The Door is Open
January 8, 2024
Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville is open again for businesss. On a warm, drizzly Sydney day we welcome everyone as our community comes together.
Tag: food security
New Spirits in a New Place
July 26, 2023
Colombian students shopping at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville: “This place here… it’s a really good place.”
One Great Gift Deserves Another
June 28, 2023
Judy is a volunteer for the new Wednesday Night Lights shift at Addi Road Food Pantry. Working in tandem with the Street Side Medics service we are seeing a new kind of customer and many people in need.
Restoration, Community, Unity
May 31, 2023
We answer inequality and social struggle, environmental concerns and cultural isolation with bread and ideas, with political lobbying and food relief work in tandem with film nights, artist gallery shows, and public events like the Addi Road Writers’ Festival.
Little Birds
May 6, 2023
Addi Road Food Pantry here in Marrickville is closing for another day. A barefoot schoolboy nearby, standing behind a tree, makes high calling sounds. “Is that a bird? Is that a bird?” a couple of women call out, as if they can’t see him.
May Day spirit
May 1, 2023
Today is May Day. Also known as Labour Day and Eight Hour Day. In Marrickville we will maintain just a little of the May Day spirit in a conversation between the novelist Alan Fyfe and the poets DG Lloyd and Magdalena Ball at our Addi Road Writers’ Festival.
Motion Pictures
September 8, 2022
It’s been a very busy month at Addi Road. Meet our new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Melissa Holmes. And hear about our new collaboration with The Bower, as well as a host of Addi Road initiatives.
Impressions of Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022
June 3, 2022
Some behind-the-scenes insights from writers who attended, participated and volunteered at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022.
When It All Adds Up
May 31, 2022
Anthony Albanese calls Addi Road “the heart and soul of the Inner West”. We congratulate him as our local member for Grayndler and our 31st Prime Minister.
Addi Road Writers Festival 2022 – Some Kind of Day
May 19, 2022
Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 is over for another year. All that’s left to do is pack up a few chairs and clean Gumbramorra Hall and the Greek Theatre, although we did most of that last Saturday night as a full moon rose over us.