{"id":441166,"date":"2026-08-23T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:30:18","slug":"this-skillshare-fair-wants-to-teach-you-how-to-fix-things-and-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441166\/","title":{"rendered":"This Skillshare Fair wants to teach you how to fix things \u2014 and save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repairs are expensive. This community event teaches you how to D-I-Y it<\/p>\n<p>Robert Garrova has more.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the era of YouTube tutorials and AI assistants, learning weekend warrior skills \u2014 like how to fix a leaky faucet or the brakes on your kid\u2019s bike \u2014 is sometimes better IRL.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Aug. 29, a community of DIYers will come together at a Skillshare Fair to teach and learn about things like clothing repair and alterations, how to use power tools, gardening techniques and more. The event is organized by the Los Angeles Tool Library in Koreatown and the Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbuQPsmivHI\/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Skillshare Fair<\/a> <br \/>When: Aug, 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.<br \/>Where: Immanuel Presbyterian Church (basement level), 3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>Vi Hoang-Creton, an event coordinator with the Los Angeles Tool Library, said the benefits of hosting events like this are manifold. It\u2019s great to keep stuff out of the landfill, but it\u2019s also a place to make friends and build community \u2014 and save money.<\/p>\n<p>        Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, you&#8217;ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean who doesn\u2019t want to save money, as the economy gets worse and worse, people are trying to lean on each other,\u201d Hoang-Creton said.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Repairs are expensive. This community event teaches you how to D-I-Y it Robert Garrova has more. Even in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[111023,48,52,51,47,50,49,174821,174823,174822],"class_list":["post-441166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-diy","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-repair-cafe","tag-skill-share","tag-tool-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}