into action on your electric bike… Jennifer Killen is the force behind The Fair Trade Emporium. She’s also the beloved teacher and guiding light for ‘ZOOM Aunties’, the Addi Road program...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination @ Addi Road

by Mark Mordue | Apr 16, 2021

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...

Faces of Addi Road: Sebastian

by Mark Mordue | Sep 18, 2020

Do you know the lyrics to the song Lost in Music? “Lost in music, caught in trap, no turning back.” Well, it is the opposite of that for Sebastian. Music is the only true home he has. Hailing from Cali in Colombia, he has been living in Sydney now for seven months....

Root and Branch – ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ Today

by Mark Mordue | May 25, 2019

Rosanna Barbero, CEO of Addison Road Community Centre Organisation, in pre-conference conversation with Councillor Anna York, Inner West Council. Rethinking the Urban Forest. Photo by Mark Mordue. * Nathan Moran, the Chief Executive Officer for the Metropolitan...