Sign up to Volunteer at the Next Repair Café!
Location: Traverse Area District Library Woodmere Branch, McGuire Community Room
How it works
- Volunteers are grouped into repair stations based off of their area of expertise.
- Attendees check in at the welcome table and are assigned a repair station and a number like a deli counter.
- Repair volunteers call off numbers and help attendees one-by-one or in a group if many repairs of the same variety are needed.
- Repair Volunteers show attendees how to fix their item through demonstration, guidance, and hands-on learning.
- If the repair is too complicated or lengthy to perform at the Repair Cafe, you can direct the attendee to online resources, tools and materials, or back to welcome table.
Tools
All tools needed for basic repairs will be made available by Green Door Folk School and TADL. But you are free to bring your favorite drill, preferred sewing machine, or additional tools. Note, that they will be accessible to the community and may be used by folks with little or no experience.
Additional Note: Perfection and flawless repairs are not the goal at the Repair Cafe. The underlying objective is to empower your neighbors to elongate the lifespan of their possessions by showing them how to execute simple repairs like darning a sock, patching a popped bike tire tube, or fixing an old alarm clock.