2023 was a big year for Community Repair in western North Carolina:
- WNC Repair Cafe organized over a dozen repair events hosted by the Asheville Tool Library and Buncombe County libraries.
- With help from our friends at Repair Cafe NC, WNC Repair Cafe joined the Triangle Repair Network and is now a registered 501-c3 non-profit in the state of North Carolina!
- We have been awarded our first grant! (Much more on this later)
- We expanded our repair events to reach Hendersonville, while working to create a template that makes it easier to maintain repair cafes under new leadership in other NC communities.
We're starting off 2024 with an expanded schedule, reaching more WNC communities:
We'll return to the Asheville Tool Library for SIX general repair events, on bimonthly intervals, each on the first Thursday of that month. All events are from 5:00-8:00 PM. At these events, we'll be fixing nearly anything you might find in your house: small appliances, lamps and other electrical items, tools, furniture, heirlooms, some electronics, small engines, bicycles, and more.
Buncombe county libraries will continue to host mending events. Here, we'll fix anything that can be fixed with thread. Our 2024 expanded mending event schedule is more irregular.
All Buncombe County workshop dates are listed here:
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