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.