Word on the Street
March 31, 2021
Word on the Street – Poetry SLAM for all ages at Addi Road, Friday, 16th April, 6pm. Open Mic night.
Tag: COVID-19
Faces of Addi Road: Estelle
February 1, 2021
Estelle has been volunteering at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville for the last year. “It’s been fun,” she says. “The people are nice. There’s such a variety of people from all steps of life who volunteer here … “
Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer
January 21, 2021
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.”
Matthew’s Christmas Ecosystem
December 24, 2020
“There is more to it than the hampers. We’re helping people, and we’re helping one another. We’re bringing people together. Helping people has different meanings to different people,” Matthew says sagely. “It helped me just to be here.”
Not Forgotten – Addi Road’s Hampers of Hope and Mobilising for Mogo
December 22, 2020
“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.
Sonic Truth – Addi Road opens the vault and releases a music festival
November 26, 2020
Open the Vaults is the first music event of its kind in Sydney after a very hard year when so much has shut down and the arts and entertainment industries have been in crisis. It’s a calling-together of musical tribes and a celebration of community.
Sustaining Stories
November 13, 2020
It’s a big day out in Granville for Addison Road Community Organisation. The Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Sustainable Cities Awards for 2020 are under way – and we are in the running for recognition.
When the Premier came to Addi Road
November 7, 2020
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian visited Addi Road on Friday 6th November 2020 to see our food security and food rescue work in action.
Creativity and Mental Health in Tough Times – A Conversation
September 30, 2020
What do we make of ourselves in the time of Covid-19? What kind of face might we have behind our masks? What place does art and creativity play in our lives and how we handle ‘the new normal’?
Faces of Addi Road: Paul
September 17, 2020
“For me personally, I can see that it is not as bad as it could have been. I’m healthy; my friends are all well. I guess I am getting used to the new normal.”