What is a Repair Café?
Have a household item that’s broken? Don’t toss it! Bring it to the Repair Café where you can get help fixing it. Most importantly, learn from the fixers how to do it yourself. At the Repair Café, you can get help fixing anything from lamps and clothes to computers and chairs. It’s free and all are welcome!
The Repair Café started in Amsterdam in 2009. Within a few years, more than 400 repair cafés have become part of the global network of Repair Cafe Foundation working to spread the movement worldwide. Here is a 90-second video on Toronto’s Repair Café celebrating its first anniversary this May.
Repair Café aims to reduce the waste that is sent to landfill and to change society’s throw-away mindset.
What is a Fixer?
A Fixer is a volunteer who is skilled at repairing household items, everything from appliances to electronics to clothing. Do you have a talent for fixing things? Students, faculty and staff are all needed and welcome. The Repair Café can only work if we have volunteers who can serve as fixers.
Sheridan’s Repair Café
Sheridan became the first college in Canada to join this global movement earlier this year with a Repair Café in April at the Trafalgar Campus.
Sheridan Repair Café volunteer fixer, Emi, sitting on the right is explaining to the visitor on the left how the laptop computer works. Another fixer, Jason, is watching. (Photo taken at SLATE, Trafalgar campus, in April)
Sheridan’s second Repair Café will be held at the Davis Campus in mid-November. Date and time will be announced shortly. Stay tuned for more details.
If you are interested in joining the team of fixers, please contact Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Coordinator, Office for Sustainability, at waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca
For more info, please visit www.repaircafetoronto.ca