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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El Taller Open Studio Hut 38Artists Carlos Femenias, Rodney Rosas, Abigail Lutzen, Rodney Araujo and Musician Justo Diaz are developing a live art space at ARC. The artists will be exhibiting their work every Sunday at El Taller- Hut 38 from 9 am to 3 pm . Come and give them a visit |
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Sidetrack Theatre- Hut 9"A New Brain"October 26 to November 12From team Squabbalogic, the purveyors of exciting, intimate music theatre and producers of Reefer Madness, Forbidden Broadway, Trill Me and two seasons of the surprise Smash (title of show) comes another top notch Sydney premiere production. A NEW BRAIN is composer-lyricist William Finn's moving and exhuberant muscial account of his real-life medical emercency and the role of heart and music in his recovery, Wednesday October 26 to Saturday November 12 .
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Seraphina MartinPrintmaking at Addison Rd centreSat & Sun 9 am - 4pm May 21 & 22 SOLAR PLATE ETCHING August Sat 13 & 20 DRYPOINT ETCHING & COLLAGRAPH PRINTING September 17 & 24 and October 22 & 23 SOLAR PLATE ETCHING Evening Classes 8 weeks course 6-9 pm Starting days: Monday May 2 and Monday August 1 PRINTFEST Last Sunday in August, September & October from 9 am until 4 pm Booking and Info 0403 863544 or 9558 8968 or email seraphina@aapt.net.au
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Life Drawing 2011 ...With the Marrickville Sketch Club , a non profit group which have been running for approximately 6 years at the top floor of the Addison Rd GalleryTerm 1 - 1st Feb - 5th April Term 2 - 3rd May - 28th June Term 3 - 19th July - 20th Sept Term 4 - 11th Oct - 6th Dec Every Tuesday from 7 pm - till 9.30 pm Cost $ 12 per session or $ 60 per six sessions Non-Tutored Group No booking required Contact Mook on 0410657536 or alternatively send an email to <marrickvillesketchclub@yahoo.com.au> for further information Proceeds after expenses ( model hire) are donated to Roomies
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ARC Community GardenLast Sunday August 7 thanks to the initiative of ARC Community Garden, we had the visit of Costa from the SBS TV program 'Costas Garden Odyssey' - . Costa "a Landscape Architect with an all consuming passion for plants and people" was at the Centre giving a little talk about many aspects of gardening. This presentation was brilliantly complemented by Jake Cassar, a skilled bush tucker-man who discussed the many nutritional and medicinal aspects off native and non native plants. There were also a a seed savers stall and information about local environmental issues and solutions
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Connecting Local Farmers to City Folk (The Bower)Food Connect Sydney's vision is to be a leader in making ethically grown food from local farmers to any household in Sydney. Food Connect Sydney buys direct from local organic and chemical free farmers and packs it into three sized boxes - $ 35- $ 65. These are then delivered to a local host or "City Cousin" where suscribers come once a week to pick up their pre-paid box. At ARC that City cousin is THE BOWER where you can come and collect your fresh organic products every Wednesday from 1.00 pm to 7.00 pm Food Connects supports farming and local communities as it is: *Fair: 40c in every dollar goes back to the farmer *Organic: 100% or the produce is certified organic or chemical free *Direct: over 90% of the produce is bought direct from the farmer *Community driven: Local communities come together at their City Cousin
Also don't forget that THE BOWER ( HUT 34) has an Eco-library on a mezzanine level in their strawbale store. The library is also designated as a community meeting space, so you can pop by any time between 10 am - 5 pm Mon-Fri to carry out quite chats/interviews/discussions etc. The space fits 6-7 people around the dining table confortably and 15 people or so in more informal gatherings The best part of this is that the use of the library is free of charge! Marrickville Men's Shed Open Information dayMen's Sheds are a great way to learn new skills,improve your old ones, meet new people and contribute to your community through charitable projects (in this case reuse and repair of items to keep from landfill) Tuesday July 19th older men interested in the marrickville Shed are invited to come along to an open info day to THE BOWER at 9 am
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Foodz & Toonz on the Green presents The Normal Brothers FRIDAY November 18 6pm Free EventFriday nights will now return to their summer splendour and for this first F&Tz, we will have the 'eclectic blues' of the NORMAL BROTHERS. Our local food stall holders will be providing the usual delicious cuisines fro Ethiopia, Venezuela, China, Turkey, Portugal & Chile. And, as always, the kids will be catered for with our wonderful face-painter extraordinaire and her interactive puppet shows where the kids create the narrative. All of this takes place on the Addison Road Centre's Green space under the smiling stars of the summer night sky. The character of F&Tz has taken on the flavour on the Inner West and reflects its unique culture and community. So, we welcome everybody back
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Vale: Barry Gazzard ( 1936-2011)ARC commiserates the passing away of one of our on-site artists- Barry Gazzard. Gazzard graduated from Chelsea Art School in London and later studied in Kyoto Bijitsu Daigaku in Japan. In a career spanning 30 years his work has been exhibited in London, Japan, USA and in many regional and university galleries in Australia. He also taught art at a terciary level in the University of Western Sydney "Sensuous, tactile, landscape, contemplative,spiritual, material, minimalist, serious, 'petit sensation', responsive, evocative,........" (Artist's statement) |
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Solar power at ARCWe received a free Solar power installation for the ARC. Thanks to our local Sydney Energy Coop and its affiliate Greenforce Energy. Thomas Baywater from SEC generously offered us a free installation of about 2 Kw of Solar power which include all materials. The roof of the ARC Main Office and Gallery building was the most suitable location for the solar panels. An inverter needed to be installed behind the Art Gallery. The proposal included 22 * 90 W solar panels, the inverter and the installation whith all parts included. According with Thoma Bywater the system will supply us with 2920 kWh of solar energy per year which equates to an annual energy saving of about $ 554.00 www.greenforcesolar.com.au |
