Familiar Friends
February 19, 2025
Smriti and Kamal have come for Wednesday Night Lights. “We walked here,” Kamal says, though neither indicates quite how far that might be. As it so happens, they are five hours early…
Tag: Marrickville
Bread and Heart
May 1, 2024
Marcel pulls up in his Gift Of Bread van out the front of Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. The slogan on the side says it all – humorous, spirited, full of intention: “Who gives a loaf? We do.”
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.
Addi Rock is Coming
July 16, 2023
Paddy is on the Addi Road Youth Committee. Together with Audrey and other members they are planning a youth music festival in September entirely run and curated by teenagers.
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.
Framing Our Future Together – Lighting the Way for Multicultural Australia
June 15, 2023
The Federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles MP, came to our Gumbramorra Hall to launch the Multicultural Framework Review, acknowledging Addi Road’s role as a birthplace to multiculturalism 5O years ago.
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.
All Good Things
April 24, 2023
Yarrie Bangura says she is always glad to have come to Addi Road. “Everything good started here.”