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HYDROGEN – DRIVING FORWARD
Baptist Church, Victoria Street, KirkwallHydrogen can store energy from wind and tide to power cars, and ferries, and other things as well. Adele Lidderdale (OIC) and Jon Clipsham (EMEC) join Nigel Holmes of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association to describe plans and progress.
£3 – £5
FAMILY DAY
King Street Halls, Kirkwall[one_fourth last="no"][/one_fourth]Operate a robot arm to remove marine litter, Find out about seashells and the creatures that live in them. Draw with a laser. Make a molecule or a geometric lantern. Try out papermaking with natural materials. Learn how to turn old fabrics into new styles in the upcycling workshop. Pilot a drone in simulator software. Learn about kelvins and candelas. Test your abilities with the BodyWorks. Make a cloud chamber and see particles from outer space. Learn to use an astronomical telescope and steer a Mars rover. Study a meteorite. Freshly prepared rolls, Orkney ice cream
£3 – £5
OROGRAPHIC BY OCEANALLOVER
EMEC, Billia Croo, by StromnessA performance work/walk up Brinkie’s Brae about landscape and our response to it, inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s landscape paintings, our awe of mountains, our desire to ascend. With music both earthy and ethereal. No charge. Wear waterproofs and good shoes! Supported by Creative Scotland and OIC Cultural Fund
KITE POWER FOR THE FUTURE
Baptist Church, Victoria Street, KirkwallProf. Clive Greated Memorial Lecture A kite above for the wind, a turbine below to generate electricity. Strathclyde University researcher Oliver Tulloch introduces Western Isles engineer Rod Read and the Daisy Kite developed by his company Windswept and Interesting. Sponsored by Clark Thomson Insurance
£3 – £5
BACH: THE MATHEMATICS AND THE BEAUTY
Baptist Church, Victoria Street, KirkwallUnder the surface of Bach's harmonies are mathematical patterns. How do they influence the music? Maarten de Vries explains, and Paisley Abbey organist George McPhee demonstrates.
£3 – £5
VINTAGE RALLY
Broad Street, KirkwallOrkney Vintage Club with cars, motorbikes, tractors and stationary engines; plus electric vehicles, street food from 12 noon, and the Willowburn Valley Stompers at 2 pm.
SINGALONG WITH MR BOOM
MacGillivray Room, Library, KirkwallMake sure you come, for now’s your chance - to do the Solar System Dance! Sponsored by Pentland Ferries
£3 – £5
ANCIENT STORIES, MODERN SEAS
Town Hall, StromnessOceanographer Dr Neil Banas of Strathclyde University looks at how a story by a master Haida mythteller, Skaay, reflects the marine ecology on the North Pacific Ocean’s edge. “A similar picture of marine ecosystems arises from contemporary mathematical models,” he says, “but Skaay managed to capture the dynamics of ecosystems at the ‘edge of chaos’ in his mythic frame with an accuracy that mathematical modellers still struggle to duplicate.”
£3 – £5
HE LIT THE LAMP FOR CHEMISTRY
Baptist Church, Victoria Street, KirkwallSir Humphry Davy discovered chlorine and calcium, produced laughing gas for anaesthetics and a safety lamp for miners. Hayley Russell tells the story of his life, and Dr Edvard Kobal of the Slovenian Science Foundation describes his European travels.
£3 – £5
A BOAT FOR TIDES AND BROKEN WATER
Town Hall, StromnessLen Wilson introduces naval architect Dennis Davidson and retired boatbuilder Ivan Hourston to tell the story of the North Ronaldsay praam, its pros and cons for fishing in island waters, its original Scandinavian design, and the challenges of building it, with archive photos and film from the island.
£3 – £5
INSPIRATION OF THE MOUNTAINS
Stromness AcademyOceanallover director Alex Rigg describes the development of the ideas between the group’s new performance, Orographic, from the landscape paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, into music and costumes and choreography. Admission free. Supported by Creative Scotland and OIC Cultural Fund
SIR PAUL NURSE IN CONVERSATION
Orkney Theatre, KGS, Kirkwall"I was never very good at exams ... but there were also good extra-curricular activities at school, particularly hill and mountain walking and more surprisingly, learning to fly. I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot." The 2001 physiology/medicine Nobel laureate in conversation with Dave Gray of BBC Radio Orkney.
£3 – £5
KIRKWALL CITY PIPE BAND
with their final parade of the season
GOOD LIFE, GOOD DEATH, GOOD GRIEF
King Street Halls, KirkwallShort films on the subjects of illness, death and bereavement followed by round table discussion.
£3 – £5
WEST SIDE CINEMA: MOONWALK ONE – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT (E)
Town Hall, StromnessThe film commissioned by NASA to cover the historic Apollo 11 journey to the Moon in July 1969. Its director, Theo Kamecke, had a vision for the film - to create something that would mark the historic, philosophical and epic nature of this greatest of endeavours upon which mankind was about to embark. Its producer, Christopher Riley, will introduce this special showing in Stromness. Doors open 7.15 pm. Tickets at door £5 & £3 (students and Young Scot).
£3 – £5
THE BIRDS
St Magnus Cathedral, KirkwallJoin the St Andrews New Music Ensemble for a rare performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Birds (soloist: Judy Brown), commissioned in 2007 as a tribute to the birds of Northern Scotland. This poetic and picturesque work will be accompanied by complementary pieces from the 18th to the 21st centuries, including Maurice Ravel’s beautiful Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, flute, clarinet and harp and Errollyn Wallen’s witty and poignant song cycle with string quartet, Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals? Tickets £8 & £5.
£5 – £8
