Repair, don’t replace! 🛠🧵

Students and staff are invited to bring along their broken items to UC Sustainability’s pop-up ‘Repair Cafe’ and have them repaired for free by our team of volunteers. Let’s all work together to keep our stuff out of landfill!

What: Repair Cafe

When: Wednesday 8 May, 11am – 1pm

Where: Te Rua Makerspace, Level 2, Puaka-James Hight Library

Drop in with your items at any time during the event. Volunteers will be able to help with:

• Darning, hand sewing and glueing
• General clothing and textile repair
• Jewellery repair
• Shoe repair including glue, stitching, sole fixing, eyelet repair and replacement
• Industrial sewing for more heavy-duty items, like canvas or bag repair
• Leather stitching and leather hole punching
• Eyeglasses repair
• Iron on patching for clothing like denim and waterproof/puffa jackets.

Item not on the list? Bring it along and we’ll see what we can do! (no electronics sorry). If we can’t help you, we can point you in the right direction of somewhere who can.

If you have repair skills and would like to be involved as a volunteer, please email chloe.sutton@canterbury.ac.nz.

This event is part of UC’s Waste Education campaign, running 29 April – 17 May 2024.