Author: Tia

  • Support our right to repair at Repair Festival Tauranga

    Support our right to repair at Repair Festival Tauranga

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    Join the Repair Café Tauranga team on Saturday 21 September for a family event to celebrate repairing, fixing, and recycling culture FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAURANGA, NZ – 04 September, 2024  Announcing Repair Festival Aotearoa NZ 2024, a family event to celebrate the growing repair culture in Tauranga and support the call for the Right to…

  • Tauranga Repair Cafe – Repair Festival Aotearoa New Zealand

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    We’re talking part in the first Repair Festival Aotearoa NZ and opening our doors on Saturday 21st September 2024 for two very special events. Tinkd Makerspace, 148 Durham Street, Tauranga 3110 9:30AM – 11:30AM REPAIR CAFÉ SESSION Bring a broken or faulty item for repair by our volunteers. 11:00AM – 1:00PM FAMILY OPEN MORNING Repair…

  • Celebrating National Volunteers Week with Tauranga Repair Cafe

    Celebrating National Volunteers Week with Tauranga Repair Cafe

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    To celebrate National Volunteers Week 2024, Tinkd Makerspace invited current and new volunteer repairers to an information evening on the 17th of June to learn more about Tauranga Repair Café. It was an opportunity for people who are passionate about helping others in the community, and keeping items out of landfills, to come together to…

  • Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace during the July school holidays in Tauranga

    Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace during the July school holidays in Tauranga

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    What to do with the kids during July school holidays? Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace this July 2024 school holidays at Basestation 148 Durham St, Tauranga. Learn more about how you can get stuck into making with us – We will show you around our Makerspace chock full of equipment for 3D…

  • We need you!

    We need you!

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    Tauranga Repair Cafe has been successfully repairing and fixing items for nearly two years. Due to popular demand we need more volunteers and we need YOUR help! Call for:RepairersTinkerersPassionate Recyclers To join Tauranga’s Repair Café volunteer team. Tauranga Repair Café is a volunteer driven initiative as part of Tinkd Makerspace that aims to reduce waste…

  • Hiring: Makerspace Coordinator

    Hiring: Makerspace Coordinator

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    A fixed term role exists for a makerspace Sessions Coordinator to support and coordinate aspects of Tinkd Makerspace sessions and activities…

  • Our latest experimentations

    Our latest experimentations

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    Our Tinkd members have been collaborating with our makerspace coordinators to experiment with new materials and laser cutter settings and we have had some vey exciting results! We have discovered that paua, jade and other stones can be engraved with the laser (very carefully). Fabric is also being tested out and appears to be working…

  • Christmas Bauble Laser Cutting Session

    Christmas Bauble Laser Cutting Session

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    Sunday 17th December 2023 at 10:30am – $25 per person LIMITED SPACES Are you creative? Do you want to know what Tinkd Makerspace is all about? 🎄 Come join us for an hour long, hands-on taster session where you can personalise and assemble your own Christmas bauble using the Laser Cutter. 🎁 You will decide…

  • Tauranga Repair Café celebrates one year of fixing and repairing

    Tauranga Repair Café celebrates one year of fixing and repairing

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    By Tia Lush – 29 October 2023 This October’s Tauranga Repair Café on Saturday 28th October was rather special as we also celebrated our first birthday. The event was filled with activity and the volunteer repairers were in force in their new branded bright T-shirts (made in Tinkd) and many items were repaired and fixed.…