Webinar S2 E3: How-To Host a Repair Cafe
Thursday June 25th from 12-1pm ADT.
This webinar series is by donation – our recommended donation is $10, but any amount is appreciated! A Zoom link and calendar invitation will be sent after you register.
For this webinar, we are talking about Repair Cafes! A repair cafe is a community-led event where neighbours come together to fix broken everyday objects. Broken toaster? Flat tire? Hole in your shirt? Repair Cafes have you covered. These grassroots projects are popping up all over in Atlantic Canada, with the goal of reducing waste, overconsumptions, and planned obsolescence. Repair Cafes are more than just a place to get your objects fixed, you can build skills, meet people in your neighbourhood, and gain the confidence to repair things in your home. Come hear from three community repair cafe coordinators who can provide insights into how to host one of these in your community, building partnerships, challenges to look out for, and what unexpected joys come from this community initiative.
Let’s help kickstart the Repair Cafe Movement! Maybe you have something you don’t want to get rid of and you need some help fixing it, maybe you’ve been to a repair cafe and you’re looking to start one in your community, or maybe you just want to learn more about the right to repair, either way, this webinar is for you!
Season 2 of our webinars series takes a ‘how-to’ focus, where we learn how local people are putting big ideas into practice. Episode three of this season welcomes REPAIRVERSE, New Brunswick, FIX-IT-FAIR, Prince Edward Island, REPAIR CAFE South Shore, Nova Scotia, REPAIR & CARE CAFE Living Earth Council, Nova Scotia
Bob Cervelli from the Centre for Local Prosperity will moderate and we will begin with an interview/panel discussion, followed by a Q&A.
Webinar context:
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, leaving many individuals and communities with a sense of uncertainty, and in many cases, worry. How do we respond to this rapidly changing world? How do we strengthen our local agency and resilience, socially, economically, and ecologically? In our current context of trade partner volatility and imposed tariffs that threaten to worsen the financial realities within our communities, we want to shine a light on thriving examples of re-localization in our region!
Re-localization is a concept and movement with an aim to become more self-reliant in our production and consumption (while reducing reliance on distant supply chains) in every category — from energy, to food, to finance/investment, to climate solutions, and beyond.
This series will be held on the last Thursday of each month and will explore examples of re-localization across Atlantic Canada.
Watch previous episodes here: https://centreforlocalprosperity.ca/our-projects/webinar-series-building-community-economic-resilience-through-relocalization/