The Black Days Will Finish
“I can feel my capability, my rights, my dreams. I can fight for them and I can reach them.”
“I can feel my capability, my rights, my dreams. I can fight for them and I can reach them.”
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 journalism upholding the NSW Multicultural Principles”.
Look who is the cover star for today’s edition of the Good Weekend inside the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age. Only our good friend and ally, Craig Foster.
Last night Addi Road hosted almost 300 people to the film premiere of ‘Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban.’ Full story and photos from the event here.
Premiere of a one-hour documentary about the escape of 15 young women from Kabul. Screening 6pm Friday 22 April here at Addi Road. All welcome.
Farhat Kohistani is making her protest. For the almost one million school-age girls now shut out of the education system by the Taliban. For the almost 15 million women trapped in her homeland beneath their oppressive rule.
International Women’s Day 2022. Theme: #BreaktheBias. How 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.
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.