In 2024, Repair Café turns 15! We will celebrate this in various ways. On Friday 18 October – our actual anniversary – we will hold a Repair Café XL in The Hague. In the city where the Dutch government is housed, we will show what Repair Café is all about: we’re for repairing, but also for collaboration, volunteering and a shared commitment to a sustainable future.
Joint bunting line makes global movement visible
During the Repair Café XL, we also want to emphasise that Repair Café is a global movement, with supporters in more than 40 countries across six continents. Therefore, we invite all Repair Cafés to make a textile flag to hang on a common bunting line. Repair Café International offers a pattern and instructions on how to make it.
Create your own flag and send it to Repair Café International
Want your Repair Café to participate, too? Then, download the pattern and instructions and get creative. Send the result to Repair Café International in Amsterdam (our address is in the instructions). Using all contributions, we will make a – hopefully very long – bunting line that we can use to decorate the Repair Café XL party location on 18 October. This way, all Repair Cafés will be joined in celebration.
More information
- Download the pattern and instructions to make your flag
Congratulations, Repair Cafe International Foundation! What a wonderful way of collectively celebrating this incredible milestone on International Repair Day. Repair Cafe Aotearoa NZ will be very happy to contribute as many flags as we can. The http://www.repaircafeaotearoa.co.nz Team 🙂
Thanks Brigitte, we’ll be looking forward to receiving them in Amsterdam!
Me encanta, por aquí estamos creando nuestra versión de café repair desde chiloé, chile. Gracias por la iniciativa
What a great idea. I’ll ask our very clever people from the Moonee Valley Repair Cafe in Melbourne, Australia to starting making and creating right away!
Great, Charlie! We’ll be looking forward to receiving your flag.
Hi Moonee Valley Repair Cafe. We’re in Ringwood and we are about to send our flag. How is the RC going out your way? Cheers, Petra
Thanks Petra, looking forward to finding your flag in the mail!
CONGRATUALTIONS REPAIR CAFE INTERNATIONAL!
Great idea! Look forward to seeing the finished flags flying! Hoping our lovely Bassendean Repair Cafe textile team can take part.
We love this idea and decided to hold a competition and invite all our volunteers, visitors and supporters to design and make a flag representing Wirral Repair Café. (Opportunity to further engage the local community!) All entries will be strung across our café and finally we will vote for the one to be sent to you.
Our remaining flags will make colourful bunting to decorate our stalls at the fairs and various events we join in.
I know you need the flag for October, but what is the deadline for you to receive them?
That’s a great idea, Barbara. Ultimate deadline for the flag is October 1, but we prefer to receive it earlier, so that we can tie all the flags together on time. We’re looking forward to receiving yours!
WE are celebrating 5 years as the Nottingham-Victoria Repair Cafe this March and will be making
5 year and 15 year flags to recognise both landmarks.
We are having a competition and the best flag will be sent to Repair Cafe International, for the repair day celebrations .
That sounds exciting; curious what the best flag will look like, and confident that they will all be wonderful 🙂
We will be making one or two of these with Haringey Fixers, who run repair sessions in our neighbourhood. They will have a stall at our Antwerp Arms Community pub 9th birthday party. I’m going to bring the fabric pre-cut as it might be busy. Alas I don’t have a printer so was going to draw the pattern on paper by hand 20 cm wide x 30 cm tall. Is it a cm seam allowance?
I guess so, but it doesn’t need to be the exact same size as the pattern. Some flags that we have received are slightly bigger, others are smaller, but they can all be part of the bunting line, no problem. We’re looking forward to receiving yours. Good luck!
Great initiative, thank you. We at Repair Cafe Redcliffe Peninsula, Queensland, Australia are making a flag, and hopefully will get flags from other local Repair Cafe’s in Southeast Queensland.
Questions, please:
1. Is there a limit of one flag from each Repair Cafe, if not is there a maximum from each Repair Cafe?
2. I will be in Rotterdam on Friday 27 September after 2 weeks bike riding the Rhein as part of a european tour, then on a cruise from Rotterdam on 28 September. Can I arrange for drop off or collection of our flag(s) on 27 September in Rotterdam?.
Thank you
Les, President
Dear Les, Thanks for your comment! There is no limit to the number of flags for each Repair Cafe. We would say: one for each RC in general, but we have received multiple flags from several Repair Cafes and that’s okay too. As for your trip to Rotterdam: easiest and most reliable way is probably to mail them in Rotterdam. We’re looking forward to receiving an envelope by the end of September and we wish you a pleasant journey.
Thank you for the information, appreciated. Would there be a Repair Cafe workshop on in Rotterdam on Friday 27 September or Saturday 12 October? Otherwise, what address do I post them to. Kind regards, Les, President, Repair Cafe Redcliffe Peninsula Inc
Dear Les, you should post them to the address mentioned in the instructions; instructions can be downloaded from the article above. Good luck!
Our metre of bunting will be going in the post today! We’re coming up to our eighth café in July.
Have a great celebration in October! Brockenhurst Repair Café, New Forest, UK.
Thanks so much in advance! We’re looking forward to finding your contribution in our mailbox 🙂
Hi
Repair Cafe Havant (Hampshire UK) will be posted to you on Monday, we think this is a great idea. Ours is made completely from remnants.
That’s great to hear, Martha! We hope to find it in our mailbox soon…
Greetings from Repair Café Collective India!
We are excited to share that we have successfully completed our first flag, with another one likely coming soon from the Hyderabad Initiative.
Thanks to the support of engaged citizens, we have been able to launch workshops and training programs in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai, while continuing our efforts in Bangalore.
For any enquiries please write to:
Bangalore: [email protected]
Mumbai: [email protected]
Hyderabad:[email protected]
Chennai: [email protected]
We kindly request your help in spreading the word about our workshops. We need more participants to ensure their success!
With gratitude,
Purna
Hello from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK! We are a bit late to the party but I’ve put the call out to our volunteers, I see you are accepting submissions until the end of September. Our next cafe is the 21st!
Happy Birthday and best wishes for the Repair Café XL. Please let me know when and where you will be holding it.
Completed our flag for Stokesley & Villages Repair Cafe in North Yorkshire, UK and it’s in the post! Thank you for your inspiration and support – with your help our little Repair Cafe on the edge of the North York moors has been running for over two years and we’ve saved over 1500 items from landfill and our rural and relatively isolated community has saved so much from avoiding buying new and also gained new skills and social companionship. And a lot of cake has been baked and eaten!
Desde huillinco chiloé, chile. Estamos organizando por primera vez el día de la reparación gracias por la iniciativa