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  • Gaia longship visits Kirkwall
  • Stromness museum
  • Orkney Traditional Folk Festival pub session
  • Longhope Lifeboat Museum
  • every bride-to-be must survive her 'blackening'
  • the Earl's Palace in Kirkwall
  • The Chair and friends at Orkney Folk Festival
Orkney Culture

Culture is a way of life in Orkney and brings thousands of visitors a year to enjoy festivals, museums and art galleries.

There is a packed programme of events for many months of the year with internationally acclaimed music, art, lectures and performance.  Events such as the Ba' game on Christmas Day and New Year's Day and the Festival of the Horse in August are fairly unique spectacles.

Award-winning galleries and museums are also magnets to our shores for culture vultures.

Other Websites of Interest
Orkney Arts Forum
Orkney Arts Society
Visit Orkney - culture
Orkney dialect on Orkneyjar
Stromness History and Character

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Orkney Pagan Weddings
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Orkney Aspects Tour Services
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Watersound Enterprises Ltd, Watersound House, BURRAY, KW17 2SS
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Pier Arts Centre
Pier Arts Centre
Voted the best building in Scotland in 2007, the Pier Arts Centre houses an important collection of British fine art donated to ‘be held in trust for Orkney’ by the author, peace
 
St Magnus Festival
St Magnus Festival
St Magnus Festival is one of the UK’s leading arts festivals and is held for six days in midsummer in Orkney.  It was founded in 1977 by Orkney-based composer, the Queen’s musician,
 
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sweynh - Looking forward to #SCDA #Orkney district one-act play festival tonight: also on Thu & Fri at Orkney Arts Theatre
The_Orcadian - Drama festival gets under way tonight #orkney... http://t.co/LyjSDDmr
schottlandnews - Zur Feier seines 30-jährigen Jubiläums feiert ganz Orkney sein Folk Festival, das vom 31.5.- 3.6. stattfinden wird. http://t.co/dYMGnRU3
JohnRossScott - Good luck to all my friends taking part in the Orkney District SCDA One Act Play festival over the next few days - Break a Leg Y'awl!
cultureactive - RT @Alex_Neon_John: http://t.co/3UDwmeFf, Margaret Tait residency, Orkney.
Alex_Neon_John - http://t.co/3UDwmeFf, Margaret Tait residency, Orkney.
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Head of Slow Food International To Visit Scotland
Slow Food has an active grassroots support in Scotland that exists across the country including Edinburgh, Fife, Perth, Glasgow and Orkney. During the visit, Mr di Croce will meet with, amongst others, Mr Rob Gibson MSP, Pam Rodway of Crofting ...
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What's New In Shanghai
August saw the birth of Malt Fun, where nearly every major whiskey region?from the Orkney Islands to the Highlands?is represented. The bar's iPad menu also includes a small selection of bourbons, Japanese malts like Yamazaki and well-poured cocktails ...
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My Life In Travel: Kate Silverton, BBC journalist and presenter
We night-dived for the first time, saw sharks and got the giggles underwater ? a very special trip. Orkney. I spent a very memorable time there kayaking across the Pentland Firth for a programme. It was a tremendous challenge but I had a super crew.
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Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex Predates Famous Site
"Orkney is one of the keys to understanding the development of Neolithic religion," said site director Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology. The idea of Orkney as a font of Stone Age culture isn't completely new.
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