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BARQUES, SPARKS AND SHARKS

The Orkney Club, Harbour Street, Kirkwall

With a long seagoing tradition in his family and the island of Graemsay where they came from, it’s not surprising that by the time that Len Wilson reached the age of three he was sitting at the tiller of his father’s boat. And by the time he was sixteen he was at nautical college learning about radio, radar and Morse code, on the way to becoming a radio officer. With the family tradition also including music, his son Laurence joins for a tune or two, accompanying the fiddle music of Jennifer Wrigley.

£10

LIFE’S STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE

Orkney Theatre, KGS, Kirkwall

Over the past 4 billion years we’ve come through some thrilling, chilling episodes, says Prof. John Baez, University of California Riverside and University of Edinburgh. We collided with the planet Theia, there was ‘Snowball Earth’ when most of the oceans froze, and there was the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs. Some catastrophes are well documented, others only theorised, but life somehow came through them all. Can this, he asks, give us hope in today’s uncertain times?

£5 – £7

VAIGAN B’ THE SHORE

St Magnus Church, Birsay

Robert Rendall explored the essence of Orkney life in his poems with the same questing approach that he took to his studies of the Orkney shore. For this year’s St Magnus Festival’s Johnsmas Foy, Issy Grieve and Greer Norquoy wrote and produced a multi-media event about his life and his contribution to Orkney.

Admission by donation.