Building Resistance

by Mark Mordue | Apr 13, 2022

Okay, okay, it’s still only a whisper and a rumour. But Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 is coming. Put down Saturday 14 May in your social diary and vote with your presence here in Marrickville for a more interesting and open conversation about literature, art and...

Walk This Way

by Mark Mordue | Mar 22, 2022

It’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Down at what’s affectionately known as Addi Road in Marrickville, a community is weaving itself together, celebrating the day despite a drizzly early morning start in Sydney.  People are...

After the Flood

by Mark Mordue | Mar 12, 2022

Everything is moving. Trucks are backing up, reverse sensors beeping; men are joking together in the last rays of sunlight as they work right across a dead-end street in the semi-industrial area of Clyde in Sydney’s western suburbs. Amar Singh, Founder of Turbans 4...

Addi Road meets Abbey Road

by Mark Mordue | Feb 28, 2022

Taking our cues from the iconic cover for The Beatles’ Abbey Road, Addison Road Community Organisation has started work on a fresh visual project with an ever-expanding supergroup we’ve been referring to as The Peoples. The title of The People’s new album? Addi Road,...

Many Make Us One

by Mark Mordue | Feb 11, 2022

Addi Road depends on its volunteers. Each one makes up the many, and the many come together to make us one.   Working in shifts, they naturally forge close friendships and unique teams that have their own personality and working style.   Without them we could not run...