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SYMPHONIES OF GALAXIES

The Orkney Club, Harbour Street, Kirkwall

Astronomy is one of the rich mix of influences on the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire, in conversation here with astronomer Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans and trumpeter and conductor Bede Williams, both from St Andrews University. He has also played for more than 40 years in one of Scotland’s most distinctive traditional music groups, the Whistlebinkies, and a group of Orkney traditional musicians will help to celebrate the occasion.

£8

A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED ORKNEY CONCERT

Harray Hall

Take a trip back to the 1950s, when Countrywoman was starting to write for the Orkney Herald – and audiences would enjoy a concert in the Harray Hall. Tonight there’s the West Mainland Strathspey and Reel Society, Robin Nicolson with some classic George Corrigall and David Towers songs, Highland dancing from Josie Gibbon and a sketch by Birsay Drama Club. Emma Grieve provides some Countrywoman readings, and joined by her sister Sarah Jane sings two of Bessie's poems, and it's all ably compered by Harvey Johnston.

£2 – £6

WEST SIDE CINEMA: ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE

Stromness Town Hall

A documentary film exploring how we see the world, with its background the expansion of surveillance technologies in everyday life.

It combines hallucinatory and often abstract visuals, history, and conventional fly-on-the-wall filmmaking, to look at different perceptions, for humans and cameras. It focuses on police body cameras and surveillance systems – and also traces studies of solar eclipses.

£3 – £5