1. BAFA CONFERENCE FOR FESTIVALS 2013 What can Science bring to an Arts Programme? Some aspects of the Orkney International Science Festival Tom Stevenson

2. Where is Orkney? What sort of place is it?

3. ‘Old Man of Hoy’ – a rock stack 137m high

4. Stromness Harbour

5. Typical Orkney landscape

6. Bad weather => Good source of renewable energy!

7. OISF founded 1991 and still going strong! Dr Howie Firth OISF Director Founded first Edinburgh Science Festival in 1989

8. Quote from Howie Firth on the background to the OISF “A science festival is first and foremost a festival. Up till then [1991], science had been something that was good for you, and science events were aimed at scientists and people who were already interested. By contrast a festival was something for the whole community to enjoy, something fresh and creative, with surprises and excitement and sheer enjoyment.”

9. Update on Marine Renewables Lecture on the maths of knots and twisting, with dance ! OISF Lectures

10. Sue, Mike & Ken give a live demonstration Patricia Long talks about Prof. Sutherland Simpson of Cornell University OISF Lectures

11. African musicLive Jazz Open Air Events

12. Daily lunches with local food & drink and a toast to a local celebrity e.g. Dr John Rae, Arctic explorer

13. A capacity crowd at a lecture in Kirkwall Town Hall

14. Sandy using an Aldis signalling lamp Tom & Dorothy playing with water in trays !

15. A Lecture on Science....... with breaks for Music and Pictures Howie Firth + ‘Three in a Bar’

16. “This was my very first visit to Orkney and therefore, my first exposure to the vibrant and exhilarating Science Festival. It was an incredible week – the Festival pulsated! It was far larger and far better supported than I would have thought possible.” Visitor from Edinburgh, 2012