| Wednesday 8 September |
| 9:30:00 am 12:30:00 pm | Highland Park Distillery, Kirkwall |
| ROBERT, RUSSELL AND TIM'S MINIATURE WHISKY SCHOOL |
Where do the flavours come from in malt whisky? The hint of honey, or sea salt, or vanilla? Is it from the water, the still or the barrel? A unique opportunity to sit down with three industry experts – Robert Fotheringham, Russell Anderson and Tim Dolan – and find out at first hand about the underlying chemistry and the various stages of production.
Numbers limited: advance booking essential (over-18s only). Tickets £12.
Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling
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| 10:00:00 am 11:00:00 am | Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall |
| LEARNING ABOUT SOUNDS IN ANIMALS |
Parrots and hummingbirds, seals and dolphins: they all – like us – learn some of the sounds they produce. They also learn to use them in particular ways and to understand what they mean. How have these systems developed, and how much do we know about them? Prof. Peter Slater of St Andrews University describes recent research, including studies of grey seal calls and of bird song
Sponsored by e-availability
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| 11:30:00 am 12:45:00 pm | Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall |
| FILM MORNING: TIME’S FLIGHT AND FLOW |
Raymond Besant’s award-winning film on the fulmar, The Flying Dustbin. Three classic films by Margaret Tait: Aerial, The Drift Back, Land Makar. Selena Kuzman’s new video The Watermill.
In association with the Pier Arts Centre
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| 1:00:00 pm 1:05:00 pm | Peedie Kirk, Kirkwall |
| The One O'Clock Toast |
Today's toast, to the food writer and folklorist F. Marian McNeill, is given by Catherine Brown and Liz Ashworth. Lunches with soup and Orkney fare are served in the Peedie Kirk from 12.30 pm.
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| 2:00:00 pm 3:00:00 pm | Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall |
| GOUSTERS AND SKREEVERS |
Orkney dialect has words to cope with the worst of the weather – including blizzards and hurricanes, such as those which struck in the 1950s. Tom Rendall of Orkney College UHI gives examples, with archive material, reports and dialect poetry.
Sponsored by Pentland Ferries
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| 2:00:00 pm 5:00:00 pm | from Palace Road, Kirkwall |
| BUS TOUR: DISTILLING - THE THEORY AND PRACTICE |
Join distillery managers Alan Winchester of Scapa and Russell Anderson of Highland Park for an introduction to distilling and special tours of the two distilleries. See stills and study samples at first hand, and get the inside story.
Advance booking essential: tickets £5 & £3 (over-18s only). Free to IBD members and industry staff.
Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling and sponsored by Highland Park and Scapa Distil
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| 3:30:00 pm 4:30:00 pm | Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall |
| BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES |
It was the time in the Orkney calendar when everyone had to work together to make sure they had food for the winter. Sarah De Rees of Orkney College UHI looks at the old Orkney harvest, the crops and the work, the traditions and their meaning – with oatcakes and bannocks to follow, plus cheese and preserves.
Sponsored by Crantit Dairy
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| 5:15:00 pm 6:15:00 pm | St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall |
| ORKNEY AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY |
Amongst the Fellows of the Royal Society, in its 350 years, have been several Orcadians, including the mapmaker Murdoch Mackenzie and the Arctic explorer John Rae. Dr Peter Collins, Director of the Society's Centre for History of Science, outlines the history of the Royal Society and discusses these and other Orcadians whose names have been found in the Society's archives – among them James Copland, born in Deerness in 1791 and author of a dictionary of medicine, and geologist Sir John Flett, born in Kirkwall in 1869.
Sponsored by The Royal Society
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| 7:30:00 pm 9:00:00 pm | The Girnel, Kirkwall |
| A COPPER-BOTTOMED PRODUCT |
Alan Winchester, Distilling Manager of Chivas Brothers, and Robert Fotheringham, the company's Chief Chemist, on what makes Scotch whisky Scotch whisky, and the part played by the copper of the stills – with samples to help you make up your own mind.
Over-18s only. Free to IBD members and industry staff.
Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling
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| 8:00:00 pm 12:59:59 am | Ayre Hotel, Kirkwall |
| THE HIGHLAND PARK CEILIDH |
with music by Dave and company, traditional dancing, and Golden Slipper suppers - Sunjoy and hot pie cold! Tickets £5 & £3
Sponsored by Highland Park
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