Video and photograph by Lon Appleby On Saturday April 18, Repair Café returned to one of our favourite locations, the Toronto Reference Library (TRL). We arrived early in the morning to set up with Dawn at TRL and it wasn’t long before Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium was transformed into a Repair Café space functioning […]

What a Blast!


Video and photograph by Lon Appleby Photograph by Heather Ramsay and Lon Appleby On March 21, we were back at Skills for Change in the St. Clair West neighbourhood. We hit a record high number of visitors this time! The first visitor arrived with a broken blender an hour before we opened. Another […]

The Repair Café Hits Another Record!


Video by Lon Appleby Our monthly Repair Café on February 21 was a Saturday that started with heavy snow. But the broken streetcars and slow traffic didn’t hamper the enthusiasm of our volunteers and visitors. Within half an hour, the HackLab was filled with people. This short video above was taken when we were half way […]

Repair Café at HackLab – Awesome Collaboration!