We hosted 5 music concerts as planned over the Winter Season, together with 2 visual arts events and 2 literary events in addition to the Summer Events.  The Summer Events had attracted sell-out audiences with the Winter reflecting more normal attendances.  Our Final concert was exceptionally popular with an audience of 97.

Our aims were to promote, preserve and enhance the dancing heritage of Orkney.  Our Summer Special & October Hoolie events achieved this.

We organised 10 Dark Skies Talks which included walks when the weather was suitable

We were very pleased with the way the Festival went. We organised eight events over four days, and using unusual and atmospheric venues, including the Old School Quoyloo, St Peter’s Church Sandwick, the cathedral, and the always-popular Betty’s Reading Room.

Our project was to publish selected works of much-loved Orcadian writer Bessie Skea (known as ‘Countrywoman’) during 2023, the centenary of her birth.