VENUE: THE PLAYTRAIL ECO BASE
Come along to Repair Café Foyle and save the planet by getting your broken stuff fixed for free! Our volunteers will have a wee go at fixing almost anything including woodwork, textiles, small household electrical items, bikes, laptops - if you can easily carry it into the venue, we’ll give it a go!
When you arrive, one of our volunteers will give you a ticket and you can relax with a cuppa and a wee bun, or take part in our interactive Wheel of Climate Fortune game, until a fixer is free to try to work their magic on your broken item. You’ll sit with your fixer to learn about their work, and we love hearing your stories about why you want to bring your broken goods back to life.
So if you hate waste and are repair curious - get yourselves along for some tea, craic and fixing fun.
Drop-in EVENT. No need to book
REPAIR CAFÉ FOYLE
Repair Cafe Foyle is a Zero Waste North West initiative, working in partnership with the Fashion and Textile Design Centre and sister project Life Cycles. The group is one of over 2500 repair cafes worldwide, and part of a growing movement here in Northern Ireland.
The project aims to tackle waste whilst bringing communities together to problem solve as a collective. Since launching, the repairers have worked on almost 250 items, preventing over 4000 kg of c02 - the same amount of emissions as driving for over 31000 km!
ARTITUDE CLIMATE FESTIVAL
A free three day community-led celebration of art, climate action and the circular economy.
Showcasing creative, community-led responses to the climate emergency, the festival is delivered in collaboration with The Gathering, Zero Waste North West (ZWNW), Northern Ireland Resources Network (NIRN), Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI) Friends of the Earth NI and Making Relatives - a visit of water and land protectors from Ojibwe Nation, US.
Emerging from The Playhouse's Artitude: Climate, Culture and Circularity project, the festival is part of a unique and transformational programme of activity, using the arts and creative practice to engage communities in the DCSDC area in exploring climate action and the circular economy, with a view to encouraging positive behavioural change.
The Playhouse works with partners Zero Waste North West, Northern Ireland Resources Network, Queens University and Derry City and Strabane District Council to use the arts to co-ordinate and deliver the 18 month programme.
