vegetable.machine.animal had the wonderful fortune to perform at the Compassionfest held in Island Bay, Te Whanganui a Tara late October 2023.

The festival this year was to celebrate the life of an extrodinary local, Kae Miller “CompassionFest is a festival for the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand, seeking to celebrate and re-tell local stories of local heroes of compassion.
The local hero this year is Kae Miller, who advocated and acted for the benefit of refugees, mental health, and the environment. She inspired Bruce Stewart to build Tapu te Ranga marae out of recycled materials, and she started the movement to replant the South Coast with native bush.” source