Upcoming Events
HUMAN LOVE QUEST: YOUR CHEMICAL ROMANCE! – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Thursday August 14, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaThe cult live onstage dating show, straight outta Melbourne (and the ‘70s), makes its Hobart debut! Three hopeful nerds will vie for the attention of one solo contestant, aiming to capture their heart with personality, wit, and scientific wisdom. Get off the apps and find love — or at least a great night out — in real life.
NO ONE’S GETTING OUT OF HERE ALIVE – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Friday August 15, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaYou’re invited to a surprisingly uplifting evening with some of Australia’s most buoyant death and dying experts, Tasmanian Aboriginal knowledge holders, and a few special guests. Come for the bad bagpipe music — stay for a healthy dose of end-of-life wisdom. Wear what you’d like to be buried in. ?
DR KARL LIVE IN DEVONPORT – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Friday August 15, 2025 PARANAPLE CONVENTION CENTRE, Devonport Tasmania, AustraliaArtificial Intelligence was born in 1956, went through some awkward teenage years (also known as “AI Winters”), and then, to almost everyone’s surprise, came roaring back with tools like ChatGPT. Today, AI is the fastest-growing industry in the history of capitalism and devours around 20% of the world’s research and development (R&D) budget. That’s a lot of brainpower (artificial or otherwise).
SEISMIC DANCE PARTY – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Friday August 15, 2025 MAWSONS PLACE, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaWhat does a moving glacier sound like? What does it feel like? Experience the heartbeat of Antarctica’s Denman Glacier transformed into an immersive dance party.
BEYOND THE STARS: SEEING THE SKY THROUGH ABORIGINAL EYES – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Saturday August 16, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaWe all look up at the same night sky, but we don’t all see the same thing. In this captivating and family-friendly talk, astrophysicist and Wiradjuri woman Dr Kirsten Banks invites you to reimagine the cosmos.
What’s Your p(Doom)? – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Saturday August 16, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaIs AI going to save us, enslave us, or just write all our event descriptions? Across Silicon Valley’s storied kombucha bars and apocalypse bunkers, tech bros and AI insiders are rumoured to ask each other for their up-to-date p(Doom), or probability of AI doom.
THE BEAKER STREET GAME SHOW – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Saturday August 16, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaLadies and gentlemen! Science lovers, fact-checkers, and Wikipedia editors! It’s the show where Australia’s science glitterati face off for epic showdowns of wit, wisdom, and utter irrelevance.
COME AGAIN? AN EVENING OF SEX AND SCIENCE – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Saturday August 16, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaJoin a cast of dangerously well-informed sexperts and sultry scientists as they unbutton the mysteries of pleasure, lay bare the secrets of anatomy, and stimulate more than just your intellect.
SEISMIC DANCE PARTY – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Saturday August 16, 2025 MAWSONS PLACE, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaDeep in the ice, AuScope seismometers capture a remarkable symphony: the crack and groan of moving ice, the rush of meltwater, the rumble of storms, the songs of whales, and the tremors of the Earth itself. Using machine learning, University of Tasmania scientists are untangling this complex soundscape, revealing the intricate interactions between ice, ocean, and bedrock, and Denman’s ‘voice’.
CHASING AURORAS – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Sunday August 17, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaWhat makes thousands of people stay up all night, driving to remote locations, squinting at the sky, and obsessively checking space weather forecasts?
DR KARL LIVE AT CITY HALL – Beaker Street [Hobart]
Sunday August 17, 2025 Hobart City Hall, Hobart Tasmania, AustraliaArtificial Intelligence was born in 1956, went through some awkward teenage years (also known as “AI Winters”), and then — to almost everyone’s surprise — came roaring back with tools like ChatGPT. Today, AI is the fastest-growing industry in the history of capitalism and devours around 20% of the world’s R&D budget. That’s a lot of brainpower (artificial or otherwise).
