June Repair Cafe HV News

 

No Need to Adjust Your Screens!

That was Us! Repair Cafe Hudson Valley

was Live on The TODAY Show in April


RCHV had an opportunity to shine the daytime tv spotlight on the Repair Café movement in April when we were asked to throw a live Repair Café on the Today Show plaza. The segment included footage from a recent Repair Café in Tarrytown, NY as well as an interview with Elizabeth Knight, a Repair Café organizer and co-author of Repair Revolution: How Fixers are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture. Several of the repair coaches—who hailed from all over RCHV’s coverage area—were interviewed as a part of the segment which highlighted the importance of repair as a tool to fight climate change and build community. The segment was so successful the Repair Café Foundation site was quickly overwhelmed! To watch the segment, click here.

 

Help Us Celebrate 10 Years of

Repair Cafe Hudson Valley

We celebrated our 10th anniversary on May 20th at the New Paltz Repair Cafe with speeches, cake and a wonderful memory board where guests and fixers could leave notes about our founder, John Wackman. Next up on our agenda? Fundraising to keep our part-time RCHV coordinator, Suzie Fromer. Suzie helps support our 45 repair cafes, a number that just keeps growing; June's calendar below features two brand new cafes as well as two finally returning from Covid. Suzie was featured prominently on the TODAY show segment, serving as a voice for the Repair Cafe community. In addition to liaising with all the organizers, she also runs our website, manages our calendar, helps with PR, runs our social media and serves as one central point of contact for the public. She also helps out as a skilled jewelry repair coach at a different repair cafe across our region almost every weekend. Please donate using the below button or from our website so we can keep fixing your beloved but broken items fixed--for FREE--for another 10 years!

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We're excited to announce new cafes in Albany and Port Jervis coming in June. Also Montgomery and Highland Falls are back!

June 2023 Repair Cafe Calendar

For more information, visit our online calendar.

 
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RCHV News Roundup



Suzie Fromer (RCHV), Peter Marchetto (Port Jervis/Hurleyville) and Akenataa Hammagaadji (Highland Falls) will be live on Orange County's WALL Radio with Kate Brennan at 8:00am-8:20 next Wednesday, June 7th. Listen live at the above link or later on our website.


Switching From Replace to Repair: Rockland's Repair Cafe Has a Simple Fix for Our Trash Problems, May/June 2023 Rivertown Magazine.


New Paltz Repair Café Celebrates Ten Years of Sustainability, 05/18/23, HV1


Red Hook’s Earth Day Brings Repair Technicians, Composters and Recyclers Out for Fun – and the Future, 4/23/23, The Daily Catch

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