Imagine Online is a collection of 11 world-class storytelling performances available on-demand from Sunday 20th March, which is World Storytelling Day.
Imagine Online: Scottish Storytelling Festival
Ousdale Broch And The Caithness-Sutherland Border
Using a range of Latin and Old Norse texts, this talk will follow the Caithness-Sutherland border from an imagined Pictish past, through the Viking Age and the Late Norse Period, into the Early-Modern era.
‘Forgotten Hero’ Dr John Rae
Ken Stewart gives a talk on John Rae’s boyhood in Orkney, his medical training and work as a doctor, his Arctic expeditions and how he solved the two great remaining mysteries of the Arctic.
Orkney Doors Open 2021 18th/19th September
Doors Open is an opportunity for the public to visit buildings that might not normally be open to them, to look behind the scenes or to just see another side of an organisation or group locally.
Orkney Aviation Festival 2021
Orkney’s Aviation Festival 2021 takes place over two days – 9th- 10th September and covers the present, past and future.
Toil & Trouble: Online Exhibition
Toil & Trouble: Witchcraft in Scotland will examine the dark history of witchcraft in the country, particularly from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Sea & Stars at Orkney International Science Festival 2021
The successful Orkney International Science Festival (OISF), now in its 31st year, will for the second year running have an online edition.
Students Create Exciting Works Using ‘the facilities, materials, and opportunities within their reach.’
The online show featuring exhibits from the fine art and fine art textile students opens on Friday 11 June at 6pm and is on public display until Friday 9 July 2021.
Fascinating Historical Surveys of Medical Practice in Highlands & Islands Go Online
Robert Watson, a Minister on Hoy, records in his survey of 1850, that there were no medical practitioners in the island.
The Fascination of Plants
On Tuesday 18th May, join plant enthusiasts all around the world and take part in the first-ever virtual Fascination of Plants Day.
