It’s been a very busy month at Addi Road. Meet our new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Melissa Holmes. And hear about our new collaboration with The Bower, as well as a host of Addi Road initiatives.
Some behind-the-scenes insights from writers who attended, participated and volunteered at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022.
Photographer Johnny Barker has spent years documenting the lives of men who pass through and live around Central Station. Exhibition at StirrUp Gallery: Thursday 12 May to Sunday 15 May, 11am–4pm every day. In association with Addi Road Writers Festival 2022.
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.
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.
“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.
Word on the Street – Poetry SLAM for all ages at Addi Road, Friday, 16th April, 6pm. Open Mic night.
“We must be the change that we wish to see in the world”
I stand with you,
my face masked,
our eyes looking
in at our hearts…
