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SEAWEED FOR LIFE AND THE FUTURE

South

1 November 2019

The ‘Seaweed for Life and the Future’ workshop was born from passionate seaweed lovers that want to highlight the important role seaweeds can and do have in our lives through their contribution to inshore marine…

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IMAS EXHIBITION: TRACINGS – GIANT KELP MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA

South

1 November 2019 - 17 January 2020

Tracings – Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera is a collaboration between artist Amanda Walker and IMAS Professor Catriona Hurd. The exhibition traces the history of Tasmania’s disappearing giant kelp forests and the arrival in Tasmania’s coastal ecosystem…

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Beer Aquatic: It’s Halloween so let’s talk sharks!

South

31 October 2019

Summer is approaching and that’s the time when the media start to run scary stories about sharks. But what do we really know about these magnificent animals and their wanderings in the ocean? Russ Bradford,…

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Facebook’s Community Boost – Hobart

South

29 October 2019 - 1 November 2019

Community Boost is a unique program from Facebook, bringing digital education to regional Australia. The program provides free workshops in online marketing, small-business growth, online safety and innovation directly from the Facebook team and our…

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Architecture’s Finest: An Open House Hobart public talk

South

25 October 2019

The Gold Medal – the Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour – recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, producing work of great distinction that has advanced architecture…

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Transforming Patient Care: Three pioneering nurse researchers

South

21 October 2019

Come along to learn more about how nursing research has transformed patient care worldwide. All welcome. Morning tea provided at 11:30am prior to 12pm start. About the speakers Professor Martha Curley is a leading clinical…

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Repair Cafe Opening

South

19 October 2019

“Toss it? No Way!” This event marks the inaugural launch of the Hobart Repair Cafe at Kickstart Arts! The global Repair Cafe movement has made it to Hobart (with ongoing Repair Cafe sessions planned to…

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Maritime Engineering Design Project Presentation Day

North

18 October 2019

All are invited to come a long and listen to the fourth-year AMC engineering students present their final year design projects. Learn about a completely new barge design which has the potential to revolutionise the…

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Averting Climate Catastrophe: People power

South

17 October 2019

In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have only 12 years at current global greenhouse gas emission rates before our chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are seriously at risk.…

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Climate Reality: The climate crisis

North

17 October 2019

Climate change is the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century.  It will affect everyone. But worst hit will be those who are already vulnerable.  We need action to reduce the public health burden of climate change…

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2040 special screening with Q&A

South

16 October 2019

Clarence Climate Action invites you to a special screening of 2040. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore how the future would look by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best…

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Food Security, Health and Climate Change

North

15 October 2019

Unlike countries that practice social partnership governance (e.g. Norway, Sweden, Germany), adversarial Westminster-style governance produces policy gridlock, most evidently in the field of climate change. In this interactive presentation, Sandy Murray will outline the dysfunctional…

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