Robots take over the countryside as Kiwiburn festival startsCarly Thomas/Fairfax NZ A large wandering man effigy is the centrepiece that will be burnt at the Kiwiburn Festival 2017. Radical free expression is happening in the back blocks of Rangitikei, with the Kiwiburn Festival taking over a usually quiet corner of the countryside. Kiwiburn is New Zealand's regional Burning Man event, a six-day festival that organiser Shelley Watson says runs on collective principles. "The robots are here, we are the robots." A huge wandering man effigy will be burnt on Saturday night, the high point of the festival.

Source: Stuff January 25, 2017 21:39 UTC