https://sarahaitken.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Sarah AitkenenTue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://pipmagazine.com.au/fiona-mccuaig-natural-regenerative-burial/Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://pipmagazine.com.au/fiona-mccuaig-natural-regenerative-burial/https://www.ract.com.au/membership/journeys/experiences/tassie-tails-exploring-the-island-s-best-dog-friendly-adventuresWith more than 3000 kilometres of beautiful coastline and a relatively small population, it’s easy to find a beach to suit your and your dog’s needs in Tasmania. Whether you want to hang with other four-legged friends at a dog beach – like the northern end of Kingston Beach – or find a mega scratch of sand to call your own for the day, there are so many on offer. Our longest beach, Ocean Beach near Strahan, has around 40km of sand to share (and nearby Macquarie Head offers a dog-friendly camping...Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.ract.com.au/membership/journeys/experiences/tassie-tails-exploring-the-island-s-best-dog-friendly-adventureshttps://www.ract.com.au/membership/journeys/our-community/a-mile-in-the-shoes-of-a-wildlife-sanctuary-ownerAfter a delayed wedding thanks to Covid, Greg and his wife Mel were finally taking some time off from rehabilitating animals and raking up poo at Bonorong, the native animal sanctuary they run together near Hobart. They drove off around Tasmania with their little caravan to enjoy a couples-only break. “I think it was on day two, I turn around and see Mel’s off swimming in freezing cold water down at Port Arthur plucking an injured penguin out of the water!” laughs Greg. “With me cheering from th...Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.ract.com.au/membership/journeys/our-community/a-mile-in-the-shoes-of-a-wildlife-sanctuary-ownerhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/18/mona-mirrorscape-exhibit-theo-mercier-sand-sculptureThéo Mercier, the French visual artist, choreographer and stage director, has spent months in Tasmania taking photos of junk. In Mirrorscape, an exhibition that opened on the weekend at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), he and an international team of expert sculptors – Kevin Crawford, Enguerrand David, Sue McGrew and Leonardo Ugolini – used 80 tonnes of compacted sand to recreate the scenes of decay and detritus he found, serving them as a mirror of our own ruin. It’s a ghostly scene of...Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/18/mona-mirrorscape-exhibit-theo-mercier-sand-sculpturehttps://pipmagazine.com.au/the-agrarian-kitchen/In what’s supposed to be a tough climate for hospitality, an award-winning Tasmanian business is proving that diversity really does build resilience.Some would baulk at the idea of running their business inside the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital, especially one where ghost tours run amongst the dilapidated and sometimes downright spooky ruins. But when Rodney Gunn and Séverine Demanet toured the old asylum grounds known as Willow Court in Tasmania’s New Norfolk, they saw the potential to...Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://pipmagazine.com.au/the-agrarian-kitchen/https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/09/hobartica-antarctica-beaker-street-festival-hobart“If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart,” the Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton once wrote, after one of his many (at least seven) trips to the continent. “Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on Earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.”And yet it is not as it should be: last year, Antarctic sea ice cover dropped for six months straight.Antarctica is understandably a bucket list...Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/09/hobartica-antarctica-beaker-street-festival-hobarthttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/19/stolen-tasmanian-aboriginal-artefacts-are-finally-home-but-theres-a-catch-theyre-only-on-loanIn 2014, pakana woman Zoe Rimmer left the British Museum in tears after viewing a 170-year-old kelp water carrier taken from lutruwita/Tasmania in their collection. As she cried, the seed of a big idea was planted: how could she get the rikawa, and other Tasmanian Aboriginal cultural artefacts sitting in institutions across the world, home?“Seeing our ancestral belongings in a storage facility in the British Museum was quite emotional,” says Rimmer, who until recently was senior curator of First...Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/19/stolen-tasmanian-aboriginal-artefacts-are-finally-home-but-theres-a-catch-theyre-only-on-loanhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/186256/images/b1364ade-6166-4bb1-bfef-90039fe8084d.jpgA chat with permaculture queen Hannah Moloney about how she holds onto hope in the face of the climate emergency.Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/186256/images/b1364ade-6166-4bb1-bfef-90039fe8084d.jpghttps://thehobartmagazine.com.au/hannah-gadsby/From Smithton to Netflix and the Emmys stage, Tasmanian stand up comic Hannah Gadsby has forged an unlikely path. Following on from the massive success of her shows Nanette and Douglas, Hannah brings her new show Body of Work to Hobart this month.Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://thehobartmagazine.com.au/hannah-gadsby/https://thehobartmagazine.com.au/trekking-the-three-capes-track-three-ways/With various interstate trips vanishing before her eyes thanks to covid-induced border closures, Sarah Aitken booked herself in to hike the world-class Three Capes Track within the Tasman National Park on the Tasman Peninsula. Her legs are still recovering.Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://thehobartmagazine.com.au/trekking-the-three-capes-track-three-ways/