Activities

Come see us Saturday May 17, 2025 from 1:00 - 4:30 pm at Oceano CSD - 1655 Front Street (Across from the Depot). Five Cities Repair Café hosts events several times a year in in various locations. Bring your broken item and work with our repair coaches to assess what it would take to repair it. You can work with our volunteers to do the repair yourself under their guidance, or have them tackle the job directly. Depending on our volunteer talent on the day, we'll repair bikes, clothing, toys, small appliances (blenders, vacuum cleaners, lamps, etc.), electronics, laptops, and phones. Our events' fully/partially fixed rate is about 70%. So it's likely you’ll leave with your item repaired and some curiosity and confidence about how to repair other items in your world!

Our volunteers are neighbors helping neighbors repair their broken items and preventing those items from going to landfill.​ Visit our website or email fivecitiesrepaircafe@gmail.com to sign up We have volunteer fixers who work with visitors to repair broken items. Our other volunteers manage logistics, including registering visitors, supporting the fixers, set-up and take-down and generally doing whatever else needs to get done. It's not a big commitment; our events are quarterly and just ~4 hours long, with some set-up and take-down on either end. Most of our volunteers are repeat volunteers. However, we are always looking for folks who can fix things & teach others how to fix things! Bicycle repair Small appliance repair Electronics repair General Fixit skills Hosts/Hospitality (help register visitors and volunteers) Set-up (11:30 am to 1 pm) and take-down volunteers (4:30-5:00 pm) Photography and videography Organizing lunch for our volunteers Social media assistance Please join us, it's fun! Contact us using the "Contact" menu above or email us at fivecitiesrepaircafe@gmail.com