About Afrika Connexions The Afrika Connexions Story is an online tribute to a radio program that is now more than 30 years old. Starting as a radical, anti-apartheid program on Radio Skid Row, the show has expanded to embrace every wave of African migrants to Australia. On any Sunday you…
In March 2012, PlayWriting Australia worked with the RadioPLAY project at Radio Skid Row through their Outreach program, delivering workshops for a group of emerging writers to learn more about playwriting and radio drama. Six new writers came together to be mentored by Peter Polites along with guest mentors, Jane Bodie…
About I Am Active! I Am Active! is a Radio Skid Row project that celebrates activists in our community and the role they play as agents of change. Radio Skid Row has a long and proud history of involvement in community activism across a wide range of political, cultural and…
Lion Mountain Studio is a community project initiated by members of Sydney’s Sierra Leone community. The project was devised to assist people from Sierra Leone and other African communities to gain access and training in music making and recording in an informal structure, with the long-term goal of building the…
About In 2013, Radio Skid Row celebrated its 30th birthday. Over the years, we’ve watched our broadcast area change…A LOT. Two years earlier, an incident occurred in Marrickville. A brick was thrown through the window of a new café, and the words “F**K OFF YUPPIES” were graffitied on the wall. The…
About When I’m 64 When I’m 64, a documentary series about looking for work when you are over 55. With the Australian Government talking about raising the pension eligibility age to 70, there’s been a lot of talk about all of us having to work until we are older. In…