Festival Updates

2020 will be the Year of Coasts and Waters in Scotland and we will have various topics about the sea and islands.

Festival will commemorate Moon landing Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary will be commemorated in Orkney in September with a programme of talks on space and astronomy in the islands’ annual science festival.

Orkney International Science Festival this year will have an added outdoor dimension as it joins forces with a new Foraging Fortnight being established in Scotland.

There’s an outdoor strand in this year’s programme, going from pole to pole, with Central Asia also to the fore.

It’s fresh, it’s nutritious, and it’s free! The benefits of foraging is becoming realised, doing what generations of people have done for thousands, indeed millions, of years – finding food in the wild.