BOOKING REQUEST FORM 2.00 – 3.00pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall 2.00 – 3.00pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall Wednesday 7 September 5.30 – 6.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall £ £ No. at No. at Total THE HIDDEN WORLD OF LOCH NESS FROM MOORS TO MOLECULES GENETIC JOURNEY 9.30am – 12.30pm Highland Park Distillery, Kirkwall Adult Con. adult concess. £ p Is there a monster? For nearly forty years, naturalist Adrian Shine has The ruins survive of broch towers and underground structures from Our genes provide clues to long-distant ancestors, Norse and older, Tuesday 6 September led the Loch Ness Project, seeking a scientific answer. Discoveries 2000 years ago and new scientific techniques are providing insights Miniature Whisky School: FERMENTING FOR FLAVOUR – and also to diseases of today. Dr Jim Wilson of Edinburgh University into life in Iron Age Orkney. Orkney College UHI archaeologists Martin MACROFLAVOURS FROM MICROFLORA reports on the latest findings of the ORCADES and Multiple Sclerosis Newfoundland Ice for Spain £4 £2 have included post-Ice Age changes. There’s room for a few mysteries, he says ‘But at last we are beginning to understand it.’ Carruthers, James Moore, Ingrid Mainland, Roy Towers report on Billions of Nature’s workers in breweries and distilleries make alcohols studies and reveals which Orcadian families belong to the ancestral 100 Years Superconductivity £4 £2 recent research into landscapes, farming, ceramics, souterrains. & flavour compounds from sugars. Using the right yeasts is the key to groups discussed in his book, The Scots: A Genetic Journey. 3.30 – 4.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall efficient production and flavour. Bacteria also play a significant role. Sponsored by the Medical Research Council From Moors to Molecules £4 £2 3.30 – 4.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall TO WATCH AND WONDER: AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS Three industry specialists – Chartered Scientist Dr Tim Dolan and Brian 45,000 YEARS OF MUSIC 7.30 – 9.00pm The Girnel, Kirkwall 45,000 Years of Music £4 £2 Two men, says Prof. R.J. Berry of University College London, illustrate Eaton and Duncan Kellock, both Master Brewers – provide insight From deep in a cave in Slovenia comes the world’s oldest musical SHACKLETON’S DRAM Stem Cells: A Vision of Future £4 £2 the lasting contributions of accurate observers to natural history and into the microworld of fermentation. Numbers limited to 10 people. biology. One is a blacksmith’s son from Essex, John Ray. The other instrument – from a young bear’s leg-bone, with four neatly spaced Whisky from Shackleton’s expedition, found in Antarctic ice, has been Advance booking essential (over-18s only). Tickets £12. Science at War in Orkney £4 £2 is the one-time minister for Harray and Birsay, George Low. finger holes. Slovenian archaeologist Dr Bostjan Odar describes the analysed; its peaty flavour is from Eday. Alan Winchester, Distilling Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling So Fair and Foul a Day £4 £2 Sponsored by Crantit Dairy Neanderthal makers, with a replica for Gemma McGregor to play. Manager of Chivas Brothers, tells how Eday peat once supplied Glen Sponsored by Orkney Car Hire – James D Peace & Co Mhor distillery, Inverness. Dr Barry Harrison, Scotch Whisky Research Wednesday 7 September 5.15 – 6.15pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall 9.30 – 11.00am Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall 5.00 – 7.00pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall Institute, shows how peat composition affects whisky’s flavour. THINGS THAT GLOW IN THE DARK MOMENTS OF HOPE Miniature Whisky School £12 – STEM CELLS: A VISION OF THE FUTURE Over-18s only. Free to IBD members and industry staff. From fireflies and glow-worms to sellotape and lemon flash. Dr Paul People in troubled situations often want to change, but find it Stem cells are in the news, with hopes they may lead to new treatments, Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling Moments of Hope £4 £2 Beaumont of the Scottish Schools Equipment Research Centre with difficult to break out of old patterns. To see themselves on video from cancer and MS to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This 70-minute A Dream of Distant Starlight £4 £2 a blaze of colours introduces the world of photobiology. can highlight moments of happiness and help them view the world 8.00pm – 12.00 midnight Peedie Kirk Hall, Kirkwall documentary has interviews with some of the world’s leading pioneers. in a new light. The authors of the UK’s first book on this new field of THE HIGHLAND PARK CEILIDH Distilling – Theory and Practice £5 £3 7.30 – 8.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall After a break for refreshments, you can question Prof. Ian Chambers Video Interaction Guidance, Hilary Kennedy, Miriam Landor and Liz with Dave and company, traditional dancing, and suppers of local STELLAR CANNIBALS of the University of Edinburgh. Admission free. A Flett from Flotta £4 £2 Todd, show with video illustrations how the approach can change fare available. Tickets £5 & £3 When two stars circle in a binary system, the smaller star sometimes Supported by The Scottish Government Luksthoo Ahint, Thoo’ll Finnd £4 £2 lives for the better. Sponsored by Highland Park devours its companion. The ‘cannibal’, says Dr Amanda Smith of the 7.30 – 8.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sponsored by e-availability Genetic Journey £4 £2 Open University, may be a white dwarf – or a black hole. Some clues Special food events during Festival SCIENCE AT WAR IN ORKNEY 11.30am – 12.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall come from massive outbursts of energy seen by amateur astronomers. Geoffrey Stell returns with a sequel to last year’s talk, focusing this Shackleton’s Dram £4 £2 A DREAM OF DISTANT STARLIGHT Friday 2. A Taste of the Islands. Old Orkney Banquet at Foveran. (OU information for potential students available from 6.15 pm.) time on the roles played by balloons and early forms of rocket in the Fresh local fare from land and sea, traditionally cooked. Appetising The Highland Park Ceilidh £5 £3 Journeys to the planets, space stations, orbiting satellites all were Admission free to OU students, potential students, and alumni defence of Scapa Flow. He goes on to examine how developments in details on www.oisf.org. Book from Hotel: 01856 872389. envisaged in the 1920s by rocket engineer Herman Potočnik who LecturePass – all £4 talks £32 £24 military science and technology in the latter half of the 19th century 9.00 – 10.00pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall wrote as Hermann Noordung. Born in Slovenia, he fought in World War Daily, from Fri 2 to Wed 7. The Biggest Peedie Lunches in the Peedie NIGHT SKY VOYAGE underpinned coastal gunnery practices in both World Wars. Kirk Hall. Soup and Orkney fare every day for £6. From 12.30pm, (Please note that admission can only be guaranteed if Sponsored by The Orcadian One and later died in poverty. But, as Slovenian Science Foundation passholders arrive at least 5 mins before start) Take a trip across the light-years with David Edwards of the Open Director Dr Edvard Kobal explains, his vision was cosmic. with a 5-minute toast at 1 pm to famous Isles people. University as he introduces stars and galaxies and tells their story. 9.00 – 10.00pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sponsored by the Institute of Physics Every day. Westray Crab lunches at Lynnfield Hotel. Fresh crab Total ticket sum enclosed Learn to find your own way to the places where stars are born and SO FAIR AND FOUL A DAY with traditional bere bannocks. Book from Hotel: 01856 872505. The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: the botanist to see some of the oldest stars in the Universe. Prof. Alastair Dawson of Aberdeen University with the story of Mon 5. The Best of Bere. The menu at Judith Glue’s Real Food Kitchen Name James Sinclair from Hoy, by Terry Thomson Admission free to OU students, potential students, and alumni Scotland’s climate over the past 10,000 years from late Ice Age times tonight highlights Orkney’s traditional grain; talks on uses between Address to today and how floods, storms, blizzards, droughts and volcanic 9 – 11.00pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel 2.00 – 5.00pm from Palace Road, Kirkwall 6.30 and 7. Numbers limited, book from shop: 01856 874225. eruptions have influenced the history of the Scottish nation. BUS TOUR: DISTILLING – THE THEORY AND PRACTICE Special Festival exhibitions (more on www.oisf.org) 9 – 11.00pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel A unique opportunity to join distillery experts from Scapa and Telephone Tuesday 6 September Highland Park for an introduction to distilling and special tours of the FROM DUSK TO DAWN – Night-time photographs by Orkney two distilleries. Advance booking essential: over-18s only. Tickets Camera Club at Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall Email 10.00 – 11.00am Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall More island events (see www.oisf for full details) £5 & £3. Free to IBD members and industry staff. WASHED ASHORE – Digital paintings framed in Orkney driftwood Please send me information on travel to Orkney & accommodation NEWFOUNDLAND ICE FOR SPANISH WATERS Eday, Tues 6: Eday peat, Scotch whisky and Antarctic ice in Shackleton’s Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling & sponsored by by Selena Kuzman, at Highland Park Distillery, Warehouse 3 A new source of water and energy for Spain has been proposed Dram. Sat 10: Marine renewables, Neil Kermode (EMEC) and wave Highland Park and Scapa Distilleries and Maynes Coaches Sponsored by W.H.B. Sutherland Ltd Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS, icebergs towed from Newfoundland, wrapped underwater to slow and tide companies, plus community wind turbine update. 2.00 – 3.00pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall post with remittance & s.a.e. to the melt. Prof. Peter Wadhams, who co-authored the proposal, Westray, Tues 6: Arctic Evening with Prof. Peter Wadhams on melting A FLETT FROM FLOTTA Orkney International Science Festival introduces the film about it: ‘The Iceberg Project’. ice & Dr Maria Pia Casarini on John Rae. Wed 7: Daytime heritage VisitOrkney, Tourist Office, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1GU The Foursome Reel in Birsay, the Sixsome Reel in Flotta, the Axum tour, traditional food: join Jim Wilson’s genetics talk around midday. 11.30am – 12.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall Reel in North Ronaldsay. The co-author of a classic book on traditional Where no ticket or booking details are entered, or admission Celebrating the Year of Scotland’s Islands dancing came from Flotta and was by profession a mathematician and 100 YEARS OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY is free, advance booking is not necessary. If capacity is a gifted lecturer. Howie Firth tells the story of Prof. Thomas Flett. limited, you may need to arrive in good time to ensure a place. Close to absolute zero, all electrical resistance vanishes. A current Sponsored by Talisman Energy (UK) Limited could circulate forever, or magnets float over objects. Prof. Tom Wednesday 7 at 7.30 in Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope Please make cheques payable to Orkney Science Festival Ltd. Stevenson of Edinburgh University describes what happens in 3.30 – 4.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall THE RISING TIDE – Sue Dawson and Caroline Wickham-Jones Our phone is 01343 540844, our e-mail [email protected] superconductivity and the mysteries and challenges ahead. LUKSTHOO AHINT AND THOO’LL FINND describe the latest Orkney underwater findings of a lost world 10,000 The Scottish Sponsored by the IET Look out for programme updates on our website years ago. See the images, hear the story. Admission free. Dr Ragnhild Ljosland of Orkney College UHI takes an archaeological Government The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: craftworker and dig into Orkney dialect grammar. Sponsored by Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme www.oisf.org painter Hettie Scott from Harray, by Sheila Garson Sponsored by Crantit Dairy ✃

Thursday 1 September Friday 2 September Island weekend events (see www.oisf for full details) 11.30am – 12.30pm Town Hall, Kirkwall 1.30 – 5.00pm from Palace Road, Kirkwall BOOKING REQUEST FORM THE BIONIC EAR SHOW BUS TOUR: BERE, BEER AND BOARDHOUSE £ £ No. at No. at Total 12.00 – 1.30pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall 10.00 – 11.00am King Street Halls, Kirkwall Take the 5.45pm Friday ferry from Stromness for an evening in the And now the show’s adult and families version, revealing the ear’s Visit the Barony Mill to see bere grains ground into meal, ready for Adult Con. adult concess. £ p OFFICIAL OPENING CRATERS, COLLISIONS AND CATASTROPHES Hoy Kirk, underwater archaeology talks on ancient Orkney, soup and complex machinery, how it helps us hear, what makes it break down, baking into bread or bannocks, and then take a refreshing tour to Thursday 1 September by Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod, with a buffet of food Everywhere in the Solar System are planets and moons littered with bannocks and Arctic char (all free) – and you’re back for 10.30pm! and whether scientists can replace the parts. Admission free. the Orkney Brewery at Quoyloo. The Sky Road £4 £2 craters blasted out by comet and asteroid impact. But can these Organised by Deafness Research UK with the support of the from the islands to accompany his talk: The Grimond Lecture. Fly Loganair to North Ronaldsay for an Astronomy Weekend with Advance booking essential: over-18s only. Tickets £5 & £3. Free giant space rocks ever hit the Earth – and what happens when they Scottish Government Wyre, Vienna, to Distant Sea £4 £2 talks and stargazing with Dr Marek Kukula, Dr Amanda Smith and to IBD members and industry staff. THE SKY ROAD – ISLANDS ON THE HORIZON do? Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Dreaming of Physics £4 £2 Maarten de Vries, plus outings and a dance: Fri afternoon to Sun. The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling What does the future hold – new technologies and opportunities, or a Greenwich, describes some of the biggest explosions in history and and sponsored by Stagecoach Samuel Laing, author and innovator, by Dr Simon W. Hall The True Harbour Master £4 £2 slide into war and chaos? What does it mean for islands at the edge? how we might try to prevent them in future. Head for Stronsay, day trip or overnight, for a herring fishing walk, Science fiction writers like to predict, and Ken MacLeod, originally big picnic, news of new fishes in Orkney waters, straw bale house 1.00 – 4.00pm Broad Street, Kirkwall 2.00 – 3.30pm Pier Arts Centre, Stromness 1500 Plastic Bottles £4 £2 11.30am – 12.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall I CRAVE THE WAVE BEATING from Stornoway, sets many stories in Scotland and the north. construction, Slovenian wine, the Loch Ness Monster and Mr Boom! VINTAGE RALLY Saving the Skate £4 £2 Sponsored by Loganair THE PIPES, THE PEDALS AND THE CHOIR IN THE CHANCEL Orkney Vintage Club with cars, motorbikes, tractors and stationary A second opportunity to look at the art/science dialogue in Margaret The Sanday Soulka weekend features wildlife & environment in talks The distinctive sound of the church organ can be synthesised engines, a tractor run setting off at 1.30pm plus the Willowburn Tait’s poetry and films.Tickets £5 & £3. Booking essential. Friday 2 September and outings: seals & sea shells, birds & beaches, bees & trees, mice, 2.00 – 3.00pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall electronically. Maarten de Vries describes a new system for doing this Valley Stompers. Sponsored by W.H.B. Sutherland Ltd Craters, Catastrophes £4 £2 voles, flowers. Prof. R.J. Berry gives the John D. Mackay Lecture. FROM WYRE, FROM VIENNA, TO A DISTANT SEA and provides some examples – can you tell the difference? Paisley 2.00 – 5.00pm Earl’s Palace & Bishop’s Palace, Kirkwall 6.00 – 7.15pm Skaill House, Sandwick Pipes, Pedals and Choir £4 £2 The story of two men born in 1887 who came from breakdown to Abbey organist George McPhee helps to check. A triple bill at the Gable End Theatre, Lyness, on Saturday at 8.00pm, THE SHAPINSAY MAN AND THE GARDENS OF SPAIN insight – Edwin Muir in poetry, Erwin Schrödinger in quantum theory. features Festival opener Ken MacLeod, Alison McLure on Svalbard, A GREEN AND MEDIEVAL AFTERNOON Arctic Islands of Science £4 £2 The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: the motoring pioneer and Dr John Flett Brown on the geology of Hoy and Walls. Step into the world of the Middle Ages, to experience medieval morsels Howie Firth tells how the writer Washington Irving travelled to Granada Howie Firth follows the journey of each from a lost world of romance William Reid Tullock from Westray, by David Tullock Arctic Shipping Highways £4 £2 to one beyond time and space. in a truly palatial setting, with tales of old Orkney and medieval travels, in 1829 and uncovered the lost story of Moorish Spain – and how Celebrating the Year of Scotland’s Islands Smart Grids for Renewables £4 £2 2.00 – 3.00pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall traditional crafts, images of island waves and weather, and some this sheds new light on the origins of modern Western science and 3.30 – 4.30pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall civilisation. Patricia Long traces the Irvings’ journey from Shapinsay to ARCTIC ISLANDS OF SCIENCE appropriate music. Admission free. Wave and Tide Reports £4 £2 DREAMING OF PHYSICS Organised by Historic Scotland America. Liz Ashworth prepares an appropriate traditional afternoon Svalbard, far to Norway’s Arctic north, is an island group with glaciers, Saturday 3 September tea. Numbers limited: booking essential. Tickets £5 & £3. Saturday 3 September Quantum pioneer Wolfgang Pauli realised his dreams provided fjords, reindeer, seabirds and also scientific research. Alison McLure, 2.15pm – 3.15pm Town Hall, Kirkwall insights corresponding with his scientific work. Marita Lück builds 10.00am – 4.00pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sponsored by Tods of Orkney Ltd I Crave the Wave Beating £5 £3 back from her second expedition, shows images of landscape and SINGALONG WITH MR BOOM on her talk last year on Jung and Pauli to show how exploring the wildlife in a sometimes bleak yet breathtakingly beautiful setting. FAMILY DAY 8.00 – 9.30pm St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall Singalong with Mr Boom £4 £2 world of dreams enriched the thinking of one of the 20th century’s For happy wee earthlings, and their bigger pals. Sponsored by the Institute of Physics Skewer a balloon. Make a rocket out of alka-seltzers. Make water THE BRILLIANT KERNEL OF THE LIGHT Saturday Night Science £4 £2 greatest physicists. Switch on engines, get in gear – the one-man lunar band is here! defy gravity. Generate your own wave power. Connect the K’Nex The Mayfield Singers and Paisley Abbey organist George McPhee 3.30 – 4.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sponsored by Talisman Energy (UK) Limited The Island Ceilidh £5 £3 5.15 – 6.15pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall to build a turbine. Practice your flying: Practice your flying: from mark the Year of the Light, the 200th anniversary of the building of ARCTIC SHIPPING HIGHWAYS Trondheim to Ørland. Meet the Molecule Men. Old plastic bottles 5.30 – 6.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sunday 4 September THE TRUE HARBOUR MASTER the Bell Rock Lighthouse. With readings from the Stevenson family Ships and sailors have traditionally faced fearsome hazards in bitter spent? Learn to reinvent! Make waste wacky and produce a puppet. SATURDAY NIGHT SCIENCE of lighthouse builders by Capt. Willie Tulloch, retired master of the Kirkwall Pier was completed 200 years ago by the remarkable Thomas Bus Tour: Bere, Beer £5 £3 winds and freezing waters. But today the ice is in retreat and a marine Test your body’s capabilities at the SportStation. Have your hearing What’s the best way to attract an ant? How could you charm a moth? Pharos, and others; photographs of Scottish island lighthouses by Telford. He built ports, harbours, roads, bridges, canals, with many I Crave the Wave Beating £5 £3 highway opening to link Europe, Asia and North America. Could that tested by the Bionic Ear team. Dissect the pellets to find the owls’ Or make a bee buzz off? Dr Graeme Jones, the Molecule Man and Keith Allardyce; and the music of Edward Elgar, Charles Wood, Judith still in use today. Neil Kermode tells the story of Telford, his design revive Orkney’s old Arctic connections? Prof. Alfred Baird of Edinburgh diet. See the solar telescope and make a star wheel. Art and craft Guinness world record-holder, comes north with his award-winning Bingham, Clive Strutt and John Rutter. Shapinsay, Gardens of Spain £5 £3 of Kirkwall harbour and the progress it enabled. Napier University looks at challenges and opportunities ahead. activities. Porridge and pancakes available at lunchtime. Admission show. If you’ve ever wanted to talk to insects, this is your chance. Assisted by the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh The Brilliant Kernel of the Light £4 £2 Sponsored by Pentland Ferries £4 & £2 for the day. If you haven’t, come anyway, to find out about pheromones and be 7.30 – 9.00pm St Magnus Church, Birsay 9.00 – 11.00pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel Supported by many kind people and lively organisations prepared for the nasal experience of a lifetime! Monday 5 September AN ORKNEY NIGHT – ENCORE! 5.00 – 6.30pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall Sponsored by the EPSRC and Keele University Oil in the Ice £4 £2 Travel back in time to an old Orkney concert. Songs, music, stories from SMART GRIDS FOR ISLAND RENEWABLES 10.00 – 10.30am Town Hall, Kirkwall Monday 5 September Journey to the North Pole £4 £2 a cast from Birsay and beyond, compered by Harvey Johnston. Large inputs of renewable energy will give the electricity grid many THE BIONIC EAR SHOW 7.00 – 7.30pm Broad Street, Kirkwall Admission by donation – proceeds to St Magnus Church Birsay Trust challenges, but intelligent solutions are being developed. Dr David Laverty Specially for ages 5 to 7, a child’s version of the award-winning show KIRKWALL CITY PIPE BAND 10.00 – 11.00am Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall Hidden World of Loch Ness £4 £2 describing how we hear sounds and music, and what happens when 7.30 – 8.30pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall (Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Colin Foote (Smarter Grid Solutions), with their final parade of the season. OIL IN THE ICE To Watch and Wonder £4 £2 things go wrong. See the world’s largest ear. Watch the models showing and Martin Lee of SSE’s Distribution Research & Development team Oil from a blowout under Arctic ice would get carried for long distances WHAT TO DO WITH 1500 PLASTIC BOTTLES how we hear. Join in the demonstrations. Admission free. 8.00pm – 12.00 midnight Town Hall, Kirkwall Things that Glow in the Dark £4 £2 describe latest initiatives. Oatcakes and cheese follow. before being released when the ice melts. Research has taken new ... or yoghurt tubs, old newspapers, and the occasional toilet seat? Organised by Deafness Research UK with the support of the Scottish THE ISLAND CEILIDH Hosted by Orkney Renewable Energy Forum urgency with the prospect of Arctic oil drilling. Prof. Peter Wadhams Stellar Cannibals £4 £2 Steptoze Yard in Stromness, seeks ways to get the best out of resources Government A night out for the family with Dave and company and island guests, of Cambridge University describes the challenges. Night Sky Voyage £4 £2 for Orkney. Its manager Sarah De Rees reports on recent successes 7.30 – 10.00pm King Street Halls, Kirkwall traditional dancing, and Mr Boom! Suppers of Orkney fare available. 10.00 – 11.30am Pier Arts Centre, Stromness and new challenges ahead, with some for you to tackle. WAVE AND TIDE: REPORTS FROM THE FRONT LINE Tickets £5 & £3. 11.30am – 12.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall continued overleaf I CRAVE THE WAVE BEATING 9.00 – 10.00pm St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall A special evening of reports of progress from the various companies JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE Book online at www.oisf.org and organisations to the fore in opening up the new energy frontiers How to resolve the different approaches of poetry and science? The adventures of two pioneering Italian Arctic explorers. Prince Luigi SAVING THE SKATE around Orkney’s shores. Speakers include Eileen Linklater of EMEC, Margaret Tait – doctor, filmmaker, poet – pictured their meeting in the Sunday 4 September Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi, was also a naval commander Follow us on Facebook Orkney waters support the world’s largest known skate. But for how staff from Aquamarine (an update on Oyster) and Pelamis Wave powerful image of a wave, a dynamic process of continual renewal. and mountaineer, while Generale Umberto Nobile designed and flew long? With the flapper skate in critical decline, Orkney Skate Trust has 11.15am – 12.15pm St Magnus Cathedral And we Twitter @OrkSciFest! Power (under test at Billia Croo), Raphael Arlitt of Voith Hydro (at Morag MacInnes looks at the poetry, Howie Firth the science, and Dr airships. The Istituto Geografico Polare ‘Silvio Zavatti’ in the little been formed to research and protect, as Daniel Wise describes. SCIENCE FESTIVAL SERVICE the Falls of Warness), William Annal of Scotrenewables and Gareth Sarah Neely of Stirling University introduces several short Margaret Etruscan town of Fermo has the records. Its director, Dr Maria Pia Disclaimer: Orkney International Science Festival with the Rev. Fraser Macnaughton and St Magnus Cathedral Davies of Aquatera. Tait films, including rare footage of Stella Cartwright, the muse of Casarini, tells the story. reserves the right to alter, amend or cancel the contents 9 – 11.00pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel Choir Hosted by the Institution of Civil Engineers Rose Street and George Mackay Brown’s close friend. Rose Pipes of this programme at its discretion or as circumstances Join the great Molecule Hunt! Find the models in Kirkwall town sets the scene. Tickets £5 & £3. Booking essential. The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: the physiologist One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk: Hughie Muir of Sholtisquoy, may necessitate. centre shops. Ask for a leaflet or see www.oisf.org 9 – 11.00pm Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel Sponsored by W.H.B. Sutherland Ltd Prof. Sutherland Simpson from Flotta, by Patricia Long who developed the North Ronaldsay praam, by Michael Scott