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CONCERT: THE VOYAGE OF THE FOX

Orkney Theatre, KGS, Kirkwall

Arctic voyages searching for whales, and for lost ships – these form a collaboration between two musicians and a poet, in a blend of sound from traditional Shetland fiddle music to creative improvisation with instruments, electronics and voice. The music develops from the complex songs of the great whales, and the men who hunted them in hostile Greenland seas – and Captain Francis McClintock’s voyage in the yacht Fox to seek traces of the lost Franklin expedition.

£8 – £10

AS OLD AS THE HILLS

Phoenix Cinema, Pickaquoy, Kirkwall

Selena S. Kuzman’s new film is a groundbreaking visualisation of the enormity of geological time. Geologist Adrian Hall is joined again by Mara Gibb from Caithness and Katy Firth from Orkney on a grand scenic journey. Their vistas rise to Scaraben, the ancient island mountain, and over the tors on Smean, touching some of the oldest rock surfaces in the British Isles. They see in contrast the young, dynamic sand hills at Dunnet Bay. They cross to Stromness and Brinkie’s Brae, a granite stump of the once mighty Caledonian mountain chain. On Shapinsay they find pristine Devonian lava flows and boulder clay streamlined by the passage of the last ice sheet.

£5 – £7

WEST SIDE CINEMA: ARCHITECTON (U)

Stromness Town Hall

A stunning new film from a master documentary maker. “Hypnotic. Goes beyond architecture to take us into the secret world of rocks and stones,” wrote one reviewer. Victor Kossakovsky’s earlier films included Gunda on animal consciousness and Aquarela on the natural wonder of water.

£3 – £5