BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//github.com/rianjs/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Repair Café Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). At the Repair Café event\, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make most repairs. Repairs can be m ade on clothes\, furniture\, electrical appliances\, bicycles\, crockery\ , appliances\, toys\, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers\, wit h repair skills in all kinds of fields. Visitors bring their broken ite ms from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repai rs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have noth ing to repair\, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a h and with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the read ing table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY. There are over 1 .300 Repair Cafés worldwide. Please register on the Rotary Club of Wel lesley’s website. If you have an item to repair\, register as a guest to attend the Café. Please list the item you want to repair in the comments section of the registration form. If you have questions\, feel free to co ntact John Adams at johnfadamsjr@gmail.com or 617-817-0314. If we can tal k before the event\, then we can make sure to have the necessary parts fo r repair available. If you have repair skills and want to help out\, plea se register as a volunteer. Repair Café House Rules · The wo rk carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a volunt ary basis by the repair experts at hand. · Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible\, but repair experts on site can hel p if necessary. · The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of lia bility. Neither the organizers of the Repair Café nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions conce rning repairs\, for the loss of items handed over for repair\, for indire ct or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from wor k performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liabil ity arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded. · A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated. · Any use of new materials such as leads\, plugs\, fu ses\, ready-made kneebends or applications will be paid for separately. · Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own ris k. · Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs car ried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home. · Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects. · Repai r experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cann ot be repaired. · Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible f or the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired. · To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods\, a maximu m of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join t he back of the queue if there is a second item for repair. Why a Repair Café? We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong\, and which could get a new lease on life afte r a simple repair. The trouble is\, lots of people have forgotten that th ey can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how t o make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn’t always show much appreciation for the people who still have this practical knowledge\, and against their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experience is never used\, or hardly ever. The Repair Café changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissio ns\, for example\, because manufacturing new products and recycling old o nes causes CO2 to be released. The Repair Café teaches people to see th eir possessions in a new light and\, once again\, to appreciate their val ue. The Repair Café helps change people’s mindset. This is essential to k indle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society. Most of all\, the Repair Café wants to show how much fun repairing things can be\, and how easy it often is. Why don’t you give it a go? Who thought up the idea? The Repair Café was initiated by Martine Postma. Since 2007\, she has bee n striving for sustainability at a local level in many ways. Martine orga nized the very first Repair Café in Amsterdam\, on October 18\, 2009. It was a great success. This prompted Martine to start the Repair Café Found ation. Since 2011\, this non-profit organization has provided professiona l support to local groups in the Netherlands and other countries wishing to start their own Repair Café. Not competing with professional repair specialists The Repair Café Foundation sometimes gets asked whether acc ess to free repair get-togethers is competing with professional repair sp ecialists. The answer is\; quite the opposite. Organisers want to use Rep air Cafés across the whole country to focus attention on the possibility of getting things repaired. Visitors are frequently advised to go to the few professionals still around. Furthermore\, people who visit Repair C afés are not usually customers of repair specialists. They say that they normally throw away broken items because paying to have them repaired is\ , in general\, too expensive. At the Repair Café they learn that you don’ t have to throw things away\; there are alternatives. DTEND:20191005T170000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T154304Z DTSTART:20191005T140000Z LOCATION:Wellesley Recreation Center SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Fall Repair Cafe UID:1149b963-1c5f-4605-ac7d-ddbaa17244f8 X-ALT-DESC:
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\n\nRepair Café\;s are free meeting places and they&rsquo\;re all ab out repairing things (together). At the Repair Café\; event\, you&r squo\;ll find tools and materials to help you make most repairs. Repairs can be made on clothes\, furniture\, electrical appliances\, bicycles\, c rockery\, appliances\, toys\, et cetera. You&rsquo\;ll also find \;ex pert volunteers\, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
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\n\nVisitors bring their broken items from home. Together wit h the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Caf&eacut e\;. It&rsquo\;s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repa ir\, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with so meone else&rsquo\;s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table &ndash\; by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
\n\nThe re are over 1.300 Repair Café\;s worldwide. \;
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\n\nPlease register on the Rotary Club of Wellesley&rsquo\;s webs ite. If you have an item to repair\, register as a guest to attend the Ca fé\;. Please list the item you want to repair in the comments secti on of the registration form.
\n\nIf you have questions\, feel free to contact John Adams at \;jo hnfadamsjr@gmail.com \;or 617-817-0314. If we can talk before the event\, then we can make sure to have the necessary parts for repair ava ilable.
\n\nIf you have repair skills and want to help out\, please register as a volunteer.
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\n\n·\; \; \; \; \;  \; \; \; The work carried out in the Repair Café\; is perfo rmed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand. p>\n\n
·\; \; \; \; \ ; \; \; \; Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible\, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \;&n bsp\; \; The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volu nteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. Neit her the organizers of the Repair Café\; nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concernin g repairs\, for the loss of items handed over for repair\, for indirect o r consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work pe rformed in the Repair Café\;. The limitations set forth in these ho use rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of li ability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation w hich cannot be lawfully superseded.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; A voluntary d onation is greatly appreciated.
\n\n&mi ddot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Any use of new ma terials such as leads\, plugs\, fuses\, ready-made kneebends or applicat ions will be paid for separately.
\n\n& middot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visitors offeri ng broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;  \; Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Re pair Café\; turn out not to work properly at home.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;  \; Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.< /p>\n\n
·\; \; \; \;  \; \; \; \; Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disa ssembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visi tors to Repair Café\; are solely responsible for the tidy removal o f broken objects that could not be repaired.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; To c ut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods\, a maximum of O NE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the bac k of the queue if there is a second item for repair.
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\n\nWe throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong\, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple re pair. The trouble is\, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repair s is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn&rsquo\;t always show much apprec iation for the people who still have this practical knowledge\, and again st their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experi ence is never used\, or hardly ever.
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\n\nThe Repa ir Café\; changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting pass ed on. Things are being used for longer and don&rsquo\;t have to be throw n away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to mak e new products. It cuts CO2 emissions\, for example\, because manufacturi ng new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
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\n\nThe Repair Café\; teaches people to see their possessions in a new light and\, once again\, to appreciate their value. The Repair Café\; helps change people&rsquo\;s mindset. This is ess ential to kindle people&rsquo\;s enthusiasm for a sustainable society.
\n\n \;
\n\nMost of all\, the Repair Café\; wants to show how much fun repairing things can be\, and how easy it often is. Why don&rsquo\;t you give it a go?
\n\nThe Repair Caf&ea cute\; was initiated by \;Martine Postma. Since 2007\, she has been st riving for sustainability at a local level in many ways. Martine organize d the very first Repair Café\; in Amsterdam\, on October 18\, 2009. It was a great success.
\n\nThis prompted Martine to start the Rep air Café\; Foundation. Since 2011\, this non-profit organization ha s provided professional support to local groups in the Netherlands and ot her countries wishing to start their own Repair Café\;.
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\n\nThe Repair Caf&e acute\; Foundation sometimes gets asked whether access to free repair get -togethers is competing with professional repair specialists. The answer is\; quite the opposite. Organisers want to use Repair Café\;s acro ss the whole country to focus attention on the possibility of getting thi ngs repaired. Visitors are frequently advised to go to the few profession als still around.
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\n\nFurthermore\, people who vi sit Repair Café\;s are not usually customers of repair specialists. They say that they normally throw away broken items because paying to ha ve them repaired is\, in general\, too expensive. At the Repair Caf&eacut e\; they learn that you don&rsquo\;t have to throw things away\; there ar e alternatives.
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