Note: Be sure to check out SAM TALKS: Trash Talk with Ginger Nickerson from 1-3 pm right after the Repair Café. Make a day of it and join us in Downtown Saint Albans!

Join NWSWD at Saint Albans Museum for the area’s first ever repair café! Vermonters, and especially rural Vermonters have always subscribed to a "waste not, want not" mentality. Let's get together, learn some new things, meet some new people, and do our part by keeping stuff out of the local waste stream. 

Repair cafés are free events for community members team up with experts to fix their own possessions. The repair café movement was founded in the Netherlands in 2009, and now hundreds of cities worldwide hold repair café events.

Bring one defunct or damaged item with you. Think of the event as a workshop environment - expect to stay a bit to learn as you work.

Examples of items are clocks, blenders, bikes, laptops, lamps, pants, benches, baskets, ottomans, vases, knives, chairs, toasters, mugs, radios, ect. 

Volunteers fixers currently on board: 

Blades - Ryan Merton 

Fabrics/textiles - Juli Keenan 

Clocks - Dave Welch

Electronics/Appliances - Megan Browning

Bikes - Tom Cleveland

Household item Generalists -  Melyssa Bailey & Tony Graziano

Bringing tools is encouraged but not required. Repair is not guaranteed; repair cafés succeed on average 50% of the time. Have something to repair on your own, but looking for the space to do so? You can also bring your own project and hang out to work on it. 

Repair cafés seek to promote the art of repair in modern life, teach new skills, and cultivate a sense of community by gathering people to work alongside one another. A repair café is a meeting place where it is all about repairing together—by transferring knowledge between neighbors. We are looking forward to hosting you!