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Addi Road Turns 50 🎉

This year, Addi Road Community Organisation celebrates 50 years of community, activism, creativity and care in the heart of the Inner West.

Since 1976, Addi Road has been more than a place, it has been a movement. A space where people gather, organise, celebrate culture, share food, stand up for justice, and show up for one another.

From grassroots activism to food justice programs, from migrant support to arts and culture, from youth training to community markets, Addi Road has always been powered by people. Volunteers. Staff. Neighbours. Donors. Organisers. Community members.

Through economic downturns, political shifts, and a global pandemic, Addi Road has remained what it has always been: a connector. A safety net. A meeting ground. A place where solidarity is practical and community is action.

Fifty years on, the mission remains the same: fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

To everyone who has walked through the gates, packed a hamper, planted a seedling, attended a rally, hosted an event, donated, learned, laughed, or simply found belonging here, this milestone belongs to you.

Here’s to the next 50 years of courage, compassion and community.

Stay tuned for a series of special events, community gatherings, storytelling moments, and celebrations that honour the people, movements and memories that have shaped Addi Road over the past five decades.

There’ll be chances to reconnect, reflect, celebrate and help shape what the next 50 years look like.

Watch this space. You won’t want to miss it.

#AddiRoad50 #AddiRoad #InnerWest #Marrickville #communitystrong

Addi Road Turns 50 🎉

This year, Addi Road Community Organisation celebrates 50 years of community, activism, creativity and care in the heart of the Inner West.

Since 1976, Addi Road has been more than a place, it has been a movement. A space where people gather, organise, celebrate culture, share food, stand up for justice, and show up for one another.

From grassroots activism to food justice programs, from migrant support to arts and culture, from youth training to community markets, Addi Road has always been powered by people. Volunteers. Staff. Neighbours. Donors. Organisers. Community members.

Through economic downturns, political shifts, and a global pandemic, Addi Road has remained what it has always been: a connector. A safety net. A meeting ground. A place where solidarity is practical and community is action.

Fifty years on, the mission remains the same: fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

To everyone who has walked through the gates, packed a hamper, planted a seedling, attended a rally, hosted an event, donated, learned, laughed, or simply found belonging here, this milestone belongs to you.

Here’s to the next 50 years of courage, compassion and community.

Stay tuned for a series of special events, community gatherings, storytelling moments, and celebrations that honour the people, movements and memories that have shaped Addi Road over the past five decades.

There’ll be chances to reconnect, reflect, celebrate and help shape what the next 50 years look like.

Watch this space. You won’t want to miss it.

#AddiRoad50 #AddiRoad #InnerWest #Marrickville #communitystrong

Addi Road Turns 50 🎉

This year, Addi Road Community Organisation celebrates 50 years of community, activism, creativity and care in the heart of the Inner West.

Since 1976, Addi Road has been more than a place, it has been a movement. A space where people gather, organise, celebrate culture, share food, stand up for justice, and show up for one another.

From grassroots activism to food justice programs, from migrant support to arts and culture, from youth training to community markets, Addi Road has always been powered by people. Volunteers. Staff. Neighbours. Donors. Organisers. Community members.

Through economic downturns, political shifts, and a global pandemic, Addi Road has remained what it has always been: a connector. A safety net. A meeting ground. A place where solidarity is practical and community is action.

Fifty years on, the mission remains the same: fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

To everyone who has walked through the gates, packed a hamper, planted a seedling, attended a rally, hosted an event, donated, learned, laughed, or simply found belonging here, this milestone belongs to you.

Here’s to the next 50 years of courage, compassion and community.

Stay tuned for a series of special events, community gatherings, storytelling moments, and celebrations that honour the people, movements and memories that have shaped Addi Road over the past five decades.

There’ll be chances to reconnect, reflect, celebrate and help shape what the next 50 years look like.

Watch this space. You won’t want to miss it.

#AddiRoad50 #AddiRoad #InnerWest #Marrickville #communitystrong

Addi Road Turns 50 🎉

This year, Addi Road Community Organisation celebrates 50 years of community, activism, creativity and care in the heart of the Inner West.

Since 1976, Addi Road has been more than a place, it has been a movement. A space where people gather, organise, celebrate culture, share food, stand up for justice, and show up for one another.

From grassroots activism to food justice programs, from migrant support to arts and culture, from youth training to community markets, Addi Road has always been powered by people. Volunteers. Staff. Neighbours. Donors. Organisers. Community members.

Through economic downturns, political shifts, and a global pandemic, Addi Road has remained what it has always been: a connector. A safety net. A meeting ground. A place where solidarity is practical and community is action.

Fifty years on, the mission remains the same: fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

To everyone who has walked through the gates, packed a hamper, planted a seedling, attended a rally, hosted an event, donated, learned, laughed, or simply found belonging here, this milestone belongs to you.

Here’s to the next 50 years of courage, compassion and community.

Stay tuned for a series of special events, community gatherings, storytelling moments, and celebrations that honour the people, movements and memories that have shaped Addi Road over the past five decades.

There’ll be chances to reconnect, reflect, celebrate and help shape what the next 50 years look like.

Watch this space. You won’t want to miss it.

#AddiRoad50 #AddiRoad #InnerWest #Marrickville #communitystrong

Addi Road Turns 50 🎉

This year, Addi Road Community Organisation celebrates 50 years of community, activism, creativity and care in the heart of the Inner West.

Since 1976, Addi Road has been more than a place, it has been a movement. A space where people gather, organise, celebrate culture, share food, stand up for justice, and show up for one another.

From grassroots activism to food justice programs, from migrant support to arts and culture, from youth training to community markets, Addi Road has always been powered by people. Volunteers. Staff. Neighbours. Donors. Organisers. Community members.

Through economic downturns, political shifts, and a global pandemic, Addi Road has remained what it has always been: a connector. A safety net. A meeting ground. A place where solidarity is practical and community is action.

Fifty years on, the mission remains the same: fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all.

To everyone who has walked through the gates, packed a hamper, planted a seedling, attended a rally, hosted an event, donated, learned, laughed, or simply found belonging here, this milestone belongs to you.

Here’s to the next 50 years of courage, compassion and community.

Stay tuned for a series of special events, community gatherings, storytelling moments, and celebrations that honour the people, movements and memories that have shaped Addi Road over the past five decades.

There’ll be chances to reconnect, reflect, celebrate and help shape what the next 50 years look like.

Watch this space. You won’t want to miss it.

#AddiRoad50 #AddiRoad #InnerWest #Marrickville #communitystrong

📣 Addi Road Food Pantries Are Open! 🛒

🕛 Opening Hours

Marrickville
Monday to Friday, 12 PM–4 PM
Open until 7 PM on Wednesdays to coincide with Wednesday Night Lights, with additional services and free hot meals.

Camperdown
Monday to Saturday, 12 PM–4 PM
(Open on Saturdays from 12 PM–4 PM)

📍 Locations

Marrickville: 142 Addison Road, Marrickville

Camperdown: 31 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown

🍞 Free bread, fruit and vegetables with any purchase!

Everyone is welcome. Whether you are stretching your budget or helping reduce food waste, come by and shop with purpose.

#AddiRoad #FoodPantry #Marrickville #Camperdown #CommunitySupport

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

💫Wednesday Night Lights is on tonight! 💫
Every Wednesday night we gather around for a delicious hot meal. We’d love to see you there!
What’s on on WNL
🌟Pantry open until 7pm
🌟Free health checks/tests (no Medicare needed) @streetsidemedics
🌟 Free clothes from @reunionstore.co
🌟 Free dinner and dessert with donuts from @bobandpetesyum & @grumpydonutsofficial
🌟Free laundry service with @orangeskyau
🌟 Information, advice and referral with @4voicesau
🌟 Free legal advice from @marrickvillelegalcentre
🌟Free hair and beauty services once a month by @feelgoodprojectfoundation
🌟Games, yaps and so much more !!

Chip in and support Addi Road this EOFY 🧡
  
Nearly one-in-five Australian households are skipping meals - some adults are going whole days without anything to eat. Your donations help provide emergency food relief to those in need via our Camperdown and Marrickville pantries. Every donation counts!

Donations of $2 or over to Addi Road Foundation Limited are tax deductible in Australia. 

Donate via the link in our bio ✨

Did you know Addi Sounds has a Youth Poetry Club? ✍🏾🎤

Every fortnight on Wednesday nights from 6:00pm–7:30pm, Addi Words flows into the Addi Sounds Studio. A space where your creativity is heard, held, safe, and inspired. A portal of community, expression, and imagination✨️

Hosted by @cocoatheconscious and @ratajabdullahh , who help bring the poetry experience to life, Addi Words is a chance to connect, create, and share.

This reel captures highlights from our Youth Poetry Open Mic Night held earlier this year in the Stir Up Gallery; a wholesome evening filled with poetry, community, and creativity, set against the incredible backdrop of the visual masterpieces by @sahara.d_aart and @emmanuel.asante.art It was a night where two artistic modalities came together, weaving poetry and visual art into a whole new experience.✨️

Keep an eye out for our next Open Mic Night, coming soon! 👀

Until then, we’ll see you at Addi Words next Wednesday, 27th May. Grab some hot food from our iconic Wednesday Night Lights, then head over to the Addi Sounds Studio and step into the creative portal. 🌌💜

#addiroad #AddiWords #AddiSounds #YouthPoetry #SpokenWord

❎ READ TO ME | Live Visual Storytelling and the Australian Comics Landscape
🏟️ inside the Greek Theatre at 4pm this Saturday 16 May at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2026
★ All-day tickets for Addi Road Writers’ Festival are available on the Humanitix link here: https://events.humanitix.com/addi-road-writers-festival-2026

Discover the growing Australian comics scene through the work of four Sydney based cartoonists. These stories, diving into family dynamics, complicated love, climate change and the natural world, are told live by the author and accompanied by projected imagery. After the story presentations, cartoonists discuss some of the unique storytelling techniques and literary merits of the medium, and the changing comics landscape.

Whether you are already an avid comics reader, new to the medium, or a prose-only snob that thinks comics are just for kids and images are only for book covers… this event is for you.

Read to Me is a live visual storytelling event that provides a platform for cartoonists, graphic novelists and other kinds of artists and creatives to share their stories and investigate performative aspects of their work. The combination of live storytelling with the storytellers’ own art and images is immersive and captivating in a totally unique way, layered with pathos and humour that emerges in the mingling of voice and image.

🏟️Fionn McCabe artist, printmaker, award-winning cartoonist and comics educator
🏟️Evie Hilliar animator, cartoonist and jack-of-all-trades artist
🏟️Gabe Clark visual communication design practitioner and academic

★ All-day tickets for Addi Road Writers’ Festival are available on the Humanitix link here: https://events.humanitix.com/addi-road-writers-festival-2026

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2026 coming up this Saturday 16 May, 11am till 6pm in Marrickville, Sydney. Tickets and details at Humanitix...
https://events.humanitix.com/addi-road-writers-festival-2026

Every year, Mirvac’s National Community Day sees hundreds of team members swap their desks and worksites for a day of giving back to charities and community organisations across Australia ❤️

The amazing team at Mirvac have been long-term supporters of Addi Road, and for the past 5 years they’ve spent their biggest volunteering day of the year with us.

This morning, 50 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got stuck into some huge projects around our Marrickville site.

Together they:
🌱 Planted 75 trees as part of our @landcareaustralia Healthy Cities project
🎨 Painted Hut 1, home to our offices and Food Pantry
📦 Packed 477 hampers to go out for free to community
🍲 Cooked 100 meals for our Camperdown Food Pantry
🌭 Hosted a free community BBQ to top it all off

A massive thank you to the Mirvac team for showing up with such generosity, energy and community spirit. We’re so grateful to have you as part of the Addi Road family!

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

🖼 Kit Kelen's 'my first forest of words' opens this week at the Stirrup Gallery in association with Addi Road Writers' Festival 2026. The official launch comes at the festival at 12 midday this Saturday 16 May. But you can come along at your leisure and look at all of Kit's artworks every day this week from 10am till 4pm each day.
🖼 Kit Kelen’s 'my first forest of words' is an immersive installation experiment in encounters between image and text. The work on the wall in this exhibition consists of (sometimes epigrammatic) handscripted fragments of poems, balanced against abstract calligraphic works.
🖼 These works on paper are all about crossing and blurring lines between text and image, between what is intelligible as script in one language or another, and what might be prototypical of writing.
🖼The reader/viewer/listener of this exhibition is led along from known words to semblances of words, to symbols, into scrawl that can never quite be meaningless. Along with the paper work on the wall are a slideshow, and soundscapes, these also distracting and de/familiarizing the viewer/listener’s expectations of presence to image and text.
🖼 The intention is aphoristic and the experience for anyone attempting to pay attention is that of being lost in a territory of strange lines and signs, or, conversely of coming on a journey from a forest of scribble into meaning/s that can be recognized and understood. In either case, a participant in the work is tasked with finding their own way, and, in fact making their own poem and meaning, randomly/whimsically, just as the eye is carried....

Addi Road wins Rotary Club of Sydney’s Community Peace Award 2026 🕊️

The Community Peace Award recognises work on a grassroots level that demonstrates a commitment to the advancement of peace with justice, and a contribution to the promotion and attainment of human rights.

Addi Road is dedicated to building a more peaceful and just world. We are delighted to have received this award in recognition of our work. Enormous thanks to @sydneyrotary for this honour.

#AddiRoad #Marrickville #SocialJustice #SydneyRotary

Protect Country. Stand with the Pilliga.

Join us for a powerful evening of community, truth-telling, and action.

Uncle Ghillar Michael Anderson will speak on the Pilliga and how fracking will impact not only the forest, but surrounding Countries and communities.

The evening will also feature:
• Panel discussion
• Documentary screenings
• Live auctions
• Q&A with Madelaine McGrady, Dale Naden, Sandra Newham, Polly Cutmore & Suellyn Tighe
• Food and beverages available for purchase

📅 Thursday, 14 May
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Addi Road
142 Addison Road, Marrickville

🎟️ $30 adults | $15 concession

All funds raised will support efforts to protect Country.

Come along, learn, connect, and stand together to say no to fracking.

#ProtectCountry #NoFracking #Pilliga #AddiRoad #Fundraiser

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents

🎟️Get your full day ticket at Humanitix here:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

ADDI ROAD WRITERS' FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 16 May in Marrickville
🔥Performance 🔥 Hotspots 🔥

Every year Addi Road Writers’ Festival offers ten-minute ‘hotspots’ to musicians and spoken word artists, animators, speakers and performers. It’s another way of expanding what we think of as writing and storytelling. It also energises the festival beyond talks and panels, making way for intense, concise and inspiring showcases that seize the day and change its rhythm.

Our hotspots for ARWF2026 are...
🔥🎤Helen Franzman
🔥🎤Rox Lavi
🔥🎤Vaughn Upward Garcia
🔥🎤AJ Stanton
🔥🎤Ethan Eshuys (of Bird in Hand)

🎟️Get your full day ticket here at Humanitix:
https://lnkd.in/gJfEqyMS?

Special thanks to our supporters at Berkelouw Books, 2SER-FM, Fully Lit, Flying Islands Poetry Community, Cockatoo Comics and Read to Me.

#addiroadwritersfestival #ARWF2026 #music #storytelling #lyrics #marrickville #sydneyevents