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Microalgae turning waste into food or pharmaceuticals. Tools of light. An ancient Greek computer with mechanical gears. Tracking Ice Age rock movements. Unearthing a mammoth graveyard. A lost flock, a hydrogen ship – and the energy of the Sun!

The Western music legends Riders in the Sky. The astronomy-inspired works of the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire. A Cathedral concert of ethereal electronic music blended with voices, instruments and organ. The violin virtuoso Charlotte Rowan in concert.

The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness is the venue to two explorations into links between mathematics and art on Saturday 9 September. In the morning the link is through the work of a remarkable book from 1917 that continues to reverberate today. On Growth and Form by D’Arcy Thompson inspired

And there’s an opportunity to walk an ancient landscape with people who know it in so much detail, and its ancient plants and animals as well. There’s a walk on the Ness of Brodgar site led by the director of the excavations there, with the latest news on their progress just days after their completion for another year. There’s also a walk from the Brodgar stones to those at Stenness, accompanied by archaeologists and researchers into archaeobotany and zooarchaeology.

Would you like to find about accessing AI on your PC, or seeing robots in action? Or see the skills of violin making and hear the resulting sound in the hands of a virtuoso? Would you like to find out about Slovenian archaeology in Iron Age times and compare with

The Family Day on Saturday 9 September is so packed with events that it’s a challenge to try to list them all – but we’re going to try! We’ll be posting up details here, including the planetarium that Dynamic Earth are bringing, the marine activities from the Scottish Seabird Centre,

It’s the perfect break to round off a morning – a lunch of Orkney fare in the Peedie Kirk hall. It’s fine and central – just up Palace Road across from the Cathedral and past the Earl’s Palace – and each day there’s a One O’Clock Toast to a notably

They really are special! There’s a science show with a wizard from Kansas and four cowboys, and the story of Tombstone, Arizona, with the gunfight at the OK Corral …  and its microscopical scientific society, and remarkable events elsewhere in art and physics that were going on at the time.

Friday night is astronomy night with Eric Walker and you can join him online from wherever you may be as he highlights what to see in the night sky and welcomes various guests. This event is purely online, but we’ll also be livestreaming a number of the many in-person events

There are several schools competitions, including the solar challenge to capture the sun’s energy at your school. Then something for all ages is a wildlife photography competition, judged by wildlife photographers Raymond Besant from Orkney and Richard Shucksmith from Shetland.

We’re thrilled to offer again a variety of in-person and online sessions for this year’s School’s programme.