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Photo courtesy of Westwood Environmental Action Committee. At a past Repair Café, a fixer (left) helps a community member (right) with an item that she has brought in for repair.
1-18-2026 12:33am
WEAC, Dover Recycling Committee & Charles River Repair Coalition Co-Sponsor Area's 6th Repair Café
Darlene Cancell
Editor
Do you have a lamp that isn’t working or a broken piece of jewelry that you want to keep but don’t know how to fix? If so, you may be in luck. From 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Westwood Environmental Action Committee, the Dover Recycling Committee and the Charles River Repair Coalition will co-sponsor the area’s sixth Repair Café.
Photo courtesy of Westwood Environmental Action Committee. A WEAC member (left) at a past Repair Café stands next to a board that keeps track of "Repairs in Progress."At repair cafés, individuals bring broken items to volunteers who donate their time and tools to fix those items. Here’s how it works:
- Show up with items you want to have repaired. Fixable items include jewelry, lamps, clothing, small furniture, small appliances, bikes, and locks that need to be rekeyed.
- One of the event’s “fixers” – volunteers with particular repair skills and tools – will fix your item. Please note: fixing is free, but not guaranteed. Also, if your item needs a replacement part, you will need to buy or reimburse the fixer for that part.
- Mingle with neighbors at the event.
Photo courtesy of Westwood Environmental Action Committee. Repair Cafés are a place for community members to meet and mingle, while caring for the environment through attempting repair of items, rather than repurchasing or disposing of them.Repair cafés are part of a grassroots movement aimed at reducing consumption and waste while also fostering community bonding. Since 2009, when the first repair café took place in Amsterdam, these events have proliferated throughout the world.
Thanks to Westwood Environmental Action Committee for sharing this news with Westwood Minute.
