Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 happens on Saturday 14 May. Our theme this year is ‘New Lines’. New lines of conversation and inquiry. New lines in what storytelling can be – and what it can do for us.
Osmond Chiu, Chairperson for Inner West Multicultural Advisory Committee, sits down for an interview with Addi Road on ‘International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’.
Addison Road Community Organisation is very happy to see our volunteers acknowledged this week at the Inner West Council’s 2021 Amy Large Volunteer Awards.
Please a look at the new Addison Road Community Organisation page as it appears in the latest issue of City Hub Sydney. We talk about our upcoming event to mark the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, next Sunday, March 21st from 2-6pm at Addi Road in Marrickville.
A bold new anti-racist campaign devised by the Inner West Multicultural Network in partnership with Addison Road Community Organisation.
“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.”
“It’s really inspiring to come here to Addi Road and feel there is so much hope in the community.” – Mo Bloomfield, Yudi Gunyi School
Mayor Darcy Byrne’s announcement this morning that the Inner West Council “has decided to convert the Summer Hill depot into a reuse centre for non-government-organisations like Reverse Garbage and The Bower Reuse & Repair Centre” is welcome news for us all.
A recent Sydney Morning Herald news article on how Craig Foster’s #PlayForLives campaign is motivating volunteers from the sports community to make Addi Road’s emergency food hampers.
“The people I work with are already socially isolated. They can handle that, But they can’t handle the panic happening out there.”
