All Good Things

All Good Things

Yarrie Bangura says she is always glad to have come to Addi Road. “Everything good started here.”   She has just signed a temporary contract with a major supermarket to supply them with her special blend of ginger drink. Depending on how things go, the contract will...
The Art of Change

The Art of Change

Congratulations to Safdar Ahmed for winning both Book of the Year AND the Multicultural NSW Award at the NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards last night. Safdar was a very recent guest at our Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 this last weekend, teaming up with his...
Walk This Way

Walk This Way

It’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Down at what’s affectionately known as Addi Road in Marrickville, a community is weaving itself together, celebrating the day despite a drizzly early morning start in Sydney.  People are...
Nourishing the Frontlines at RPA Hospital

Nourishing the Frontlines at RPA Hospital

It’s 2.37am and a message pings through on Addi Road’s Instagram feed. Someone is awake late into the night, and they want to communicate with us. We won’t see the message from the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital in Camperdown till the following morning. “I am a...
‘The Return of Addi Road’

‘The Return of Addi Road’

So! You think we can make up our organisation’s story as we go along, huh?! Well, it just ain’t possible!   We brainstorm, we dream, we draw mind maps, we meditate, we examine Excel spreadsheets that go on forever… we even communicate with a cabal of VitaminD-depleted...