Dancing on the Inside - film screenings
This special programme of dance films celebrates the life and legacy of international award-winning Scottish filmmaker, producer and curator Simon Fildes (1962-2021).
This special programme of dance films celebrates the life and legacy of international award-winning Scottish filmmaker, producer and curator Simon Fildes (1962-2021).
This series of 13 Films Shorts highlights how the artists have used moving image to reflect their environment.
Sketchbook making workshop with Orcadian artist Leah Moodie
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
A 16mm workshop inspired by Margaret Tait’s short script ‘Video Poems for the 90s’.
Informal tour of Perspectives - Orkney’s Recent Art Graduates
Join us for a series of early Spring workshops as we take to the road and the ferries.
Curatorial tour delving deeper into the new Collection display
Online information session for creative practitioners based in Orkney interested in delivering half-day sessions in collaboration with young people living on several of our islands.
Join artist Colin Kirkpatrick for an informal tour of his exhibition Kringlo - and other constellations
Drop-in self-directed autumnal themed fun family art activities looking at our collection and exhibition programme.
Join artist Brandon Logan for an informal tour of his exhibition Skeleton Stories
A series of maths related activities that focus on our collection to celebrate Maths Week Scotland
Piergroup Collecting Stories Session will look at the importance of colour in the Pier Arts Centre’s permanent collection
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.
Creative workshops with artists Emma Ainsley and John Phillips
Annual Stromness Shopping Week Pavement Artist Competition.
Are you interested in how we develop our collection and how you can contribute to the process? The evening will include several presentations, discussion and practical activity.
Join artist Bryce Wilson for an informal wander around our current exhibition 2 Stromness Artists - Bryce Wilson & Sylvia Wishart.
Soulisquoy Printmakers are bringing their Peedie Printers programme to the Pier Arts Centre for the Easter holidays.
Two-day course introducing printmaking techniques including collagraph and monoprinting.
Guided tour of the Soulisquoy Printmakers - 40 Years Exhibition
Tour of the new display highlighting many of the prints in the Permanent Collection.
Co-creative sessions with AinsleyPhillips Projects , open to all as part of the first phase of a Covid memorial project for Orkney called Remembering Together
Remembering Together Drop-in sessions with AinsleyPhillips Projects