“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.
Please a look at the new Addison Road Community Organisation page as it appears in the latest issue of City Hub Sydney. We talk about our upcoming event to mark the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, next Sunday, March 21st from 2-6pm at Addi Road in Marrickville.
Tune in here to Rosanna Barbero discussing the Inner West Multicultural Network’s #RacismNOTWelcome campaign with Colin Hesse of Radio Skid Row.
“When I saw the story on TV I saw your van, I saw the writing. And these people I knew getting their food.”
Sara M. Saleh is the very recent winner of the prestigious 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. She supports our new #RACISMNOTWELCOME street sign campaign and relates it to her life and poetry.
A bold new anti-racist campaign devised by the Inner West Multicultural Network in partnership with Addison Road Community Organisation.
Towards the end of 2020 our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore, reckoned he’d been working so hard the time had come to drag him away “in a straitjacket singing that Donna Summer song, ‘Enough is Enough (I can’t go on no more!)’. I mean, it has been a pretty full-on year.”
“The hardest part is that the majority of people are still learning how to ask for help. Even after all this time it does not come naturally to them.” – Sallianne McClelland, Mobilising for Mogo, #Hampers of Hope at Addi Road.
Celia shops very regularly at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. She recently shared her recipes for a month of beautiful meals created from the rescued food she bought here.
