Repair Café
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2024 Dates: February 25, April 28, October 27 and December 29 1 - 4 PM
Repair Café is a free community event where we bring our beloved but broken items, and together, with volunteer Repair Coaches, we fix them. Broken items include small appliances, lamps, clothing, frames, chairs and more.
Currently we are looking for "Repair Coaches" to guide people in fixing all kinds of things. Repair coaches bring their own tools and supplies and offer repairs at no cost. If you would like to volunteer, the commitment can be on a per-event basis.
Contact RepairCafeGardiner@gmail.com for more information. History of Gardiner's Repair Cafe
In February 2014 Wendy Toman (who was running Gardiner's Transfer Station) partnered with Nicole Lane, Director of the Gardiner Library, to organize the second Repair Cafe in the Hudson Valley--and the first to be held at a library. Also one of the few to meet on Sunday. In 2017, Wendy passed the torch to Ana Linneman, who nurtured a caring group of repairers and built it up beautifully. After the world shut down from COVID, Holly Shader reopened Gardiner's Repair Cafe in August of 2021. Today, Holly Shader is the Repair Cafe organizer for Gardiner and New Paltz. She remains involved because "it checks off so many boxes for me: strengthens community, extends the useful life of our belongings, changes the relationship we have with our "stuff", and it's fun. At some point during every Cafe I pause to appreciate the generosity, creativity, skill, and experience in the room. There is so much collaboration and learning going on, what's not to like?" |
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