Central Arkansas Repair Café

07/27/2026

Thanks for letting us 'sit with you' at the Unplastics - Plastic Free July last Sunday @ Sustain Little Rock, The Green Corner Store & Southern Tail Brewing. Our volunteers brought in items and repaired a kitchen knife, work overalls, a mini electric scooter, and attempted to repair a baby bongos toy. THAT BRINGS US TO our 499th repair! Join us at our next Repair demo Children's Library and Learning Center on August 15th @ 2pm. It will be our 500th repair!
Repair Café US Central Arkansas Library System

07/23/2026

POP-UP: Repair Day with Central Arkansas Repair Café
Please join us for a live demonstration of repair with Central Arkansas Repair Cafe! Volunteer Repair experts will be repairing the wonderful and whimsical electro-mechanical sculpture "Gizo One" installed by nationally recognized local artist Harry Loucks at our library. Kid friendly, hands-on activities to learn about repair will be led by staff during the demo.

Saturday, August 15th from 2 pm - 4 pm Cals Children's Library and Learning Center

The Central Arkansas Repair Cafe is coming to Children's Library for a special live demonstration! Watch and learn as we have one of our volunteer repair experts reapir our mechanical sculpture "Gizo One!". Event starts at August 15, 2026 2:00 PM CDT

06/06/2026

Reminder! Because of Father's day, Repair Cafe this month is 1 week earlier than normal - Sunday June 14th! https://www.facebook.com/events/4492400277654446/4492400300987777?active_tab=about

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05/13/2026

Remember, Repair Cafe is this Sunday, 2-4pm CALS Dee Brown Library! Meanwhile, enjoy this great profile of a San Diego area Fixit Clinic by PBS SoCal

A Visit to Carlsbad's Fix-It Clinic

05/13/2026

Part of the international Repair Cafe organization and hosted monthly at CALS Dee Brown Library, the free event provides an opportunity to repair household electrical and mechanical devices, computers, bicycles and clothing.

04/17/2026

One of our regular volunteers, Jeff, was interviewed by Readers Digest about some of our fun repairs we've done at Repair Cafe! Being part of our a larger community of repair cafes and fix-it clinics is awe-inspiring. Want to learn how to start a repair cafe in your community, too? Message us! You can also check out https://www.repaircafe.org/en/ or Café US for extensive guides and how-tos and get inspired!

04/16/2026

04/16/2026

Building community and reducing waste! Repair Cafes can help folks take small step toward sustainability. Repairing over replacing helps you reuse items you already have. Come learn about repairing from our volunteers this Sunday, April 19th from 2 pm - 4 pm at CALS Dee Brown Library!

03/10/2026

Three weekends of repair!? Central Arkansas Repair Cafe volunteers attended Memphis Public Libraries, Friends of Russellville's first Repair Cafe at Pope County Library, Russellville AR, and will finish with our own March Repair Cafe, this Sunday 3/15 @ 2pm! Building community around repair events is essential to changing the mindset of a 'throwaway lifestyle'.

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Central Arkansas Repair Cafe even got a shout out on the Memphis News from our friends at Memphis Public Library!

https://www.actionnews5.com/video/2026/02/19/putting-off-getting-an-item-fixed-memphis-public-libraries-now-hosting-free-repair-days/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQdNudleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeiJxJovEomPkbxIWHDfowOYqOQo0rVrHm3Wl9FgMaQuJBtRwWm2lLNATpCbo_aem_UBL7u_1Vb8FALdKGKeDsdw