Duluth Repair Cafe

We throw away vast amounts of stuff - stuff which could get a new lease of life after a simple repair. Lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Repair Cafés are free meeting places where people come together to repair things together. In a local Repair Café, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need on clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, etc. You'll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields. Visitors bring their broken items from home and in the Repair Café, they start making their repairs with the specialists. It’s an ongoing learning process.

Repair Cafés help people in the community whose skills may not always be valued to get involved again. It helps neighbors from different backgrounds connect with each other and allows valuable practical knowledge to be shared. Repairing things at a Repair Café means things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products.

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Phil Johnson

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I am from Duluth and currently live in the Cities (Wayzata), but I am very interested in your group. I would really like to hear about how the repair Cafe goes for you guys. Please tell me how the different steps go, such as finding experienced electrical appliance repair persons. My email address is [email protected] and my phone number is 952-239-0965.

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Shawna Mullen

hampir 6 tahun yang lalu

Hello Phil! Thanks for your interest! Thus far, we've had one planning meeting, so we're just at the beginning stages. We hope to have our first repair cafe in December. We are going to create a Facebook group for the purposes of recruiting planning team members, local "fixers," and to promote the events. I can send you the link once we've got it up and running, or could also communicate via email to keep you posted (if you're not on Facebook). Thanks again for your interest!

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Shawna Mullen

hampir 6 tahun yang lalu

Three actions we'll do:
1) start a FB group to recruit volunteer fixers, team members, materials, and promote events.
2) reach out to the Duluth Makerspace as a potential host
3) chat with other Repair cafes about how they handle liability

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