“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.”
Last night Addi Road hosted almost 300 people to the film premiere of ‘Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban.’ Full story and photos from the event here.
Another big day at Addi Road in Marrickville, preparing for the premiere of our documentary ’DIE. OR DIE TRYING. ESCAPING THE TALIBAN’.
Premiere of a one-hour documentary about the escape of 15 young women from Kabul. Screening 6pm Friday 22 April here at Addi Road. All welcome.
Farhat Kohistani is making her protest. For the almost one million school-age girls now shut out of the education system by the Taliban. For the almost 15 million women trapped in her homeland beneath their oppressive rule.
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.
Change your channel to be part of the new series, ‘The Return of Addi Road’. All your old favourites are back along with plenty of guest stars and a community cast of thousands. Time to turn on!
I meet Fury and Sorrow in the Inner West of Sydney. They have fled Afghanistan by different paths and means. Fury has been here six days; Sorrow six weeks. Old friends come together again.
Radio National’s Fran Kelly came to Addi Road to interview Marwa MoeEeen about how she engineered her remarkable escape from Aghanistan with her family and 15 fellow female university students.
Those we remember at Addi Road, on our Honour Roll for Peace, range from a former prime minister to anti-conscription activists, Vietnam War veterans to musicians and poets, Indigenous Elders and human rights campaigners.
