Addi Road Community Organisation

🍝 The Addi Road Camperdown team held their monthly 'Cook-Up' today featuring a cooking demonstration followed by a free meal and dessert - whipped up by the ever reliable volunteers! Attendees were not only given cooking tips on how to make the most of their ingredients from the pantry but they also received a complimentary food hamper (courtesy of Addi Road) featuring all the ingredients used in the demo. This week, attendees enjoyed: • Moroccan baked chicken with chickpeas/ Moroccan Baked Veggies with chickpeas • Moroccan carrot salad • Spicy potatoes • Coconut and Lemon cake Addi Road Camperdown hosts the monthly Cook-Up on the last Friday of every month. 🗓️ When:: Last Friday of every month ⏰Time: 11:30am - 2 PM (Cooking demonstration at 11:30 AM followed by a free lunch served from Midday) 📍Location: 31 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Common Ground Courtyard The Camperdown Cook-Up is a wonderful opportunity to come together, enjoy a delicious meal, and connect with others in the community. All are welcome—bring your family, friends, and neighbours! No RSVP needed. Just come hungry and ready to enjoy! Supported by the City of Sydney #AddiRoad #camperdown #commonground #cooking #innerwestsydney #innerwest #innerwestsyd #cookingsydney

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2024 is on the way. It happens on SAT23NOV at the community centre in Marrickville. Our theme is ‘Cost of Living’, an existential as much as economic concern, part of the fight to be human and creative in dehumanising times. More information on the Humanitix link here with a first wave of announcements and much more to come! #addiroad #writersfestival #sydney #marrickville #innerwestcouncil #talks #community #conversation #literature #ideas #politics #storytelling #firstnations #hiphop #photography #poetry #journalism https://lnkd.in/gfgahbae

🌱 Addi Road's site and sustainability manager Ash explains the process of creating clean compost that is free of chemicals. Ash uses the food scraps from Addi Road's food pantries as well as wood shavings sourced from Waste Wood Recycled Timber to create a winning combination of "browns and greens" used for composting on our site. Stay tuned to learn more composting and gardening tips from Ash. #AddiRoad #marrickville #camperdown #sydney #urbanecology #foodrelief #composting #gardening #innerwestsydney #innerwest #fyp #foryou

📢 Addi Road food pantries in both Marrickville and Camperdown will be closed on Monday 7 October due to the public holiday. Our pantries will re-open their doors on Tuesday 8 October from 12-4 PM. We offer free veggies and bread with any purchase. All are welcome. #addiroad #marrickville #camperdown #innerwest #innerwestsydney #innerwestsyd #foodsecurity #costoflivingcrisis

🥪The end of the school term always feels like a party and especially this week with Addi Road’s School Breakfast program rolling out a delicious, nutritious brekkie spread for students at four local schools. Eating a nutritious breakfast is scientifically proven to improve student concentration, motivation and achievement, and we’ve been told it’s also increasing attendance at the schools where students are starting their day with Addi Road’s light continental breakfast of cereals, scrambled eggs, toasties, fresh fruit, juices and snack packs. Addi Road relies almost entirely on the generosity of the community for the work we do with our food justice program, which is now feeding 8500 people every week, and providing over 10,000 school breakfasts, a number which is increasing every term. With thanks to Petersham RSL Club for providing funding through the NSW Clubs Grant, Addi Road is continuing doing everything we can to keep anyone from going hungry in our community. #addiroad #marrickville #camperdown #innerwestsyd #innerwestsydney #schoolsbreakfast #schoolsNSW

📢 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 🎫 Check out our bio for tickets or visit: https://bit.ly/HealAddi 📢 Join Us for a Free Cooking Demo + Free Nutritious Meal and Dessert! 🗓️ Date: Friday 27 September ⏰ Time: 11:30am - 2 PM 📍Location: 31 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Common Ground Courtyard Are you looking to make the most out of your food pantry staples? Come and join us for an exciting cooking demonstration where you'll learn how to create delicious meals using ingredients available in the pantry. Everyone will also a free food hamper. Following the cooking demo, we invite everyone in the community to join us for a free nutritious meal + dessert. What's on the menu: Green Bean Casserole Classic Potato Salad Honey Soy Chicken Wings Apple Cake for Dessert Supported by City of Sydney #AddiRoad #camperdown #commonground #cooking #innerwestsydney #innerwest #innerwestsyd #normanfinkelstein #stevesosebee #zeenasalman #randaabdelfattah #palestine #gaza

🌱 At Addi Road, the rescued food that we cannot redistribute before spoilage does not go to landfill or distant industrial composting facilities. We mix this wet, green, nitrogen-rich material with dry, brown, carbon-rich materials like leaves and sawdust and process them in our composting systems to produce rich organic soil to replenish the depleted soils and feed the plants on site. We're lucky to have our site and sustainability manager Ashley oversee such projects. Stay tuned for more urban ecology tips from Ash! #AddiRoad #urbanfood #urbangardening #urbanecology #Marrickville #innerwestsydney #innerwest #camperdown #fyp #foryoupage

Each year on 17 September it is Australian Citizenship Day. Addi Road Community Organisation was honoured to welcome over 200 people to take part in their citizenship ceremony in Sydney today – as well as celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ceremony as a vital part of Australian life. Since it began in 1949 more than 6 million people have chosen to become Australian citizens, the numbers alone a rich marker of our multicultural history as a country. The warmth of the occasion – a sense of something that truly mattered to all who were involved – was evident from the moment the doors of Gumbramorra Hall opened and people began filing in. Individuals and couples, families and friends, the old and the very young, so many different nationalities and generations gathering as one for their special day. The Honourable Tony Burke MP – the Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for the Arts, and Leader of the House – gave the keynote address. MC for the occasion was Ms Sneha Chatterjee, A/g First Assistant Secretary for the Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Division and Regional Director New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory for the Australian Department of Home Affairs. VIP guests sharing the stage included Rosanna Barbero, the CEO for the Addison Road Community Organisation (‘Addi Road’) and Simon Chan AM, Director and Founder of Art Atrium. Darran Williams from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council offered up an Acknowledgement of Country and a cultural performance, deep blasts of didge and clapstick tapping against the black, yellow and red painted ironwood as Williams breathed out a timeless song, putting people into another state of mind and sense of place... ~ READ the full story with photos from Australian Citizenship Day in our website link here https://lnkd.in/gHGmfuaP #addiroad #australiancitizenshipceremony #Marrickville #multiculturalism #tonyburke #simonchan #homeaffairs #homespirit #75thanniversary #community #connection #language #gadigal #eora #welcome #socialcohesion #stories #pride #auscitz75 #australiancitizenship #pledge #ceremony #unity

📢 Inner Westies Supporting Gazan Families in Need celebrate the International Day of Peace by bringing you a humanitarian fundraising Gig for Gaza! ❗For dinner tickets, please purchase your tickets before 6 PM Wednesday 18 September (for catering purposes) Event Details: 🗓️ Saturday 21 September ⏰ 6 PM (doors open 5 PM) 📍Addi Road Gumbramorra Hall, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville 🎫 For tickets click here: https://lnkd.in/gviTcAKE Opened by award winning human rights lawyer, poet and writer, Sara Saleh along with Arabic folk/ modern classical performers; Hussein Kahil (vocalist) Mustafa Altayar (violinist) Ibrahim Al-Salti (narrator) Performances by: Bernie Hayes Lolo Lovina Dave Jensen and His Good Intentions The Ramalamas Mouthtrap Choir with Tanya Sparke Delicious Palestinian food served by Khamsa Eatery St Peters between 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm Authentic Knafeh by Kanafandi available from 6 pm to 8 pm Generously donated gorgeous things will be auctioned! Come and show your support for Gazan families in need Proudly supporting UNICEF Australia Gaza Emergency Appeal and families in Gaza #AddiRoad #innerwestsydney #marrickville #gaza #livemusicsydney #CeaseFireNow

🤘Congratulations Audrey Storer for winning the 2024 Mid-Western Sydney Young Volunteer of the Year Audrey has given her time to set up and run the Addi Road Youth Collective and Addi Rock Festival. Her work has helped bring together more than 300 young people under the age of 18 to collect food and make and distribute hampers for people in need. Audrey has been the driving force behind the festival, as a way to help underage bands get on stage, and for people of all ages to enjoy more live music. #AddiRoad #marrickville #addirock #addiyouth #camperdown #livemusicsydney #innerwestsydney