Events for October 17, 2026 › Saturday 8 September

Join 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.

The 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).