Join the Zombie March against poverty as part of the national week of action, “Break the Poverty Machine”: 3-5pm, Saturday 13th of March, Addison Road Community Centre. Come in black, and get dusted with flour to become one of the living dead. Event will be filmed.
“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.”
“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.
“I do associate art with politics. I do sing political songs; but not pamphlet songs. I try to raise awareness of issues. I try to arouse critical thinking. I try to promote all the voices that are suppressed or that are not given an outlet.” – Justo Diaz
“If I weren’t in community housing I’d be out in the streets. If I could not get good food at the prices I can here at the Food Pantry I’d starve. I’m separated, but I still have to look after the kids. They come stay with me. How can you sit at a table with your kids and have them say ‘I’d like something to eat’, and you can’t provide it? I’m eating now because of this place. I’m feeding my kids a decent a meal.”
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.
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’?
As Christmas approaches, we felt it was important we remember our Community.a.Fair event during Mental Health Month last October.
