Stromness

As ever, the picturesque harbour town of Stromness, home of George Mackay Brown, will play host to a range of events.

2 Arne & Carlos: Knitting Workshop

10:00 - 13:00 17 June 2017 Stromness Library 2-12 Victoria Street, Stromness KW16 3AA

By popular demand, the celebrity Norwegian knitters, Arne and Carlos return to the Festival for a second time. Well known across the world and for their knitting YouTube channel, they will lead an inspiring, informative and practical workshop for...

3 Festival Poet: Jackie Kay

11:00 - 12:15 17 June 2017 Stromness Parish Church Victoria Street, Stromness KW16 3AR

Jackie Kay is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist and broadcaster. She is currently Scotland’s Makar: the role created by the Scottish Government in 2004 as a National Poet for Scotland. Jackie’s first collection of poetry, The...

8 Edinburgh Quartet

14:30 - 16:30 18 June 2017 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

One of the UK’s oldest quartets, and originally the resident quartet in Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh Quartet has an enviable reputation for the commissioning and performing of living composers alongside the standard repertoire. Ha...

25 Joseph Shiner & Ashley Fripp

10:30 - 12:00 21 June 2017 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

Joseph Shiner Clarinet Ashley Fripp Piano Joseph Shiner and Ashley Fripp present a mix of music from Germany and France contrasting music for clarinet and piano with solo piano works written in the same period. Schuma...

27 Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Song by Song

15:00 - 17:00 21 June 2017 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

Timothy Dean Piano Sasha Savaloni Guitar A selection of Folk and Traditional Songs of Scotland and in arrangements old and new. Singers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland present a survey of traditional music and folk songs fro...

28 Poems and Prose

17:00 - 18:00 21 June 2017 Pier Arts Centre 28-36 Victoria St, Stromness KW16 3AA

Students from the Orkney Writers’ Course Taking place alongside the Festival is a course for writers focusing on poetry. With the tutors Jen Hadfield and Pam Beasant and with visiting tutor, Jackie Kay, the students work towards a ...

3 Sinéad Morrissey: Festival Poet

11:00 - 12:10 23 June 2018 Stromness Parish Church Victoria Street, Stromness KW16 3AR

Winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes, Sinéad Morrissey grew up in Northern Ireland, is Belfast’s first Poet Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Rooted in everyday experiences yet often strangely eerie...

6 The Romantic Violin I

14:30 - 16:30 23 June 2018 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

Elena Urioste Violin Tom Poster Piano A concert rich with melody at the heart of which are the sonatas of Grieg and Strauss written in the same decade at the end of the 19th Century and both unmistakably representative o...

11 Perfectly Pitched Percussion

15:30 - 17:00 24 June 2018 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

O Duo always astonish and entertain with their virtuosity and good humoured presentation and here Owen and Olly take us on a tour whose geography reaches out across the world from South America to Hungary, Spain to America and Germany to Orkney. ...

14 The Alehouse Sessions

21:30 - 23:00 24 June 2018 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

Barroksolistene Bjarte Eike Violin/Director An enormous hit across the world, the Alehouse Sessions – curated and devised by Bjarte Eike – is an ever changing and evolving insight into the music of the 17th Century tavern. It gives a...

21 Yoanna Prodanova & Mihai Ritivoiu

11:00 - 12:40 26 June 2018 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

This dynamic duo presents a wide-ranging recital with two mighty sonatas at its heart. Both in the minor key, Shostakovich’s work written in a period of emotional turmoil and Chopin’s late work the cause of composerly uncertainty, the...

23 Remains to be Seen - Johnsmas Foy Stromness

17:30 - 18:30 26 June 2018 Stromness Academy Garson, Stromness KW16 3JS

Performed and devised by pupils and staff from Stromness Academy The young people of Orkney’s West Mainland grow up surrounded by physical reminders of their islands’ history in the stones, settlements and monuments. Many are a...

26 The Romantic Violin II

11:00 - 12:30 27 June 2018 Stromness Town Hall Church Road, Stromness KW16 3BA

Michael Foyle Violin Maksim Stsura Piano The three sonatas in this programme draw music from three corners of Europe in time of war with Janáček’s work coming from the start of the 1914-18 period – “I could just about...

View archived events:: 2018; 2017; 2016