Emma, Sarah, Pokes, Will and Josh are down here again at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. Except for Sarah, who has come visiting her sister Emma, they all live in a big share-house in Newtown.
Addison Road Community Organisation is delighted to announce the creation of a new opportunity for Indigenous artists to showcase their work during NAIDOC Week.
The inaugural Addi Road Writers’ Festival announced itself as ‘An Unruly Idea’. Our slogan captured an undercurrent of idealistic disruption that charged the day with energy, marking out the nature of what will now be an annual event.
Addi Road Writers’ Festival takes place this coming Saturday afternoon. See here for panels, themes and times. There is a beautiful open area outside the hall where people can picnic and relax.
“All at once the torches flare / The inner door flies open / One by one they enter there / In every style of passion …” (Leonard Cohen – The Guests)
The Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2021 marks the first step towards an annual literary and storytelling event in Sydney’s Inner West: Saturday, 1st May, 12-6pm at Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville.
We came together at Addi Road recently to acknowledge the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st. Wild weather had forced us to delay the event by a week, but that only intensified the feeling; an energy that’s absolutely present in the video of you can see here now.
“We must be the change that we wish to see in the world”
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.
Tune in here to Rosanna Barbero discussing the Inner West Multicultural Network’s #RacismNOTWelcome campaign with Colin Hesse of Radio Skid Row.
