When your stuff breaks, you should have the right to repair it. The fixers with Dare to Repair will show you how! Join The Tool Library and friends for the first Dare to Repair Cafe of 2022 on Saturday, June 4th at 11AM at the Lancaster Public Library.
Details for the event are as follows:
- Location: Lancaster Public Library – 5466 Broadway, Lancaster NY 14086 (goo.gl/maps/ekRupwCZ6CQC5Btd6)
- Date: Saturday, June 4th
- Time: 11am – 2pm
After over a year hiatus, the Dare to Repair crew is back in action fixing your stuff FOR FREE and teaching you how! Can’t make it this weekend? No problem! There will be two more Dare to Repair Cafes scheduled in July and September. Check out the flyer for more info on each!
Dare to Repair is reducing waste by connecting those with a need to those with the know-how. Learn a new skill, save money, and help save the planet!
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
There is currently a Fair Repair Act in the NYS Senate and Assembly (states.repair.org/states/newyork) which would force manufacturers to make repair of their equipment more accessible and equitable.
Individuals are highly encourage to reach out to their representatives in support of this legislation!