Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to join Trashlab collective’s Repair Cafe event on Saturday 7.9. from 12-17 at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)

https://www.facebook.com/events/592286320823737/

 Trashlab repair cafe events are social occasions to gather and try to fix the things you have that are broken, and meet others who care about tinkering, fixing, hacking, and the problem of waste and obsolescence in society.

Each time they try to identify some people in advance who have some experience/skills, although everyone is encourage to help each other. On this occasion, we are seeking someone with experience of fixing books:

Is that you?

You are all most welcome.

Warm regards,

Ian

http://www.arkadiabookshop.fi

– Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome.

Each month during 2013 we organise and promote a Trashlab Repair Cafe event at a different location. In September, Arkadia International Bookshop (Nervanderinkatu 11) hosts the repair cafe event on Saturday 7th of September 2013 klo 12.00 – 17.00.

Arkadia is a large second-hand bookshop and a venue for a wide range of events. We offer space for tranquility, writing and thought. We also have a chapel, a piano, a pool table, a boa and much else that is appealing. They take great pride in being a cheerful, combative and absolutely independent bookshop.

 http://www.arkadiabookshop.fi/

 Trashlab repair cafe events are social occasions to gather and try to fix the things you have that are broken, and meet others who care about tinkering, fixing, hacking, and the problem of waste and obsolescence in society. Each time they try to identify some people in advance who have some experience/skills, although everyone is encourage to help each other. On this occasion, we are seeking someone with experience of fixing books: Is that you?

Wood, electronics, clothes…!

On this Repair cafe gathering, Trashlab gathers some of the highlighted experts from the past 6 months, a Repair dream-team of

Charlotte Remming (https://www.facebook.com/Sielunompelua) = Fabric/fixing with thread;

Merja Puustinen (http://www.andyandmerja.com) = Darning/fixing with wool;

Andy Best (http://www.andyandmerja.com) & Albert Laine (http://albertlaine.com) = Electronics-advice;

Jelle van der Beek (https://www.facebook.com/puuguru) & Nicholas Torretta (http://www.viraroque.blogspot.fi) = Wood-work..

All offer to help out with various needs and fixes. However, we are seeking someone with experience of fixing books: Is that you?

 Initiative of Päivi Raivio (http://paiviraivio.com) inspired by international fixer movement, in collaboration with Pixelache Helsinki, Finland, and is part of their around-the-year outreach & education programme, under the theme ‘Waste/d’

(http://www.pixelache.ac/pixelversity/programme-2013) | Click here for background info about Trashlab (http://trashlab.info)

Keep in touch online by join the Facebook group ‘Trashlab’ for notice of events, or via email-list following these instructions: send a blank email to: trashlab-subscribe [-at-] pixelache.ac [system will then send you a confirmation request, and once you reply to it, a message confirming that you are a subscriber]