#AdelaideSA #Australia - #AdelaideRepairCafe 2025

Sun, 30 Nov, 1pm - 4pm ACDT

Event description

"Reduce waste by repairing instead of replacing!

Do you enjoy fixing, mending, tinkering, or repairing things? The Repair Cafe is a welcoming space that is designed to help the community learn skills to repair and mend broken or damaged items.

Save money by reusing or repurposing. Reduce your waste and gain a skill! Come along and help build a resilient community in these challenging times.

Meet other like-minded people, repairers, makers, and community makers. We are also seeking volunteers who would like to help facilitate the sessions and share their skills.

The Adelaide Repair Cafe is part of a global community dedicated to fixing broken household items & reducing our collective impact on the environment."

Key Information:

Enclosed shoes must be worn at all times
This is a free community service, although donations are always appreciated
Bookings are not required

Location:

#MakerspaceAdelaide - 223 Angas Street, Adelaide 5000

FMI and future events:
https://makerspaceadelaide.org/making/adelaide-repair-cafe/

To book a spot:
https://events.humanitix.com/adelaide-repair-cafe-2025

#RepairCafesAustralia #RepairCafesSouthAustralia #ReduceReuseRepair #RightToRepair #Makerspace #BuildingCommunity #SolarPunkSunday

#RepairCafe #ElBarrio!

"Bienvenidos! Welcome to the #EastHarlem branch of Repair Café. The very first Repair Café in #NewYorkCity, proudly serving our community since 2022."

Upcoming sessions:
2025: Sunday December 14th from 11 to 2pm
2026: Sundays January 11th, February 15th, March 15th, April 19th, May 17th, June 28th, July 19th, August 16th, September 13th, October 18th, November 15th and December 13th from 11 to 2pm.

NYT article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/on-the-menu-in-new-york-one-repair-coming-right-up.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/flKbK

FMI and to RSVP:
https://www.repaircafeelbarrio.org/

#RepairCafesNYC #RepairCafesNY #RightToRepair #SolarPunkSunday #ReduceReuseRepair #Fixit #RepairCafes

#NewJersey: #BernardsTownship #Library To Host New #RepairCafé

On May 31, various volunteer repair experts will be available at the Library to help make all possible repairs free of charge.

Alexis Tarraz, May 23, 2025

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — "What do you do with a broken toaster? Or a bike that needs a tune up? Or a jacket with a hole in the sleeve? Toss it? No way! Bernards Township Library is organizing another Repair Café in #BaskingRidgeNJ on Saturday, May 31.

"Starting at 11 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. various volunteer repair experts will be available at the Library to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Tools and materials will also be on hand.

"People visiting the Repair Café will bring along their broken items from home. Toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, crockery... anything that is broken is welcome, and can more than likely be repaired. The Repair Café specialists almost always have the know-how."

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"For more information or to register, visit BernardsLibrary.org, stop in the Bernards Township Library, or call 908-204-3031 ext. 4.

"The Bernards Township Library is located at 32 South Maple Avenue in Basking Ridge."

Source:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/bridgewater/bernards-township-library-host-new-repair-caf

#RepairCafes #RepairCafesNewJersey #ReduceReuseRepair #SolarPunkSunday

HT @crlamke

Double Trouble for #Repair Monopolies: Washington Passes Two #RightToRepair Bills - #iFixit

Today, a quarter of Americans are covered by electronics Right to Repair

Article by: Elizabeth Chamberlain
@liz_ifixit
May 19, 2025

"We’re running out of high-fives over here.

"#WashingtonState just became the sixth state in the country to pass Right to Repair for electronics and the third to guarantee repair access for powered wheelchairs. Governor Bob Ferguson signed two bills into law today: #HB1483, covering consumer electronics and appliances, and #SB5680, covering mobility devices like powered wheelchairs and scooters. That’s a one-two punch for repair access and another major victory for fixers everywhere.

"Right to Repair is officially on a roll: With Washington now joining #NewYork, #California, #Minnesota, #Oregon, and #Colorado, about a quarter of all Americans (over 82 million people) live in states with electronics Right to Repair protections. That’s a huge share of the population who can now access parts, tools, and repair documentation for their devices. And it shows that the repair movement isn’t niche anymore. It’s national."

https://www.ifixit.com/News/110039/double-trouble-for-repair-monopolies-washington-passes-two-right-to-repair-bills

#SolarPunkSunday #ReduceReuseRepair #FixIt

#Canada - #RepairCafé sews, bolts, and seals up the leaky, slow, and damaged

Written by Hayden Michaels Tuesday, Apr 01 2025, 6:00 AM

"The #SwiftCurrent Repair Café has once again come and gone and left the world a better working place.

"From clocks to mixers, from radios to jackets, almost anything that could fit through the door was examined, diagnosed, and put back in working order. While the volunteers can't tackle anything too out there or too large, they make sure to stitch, staple, and suture what they can mend.

"This year, Keegan Story and the rest of the volunteer handymen and women were happy to help fix 80 per cent of the items brought to them.

" 'Electronics and appliances are one of our busier areas,' shared Story. 'Today they fixed a kid's toy DVD player, a vacuum cleaner and a few other miscellaneous electronics.'

"One of the special booths at this event was the #PinballMachine corner. Kids were infatuated as local Pinball Wizard/technician Darwin Gooding built one of his '70s machines and let them play with the finished product.

"Other interesting fixes were computers, mechanical clocks, clothing, and just about anything and everything else that Swift Current brought out.

"The goal of the Repair Café is to mend items that normally would go in the trash. Be it their disposable nature, or the unrealistic monetary nature of certain fixes, this bi-yearly event unshackles practicality in favour of keeping what is old, new, and what is broken, pristine.
A child learns about circuitry, causing a rotor to fly up, up, and away!A child learns about circuitry, causing a rotor to fly up, up, and away!

" 'We've got a lot of people here that are handy that just like to offer their support,' said Story. 'We're keeping some stuff out of the landfill and keeping some money in people's pockets.'

"The next Repair Café will be held on October 25, 2025. Anyone looking to volunteer is encouraged to reach out via the Repair Café website or to contact them on Facebook."

https://swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/repair-caf-sews-bolts-and-seals-up-the-leaky-slow-and-damaged

#RepairCafesCanada #SaskatchewanCanada #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#SolarPunkSunday

#Denmark - #RepairCafeDanmark

"Repair Cafe Danmark er en non-profit forening med danske Repair Cafeer i hele landet. Alle arbejder 100% frivilligt i de lokale afdelinger.

"Foreningens formål er at facilitere og motivere frivillige, forbrugere, foreninger og kommuner til afholdelse af og deltagelse i Repair Cafeer og derved reducere affald, ændre forbrugsmønstre og skabe viden om og lyst til grøn omstilling.

"Hjælp os med til at gøre noget ved udledning af CO2. Ved at #reparere frem for at købe nyt nedbringer du forbruget af nye produkter og mindsker udledningen ved produktion, transport og bortskaffelse, til gavn for det fremtidige liv på Jorden.

English: "Repair Cafe is a non-profit organization with repair initiatives all over Denmark. We are all 100% volunteers in the local Repair Cafes.

"Our purpose is to facilitate and motivate volunteers, consumers, organizations and municipalities to create and/or participate in Repair Cafes and thereby help reduce waste, change consumption patterns and creating knowledge about a green future. We want to change today’s throw-away society by teaching consumers that it is possible to repair, rather than just throwing out and buying new."

https://repaircafedanmark.dk/

More information about our project here: Om Repair Cafe:
https://repaircafedanmark.dk/om/

#Danmark #RepairCafesDenmark #RepairCafeesDanmark #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#SolarPunkSunday

#UK - The Restart Project! Lots of locations, lots of dates!

"The Restart Project aims to tackle the climate emergency by making #electronics work for people, for the planet, and for longer.

"We’re a people-powered social enterprise that believes every product should be repairable, and that repair and reuse should be accessible and affordable for everyone.

"Right now, we live in a throwaway economy. It can be tough to find options for repair locally, and electronics can be needlessly hard to fix. As a result we’re losing repair skills in our communities, throwing more away, and buying more new. It’s building a mountain of e-waste while using ever more of our planet’s limited resources.

"That’s why we make repair easier for everyone.

We help people run repair events in their communities where they teach each other how to fix their broken and slow devices – from tablets to toasters, from iPhones to headphones. We run fixing factories that help people repair their things, build repair directories where people can find help near them and train people in repair skills."

https://therestartproject.org/networks/hampshire/

#RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#RepairCafésUK #SolarPunkSunday

#Ireland - The rise of repair cafes: ‘It’s not sustainable to keep buying new stuff’
A resurgent repair culture has a bottom-up energy, but change is also coming from the top, with the EU’s Right to Repair Directive

by Sylvia Thompson
Mon Jan 20 2025 - 05:00

"At repair cafes across the island of Ireland, volunteers fix small pieces of furniture, household electrical appliances and clothing at community venues for free. This movement, which started about 10 years ago – but stalled during the Covid-19 pandemic – is gathering pace again as a kickback against the perils of #overconsumption and as a response to #environmental and cost-of-living crises.

"Tomorrow afternoon, in an industrial unit in #Dublin12, a repair cafe will take place, a community event in which a group of volunteer fixers will repair everything from broken toasters, kettles, coffee machines and air fryers to garments needing new zips or buttons.

"The #DublinMakerRepairCafe in Unit 2B, Motor City, Kylemore Road, #Dublin 12, is one of a number of repair cafe gatherings held throughout the island. Volunteer #fixers also show up for repair events organised in "#CommunityCentres, #libraries and third-level colleges.

" 'I’d do a repair cafe every weekend if I had enough volunteers. I can’t meet the demand from libraries, county councils and community groups,' says Jeffrey Roe, a software and hardware engineer who also runs Tog Hackerspace, which hosts the D12 repair cafes four times a year.

"He says there are three types of people who turn up with broken items to be repaired for free at these community events.

" 'There are the environmentally conscious people who want to get things fixed rather than consume more valuable resources by purchasing new things,' says Roe. 'There are people who want things fixed for sentimental reasons – say a food mixer their mother used or a toy they played with that they want to give to their children. And then, there are the cost-conscious people who find the cost of getting something new too high.' "

Read more:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/01/18/the-rise-of-repair-cafes-its-not-sustainable-to-keep-buying-new-stuff/

#RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#RepairCafésIreland #SolarPunkSunday