Tag: social justice
Food, Justice, Community
Food on the table restores pride, provides a breathing space for families and individuals alike to keep going while under pressure. It’s a matter integral to self-respect, offering a breathing space as incomes are sucked into rising rents and cost-of-living pressures that negate people’s ability to feed themselves. Mental health, relationships, emotional stamina, children’s levels of anxiety, the room to innovate in some small way and climb out of your difficulties is shot to pieces if you can’t afford enough food to get by each day.
One Great Gift Deserves Another
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
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
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
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
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.
Cover Star
Look who is the cover star for today’s edition of the Good Weekend inside the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age. Only our good friend and ally, Craig Foster.
Motion Pictures
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.
Impressions of Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022
Some behind-the-scenes insights from writers who attended, participated and volunteered at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022.