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VIKING FAMILY DAY

Orkneyinga Saga Centre

As part of the Viking Week, Orkney Archaeology Society and Orkney Time Travel invite you to a Family Day at the Earl’s Bu and Round Kirk in Orphir. Orkneyinga Saga Centre will be open. Outside will be a mixture of fun family-friendly activities, including storytelling from Viking mythology and sagas, Viking crafts, fun and games.

SCIENCE FESTIVAL SERVICE

St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

Conducted by Rev. Fraser Macnaughton, with the St Magnus Cathedral Choir.

WORKSHOP: SHADOWS OF THE ANCIENT LAKE

Stromness Museum

Explore the fossilised remains of Lake Orcadie’s ancient fish and work together with artist Mary Grieve to help create a shoal of shadows, designing and building a shadow puppet fish to recreate the water world of Devonian times, in an era before life came ashore leading to reptiles, birds, mammals and us.

£3 – £6

WALK: THE A-Z OF A PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE

From car park, Ring of Brodgar, Stenness

Walk from the Ring of Brodgar to the Stones of Stenness, stopping off at the Ness of Brodgar and Barnhouse Neolithic village, for an insight into landscape features, archaeology, plants and animals past and present, from HES Rangers and UHI researchers Kath Page, Sue Dyke and Dr Ben Elliott.

WORKSHOP: CHECKING ALIGNMENTS WITH STELLARIUM

Stenness Community Centre

Dave Craig explains the nuts and bolts of how Stellarium was used in his recent investigation Why is Maeshowe Squint? This, he says, will help citizen scientists or archaeologists to investigate Maeshowe or other potential alignments themselves. “There will be a particular focus on accuracy and simplicity. If you want, bring along your own laptop with Stellarium and/or Google Earth Pro already installed.

RIVERS OF RUNNING GOLD. THE SUN, THE SUN!

St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

See the blazing light and churning fire of the Sun’s surface and hear music for the cosmos from two composers whose works blend electronic sounds with instruments and voices to create work of elemental power and ethereal beauty. The programme features Stuart MacRae’s Magnus, Noble Martyr and his Incarnadine, along with Michael Oliva’s Threnody and his Music of the Spheres. With the Mayfield Singers, Ewan Robertson (alto and bass flute), Valerie Webster and Hannah Marshall (cellos), and Paisley Abbey organist George McPhee, and narration by solar physicist Prof. Robert Walsh.

£8 – £10

A THIN AND ROCKY SLICE OF TIME

Town Hall, Stromness

Chris Thomas of the Quekett Microscopical Club shows some beautiful images from thin-section rock slides and the pictures of ancient worlds they lead to. Katy Firth of Stromness Museum describes plans to digitise the slides from the late Ted Kellock’s rock collection.

£4 – £6

AFTER THE CONCERT: SOUNDS AMID THE STILLNESS

The Orkney Club, Harbour Street, Kirkwall

Composers Stuart MacRae and Michael Oliva both explore electronic sounds in their music in journeys of exploration of uncharted territory. How can electronic sounds convey the beauty of the natural world? They join solar physicist and SUN co-creator, Prof. Robert Walsh, and flautist Ewan Robertson in conversation.

£8
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