Schools and Community Repair Events
At Community Repair Events volunteers who know something about how to fix things work with people who don’t, to try to bring something back into service.
Go here for more information about what Community Repair Events are.
Go here for guides for setting up a community repair event, including materials in Spanish for setting up an event in a school context.
What Community Repair Events Are:
Palo Alto Repair Café (3:28 min)
Berkeley Repair Café (1:54 min)
Fixit Clinic (3:23 min)
Restart Parties (4:19 min)
Visit:
Community Repair Events are terrific places for young people to visit, to apprentice, and to volunteer. Adult volunteers are generous with their time, knowledge and enthusiasm, and are great teachers. Event organizers universally warmly welcome students’ visits and participation.
Host:
School-based repair programs can host their own events. For examples, see the programs at Fieldston School, Malvern Hills Repair Café and Rudolf Steiner School Munich-Schwabing.
To find an event near you:
Three organizations sponsor hundreds of events in all quarters of the world. Many, many independent organizations operate in their respective communities:
The Restart Project — The UK, Europe and Virtual
Events listed here.
Repair Café — Worldwide
Over 125 in the USA, from Berkeley to the Hudson River Valley to Palo Alto to Houston to Montreal to Pasedena, and everywhere between
Events listed here.
Fixit Clinic — USA and Virtual
Events listed here.
A handful of the many, many independent groups follows.
A Google search will turn up scads more.
Search on: Fixit Fair, Repair Fair, Repair Cafe, Fixit Clinic, …
Repair PDX — Portland, Oregon USA
Community Glue Workshop — Chicago, Illinois USA
King County Repair Events — Seattle end environs, Oregon USA
Fixing Factory — London and environs
Share, Reuse, Repair — Vancouver, Canada
The Bower — Sydney, Australia
The Remakery — London, UK
Philly Fixers Guild, Repair Fair — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Fix-It Fair — Eugene, Oregon USA
The Goodlife Centre — London, UK