A Repair Cafe is a free community event. You bring your broken but beloved items and together with volunteer repair coaches, WE FIX THEM! People bring all kinds of things to a repair cafe: clocks and other mechanical items; chairs, frames, and other wooden items; electrical items and small appliances; digital devices; clothings and textiles; dolls, stuffed animals, and toys, tools in need of sharpening; jewelry and watches; and so much more!
  Most items get fixed, and even when they don't – we have a good time trying!

The Columbia NE Repair Cafe is a collaboration of Climate Smart Communities task forces in the towns of New Lebanon, Chatham, Austerlitz, and Canaan, as well as the village of East Nassau in neighboring Rensselaer County.

This event includes a TOOL DONATION DRIVE for Hudson's Toolshed Exchange community tool library. Learn more at https://toolshedexchange.org/get-involved/#donate-tools.

COVID: Masks will be required for both volunteers and visitors. The event will be held in both the community room and truck bays of the firehouse with doors open to increase ventilation.