One Fine Evening in April

by Mark Mordue | Apr 23, 2022

Last night Addi Road hosted almost 350 people to the film premiere of Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban. An Addi Road Production, the film details the gripping story of 15 young women forced to make their escape from Kabul as the Taliban enter the city and...

Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban

by Mark Mordue | Apr 13, 2022

PREMIERE SCREENINGWhen: Friday, 22 April 22 at 6pm Where: Gumbramorra Hall, Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville RSVP: info@addiroad.org.au Entry to screening is free. You are invited to attend the premiere screening...

Farhat and Her Love of School

by Mark Mordue | Mar 25, 2022

Farhat Kohistani is making her protest. For the almost one million school-age girls shut out of the education system by the Taliban. For the almost 15 million women trapped beneath their oppressive rule in her homeland. “The Taliban have closed the door for...

International Women’s Day 2022

by Mark Mordue | Mar 12, 2022

International Women’s Day 2022.Theme: #BreaktheBiasHow do we make a picture that tells this story? Simply by inviting those women nearest us on an ordinary day at Addi Road in Marrickville. So who is here? A group of young women who journeyed the hard way to freedom...

A meeting with Fury and Sorrow

by Mark Mordue | Nov 19, 2021

I meet Fury and Sorrow in the Inner West of Sydney. They have fled Afghanistan by different paths and means. Fury has been here six days; Sorrow six weeks. Old friends come together again. I talk to Sorrow for a long time in a street-food café inside the grounds of...