When your stuff breaks, don’t ditch it – fix it! Don’t know how? The fixers with Dare to Repair will show you. Join The Tool Library and Buffalo Recycles for their December Dare to Repair Cafe on Saturday, December 3rd at 11AM at the Frank E. Merriweather Public Library.
Details for the event are as follows:
Location: Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library – 1324 Jefferson Ave, Buffalo, NY 14208 (https://goo.gl/maps/ibt3Xg6y8guNmtCYA)Date: Saturday, December 3rdTime: 11am – 2pm
What is a Dare to Repair Cafe you might ask? It’s a popup community event where you can bring a broken item and work with a team of fixers to try and repair the item for FREE!
Dare to Repair’s goal is to share repair skills, save money, and keep things in circulation and out of the landfill for as long as possible.
All participants are asked to register for the event ahead of time to help with an estimated headcount and gauge what sort of items people will be bringing.
Why Repair?
As a society, we throw away vast amounts of stuff. Current estimates put the amount of trash generated by Americans each year at 254 million tons! As current recycling technologies reach their limits of usefulness, reducing, re-using, and repairing the things we consume has become and increasingly important solution to addressing the challenge of the growing global waste stream. The problem is we often lack the knowledge or confidence necessary to make even the most basic of repairs.
Started by The Tool Library and Buffalo Recycles, Dare to Repair Cafes are Western New York’s take on the global Repair Cafe movement, which started more than 10 years ago in Amsterdam. Conceived as a way to rethink waste and transform our throw away economy at the local level by teaching traditional, hands-on repair skills, the Repair Cafe model is helping to rekindle fixer culture across the globe. Repair Cafes connect highly skilled volunteer fixers to individuals with broken items and, through hands-on instruction and troubleshooting, teach people the value, ease, and sense of accomplishment repair can bring. Small shifts in our thinking and habits can have a huge impact on one of our world’s most pressing challenges.
Volunteer with Dare to Repair!
Dare to Repair Cafes are a volunteer-powered initiative. Events would not be possible without volunteer fixers who share their skills and talents to bring free fixes across WNY. Interested in becoming a fixer? Want to help share the gift of repair across WNY? Sign-up to be come a fixer with the Dare to Repair Cafes and become part of an incredible community of individuals who are teaching people to rethink waste!
CALL TO ACTION – Right to Repair in NYS
“It has been more than four months since the New York legislature passed the Digital Fair Repair Act with a veto proof majority in the Senate and a near unanimous vote (145-2) in the New York Assembly. It’s time the governor signed it into law.” Read more
We encourage individuals and organizations to reach out to newly elected Governor Hochul and ask her to sign the first of its kind Digital Fair Repair Act into law.
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