SkillShare: Fix It Yourself, Workshop Edition
Featuring Fixers From Our Repair Café
Transition Salt Spring is thrilled to announce a special SkillShare: The Learn to Repair, Fix It Yourself Workshop Edition, featuring workshops led by expert fixers from our Repair Café crew. This is your chance to gain practical, lifelong skills to keep your belongings in use and out of the landfill.
The Details
WHEN: Sunday, June 14th
TIME: Sessions at 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
WHERE: Meaden Hall, Salt Spring Island
SPACE IS LIMITED (Only 8 spots per workshop) REGISTER HERE.
Morning Workshops: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
M1. Razor Sharp – Sharpening with Howard Baker
Bring your dull blades back to life! Learn practical, beginner-friendly sharpening skills you can use on knives, pruners, hatchets, and other everyday tools. Bring an item to sharpen and get hands-on guidance.
M2. Simple Sewing: Mend Your Clothes with Terri Wylie
Discover how easy it is to keep your favourite clothes going. This workshop covers simple repairs like sewing on buttons, patching worn spots, and fixing rips. Bring:
M3. Let there be Light! Introduction to Lamp Repair with Blair Carley
All things lamps and lights, switches, sockets, bulbs, wires and plugs! Bring a lamp to work on – non-working or working is ok.
M4. Furniture Fixes 101 with Martin Thorn
Discover practical skills to repair loose joints, strengthen wobbly furniture, and refresh worn surfaces. Saving money and keeping good pieces out of the landfill.
M5. Bike Maintenance Essentials for Every Rider – with Steve New
Fix a flat, adjust the brakes, change a tire, adjust a derailleur, oil the chain. Bring your bike if you can!
Afternoon Workshops 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
A1. Home Repair Basics: Skills Every Household Needs – Jason Tron
We either have them or will get them – hacks and skills for leaky faucets, loose hinges, wobbly chairs, stripped screws, basic glue techniques.
A2. Zipper Hacks: Repair Clinic with Patricia Nichols
Stuck, split, or mysteriously refusing to close? Bring your problem zipper and learn hands-on tricks to bring it back to life. From jammed sliders to misaligned teeth, you’ll troubleshoot and fix the most common zipper failures with confidence.
A3. Why isn’t it working? Diagnose Basic Electrical Mysteries with Blair Carley
Learn to test batteries, chargers, cords, gadgets, outlets and more. A practical, hands-on intro to solving everyday electrical puzzles using a multimeter. Bring an electrical gadget that has a cord or batteries and your own multimeter (if you have one).
A4. Bike Maintenance Essentials for Every Rider – with Steve New
Fix a flat, adjust the brakes, change a tire, adjust a derailleur, oil the chain. Bring your bike if you can!
SPACE IS LIMITED, REGISTER TODAY (Only 8 spots per workshop)
Let’s build a culture of repair, one stitch and screw at a time.