Welcome to the Addison Road Centre (ARC), Marrickville, Sydney. This is Australia's largest not-for-profit community centre. ARC features member organisations and individuals working in the arts, culture, community and environment fields. An Art Gallery at the front of the Centre offers a range of exhibitions and events. Two community theatres, a range of recycle and reuse materials available at Reverse Garbage and The Bower are just some of the reasons thousands of visitors come each year to the Centre. There are the park areas to relax in and the Sunday markets attract people from all over Sydney.
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Addison Road NAIDOC DAYSUNDAY July 11 11amWelcome to Country Traditional Indigenous Dance Indigneous Performers Facepainting At back of the Great Hall 142 Addison Rd Marrickville
ALL WELCOME
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Addison Road Environment WeekJuly 12 - 18thCommunity Forumwaste: is it sustainable?July 15th 7 pm at HUT 3 ECCC Developing a workable sustainable waste strategy for the Addison Rd Centre will be part of ARC moving towards 100% environmental sustainability. Reduce, reuse and recycle will be part of the strategy but do we need to go further and stop waste from leaving the site? How can we minimise the amount of waste that we generate and maximise opportunities for recovering materials? How can a waste strategy contribute to the overall environmental sustainability? What are the options available? How can we link waste with food production? Which ones are appropriate for ARC and how much will it cost? From July, ARC will be responsible for its own waste disposal making it necessary to change the waste patterns at the Centre and learn new cultural practices. Come along for a discussion of the issues. Bernie Hobbs will MC ARC's Community Forum a Marrickville resident and popular judge on ABC TV's, The New Inventors, Catalysts and on ABC radio around the country.With a background in medical research, environmental writing and science teaching, Bernie tackles tough and technical subjects and brings the driest topics alive for lay or expert audiences. Bernie has won awards for the kids TV show the experiMENTALS, and for her infamous greenhouse website Planet Slayer - where you find out what age you should have died at so you don't use more than your share of the planet. Speakers: Michael Mobbs is an architect/consultant who works with private and public sector developers and their project teams to design, specify, and obtain approvals and funding for sustainable projects. Michael designed the systems, obtained approvals for, and project managed the renovation of Sydney's Sustainable House, a nineteenth century inner Sydney terrace which since 1996 has provided all its own water, sewage and energy needs. Peter Carroll is from SCRAP -A non-profit company which helps schools, non-profit bodies and private individuals and companies to become environmentally-friendly and to understand how to do this better. Mark McKenzie is the Waste Strategy Manager for the City of Sydney assisting with master plans for advanced waste recovery, processing and City's renewable energy plan. The presentation will address the City's approach to advanced waste treatment and how it integrates with the proposed trigeneration network to provide City with 70% of its own electricity needs. |
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FILM NIGHTSaturday July 17, Great Hall, 142 Addison Rd MarrickvilleTHE PLANETThe Planet is a 2006 Swedish documentary film on environmental issues. It includes interviews with 29 environmental scientists and experts including Dr. Stephen Peake, Herman Daly, Lester Brown, Gretchen Daily, Mathis Wackernagel, Norman Myers, Jill Jager, George Monbiot, Robert Costanza, Will Steffen and Jared Diamond. food, drinks and giveaways on the night OTHER ACTIVITIES The Bower: FREE BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOP Sunday 18th July 10am - 2pm A joint venture between The Bower & Cycle Recycle Bring your bikes down to The Bower and get all your questions answered. Learn how to repair with expert help& tools, one on one help & group tutorials, heaps of information on everything to do with bikes and cycling in Sydney. The Bower: Reuse and Repair Centre Co-operative Ltd collects and in some cases repairs preloved household goods then resells them to the local community, diverting 'waste' from the Sydney metropolitan municipal waste stream. Opens 9am - 4pm Mon-Sun Reuse and recycling in the Garden will address innovative ways to garden using packaging and other salvaged 'waste'. Reverse Garbage is a not-for-profit co-operative that sells industrial discards, off-cuts and over-runs to the public for creative and practical uses, reducing the amount of waste going to landfill Opens 9am - 4pm Mon-Sun The Mad Container Gallery open Sundays 9am-4pm |
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Instincts, Traditions, Usages Art ExhibitionJuly 4 - 31 Wednesday to Sunday 11 - 5pmAddison Rd Gallery, 142 Addison Rd Marrickville An exhibition by Vivienne Dadour OPENING: Saturday July 10 6pm Hon. Linda Burney MLA Minister Community Services Vivienne Dadour's images represented in Instincts, Traditions, Usages are derived from photographic archives and historical records about her ancestor's social and political life in the late nineteenth century in the Redfern and Waterloo suburbs of Sydney, known as the 'Syrian Quarter'. This tract of land allowed them to belong somewhere, to connect with their past and gain support of a like-minded community as they strove to become a part of their new land, amidst the prevailing alienation. The fragile layering of Dadour's digitally manipulated photographs depicts fragments of her family's personal and community life. juxtaposed, at the base of these images is the racist wording of text extracted from the New South Wales Parliamentary Debates which preceded the establishment of the White Australia Policy of 1901. Vivienne Dadour's art and curatorial work, from 1997 to 2010 has, almost uniquely in Australia, sought answers to wars, like Sarajevo, defined by ethnic essentialism, cultural intolerance and the politics of identity. Contact: www.viviennedadour.com email: vivid@viviennedadour.com |
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Sidetrack TheatreJune 30 - 10th julyUNDER MILK WOOD8pm Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat 2pm Sundays (02) 9550 3666 Bookings Bambina Borracha Productions presents Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas Created by Vanessa Hughes and Zoe Norton Lodge. In the tiny Welsh village of Llareggub everyone is brimming with a story and the walls trickle secrets to mingle with the sea air. It is glorious springtime and blind Captain Cat listens to the busy world from his cabin window. Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price smuggle letters of forbidden love up and down the street as Polly Garter sings to her babies under the washing line. Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’ great love letter to the Welsh countryside that he wrote and left behind in a pub. Bambina Borracha Productions ’ new tilt on the classic play for voices rebuilds the village in Sydney with the same curiosity and ratbag humour. It speaks to life in a small town, where faces are familiar for countless reasons. Isolation and gentle interest in other people ’s business creates an intricate community where everyone knows a little bit more than is good for them. Zoe Norton Lodge navigates all sixty four characters in a story her dad used to read to her at bedtime. With direction and media by Vanessa Hughes and design by Vanessa and Natalie Hughes, the performance combines multimedia and visual art to complement one of our mostcherished, loving stories. From where you are, you can hear their dreams… Preview June 30th 8pm $15 Opening Night July 1st 8pm Tickets: Full $30/ Under 30 $26/ Concession $23/ Access Card Holder $20 |
