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The Repair Café Effect
The Repair Café on September 13 brought many first time and returning visitors despite the drizzling weather. The first visitor, Tony Chug, showed up an hour early. When he saw us setting up, he...
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Wherever We Go…
No matter where we go, Repair Café always connects with the community. On October 18, we went east to Cedarbrae Public Library in Scarborough. And we saw parents, we saw children, we saw elderly...
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Repair Café – 1,200 Visitors Later
Photograph by Heather Ramsay November 22 was our last Repair Café of the year. We had one of the highest turnouts of both volunteers and visitors, and once again our terrific volunteers made it another...
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Highest Number of Volunteers
Photograph by Lon Appleby It seems that with every Repair Café, we reach another milestone. On January 17, the first Repair Café this year, we occupied the largest number of rooms at Skills for...
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Repair Café at HackLab – Awesome Collaboration!
Video by Lon Appleby Our monthly Repair Café on February 21 was a Saturday that started with heavy snow. But the broken streetcars and slow traffic didn’t hamper the enthusiasm of our volunteers and...
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The Repair Café Hits Another Record!
Video and photograph by Lon Appleby Photograph by Heather Ramsay and Lon Appleby On March 21, we were back at Skills for Change in the St. Clair West neighbourhood. We hit a record high number of...
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What a Blast!
Video and photograph by Lon Appleby On Saturday April 18, Repair Café returned to one of our favourite locations, the Toronto Reference Library (TRL). We arrived early in the morning to set up with...
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Repair Café is Inspiration!
Photographs #1-3, #5-6 by Lon Appleby Photograph #4 (two young girls with microscope) by Heather Rampsay Photograph #7 (“Repair Café”) by Anne Winter Repair Café is going strong at its two-year mark....
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Video by Lon Appleby On Saturday, June 20, Repair Café visited the Elmbank Community Centre in Rexdale. This was our first visit to the north-western part of the city. In spite of the longer distance,...
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The Bell Rings at Repair Café
Video by Lon Appleby On Saturday, July 18, the Repair Café was back at Skills for Change for our monthly event. We opened at 10 a.m and were happy to see returning visitors as well as many new ones....
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Repair is a Process
On the morning of Saturday August 22, Repair Cafe visited Central Neighbourhood House on Ontario Street. We were received by the welcoming staff who helped us set up in their colorful gymnasium. The...
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Repair Café – High Five!
Photographs by Wai Chu Cheng The Repair Café was back at Skills for Change on Saturday, September 26 for another successful four hour event. The positive energy in the room was noticed by a new...
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Another Record at Repair Café!
The Repair Café visited the Don Mills branch of the Toronto Public Library on October 17. It was another successful café with a great atmosphere. We received 129 items in total, everything from...
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Thank You for a Strong Year
Photograph by Emily Jasper 2015 has been a year of growth for Repair Cafe Toronto and we would like to take a few moments to show you how we are expanding and most importantly how we continue to meet...
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At the Repair Café, we take pride in the ability of our volunteers to handle different repair challenges. We are not just a community event. We also get a lot of things fixed, and people walk away...
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Thank You to Central Neighbourhood House!
Photographs by Heather Ramsay and Lon Appleby On Feb 27, the Repair Café returned to one of our favourite community centres, Central Neighbourhood House (CNH). Once again, we had our workstations...
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Repair Café Attracts Young Visitors
Photograph by Wai Chu Cheng We were back at Skills for Change on March 19 and as always had a diverse group of visitors. This time we had more children. They not only brought items to be fixed but also...
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Back to Life!
On Saturday April 23, the Repair Cafe visited Albert Campbell Library in Scarborough. We were greeted by the librarians, Kat and his colleagues, who helped with the setting up of the room. Once again,...
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Repair Café just turned 3 Years Old!
On May 28, we were back at Skills for Change for our 34th Repair Café! After a busy café, our volunteers and visitors joined the BBQ lunch to celebrate our third anniversary! Our next café will be...
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Repair Café Visitors Become Fixers!
The Friendship Bench by Project Canada at Driftwood Recreation Community Centre Photographs by Lon Appleby On Saturday, June 18, Repair Café was excited to visit Driftwood Recreation Community Centre...
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