9 – 11 pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel
The Reel, KirkwallFestival Club at The Reel
Festival Club at The Reel
A beaver-chewed timber from North America, a sea heart from the rainforests of the southern Caribbean. A skate’s egg case, a lump of paraffin wax, and a lobster creel tag from Newfoundland. Martin Gray, who runs the Orkney Beachcombing page, describes the wealth of treasures that wash up on an Orkney shore and the searching and foraging quest that has taken Orcadians to the shore since Neolithic times and before.
Snow-topped mountains, wooded valleys, and hills with irises and tulips – scenes of Central Asia and its plants are shown by John Mitchell, alpine supervisor at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, describing his travels through Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.