Absent Friends
Thu, Oct. 23, 2025
The first event of the Festival starts at 3pm today with a walk and talk around St Olaf’s Cemetery in Kirkwall. Get your tickets here: pretix.eu/ostfestival/...
23.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very please to announce that the Orkney Storytelling Festival starts tomorrow! Our visit storytellers have arrived and are settling in. Get the full programme here: orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk/main/2025-pr...
22.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Orkney Storytelling Festival
The 2025 Orkney Storytelling Festival kicks off on Thursday! Get the full programme and tickets here: orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk/main/
19.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting news coming soon!! Save the dates 23-26 October….
30.09.2025 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for coming, Jan!
15.09.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a great turnout for the storytelling event today - thanks Tom, Marita and Fran!
14.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A country churchyard with graves, a blue sky and an exterior church wall.
✨✨✨ TODAY ✨✨✨ As part of the Orkney Festival of Archaeology, we are having a storytelling session this afternoon at St Peter’s Kirk, Sandwick. It’s £8pp, and the church is very traditional and unspoilt…so please wrap up warm if you are planning to come along!
14.09.2025 06:43 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
Rewilding the story-body. Founder of StoryCommons CIC
Writer, reader, teacher, doctor of fairy tales and ecological narrative. She/they.
A project researching the place-names of Orkney & Fair Isle built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social
Find us at https://nott.ac/placenames
Shrooms, plants, place-names, illicit whisky stills... currently working on the #PlaceNames of Eday, Rousay & Stronsay #Orkney
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/research/place-names-of-northern-scotland.aspx
Sunday tinkering on the edge of the system
President at Prague City University. Mostly following Prehistory and related Archaeology.
I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
Follow @simon-on-energy for energy, environment & academia. Stay here for anything else. All tweets in personal capacity. he/him.
Can also be found at mendeddrum.org/@swaldman
HMS Tern (RNAS Twatt) was a vital part of the Royal Navy's presence in Orkney during WWII. The airfield is maintained by Birsay Heritage Trust.
Guided tours available April-Sept Wed, Fri & Sun 2pm.
hmstern.co.uk
On the outskirts of Stromness, Orkney.
This important relic of Orkney’s wartime heritage once defended Scapa Flow against enemy attack. For information on guided tours: nessbattery.co.uk
We are internationally renowned for our innovative undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research programmes in Culture and Heritage, Orkney and Shetland Studies, Highlands and Islands Literature, Scottish Heritage, Viking Studies and Island Studies.
Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Patch birder based on Papa Westray, Orkney
Anthropologist and on-call firefighter. Rousay, Orkney / St Andrews, Fife.
Author of _An Anthropology of Deep Time_ (Cambridge UP, 2020) and _The Vow of Stability_ (Scottish UP, 2025).
Counter-revolutionary.
Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh | Visiting Associate Professor @ UHI
Free, fun, informative and educational - public and school library services for Shetland. Further north than Orkney.
01595 743868 shetlandlibrary@shetland.gov.uk
An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Writer and almost retired academic psychiatrist who lives in Orkney www.lindagask.com agent: GrahamMawChristie
Our Community farms rare Orkney Boreray sheep for mutton/products & saving the breed
Book, The Lost Flock, @chelseagreen
orkneyboreray.com
++welfare, nature #agroecology
Orkney, Scotland
