Are you the kind of person who avoids tossing things in the trash whenever possible? Do you enjoy fixing things and helping others learn how to do it? If your answers to these questions are “yes”, we need your help!
Sheridan is offering its 10th Repair Café at the Hazel McCallion campus on March 16. We are looking for volunteer Fixers who are skilled at repairing household items, everything from computers and electronics to small appliances and clothes. Faculty, staff and students are all welcome. At the event, as a Fixer, you will help visitors to repair the items they have brought in and explain to them the repair process.
Below are the details of this Repair Café:
- Date: Thursday, March 16
- Time: 11:30 am to 2 p.m.
- Location: Atrium near the living wall, A wing, HMC campus
If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please fill in a volunteer sign-up form online:
http://missionzero.sheridancollege.ca/get-involved/repair-cafe/repair-cafe-volunteer-form/
You have never been to a Repair Café before? The trailer for the documentary Fixed! below gives you some idea about what fixers do and how they help visitors repair their broken items. This documentary featuring Repair Café Toronto won the 2016 Hot Docs Short Film Pitch competition and has been funded through BravoFact. https://vimeo.com/198921902
Volunteer fixers, Neil Smith and Katherine Budayabillard are helping visitors fix their jeans at the last café held at the Trafalgar campus in October.
Sheridan is the first post-secondary institution in Canada hosting the Repair Café. It was launched in April 2014 as part of the Mission Zero initiative. In the article on Curiosities below, you can learn more about the philosophy of Sheridan’s Repair Café initiative and why a Fixer wants to volunteer for the Repair Café.
http://curiosities.sheridancollege.ca/giving-new-life-to-broken-items-at-the-repair-cafe/
Repair Café is a global movement started in Amsterdam in 2009. It aims to reduce needless waste that is sent to landfill and to change society’s throwaway mindset. To date, nearly 1,200 repair cafés has joined the network worldwide. To learn about other repair cafés around the globe, you can visit the following site: http://repaircafe.org/en
For any questions, please feel free to contact Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Coordinator, at waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca .