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A little about ourselves

The Melbourne Repair Cafe (Inner West) is one of the thousand+ repair cafes around the world who are registered with the Repair Cafe Foundation (based in the Netherlands).

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​Free monthly repair cafe sessions are held at the Yarraville Community Centre and have previously been run from venues in Melbourne's inner west, including at community houses and local cafes..​ Check the events listing below for the next date.

Melbourne Repair Cafe - in the news...

• Reviving the art of repair by Michelle Fisher, Sanctuary Magazine, issue 39, May 2017.
• Repair cafes diverting landfill, ABC RN Life Matters with audio, Michael Mackenzie reporting, 20 April 2017.
• Can pop-up 'repair cafes' save broken gadgets and solve growing waste levels?, ABC Lateline. with video: The fixer generation campaigning for the right to repair, (Margot ONeill reporting), 7 March 2017.
• Helping your possessions stand the test of time with Repair Cafes by Adrian O'Hagan, Permablitz  Melbourne, 9 December 2016.
• Fix not throw, The Grapevine, Triple R, 5 December 2016 - audio interview with presenters Kulja Coulston & Dylan Bird,
• ​Repair cafe comes to the West by Michelle Fisher, The Westsider newspaper, page 9, Issue #14, March 2016. (Also published on the Melbourne Repair Cafe blog.)
• Preparations for the launch of the Melbourne Repair Cafe at the Living Future Festival in the Yarraville Gardens, 21 February 2016 - video by Karen Ellis.
• ​Inner-west repair cafe to launch at Sustainable Living Festival by Simon Leo Brown, ABC News Online, 4 Feb 2016.

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