Addi Road Community Organisation

📢 Join us for an important event with HEAL Palestine: Benefit Luncheon for Palestine featuring Professor Norman Finkelstein Steve Sosebee Dr Zeena Salman (via video link) and Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah Come along to hear from these great speakers about the situation in Palestine and what Heal Palestine is doing to help those in dire need. Ticket prices includes lunch. 🗓️ Saturday 28 September ⏰ 12 - 2 PM 📍 Gumbramorra Hall, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville 🎫 For tickets visit: https://lnkd.in/eGAquDy5 https://bit.ly/HealAddi All are welcome. #Addiroad #normanfinkelstein #stevesosebee #zeenasalman #randaabdelfattah #palestine #gaza #innerwestsydney #innerwest #marrickville

📢 Addi Road is excited to host the inaugural Mid-Autumn Festival aka Mooncake Festival. This is a free event. 🗓️ Saturday 14 September ⏰ 4 PM - 9 PM 📍 Stirrup Gallery from 4 - 7 PM + picnic at the park next to Gumbramorra Hall at 7 - 9 PM: 142 Addison Road, Marrickville 🌙This is a free event There will be a mooncake + lantern event at the Stirrup Gallery from 4 - 7 PM (Stirrup Gallery is the art gallery located near the front entrance of Addi Road), from 7 - 9 PM, we invite people to have a BYO picnic and enjoy the sight of the moon (on the grass beside Gumbramorra Hall). Please feel free to bring your own picnic blankets and food for the moon party! The Mid-Autumn festival is the second most important festival in China after the Chinese New Year and it's a time for reuniting with loved ones, eating, lighting paper lanterns and eating moon cake. We would love to see you all there, all are welcome! #addiroad #marrickville #moonfestival #mooncake #midautumnfestival #sydney #innerwestsydney

❤️🩹 Every now and then we get asked to “go the extra mile” and in this current cost-of-living crisis our Camperdown team have been quick to respond with deliveries to the door of some of our most vulnerable community members. It’s a sorry fact that the people hit hardest by the impact of surging rents, grocery and utility prices are those already facing their fair share of challenges, including people living with disabilities; First Nations communities; single parent families; households below the poverty line; and culturally and racially marginalised people. Here at Addi Road, we will do whatever we can to help ease the pain and provide relief, even if it means doing something a bit differently to make it work. To help Addi Road feed more families, you can donate here: https://lnkd.in/gf_5Kake #AddiRoad #innerwestsydney #innerwest #camperdown #marrickville #costofliving #costoflivingcrisis

📢 Last week, Addi Road ran the first pilot program for our anti racism HS workshops at Burwood Girls High School. The program will be rolled out to high schools across NSW and we have been fortunate to recruit some amazing folk with lived-experience of racism and anti racism work to facilitate the progam in a safe environment. ✉️ If you are interested in running this program at your high school, you can contact [email protected] Keep an eye out for more on this breakthrough program supported by NSW Government #Addiroad #antiracism #antiracismNSW #marrickville #camperdown #innerwestsydney #antiracismyouth

📢 Addi Road is launching anti-racism programs across schools in NSW. This initiative was designed to help equip students with the tools they need to combat racism and to encourage open and constructive dialogue among friends, family and the wider community. Addi Road has recruited experienced anti-racism trainers such as Sonia from Hue: Colour the Conversation to help design these workshops: "Anti racism education is essential for everyone living on colonised land. Equipping high school students with the understanding and tools to combat racism is essential to creating safer schools and communities." We've also recruited facilitators and consultants with experiential knowledge to run the workshops across schools in NSW. The pilot program will run over the next couple of months and is supported by Premier's Department NSW If you would like to know more information, contact [email protected] #addiroad #antiracism #innerwest #innerwestsydney #schoolsNSW #antiracismNSW

📢 There's another round of great events happening at Addi starting from tomorrow! 🗓️ Tuesday 27 August: Decolonisint the Language on Palestine with UCLA Professor Saree Makdisi ⏰ 6:30 PM AEST 🎫: Click Here for Tickets: https://lnkd.in/gfP3TwY6 Language is very important to our psyche and reflects our deep beliefs. It also impacts our thinking. There it is important to use the right lexicon to narrate the Palestinian story. Professor Saree is a Palestinian American Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, and Author of many books including “Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial”. He is also the nephew of the late Palestinian scholar and intellectual Edward Said. Light dinner will be provided upon arrival. Tickets will cover the catering costs and donations will be used to support refugee Gazan families. 🗓️ Thursday 29 August: Film Screening 'The Last Sky' by Nicholas Hanna ⏰ 6 PM AEST 🎫: Click Here for Tickets: https://lnkd.in/g2qHekha "The Last Sky" is a documentary that unpacks the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and how it is inextricably linked to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Filmed in 2004 and 2024, the documentary focuses on the highly relevant yet almost entirely overlooked perspective of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, while also drawing upon Hanna’s own experiences in the region over the past 20 years. The film aims to foster understanding and meaningful dialogue by amplifying the voices too often silenced in mainstream reporting of this all-important conflict. In this hard-hitting debut documentary, Lebanese-Australian lawyer and filmmaker Nicholas Hanna explores a crucial context largely ignored by mainstream media. Filmed in Lebanon and Occupied Palestine, “The Last Sky” is a must-see documentary for anyone seeking an understanding of the current war in Gaza and the escalating conflict in the region. #Addiroad #innerwestsydney #marrickville #innerwest #socialjustice #lebanon #gaza

📢 There's lots of amazing events happening at Addi Road this week starting from tonight! 📍Addison Road Community Organisation, Gbumbramorra Hall 1/142 Addison Rd, Marrickville 🗓️ Tonight: Thursday 22 August: "I Grant You Refuge" - Poems for Palestine and Sudan ⏰7:00 PM - 9:00 PM AEST 🎫 Tickets: https://lnkd.in/gv53rWgh Join Arab Theatre Studio for an evening of refuge and resistance on Gadigal Wangal Land as we immerse ourselves in the power and healing of poetry for Sudan and Palestine. Lorna Munro, Jazz Money, Sara Saleh, Nyaluak Leth, Hazem Shammas, Hassan Izeldin, Hasib Hourani, Yasir el Gamil, Majdi Jelda, Seraj Jelda, Yasmin Ibrahim and Katie Shammas will be sharing original work as well as poems and music from their homelands. 🗓️ Friday 23 August: Stitch to Resist with Jaffa Roots & Families for Palestine - Gadigal land ⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM 🎫 BYO tickets: https://lnkd.in/g5YY22-C The “Stitch to Resist” workshop has officially sold out! BYO Tatreez tickets are still available. They are only $5. You bring your own embroidery project and join us on the day. $5 is a donation to Gaza Children's Fund 🗓️ Saturday 24 August: Resistance is Justified ⏰ 6 PM AEST 🎫 Tickets: https://lnkd.in/g9wbJm5r This event will have a focused discussion on the effectiveness, impact and the legal justification of resistance. Shahd Hammouri is a Palestinian lecturer in international law at the university of Kent and a legal consultant for multiple Palestinian civil society organisations and the author of the forthcoming book: Corporate War Profiteering and International law. Sara Saleh is an award-winning writer, human rights lawyer, and the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. She is a long-term organiser for the justice for Palestine movement, grounded in black-Palestinian solidarity, and focused on empowering our communities movement with legal and political tools in service of liberation. Tickets to the event will include dinner at arrival, proceeds go to ney arrived families from Gaza #Addiroad #innerwestsydney #marrickville #innerwest #socialjustice #peace

📢 Join us for a free anti-racism workshop training session this Saturday! Addi Road will be piloting a program to be used across schools in NSW and we need participants. 🗓️: Saturday 17 August ⏰: 10 AM - 2 PM 📍: 142 Addison Road, Marrickville #addiroad #marrickville #camperdown #antiracism #innerwestsydney #innerwest #saynotoracism

📢 Tomorrow: Friday 16 August, buy a coffee and support organisations like Addi Road! What is CafeSmart? CafeSmart is StreetSmart Australia's annual coffee-led campaign that unites roasters, cafes and coffee enthusiasts around the country to fight homelessness and support those at risk in their local area. Participating cafeSmart cafes: Black Market Coffee Marrickville, Tokyo Lamington Marrickville, Bourke Street Bakery Marrickville, Deluca Coffee Marrickville, Goodwood Bakeshop Marrickville #Addiroad #marrickville #innerwestsydney #innerwestSyd #streetsmart #coffeeforacause #cafesmart

Film Screening 'The Night Won't End' + Dinner Event + conversation with the producer Laila Al-Arian 🗓️ Sunday 11 August ⏰ 6 PM 📍 Gumbramorra Hall, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville 🎫 (proceeds go to Gazan families) https://lnkd.in/gb8nsFfB "The Night Won't End" is an Al Jazeera documentary which takes an in-depth look at attacks on civilians by the Zionist military in Gaza. From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the genocide in Gaza and the United States’ role in the war. Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza to profile three Palestinian families as they try to survive the genocide, as they recount the horrific experiences they have endured under relentless assault. The film covers the story of Hind Rajab's family, the 6-year-old Palestinian girl who made headlines when it emerged in January that she had been trapped in a car with family members deliberately killed by the invading ground troops. Together with Airwars, Fault Lines also investigated an air strike on December 11 in north Gaza in which more than 100 people from the same family were killed. Fault Lines partnered with Forensic Architecture and Earshot to investigate that attack. The film screening will be followed by a conversation with the film producer and co-writer Laila Al-Arian and a member of We Are Not Numbers (WANN) group in Gaza. Tickets include dinner, film screening and a conversation with film executive producer and a member of WANN from Gaza. Funds raised by this event will cover the organising costs and to support refugee families for Gaza who arrived in Sydney. #Addiroad #marrickville #innerwestsyd #faultlines #aljazeera #lailaalarian #filmsydney #filmscreening