Category: Events
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Support our right to repair at Repair Festival Tauranga
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…
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Celebrating National Volunteers Week with Tauranga Repair Cafe
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…
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Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace during the July school holidays in Tauranga
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…
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We need you!
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…
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Christmas Bauble Laser Cutting Session
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…
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Tauranga Repair Café celebrates one year of fixing and repairing
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.…
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NOW FULL – Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace during the July school holidays in Tauranga
Want to know what Makerspaces are all about? Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace this July 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 Printing, Coding, Robotics,…
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Come for a free tour of our makerspace during the April school holidays in Tauranga
Curious about 3D Printing? Want to have a go at robotics? Want to have a blast with laser-cutting? Have a passion for tinkering and learn by doing? Sign up for a FREE family tour of the Tinkd Makerspace this April school holidays. We will take you around all our zones, explain how the space works,…
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A great launch for the first Repair Cafe in Tauranga
Tinkd Makerspace was proud to host the first ever Repair Cafe in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty. Held on Saturday 24th September 2022 in Durham Street open from 10am to 12pm. We put the call out to repairers and tinkerers and we were delighted at the response we got. On the day itself we had nine…