Repair Café of the Peninsula
Volunteers and a visitor applauding as a repaired lamp lights up

Past events › September 2026

Saturday, September 26, 2026 · 3–6 PM · San Carlos

Our first Repair Café

By the numbers

How it went

28 neighbors brought 38 broken things to the Callis & Elaine Community Center for our very first event.

112lb13oz kept out of the landfill

What happened to the 38 items

  • Fixed 25
  • Returned with instructions 8
  • Not fixed 5
  • 28Visitors
  • 38Items
  • 25Fixed
  • 66%Fix rate

Photos

Scenes from the day

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  • A volunteer and a visitor opening up an espresso machine together, surrounded by tools
  • Sewing volunteers at the textile repair table, one waving at the camera
  • Volunteers and a visitor applauding as a repaired lamp lights up
  • Visitors and volunteers working on electronics repairs around a table of tools
  • A visitor working on an espresso machine surrounded by tools

Missed it?

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Next Repair Café

Saturday, November 21 · 3–6 PM

Callis & Elaine Community Center, 1336A Arroyo Ave, San Carlos

Free and drop-in. Check-in closes at 5:30 PM.

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