Category: Culture

Art, music, literature, and other cultural events taking place in Orkney.

Poetry Corner: Life Lived As An Emoji

By Bernie Bell

On 26th of January 1926 John Logie Baird was the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television system using his televisor system

There were 12 of us on Saturday morning in Kirkwall British Legion for our monthly breakfast club .

It estimated that in Orkney there are over 1,000 military veterans and in Scotland as a whole, 220,000.

This Saturday afternoon from 2.30 to 3.30 Orkney Library and Archive in Kirkwall will be marking Robert Burns day.

Murders Of Old China is an audiobook which discusses twelve different cases in pre-communist or late period colonial China from 1907 to 1947.

The prestigious Robertson Medal is only awarded to those whose work is outstanding.

This year will see commemorations to mark the signing of The Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.

“We’ve walked Newark Bay – Deerness, many times, but I haven’t written about it, until now.”

Born in Pennsylvania, USA in 1857 Ida Tarbell was an investigative journalist back in the day when a woman’s place was very much in the home.