Repair Café at Jalna Library Branch

After more than a two-year gap, the Repair Café is back! This was always one of our favourite events, and now that it's safer to gather again, we are looking forward to getting back into the swing of regular repair events, learning new skills and fixing items that would otherwise have gone in the landfill.

During this 2 hour event, we will have community members on hand who can help you with your items that need fixing. If you have a small appliance or piece of clothing or something else that needs fixing, please bring it in and have it repaired - for free :)

Thanks to our awesome team of volunteer "fixers", more than half of all the broken items that are brought in get repaired! Some of the items that have been repaired in the past are: toaster ovens, curling iros, clocks, lamps, jeans, purses, coats, chairs, radios, microwaves, etc.

We are hosting the Repair Café at Reimagine AND at London Public Library branches! Please carefully note the location of the event you are registering for :)

• Reimagine - Wednesday, September 28
• Reimagine - Wednesday, October 19
• Jalna Library Branch - Thursday, November 3 (1119 Jalna Boulevard, London ON N6E 3B3)
• East London Library Branch - Wednesday, November 23 (2016 Dundas Street East, London ON N5Z 1R1)
• Reimagine - Wednesday, December 7

21st century humans throw away vast amounts of stuff. In fact, Canadians throw away almost 800 kilos of garbage a year - per person! Sometimes things with almost nothing wrong are tossed out since buying new has become cheaper than ever. These things can easily get a new lease of life after a simple repair. The trouble is, lots of us have forgotten that we can repair things ourselves or we no longer know how to do it. Repair Café is part of a global movement to change that!

Interested in being a “fixer”? See here for more details of what that involves and to complete a short volunteer application form.