Young people get it. Their grasp on social justice, equality and diversity is truly inspiring and nowhere was it more obvious than at Addi Road’s ARTivate youth festival, bringing together art and activism for a weekend packed with poetry and postcards, sketching, drawing, live music, good food and of course a dog or two.
Work opportunities and vocational possibilities for women as trainees and apprentices are in huge demand across Australia. Addi Road and Tradeswomen Australia are combining forces to show how you can become “a Jill of all trades”, ensuring stable jobs, good money and portable skills that can gain women quality employment anywhere they go.
Audrey is the teenage force behind our Addi Rock youth music festival on September 16. Curated and run by a group of 16-year-olds the event will feature eighteen bands and solo artists. Audrey explains what inspired her to launch the event.
Colombian students shopping at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville: “This place here… it’s a really good place.”
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.
I meet Fury and Sorrow in the Inner West of Sydney. They have fled Afghanistan by different paths and means. Fury has been here six days; Sorrow six weeks. Old friends come together again.
AC/DC’s ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna to Rock n Roll)’ is pumping through the hall that Addi Road have converted into our Food Relief Hub. Chris Minns, State Labor Leader of the Opposition and the Member for Kogarah, is our guest hamper packer today.
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.
