The festival that wants to put a scientist in every pub

Beaker Street Festival returns to Hobart from 12-19 August with flagship Roving Scientists Bar, the Beaker Street Debate and more.
A figure cropped off from the right of the photo only showing their hand holding a beaker-like mug.

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.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_