April Repair Cafe HV News

 

We're Going to be on the TODAY Show 4/21!

Repair Cafe Hudson Valley is Fixing Things Live on The TODAY Show this Friday, April 21st


We have been asked to stage a Repair Cafe demo in Rockefeller Plaza during the live taping of NBC's TODAY Show this Friday, April 21st. We'll be there working away in the Plaza from 7:00am-8:30am EST on items we sourced from around the Hudson Valley and from Today Show staffers and then they will interview several of our repair coaches and cafe organizers live from about 8:30am-9:00am. They will also play a recently recorded interview with Repair Revolution co-author and former Warwick/current Jersey City Repair Cafe organizer Elizabeth Knight and will also show footage from our new 'TarryHollow' Repair Cafe which took place last Saturday. This is all part of Today's Earth Week Climate Series and we are thrilled they chose to highlight our work. We are also so happy to spread the word about Repair Cafes to a wider audience. The segment will be on anywhere you can watch or stream NBC during the Today show time frame and we will share the link on our website's news page and in next month's newsletter.

 

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Interest in the Repair Cafe movement continues to grow, but we need your help to keep up with it. We are currently working hard on fundraising to keep on our part-time Repair Cafe Hudson Valley coordinator who helps support all these cafes and the many new ones that will come after our TODAY Show appearance. She runs our website, coordinates our calendar, helps with PR (including coordinating the huge effort that is a Today Show Repair Cafe), runs our social media and answers all the public's questions about what can get fixed where and when AND she helps out as a jewelry repair coach almost every weekend all over the region. Everyone else involved in the movement is a volunteer, and the coordinator helps lighten their loads so they can keep helping you get your beloved but broken items fixed--for FREE. Please donate today to our fiscal sponsor Sustainable Hudson Valley to keep RCHV going--and growing--strong.

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April is Earth Month and our cafe organizers and repair coaches were up to the challenge. We've already had a very busy schedule for the first half of April including a new cafe in Tarrytown, NY and the long awaited return of the Poughkeepsie Cafe with an entirely new organizing team. We're also pleased to announce new cafes are opening this month in Wynantskill, Colonie and Amenia. Below are the remaining cafes for April including six cafes on Earth Day which is this Saturday, April 22nd.

April 2023 Repair Cafe Calendar

For more information, visit our online calendar.

 
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RCHV News Roundup


Word is out--Repair Cafes are amazing and abundant here in the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Capital Region. Here are some of the recent articles that have appeared in print and online about our cafes.


Repair Cafe Heading to 30 Rock for TV Appearance, 4/18/23, Kingston Wire


What is a Repair Cafe? by RCHV Coordinator Suzie Fromer, 4/12/23, about the Rivertowns Repair Cafe and a brief history of the movement


Where Beloved Old Things are Reborn, Free of Charge 4/6/23, about the Stanford Repair Cafe


Reuse, Reduce, Repair: Rhinebeck's Repair Cafe Pumps New Life into the Community, 2/13/23, about the Rhinebeck Repair Cafe

 
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