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DoomsdaysCW

#California: Need Help Fixing Your Broken Stuff? Volunteers at the #HumboldtCounty #RepairCafé in #ArcataCA Will (Most Likely) Fix It for Free!

by Isabella Vanderheiden / Wednesday, March 26

"You know that broken lamp that’s been sitting in the corner of your garage for the last decade? You know, the one with the busted pull chain and persnickety cord your college roommate gave you? Yeah, that one. Do you think it might be time to get that thing fixed?

"What if I told you there is a place you can go to have your lamps rewired, your vintage denim mended, your bicycle tires patched, your weed wackers restrung and your great-grandmother’s heirloom necklace soldered — all for free?

"Sounds too good to be true, right? Not so! On Sunday, April 6, volunteers and staff with Arcata’s Recreation Division will host the first Humboldt Repair Café, a free event at the Arcata Community Center where people can take their broken stuff (electronics, clothing, jewelry, furniture, crockery, small appliances, etc.) to be repaired by local fixers. If you can carry it, chances are, they can fix it.

"'The rule is it has to be small enough that you can carry it in by yourself,' volunteer coordinator Wendy Ring told the Outpost. 'We won’t be able to take in refrigerators and things like that. We’ll have a retired electrician to work with smaller electrical appliances. We also have some IT specialists to help people with their computers. We have experts at putting fancy patches on clothes and another person for bicycle repairs. This is our first Repair Café, but we have quite a variety of people!'

"The upcoming event is part of an international movement, which originated in Amsterdam in 2009, to combat '#ThrowawayCulture,' promote #sustainability and teach people practical repair skills. 'We just bring our skills and fix stuff together,' Ring said.

"'The Repair Café movement is trying to change consumer culture and say, ‘No, we can’t just throw things away because they don’t just disappear,’ she continued. 'This is a way of making the things that we have last longer and teaching people how to fix things by watching our volunteers as they’re doing repairs. It’s also community building, which is something that we really need right now.'

"While the event is free, volunteers may request a donation if they need extra materials for repair. In some cases, it may take volunteers a little longer to diagnose the issue and get the parts needed for the fix.

"'If we don’t have the part on hand, we may ask you to come back next month,' Ring said, adding that she hopes to host the event once a month. 'Sometimes, it’s going to be a multi-step repair. We do have some people who have 3D printers who will be able to make parts for people. … We’ll also have little handbells around, and when a repair is made, we’ll ring the bell and have a mini celebration.'

"Asked what she would be taking to the Repair Café, Ring said she has a Kindle that needs fixing, some clothes her dog has chewed on and a jacket with a broken zipper. 'I put a collection of beautiful beach pebbles in my jacket pocket, and I’ve never been able to unzip it,' she said. 'That was a year ago. I can sew a little bit, but I can’t do zippers!'

"Cullen Groom, recreation supervisor for the City of Arcata’s environmental services department, is helping to support the program on behalf of the city, which is allowing the Repair Café to use the community center’s senior room free of charge."

FMI: lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/
#RepairCafesCalifornia #SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RepairReuseRecycle #BuildingCommunity

Lost Coast Outpost · Need Help Fixing Your Broken Stuff? Volunteers at the Humboldt Repair Café Will (Most Likely) Fix It for Free!By Isabella Vanderheiden
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Coreyartus Imagery

I have to cancel today’s art livestream.

My husband bought an entire cord of firewood, and when they delivered it, they dumped it all on our sidewalk.

We just spent the last 3.5 hours carting wood to our back yard and stacking it, one laundry basket at a time.

I think my body is broken now. Haha!

I can’t stream. I need to curl up in my bed and whimper for a while.

#livestream#ArtStream#ArtistLife
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Coreyartus Imagery

So I’m in the process of putting on little “Now Proudly Relocated to Humboldt County, CA, USA) stickers on all of my greeting cards.

Because one can’t really say you’re a local artist if all your stuff implies it’s from a city 770 miles to the south.

And I can’t do that to local event managers and shopkeepers if I get into their shows. I won’t do that.

So I’ve got hundreds—literally hundreds!!--of cards to do that ‘ve already printed that have a “Made in San Diego” tagline on the back. I’m hoping this will be a good enough solution, because I can’t afford to reprint thousands of dollars worth of stock…

I’m settling in for the night, listening to good music and drinking a Humboldt Cider Company hard cherry cider. It’s chilly and wet out (as usual) so I think I’m just gonna huddle and feel productive tonight!

Photograph of the front and back of two greeting cards with strips of transparent labels in a pile next to them. One of the strips is on the tip of a blade knife waiting to be applied to the back of one of the cards.
#Artist#ArtistLife#IndieArtist
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Coreyartus Imagery

I’m getting around to joining some local arts organizations in Humboldt County, my new home.

Redwood Art Association has a member gallery downtown which I’m really excited about. It’s a big part of a local Arts Alive monthly festival they have downtown just 5minutes away from my home.
redwoodart.net/

Humboldt Arts Council has calls for juried local artist shows regularly at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, so I’m also looking forward to submitting my work to those.
humboldtarts.org/

Making it happen!

Redwood Art AssocArt Gallery | Redwood Art Association | Eurekaart gallery, art education, art community
#artistlife#artlife#art
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HumToTable

I like Eureka.
Had to drive up to Target today. Took The Retriever for a walk along the Bay Trail. Saw this very focused heron hunting. Pleased to see 3 out of the 4 Samoa Bridge murals have not been tagged. Notice of planned action in Arcata for Jan 21. And these gulls chilln' on an abandoned doc. On the way back, a guy was preaching to the gulls that God was going to part the waters and they should give up their cellphones.



Landscape view of still bay waters with the remains of a wooden dock/pier jutting out of the water. A dozen or so gulls are resting on the piers.
A marsh view with vista further to Humboldt Bay. Midway is a partially submerged log with a white heron sitting on it. Could be an egret though.
Landscape view of a parking lot under a bridge. The large cement bridge piers have been painted with colorful murals.
A rusty and corroded metal public utility box on same grass painted dull beige and gray with a padlock on it displays a flyer with the following: january 21st at NOON DAY 1 OF TRUN PRESIDENCY March from Arcata Plaza to CPH FUCK TRUMP FREE PALESTINE VIVA TORTUGUITA Masks encouraged. March for mourning, wear black. For the Palestinian martyrs, for murdered forest defender Tortuguita, and all those fallen by imperialism
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