Dave West was recently featured in an article in the Daily Gazette for his involvement in the repair movement. Dave organizes the Schenectady Repair Cafe, which takes place quarterly at the maker space Electric City Barn. He is also an inspiration to and invaluable resource for the Albany area cafes and to all of us! To read the article, click here.
News 12 coverage of our October 2022 Rockland Cafe
SHV is featured on WVOX, Your Community in Action with Arlene Salman
New Repair Cafe Coordinator Suzie Fromer, and Outreach Coordinator Ben Eckstein appear on WVOX 1460, Your Community in Action with Arlene Salman
Yorktown Repair Café: They Repair Because They Care
Yorktown Repair Café Builds Community, One Item at a Time
Mid-Pandemic, Repair Cafes Move Outdoors
The Radicality of Repair: A Study in Obsolescence, Resistance, and Art
By Fiona Bruckman
This thesis examines the full breadth of the “repair movement” in a broad and disruptive way that centers repair not only as a tangible practice which provides sites for connection (as with Repair Café) and grounds for political contention (as with Right to Repair), but also as an idea which drives social change beyond the boundaries of organization.