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Repair Festival Aotearoa NZ

The Aotearoa New Zealand-wide Repair Festival was launched in September 2024, successfully bringing together the many Repair Cafés, businesses, organisations, and Councils that are joining the growing Repair Community. In 2025, we saw an even higher and broader participation, leading to a strong desire for a month-long festival.

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Repair Festival 2026

Registrations are open for the Repair Festival 2026 scheduled to run from Saturday, September 5 to Sunday, September 27 (the first Saturday to the last Sunday of the month), as we host continuous repair activities and events all across the motu.

 

👉 Fill in this form to take part in the Repair Festival 2026!

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Celebrating
a repair culture

Our landfills are overflowing with items that could be repaired and reused. Through showcasing a variety of projects, initiatives, and solutions, we cultivate repair skills and knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of responsible consumption.

Building the Repair Movement

The Repair Festival Aotearoa addresses the need for accessible repair options across the country.


We invite everyone to join the Repair Movement – communities, businesses, schools, universities, and libraries, advocacy groups, and government.

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The Repair Festival is for Everyone! Join us, learn to fix, and celebrate reducing waste and building community!

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Discover last year's programme to find inspiration, and complete the registration form if you'd like to be involved as an event host this year.

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Discover last year's online events on our YouTube channel

Explore the Repair Festival 2025 events


This week-long celebration took place from 6 to 14 of September 2025, with 48 organisations hosting repair events across the country, bringing communities together to celebrate fixing, mending, and extending the life of our belongings.

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Sponsored by

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Bike Kitchen Repair Cafe
Clothing Repairs Webinar with Kowtow
Growth of the Repair movement from Te Tau Ihu
Knitwear Visible Repair Workshop
Make it Beautiful Again: Recover Workshop 2
Music Repair Cafe
Porirua Jewellery Upcycling and Repair Drop-In
Repair Cafe Katikati
Repair Skills Workshop
Slow Stitching and Decorative Clothes Mending
Taupō Repair Cafe
Waiheke Island Repair Cafe
Bike Kitchen Repair Cafe 2
Creative Mending Circle
Hamilton Repair Co-op
Kororareka, Russel's First Repair Café
Manurewa Repair Cafe & Mending Circle
North East Valley Community Bike Repair Workshop
ReWorks: DIY Speaker
Repair Cafe Papakura
Repair The Economic System, Not Just Stuff
Stitch Up Repair Cafe
The Art of Mending
Wastebusters Repair Revolution
Cahoots Workshop — Launch & Open Day
Creative Mending Workshop
Just Sew
Levin Repair Cafe
Motueka Info and Repair Training Event
Orewa Repair Cafe
Recycle-A-Device (RAD) Club
Repair Café by the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum
Rotorua Repair Cafe Workshop and Repair Session
Sustainable Glenorchy Repair Event
VUWSA Clothes Repair Workshop
Ōtaki Repair Café
Chartwell Cooperating Church Repair Cafe
Furniture Restoration and Repair Community Day
Kaipātiki Repair Cafe & Community Market
Make it Beautiful Again: Recover Workshop
Mt Eden Repair Cafe
Pop Up Repair Cafe Wairarapa
Repair & Share Repair Cafe
Repair Festival Sewing Lounge
Shaping the Future of Repair in Aotearoa
THRIFT at The Deck
Visible Mending Workshop
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