With humble beginnings and pretty much a one-woman gig, Beaker Street Festival in Hobart will return this year in August for its ninth iteration. The ethos of the festival is not just about combining art and science, but providing a platform where these disciplines – often seen as tail ends of a spectrum – can collaborate and redefine themselves.
It’s not every day that you come across an aspiring magazine journalist turned aspiring dog psychologist turned evolutionary biologist, but Beaker Street Festival Founder and Executive Director, Dr Margo Adler, is exactly that.