Lunches & Evenings 2024
The Peedie Kirk lunches are a delight to look forward to, with a buffet of Orkney fare – cheese and meat, fish and baking – and the chance to meet old friends and new in a welcoming setting. The One O’Clock Toast each days features a well-known Orkney figure, and this year’s mix of people ranges from farming and local government to photography and drama.
Every evening there’s an event at 9 pm or thereabouts in the Orkney Club, a smaller venue where an audience can gather round and enjoy hearing talks that are sometimes in conversational format, and sometimes music as well, and with an opportunity to arrange refreshments.
The Orkney Club, situated on the Kirkwall harbour front, is an ideal setting for an evening looking back at the lives of one of Orkney’s best-known families, for reflections of life and work on the Orkney shore, and for an after-concert talk on the music of the church organ. Other events will include a journey to Slovenian lakes and mountains, a puzzles and pints evening, and songs of the land and the days of fruit-growing by some of the Lanarkshire Songwriters.
This event is now cancelled!
Meet friends old or new and enjoy the best of Orkney cheese, meat, fish and baking. The One O’Clock Toast today is in memory of George Stevenson, farmer and Orkney Islands Council Vice-Convener. It is given by his daughter, Councillor Jean Stevenson.
The Royal Astronomical Society's archives have a wealth of beautiful images of the night sky – as its librarian and archivist, Dr Sian Prosser, describes. The editor of the Society’s magazine Astronomy & Geophysics, Dr Sue Bowler, shows images of the earth, from historic maps to modern geophysical imagery.
Meet friends old or new and enjoy the best of Orkney cheese, meat, fish and baking. The One O’Clock Toast today is in memory of engineer James Andrew Liddle from St Ola who installed electric light in Stromness and Bo’ness. It is given by Patricia Long.
Not so long ago the Clyde Valley was the fruit basket of Scotland. The Lanarkshire Songwriters have gathered memories from growers and pickers of those great days, and turned them into songs with schools and members of the community. Three of them, Billy Stewart, John Young and Wilf Yule, tell the story in words and music, with help from Andy Munro and local musicians.
After the Cathedral concert, organist George McPhee joins flautist Ewan Robertson to reflect on what makes the pipe organ capable of producing such glorious music. He looks at some of the challenges, and some of the requirements, and some of the great moments of music that he has enjoyed.
Meet friends old or new and enjoy the best of Orkney cheese, meat, fish and baking. The One O’Clock Toast today is in memory of George Marwick, farmer and Orkney Islands Council Convener. It is given by his daughter Dr Kareen Larkin.
Do you enjoy doing puzzles? And would you like the atmosphere of a pub quiz, and with extra help at times with a difficult answer? Mathematicians and puzzle fans Katie Steckles and Ben Sparks bring you a night of brain-teasing puzzles and problems to solve, with no prizes but plenty of hints and clues in case you get stuck.
Peedie Kirk Hall, Palace Road, Kirkwall Meet friends old or new and enjoy the best of Orkney cheese, meat, fish and baking. Come in good time for the best choice of food and for the Toast. The One O’Clock Toast today is in memory of Kristin Linklater, theatre director and vocal
Magnus Linklater, writer and former editor of the Scotsman, looks back at the lives of his parents Eric and Marjorie and his sisters Kristin and Alison and brother Andro, and at a time of global and local uncertainty looks ahead to the currents that may be shaping Orkney’s future, in conversation with Cameron Stout of BBC Radio Orkney.
Meet friends old or new and enjoy the best of Orkney cheese, meat, fish and baking. The One O’Clock Toast today is in memory of Dr Beatrice Garvie, North Ronaldsay’s doctor in the 1930s, who took many photographs of the island and its people. It is given by Fiona Sanderson.
“Only those can know it intimately who do something on it,” wrote Robert Rendall in Orkney Shore, “harvest tangles, catch fish, gather whelks, study nature, or even comb the beach for driftwood.” Dr Tom Rendall explores the many delights of the book while Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon reads from the writing of her grandmother Bessie Skea.
