From Orkney.com…… From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:38 on 05 June 2025
From Orkney.com……
“Celebrity chefs set to showcase a taste of Orkney
Celebrity chef, James Martin, will headline a star-studded new food and drink festival set to take place in Orkney on 20 and 21 September. Brin Pirathapan, who won BBC MasterChef 2024, will also be making an appearance at the event, along with Great British Bake Off 2023 winner, Matty Edgell. The festival will celebrate and showcase the huge range of food and drink produce from the islands. The event will involve celebrity cooking demonstrations, questions and answer sessions, tastings, special food and drink experiences and a host of other attractions.
https://www.orkney.com/news/orkney-food-and-drink-festival
Join Orkney's midsummer celebration of the arts
The St Magnus International Festival takes centre stage across Orkney later this month, marking midsummer in the islands. The festival has been at the heart of Orkney’s summer season since 1977 offering a variety of events across music, theatre, arts, dance, literature, cabaret, and folk music. It’s all rooted in the community too, with education and learning opportunities available for all ages. This year some of the highlights include performances from pianists Nikita Lukinov and Mihai Ritivoiu, choral music in St Magnus Cathedral from Echo Ensemble, and a playful journey through sound with Graeme Leak.
Get up close to archaeology in Orkney
Do you want to see archaeologists in action across Orkney this summer? Excavation season is nearly here and there are four digs planned where you’ll be able to watch ancient history uncovered in real time. For 2025 you can catch experts at work at Neolithic, Iron Age, and Norse sites, and find out more about Orkney’s early people and their stories.
https://www.orkney.com/news/archaeology-excavations-2025
New walks in Orkney's World Heritage Site
Two fascinating new free walks at Orkney’s ancient Ring of Brodgar will be launched this summer, offering both locals and visitors the chance to delve deeper into the stone circles landscape and history. Hosted by Historic Environment Scotland’s Rangers, ‘Walking the Neolithic Landscape’ and ‘Brodgar Myth & Legend’ will explore themes including the area’s natural world, and stories and folklore from Brodgar’s long history.
https://www.orkney.com/news/new-orkney-world-heritage-site-walks
June’s events in Orkney
With the days getting longer and longer until we reach midsummer, there’s plenty to pack in if you’re visiting Orkney this month.
Wild Orkney
This month, local wildlife guide and photographer, Raymond Besant, has been to see some of Orkney's puffin population as they settle in for the summer.
https://www.orkney.com/news/wild-orkney-june-25
Explore Orkney
Come and explore Orkney’s communities. For June we’re flying to our most northerly community, North Ronaldsay, a place with a unique sense of history, community, and culture.
https://www.orkney.com/explore/north-ronaldsay
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
“The Ethics of Listening to Whales
A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
What would happen if we broke the interspecies language barrier with sperm whales? If we could translate the vowels, diphthongs, and tones of their echolocating clicks, what might we hear—and how might we respond? These questions belong not to the realm of science fiction, but to Project CETI—the Cetacean Translation Initiative—which is using AI machine learning to process and interpret sperm whale speech units, building what could be a syntax and vocabulary. More-Than-Human (MOTH) Life Collective founder and legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito, artist and technologist James Bridle, and author Rebecca Giggs come together in conversation with Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee to explore the ethical, legal, and relational implications of this groundbreaking work. The group contemplates the parameters of intelligence, the colonial impulse of making contact with other life-forms, and having an ear for “whale-ish,” asking: What is necessary for meaningful communication with another species? What can deepen our sense of commonality with whales?
https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/ethics-of-listening-to-whales/
“Whatever they have to say on whether they choose to speak to us and whether we are capable of understanding, I have no doubt that they carry a body of knowledge and understanding of the world, a perception of the world, of parts of it that we don’t understand, have never understood.”
—James Bridle
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And I’m thinking of the ‘Star Trek‘ film where the extinction of Whales could cause trouble for the Earth..…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home
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