Midwinter Festivities in Tasmania
The main event is the ANARE (Tas branch) Midwinter Dinner which will be held in Hobart on Saturday 23rd June 2012. We encourage you to come along...it's sure to be a great night with a wide mix of ANARE expeditioners and their guests. Each attending ANARE expeditioner is welcome to invite a guest to the dinner...husband, wife, partner, friend, son, daughter...whoever!
This year we are pleased to announce a number of special reunions including Mawson 1957, Mawson 1962, Davis 1992, Macquarie Island 2000 and Mawson 2002.
Further information on the dinner and list of attendees can be accessed on our website.
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The main event is the ANARE (Tas branch) Midwinter Dinner which will be held in Hobart on Saturday 23rd June 2012. We encourage you to come along...it's sure to be a great night with a wide mix of ANARE expeditioners and their guests. Each attending ANARE expeditioner is welcome to invite a guest to the dinner...husband, wife, partner, friend, son, daughter...whoever!
This year we are pleased to announce a number of special reunions including Mawson 1957, Mawson 1962, Davis 1992, Macquarie Island 2000 and Mawson 2002.
Further information on the dinner and list of attendees can be accessed on our website.
If you'd like to receive our (irregular) newsletter please click here... The newsletter provides information on ANARE, Antarctic and subAntarctic current news, upcoming events and Midwinter festivities updates.
Other Midwinter festivities include...
Tours of the Australian Antarctic Division
Generally access to the Australian Antarctic Division is limited to the foyer display and the cafe, however this year the Division has kindly offered to host a special tour for ANARE expeditioners and their guests for the Midwinter festivities.
This year there will be a tour on the Monday 25th June at 9am and will include a video link up with Casey Station. Other highlights include a welcome by Dr Tony Flemming, the new AAD director, as well as opportunities to view the Clothing store and warehouse, Instrument workshop, Krill lab and Electron microscopy department. Around 3 hours should be allowed for the visit.
Please meet at the main entrance of the AAD, Channel Hwy, Kingston at 08.45 am. The tour will start promptly at 9am.
Covered /enclosed shoes will need to be worn as a number of workshop areas are being accessed.
A short break is scheduled mid tour and morning tea imay be purchased at the AAD cafe at your own expense.
Please note that his tour is full and additional people cannot be added.
A list of people on the tour can be accessed here...
There is no charge for the tour.
If transport to and from the Australian Antarctic Division at Kingston (about 15 kilometres south of Hobart) is required, please contact us so we can advise of transport arrangements.
Where: Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Hobart
When: Monday 25th June 9am.
Cost: free
Generally access to the Australian Antarctic Division is limited to the foyer display and the cafe, however this year the Division has kindly offered to host a special tour for ANARE expeditioners and their guests for the Midwinter festivities.
This year there will be a tour on the Monday 25th June at 9am and will include a video link up with Casey Station. Other highlights include a welcome by Dr Tony Flemming, the new AAD director, as well as opportunities to view the Clothing store and warehouse, Instrument workshop, Krill lab and Electron microscopy department. Around 3 hours should be allowed for the visit.
Please meet at the main entrance of the AAD, Channel Hwy, Kingston at 08.45 am. The tour will start promptly at 9am.
Covered /enclosed shoes will need to be worn as a number of workshop areas are being accessed.
A short break is scheduled mid tour and morning tea imay be purchased at the AAD cafe at your own expense.
Please note that his tour is full and additional people cannot be added.
A list of people on the tour can be accessed here...
There is no charge for the tour.
If transport to and from the Australian Antarctic Division at Kingston (about 15 kilometres south of Hobart) is required, please contact us so we can advise of transport arrangements.
Where: Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Hobart
When: Monday 25th June 9am.
Cost: free
Tours of the ice breaker Aurora Australis
The Masters of the Aurora Australis in conjunction with P&O have offered to run a tour of the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis.
2 Tours of the Aurora Australis are been run on Saturday 23rd June 2012.
Please meet outside the front doors (city side) of Princess Wharf 1...just next to Salamanca, by 13.15.
Covered /enclosed shoes will need to be worn
A list of people on the tour can be accessed here...
Please note that his tour is full and additional people cannot be added.
When: Saturday 23rd June 2012 at 13.30.
Where: Please meet outside the front doors (city side) of Princess Wharf 1...just next to Salamanca, by 13.15.
Cost: free
2 Tours of the Aurora Australis are been run on Saturday 23rd June 2012.
Please meet outside the front doors (city side) of Princess Wharf 1...just next to Salamanca, by 13.15.
Covered /enclosed shoes will need to be worn
A list of people on the tour can be accessed here...
Please note that his tour is full and additional people cannot be added.
When: Saturday 23rd June 2012 at 13.30.
Where: Please meet outside the front doors (city side) of Princess Wharf 1...just next to Salamanca, by 13.15.
Cost: free
Polar Pathways Walking Tour
An interesting guided 1.5 hour walk showcasing Hobart’s rich Antarctic history and connections with local guides from Polar Pathways. Pace: gentle. Sunday 24th June at 1pm. $15.00 pp. A minimum of 10 bookings are required for the walk to proceed. Participants will be notified of the departure point prior.
Further tours can be organised for reunion or other groups on request. If interested please contact us.
There is also the opportunity to do your own self guided polar pathways tour. Walking and driving options are available. Brochures can be collected from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Tourist Information Centre in Hobart , or a copy downloaded from the excellent Polar Pathways website.
The Polar Pathways website also offers the opportunity to download additional information on Polar Pathways sites and explorers, by clicking here.
To further enhance your experience of the Polar Pathways walking and driving tours, Podcasts are now available for all sites. Again these are available from the Polar Pathways website. Download all or just your selected sites and listen on your computer or transfer the Podcasts to your MP3 player and listen as you tour the sites.
The Polar Pathways website also offers the opportunity to download additional information on Polar Pathways sites and explorers, by clicking here.
To further enhance your experience of the Polar Pathways walking and driving tours, Podcasts are now available for all sites. Again these are available from the Polar Pathways website. Download all or just your selected sites and listen on your computer or transfer the Podcasts to your MP3 player and listen as you tour the sites.
The Longest Night Film Festival
The Longest Night Film Festival is held at the State Theatre, North Hobart. A short season of cutting edge documentaries and historical film footage from the frozen south, and north! Open to all including members of the public. Further details of the program and session times will be available on the State Theatre website closer to the date.
Where: 375 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart
When: Friday 22nd -Monday 25th june 2012
Cost: Adult $17, Senior $13
Where: 375 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart
When: Friday 22nd -Monday 25th june 2012
Cost: Adult $17, Senior $13
An Awfully Beautiful Place - The Antarctic Art of Stephen Eastaugh
This mixed media exhibition spans ten years of Stephen Eastaugh’s work in and about Antarctica. In total the artist has spent eighteen months on the “Ice” and has made eighteen voyages across the Great Southern Ocean. A time span no other contemporary Australian artist has committed to Antarctica. To counterpoint these journeys Eastaugh has also been twice to both Greenland and the North Pole.
An Antarctic survey show has never been presented that covers an array of his work-from the massive landscape based wall hangings produced at Mawson station over winter, to cartographic pattern works from a summer at Davis station, alongside tiny Travailogue works created on numerous Icebreakers in the Southern Ocean.
Displaying a fresh and broad overview of a very personalised visual diary the exhibition will span the years 2000 to 2009 and acquaint viewers with hard earned travels across large expanses of the southern white continent.
Where: Carnegie Gallery, Hobart,
When: 7th June to 1st July 2012
Cost: free
Exhibition opening 6.00pm Thursday 7 June 2012. All invited!!!
Opening speaker: Dr Tony Press - CEO Antarctic Climate + Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and ex-director of the Aust. Antarctic Division.
You are also invited to attend a screening of the artist's documentary winteroverat 1pm tuesday 12th june in the gallery, followed by q and a.
An Antarctic survey show has never been presented that covers an array of his work-from the massive landscape based wall hangings produced at Mawson station over winter, to cartographic pattern works from a summer at Davis station, alongside tiny Travailogue works created on numerous Icebreakers in the Southern Ocean.
Displaying a fresh and broad overview of a very personalised visual diary the exhibition will span the years 2000 to 2009 and acquaint viewers with hard earned travels across large expanses of the southern white continent.
Where: Carnegie Gallery, Hobart,
When: 7th June to 1st July 2012
Cost: free
Exhibition opening 6.00pm Thursday 7 June 2012. All invited!!!
Opening speaker: Dr Tony Press - CEO Antarctic Climate + Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and ex-director of the Aust. Antarctic Division.
You are also invited to attend a screening of the artist's documentary winteroverat 1pm tuesday 12th june in the gallery, followed by q and a.
'Latitude' Exhibition by Karin Beaumont and Vicki West - ArtSpace June 2012
'Latitude' is a collaborative project between ANARE marine biologist & artist Karin Beaumont & Aboriginal artist Vicki West that will result in an exhibition of jewellery, objects, and installation works in 2012. The project is one of mentoring and exchange between Karin & Vicki as they share their diverse backgrounds and knowledge through making with kelp, metal, and found materials to explore their common connection to coastal environments. The resulting exhibition of work aims to foster a sense of place and personal connection for the audience by imparting the relationship to country from an Aboriginal perspective, and reveal the relationships between Tasmanian and Subantarctic coastal environments from a scientific perspective, thereby instilling respect and responsibility for our unique natural heritage.
Where: Artspace Gallery, 146 Elizabeth Street, Hobart
When: 1st - 28th June 2012
Cost: free
Where: Artspace Gallery, 146 Elizabeth Street, Hobart
When: 1st - 28th June 2012
Cost: free
