This week’s Repair Cafe comes with added Green Hearts for a Big Eco-Action Artwork. Put some green heart into your art this Saturday with Eco Hub Aber. They will be hosting a Green Heart Art Workshop in Aberystwyth Band Stand from 12-3pm as part of The Great Big Green Week. Local artists and makers will help Aber people show the love for their green spaces by creating green hearts for a mosaic to be delivered all the way to Westminster.

Art as a Force for Change in Aberystwyth Eco Hub Aber’s Kate Rolt said: ‘Art can be a fantastic way for people to come together. It can also be a powerful political force for change. You don’t always need to shout the loudest to get political points across. Through the power of art we can make our decision-makers sit up and re-think. We can show them what the people of this country actually want, love, and will go out and vote to protect.

To get involved, you just need to make a heart, take a photo, upload it, simple!’ Local artist Rachel Booth, a talented illustrator, whose beautiful illustrations of animals and birds express the magic of the natural world, will be bringing pre-painted green hearts for adults and children to use. Local maker and facilitator Maeve Moran will be running a felt-heart drop in. Maeve runs workshops on heritage crafts and sustainable mending, crochet and upcycling.

The Eco Hub Aber team will also be running potato printing workshops for all ages. This will be an extra eco-action alongside the usual Repair Cafe, from 11-1pm, where clothes, electrical and other household items as well as tool sharpening and jewelry can be brought to the team of volunteer fixers. This week they are introducing a new volunteer, Jill, who specialises in jewelry, sewing and mending small fiddly items. If you want to bring an item for the volunteers to fix, the repair cafe will be open until 1pm. There will also be refreshments available.