
Island Voices - Meet the artists
Island Voices - Meet the artists event. Admission Free. No booking required
Island Voices - Meet the artists event. Admission Free. No booking required
On Friday 25 April at 6pm, artists in Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides will be gathering simultaneously at @shetlandarts, @anlanntair, and @TaighChearsabhagh, as well as online, for a unique, cross-island #EvenHereEvenNow PechaKucha event.
Join us, in person or online, for visually striking artist talks by Laura Drever , Anna Gardiner and Frances Scott of Moti Collective, Andy Laffan, Zoe Paterson Macinnes , Joyce Davies, Shona Main, Meg Rodger, and Alex Brown.
Free tickets can be booked here >
Fiddle and Latin percussion duo Catriona Price & Joni Strugo present an intimate evening of intercultural music from around the world.
Annual Pavement Artist Competition
This series of 13 Films Shorts highlights how the artists have used moving image to reflect their environment.
This series of film screenings will celebrate the opening of the Pier Arts Centre’s new exhibition Luke Fowler Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Join artist Colin Kirkpatrick for an informal tour of his exhibition Kringlo - and other constellations
Join artist Brandon Logan for an informal tour of his exhibition Skeleton Stories
Poetry and music from writers from Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Canada, England, and Scotland who have taken part in a residency in the hills above Loch Ness at Moniack Mhor this summer.
Annual Stromness Shopping Week Pavement Artist Competition.
Guided tour of the Soulisquoy Printmakers - 40 Years Exhibition
Tour of the new display highlighting many of the prints in the Permanent Collection.
Fun Seasonal art and craft activities for all the family
Film screening and informal discussion which explores feminism and women’s lives in Japan and Scotland hosted by independent curator Susan Christie and artist/film-maker Emma Dove.
Dr Helen Parker examines gender roles in Japanese popular theatre from the Edo period to the present day.
Informal tour and discussion looking at the history of the Pier Arts Centre, the building, founder Margaret Gardiner (1904-2005), the Collection and artists.
An afternoon of events focusing on our exhibition The Rock Cycle (Yamaguchi) as part of the Orkney International Science Festival 2022
Annual Stromness Shopping Week Pavement Artist Competition.
Teebro – new work by Laura Drever exhibition tour led by the artist.
Screening of three 16mm films by Julia Park facilitated by LUX Scotland
Cheryl Beer is a hearing-impaired Environmental Sound Artist & Composer who will create a piece of Live Performance Art at the Pier Arts Centre as part of WAIWAV.
Rob Airey, Director of the Wilhelmina-Barns-Graham Trust will lead an informal tour of the exhibition Inspirational Journeys
Informal walking tour of Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now - A British Museum touring exhibition in the company of the curators
Meet artist Emma Ainsley and musician John Phillips working together as AinsleyPhillips Projects and discuss their project Orkney - A Sense of Home