CompassionFest seeks to remember and celebrate local heroes, this time focusing on Kae Miller who started the movement to replant native bush along the South Coast in the 1980s, when she herself was in her mid-70's.
She was a remarkable woman, and before doing this had set up NZ's second ever recycling center at the Porirua tip. Bruce Stewart joined her there and got the inspiration to use recycled materials for the marae from her. She then come to this part of the city to be close to him, he was possibly the first helper she had planting trees above Princess Bay, and he built her a meditation lodge out of recycled car crates up there which will be a venue for the festival.
It is a fascinating story, there is more about her is on the CompassionFest website if you want to read up.
See the CompassionFest program here. They have sessions on using Seaweed, customary dyeing techniques from native plants, and Kae's grandson Max Rashbrooke is ending the festival with a Symposium on her legacy at the Home of Compassion.
Kae Miller - the person we seek to remember and celebrate in our CompassionFest 2023.
As South Wellington locals, we especially celebrate her vision to replant native bush along the coast, starting with the Te Raekaihau Point above Princess Bay. A place we can all visit and enjoy today.
