The marathon six-hour Repair Café at Pasadena Earth and Arts Festival on May 3rd had an unexpected outcome! We know that most folks do not want to trot their appliances along with the kids for Earth and Arts Festival – although one woman did bring a very heavy sewing machine in on a trolley.
We did 19 sewing and appliance repairs, and Jonathan was busy all afternoon at the bike repair station repairing about 6 bikes! We attracted lots of attention with our solar sewing machine supported by Scoops' dresser-drawer solar battery setup. Passers-by loved his innovative contraption! They also loved our crisp new Transition Information Boards and the Cool Roofs info postcards.
We garnered accolades from the stage manager, who invited Ginko, Scoops and Mary on stage to share the behind-the-scenes story of Repair Café. That was not the unexpected outcome, however. What was unexpected, was the hacker repair team bonding with each other, collaborating on the day's light workload – perfect for catching up with each other and enjoying the camaraderie and the refreshing breeze in Memorial Park. Beware fellas! We handed out 100 flyers for the next Repair Café – June 14 at the Humane Society!
It will be jumpin'!
— Therese Brummel
We garnered accolades from the stage manager, who invited Ginko, Scoops and Mary on stage to share the behind-the-scenes story of Repair Café. That was not the unexpected outcome, however. What was unexpected, was the hacker repair team bonding with each other, collaborating on the day's light workload – perfect for catching up with each other and enjoying the camaraderie and the refreshing breeze in Memorial Park. Beware fellas! We handed out 100 flyers for the next Repair Café – June 14 at the Humane Society!
It will be jumpin'!
— Therese Brummel
