Old North End Repair Cafe
Schedule
Sat Jul 20 2024 at 11:00 am to 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Laboratory B | Burlington, VT
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What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a bike when the wheel runs out of true? Or with a sweater full of moth holes? Toss it? No way! Laboratory B is organising a Repair Café in the ONE.At 12 North Street, everything centers on making repairs! From 11am to 3pm, various volunteer repair experts (if you would like to volunteer, fill out the form at the bottom of the page) will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Tools and materials will also be on hand. People visiting the Repair Café will bring 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.
By promoting repairs, we'll help reduce mountains of waste. This is absolutely necessary -- we throw away piles of stuff in Vermont. Even things which practically have nothing wrong with them, and which could easily be used again after a simple repair. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they can have things repaired. Repair Café wants to change all that.
Repair Café is also meant to put neighbors in touch with each other in a new way. And to discover that a lot of know-how and practical skills can be found close to home. If you repair a bike, a CD player or a pair of trousers together with a previously unfamiliar neighbour, you look at that person in a different light the next time you run into them on the street. Jointly making repairs can lead to pleasant contacts in the neighbourhood.
The Repair Café concept arose in the Netherlands in 2009, and was formulated by Martine Postma, at the time an Amsterdam-bases journalist/publicist. In 2010, she started the Repair Café Foundation (see Repaircafe.org). This foundation provides support to local groups around the world wishing to start their own Repair Café.
Form for Volunteers: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiTXwkdcukKScUEJE6Wl5oDPltJyXIpRu7L_Q-ElBZ_ARwkQ/viewform
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Where is it happening?
Laboratory B, 12 North Street,Burlington,VT,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
