Share the Dignity at Addi Road
April 10, 2024
Therese turns to everyone and speaks by rote, emphasising a phrase that means a lot to her… “To every women and girl in need, a bit of dignity.”
Tag: feminism
Every Day is Women’s Day
March 7, 2024
“The multicultural people that come here make me feel good. I learn every day from them. It’s something I really want to talk about and share: how there are all these different people coming to Addi Road; how much it inspires me, especially the powerful women that are around me all the time in this place.”
The Black Days Will Finish
March 4, 2024
“I can feel my capability, my rights, my dreams. I can fight for them and I can reach them.”
Sisters
February 7, 2024
An organisation is, as the word suggests, an organism. And a cellular level examination is necessary to be sure of its historic record and ongoing good health… But where do you factor in loyalty, sharing, laughter, the questing philosophy of a good conversation that is never quite finished, but somehow relevant and inspiring for another day to come?
Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia
August 21, 2023
Tune in to Dr Tanya Paterson explaining how Tradeswomen Australia and Addi Road are combining forces to inspire and help women to consider the possibility of becoming tradespeople and apprentices. She speaks here with Kate Saap of FBi Radio’s morning program ‘Up For It!’
Seeing is Believing
August 12, 2023
Work opportunities and vocational possibilities for women as trainees and apprentices are in huge demand across Australia. Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia are combining forces to show how you can become “a Jill of all trades”, ensuring stable jobs, good money and portable skills that can gain women quality employment anywhere they go.
Bread and Flowers
July 27, 2023
One hour left till closing time at the Addi Road Food Pantry. There’s just enough time to share some flowers. Two of our volunteers, Annerie and Ros, stand outside in a last splash of afternoon sunlight, making use of a bench to carve up a thick crop of purple succulents that “some nice man” has randomly donated..
Addi Road Writers Festival 2022 – The People
May 13, 2022
Here’s an A to Z of all the people appearing at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022. Poets, storytellers, journalists, memoirists, cartoonists and more.
International Women’s Day 2022
March 12, 2022
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.
Reach for the Sky
March 12, 2022
We’re marking International Women’s Day 2022 with yet another play on our ‘Addi Road meets Abbey Road’ image-making. Our fourth fab female Beatle for the morning is AWOL, so photographer Dani Harte encourages Kween and her kids to have fun while we wait.