CompassionFest Island Bay

31/10/2023

Another compassionate response...

31/10/2023

A collaborative mural created at the zero-waste giftmaking workshop at CompassionFest '23. The antarctic ice shelf is disappearing because of ...OUR actions.
Thank you to all - community and church, younger and older - who contributed.

30/10/2023

CompassionFest '23 is all over! What a special weekend. And what a tribute to our local hero of compassion, Kae Miller. If you'd like to share some thoughts on any event you attended, we'd appreciate it.

29/10/2023

Our last CompassionFest event of 2023 will be this Symposium, 7.30pm today, all welcome! Thanks to everyone for your support of this venture, we trust we have helped revive the memory and profile of Kae Miller, a remarkable woman who made a valuable impact on this part of Wellington

This Symposium will conclude the CompassionFest calendar for 2023, hosted by Kae's grandson Max Rashbrooke. 7.30pm, Home of Compassion, Island Bay

28/10/2023

Here is the programme again, (due to venue error) for what will be a night to remember: the "Interspecies Fungus Sound Experience". Be enthralled, at the...Island Bay Bowling Club on Sunday 29th October!

28/10/2023

Come hear about natural dyeing practices from native flora, by textile artist Angela Kilford. Island Bay Presbyterian, 2pm

27/10/2023

How to use seaweed in the kitchen and garden, with local marine biologist Wendy Nelson, 9.30am today!!! Island Bay Presbyterian

27/10/2023

Vegetable.Machine.Animal. ready to go at the bowling club tonight!

24/10/2023

Show your compassion for the planet this weekend! Join in CompassionFest and make upcycled gifts, following in the footsteps of Wellington's earliest environmental activists, Kae Miller.
In the early 70s, Kae began taking waste minimisation into her own hands - the authorities were not moving fast enough!
In 1976 she secured a lease for an acre of land above the Porirua tip, on which she spent $3,000 building a recycling center and storage hut built from recycled materials, notably wooden car crates. Kae wasn’t allowed onto the tip itself and had to lure passing motorists to bring their trailers to her first before their goods were added to the landfill.
She blended her compassion for the environment and those with mental health struggles by using her Box Trust to employ former psychiatric patients to work in the recycling center alongside a community of volunteers who gathered around her.

Tadaa! Take a look at what gifts you can create at our 'zero-waste' gift making workshops this Saturday and Sunday! A book tote, cute animal planters, gift bags and more. All at CompassionFest, this Friday to Sunday. All ages and it's all FREE.
Saturday 10am-4pm (pick the time that suits)
Sunday 1-4pm.
88 The Parade Island Bay