String Sisters - ‘Vinterfolk'
String Sisters performing 'Vinterfolk' by Tore Bruvoll, during the recording of their album 'Between Wind And Water'. Filmed during the band's first recording week and concert at Mareel in Shetland. String Sisters are: Annbjørg Lien (Norway), Catriona Macdonald (Shetland), Emma Härdelin (Sweden), Liz Carroll (United States), Liz Knowles (United States), Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Ireland) plus Tore Bruvoll (Norway) on guitar, Dave Milligan (Scotland) on piano, Conrad Molleson (Scotland) on bass and James Mackintosh (Scotland) on percussion.
Album Credits
ENGINEERED BY:
Tim Matthew at Mareel, Shetland
Stuart Hamilton & Garry Boyle at Castlesound, Edinburgh
Blaise Barton at JoyRide, Chicago
Sivert Henriksen at Tvibit, Tromsø
Manus Lunny at Na Mara, Donegal
Filmed by Liz Musser.
Artwork & video editing by vangillmedia.com
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Glen Orchy House, Lerwick
Glen Orchy House, 20 Knab Road, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, ZE1 0AX, Scotland
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Battle of the Bands 2018
Young artists from all around Shetland gathered at the Royal British Legion to showcase their talent to a panel of judges for a chance to win a days recording with Shetland Arts in Mareel
Mirrie Dancers Duncansclate, Shetland 2
Second time-lapse at this site - not showing the official lighting program but nevertheless of interest anyway. This movie is greatly speeded up so that it isn't too long.
This project, conceived by artists Nayan Kulkarni and Roxane Permar, was commissioned by Shetland Arts over the winter of 2009-10. It offered an opportunity for people to help create dynamic light works for temporary illuminations in Voe, Haroldswick, Yell, Northmavine, Tingwall, Reawick, Bressay, Nesbister, Dunrossness, Burra and Snarravoe, Unst. Later all of these works will become part of the exterior illuminations for Mareel, Shetland's new music, cinema and education venue. Much more information about the project is available on the Mirrie Dancers website.
This new site, like the one at Houss, added guest lighting designers, Martin Lupton and Sharon Stammers to the team.
Austin Taylor Photography was appointed Illuminations Photographer for the project and we created this timelapse video on one of our visits to this site. More video or timelapse of other sites will be added to this channel later.
'Mirrie Dancers' is the Shetland term for the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis.
Shetland Create Crowd Funder Video
On 2 April, 2016, we're hosting a ‘Night of Creativity ’ and teen writing workshop at Lerwick's Mareel Auditorium on the Shetland Islands.We need your support to make the night a success! Donate at crowdfunder.co.uk/shetlandcreate
Lower The Rope - The Revellers | Back From Beyond: Hermaness
Lower The Rope - The Revellers | Back From Beyond
Produced and Directed by
Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes
Filmed by
Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes
Martha Thomson
Marjolein Robertson
& Lauren Maree Fraser
Edited by
Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes
Audio Recorded by
Jonathan Ritch
Audio Mixed and Mastered by
Iain Waddell
& Jonathan Ritch
At Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland
'Lower the Rope' (6:21)
Music by
Magnus Bradley
Lewie Peterson
John-William Halcrow
& Michael Anderson
Lyrics by
Adam Priest
Lewie Peterson
& John-William Halcrow
Locations:
Hermaness, Unst
Baltasound Hall, Unst
Gutcher, Yell
Toft, Mainland
Mareel Studios and Auditorium, Lerwick
THE REVELLERS:
Magnus Bradley -- guitar & vocals
Erik Peterson -- mandolin & vocals
Lewie Peterson -- banjo
Daniel Gear -- fiddle
Craig Birnie -- bass
Michael Anderson -- guitar
John-William Halcrow -- drums & vocals
For more tunes, videos, photos and songs, please visit backfrombeyond.org.
Screenplay: Shetland's Annual Film Festival
Find out just what it's like to visit Britain's most northerly film festival from guests Nick Park and Timothy Spall, curator Mark Kermode and others.
Screenplay is Shetland’s annual film festival is curated by celebrated film historian Linda Ruth Williams and film critic Mark Kermode. Held in Mareel, Shetland's state of the art cinema, music and performance venue, with outreach events throughout the islands, the festival is a feast of films, workshops, lectures and panel discussions involving national and international film industry professionals and film academics
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Stuart Hill - Shetlands Status
Series of videos with Stuart hill who is currently standing for parliament here in Shetland.
The Shetlanders - The Boat Builder
Like a lot of Shetlanders, Ryan Stevenson quietly has a few strings to his proverbial bow. He plays a mean fiddle, and was once named Shetland’s Young Traditional Fiddler of the Year. He sails, rows traditional yoal rowing boats, and is a trustee at Shetland Arts, the fund behind many of the islands’ cultural institutions, from galleries to theatres and an indie-focused cinema.
More than this, though, aged just 25 he’s also at the forefront of something remarkable — a new era of boat-building on an archipelago where so much of life, and work, revolves around the sea. Ryan is the project manager of a new boat-building department at Malakoff, Shetland’s oldest marine engineering firm. The company started life as a shipyard around 140 years ago, and has diversified over the years into everything from pipework to ship repairs, renewable energy, designing and building piers, or providing specialist divers for Shetland’s aquaculture, fishing and oil industries.
We meet in a vast warehouse on Lerwick’s northern edge, whose sole occupant is a 14-metre steel catamaran, unpainted, unfinished and surrounded by canisters and wires. It’s the second boat commissioned by Cooke Aquaculture, a leading Scottish salmon farming company, and it’s symbolic of how one thriving local industry is helping another to boom.
Ever since the first Vikings arrived towards the end of the ninth century, boats have been part of life here, most notably the Shetland yoal, a wooden rowing boat used by local fishermen from at least the 17th century. The yoal hasn’t just become an iconic symbol of the islands, fascinating artists as much as historians, but the tradition has been kept active in recent years by yoal rowing and sailing clubs across the islands, who host regular regattas.
But Malakoff is starting a more forward-looking tradition, designing and building boats made very much for today’s industry. It has now built more than 200 small aluminium voe boats, designed especially for tending to salmon farms or mussel hatcheries. The boat in the warehouse is its 23rd larger, more complicated steel vessel. Previous Malakoff creations include a west coast ferry commissioned by Caledonian Maritime Assets, the company that also oversee the ferries to Orkney and Shetland from the Scottish Mainland. While even the yoal was originally based on Norwegian designs, these Malakoff boats are 100 per cent designed and made in Shetland.
“The aquaculture and fishing industry are bringing a lot of money into Shetland at the moment,” says Ryan. “We’ve always been part of that, but now we want to actually build some of the boats that they’re using. Ultimately, we want to keep more jobs, and more investment, in Shetland, and it feels like an exciting time for that.”
Heading up a game-changing department in one of Shetland’s most important companies isn’t all Ryan does. He originally became involved with Shetland Arts while playing the fiddle at high school. The funding body paid for Ryan and other students to go to the Hebridean Celtic Festival as session musicians, and he later got involved with Shetland Arts’ Young Promoters Group and Young Tradition Bearers project. Since 2016, he’s been a board member, reviewing business plans and accounts, and helping to make strategic decisions about how the arts are funded in Shetland.
He studied mechanical engineering at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, but was back every holiday, getting his boat ticket so that he could work as a skipper on a Malakoff safety boat at the Sullom Voe oil terminal. Not long after he left university, a job came up at Malakoff’s welding department, which linked to Ryan’s most recent research project.
Like an increasing number of young Shetlanders who leave the islands to study, Ryan’s intention was always to come back. “I enjoyed being the city, but it was always a relief to get back, to get out on the boat and breathe the fresh air.”
He is keen to play up the fact that Shetland life isn’t just about gazing at grey seas and crofting, though. “When I was in Glasgow, people would say: What do you actually do? The answer, for me, is sailing, rowing, kayaking, being outdoors, being involved with local arts and culture. You’ve got amazing leisure centres, and the cinema and the gigs at Mareel… there’s so much that goes on. I think there’s probably still a perception that Shetland is a backward place, but I think if people come to Shetland they’ll see that that’s simply not true. It’s an amazing place to live.”
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LL23 Gemma Anderson
Artist and researcher Gemma Anderson introduces her work in the context of the current AHRC project ‘Representing Biology as Process’ she is working on with Biologist James Wakefield and Philosopher John Dupré at the University of Exeter. Anderson has collaborated on a number of innovative art/science projects including ‘Hidden Geometries’ with the Mathematics Department at Imperial College London; ‘Isomorphology’ and the ‘Cornwall Morphology and Drawing Centre’ with the Natural History Museum, London; and ‘Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists’ (Wellcome Trust Arts Award 2009) in collaboration with psychiatrists and patients at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Freud Museum and the Wellcome Collection, London. Her new book Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science (Intellect Press) launched in October 2017.
LASER is a program of evening gatherings, which bring together eclectic guest speakers working at the intersections of art, science and technology. Free of charge and open to the public, the events encourage lively discussion in an informal academic setting. London LASER is hosted by University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins MA Art and Science) and University of Westminster (CREAM), and organised by Heather Barnett and co-chaired with John R A Smith. LASER is a project of Leonardo® /ISAST (the International Society for Art, Science and Technology).
The Shetlanders - the fisherman's agent
At the Lerwick fish market, the ground floor of a large dockside warehouse is almost covered with yellow boxes, piled on top of each other, and filled with the day’s white fish catch. It’s so chilly that you can see your breath while noting the differences of character between the fish: the dainty, bug-eyed whiting; the plaice, with their squished, comically cantankerous faces; the flat-headed, sharp-toothed, hideously ugly monkfish.
One of only two such auctions in the UK, the auction that happens every morning of the week is a good indicator of the size of Shetland’s fishing industry. In 2016, Shetland landed 72,000 tonnes of fish, worth GBP79 million—more than England, Wales and Northern Ireland combined. That figure is expected to have risen since, and the construction of a new GBP7.6 million white fish market signals confidence in the health of Shetland fishing.
Our guide to all of this is James Aitken, who works in operations for a company called LHD, who help run the auction, as well as providing management services for Shetland’s many fishing boats, including close to 30 white fish boats and seven pelagic trawlers, huge state-of-the-art ships that trawl for fish like herring, mackerel and blue whiting. LHD manage the ships’ finances, including paying the crew and sorting their taxes, and will make sure that ships go out properly fuelled, iced and with their nets in good order.
Times are good, for James and the industry. “I’ve been working here for three years now, and it’s just got busier and busier every year,” says James, taking a break by the Lerwick harbour, as three large seals take great interest in us, in the hope of being tossed a fish or two. “There’s been a lot of fish landed, the numbers have been steadily increasing, and with the new fish market, it’s only going to get bigger.”
James is Lerwick born and bred. He went to the local Bell’s Brae Primary School and then the Anderson High School, which had a modern GBP55.75 million makeover in 2017, relocating to a new state-of-the-art building and halls of residence, with access to the sports facilities, pool and running track at the neighbouring Clickimin centre. For as long as he can remember, he’s played football, joining the Lerwick Rangers football team, which—rather incongruously—morphs into Lerwick Celtic when the under-18s become a senior team. James has played all the way through, including the years he studied accountancy and finance at Glasgow University, and is now a star midfielder for both Lerwick Celtic and the Shetland team.
While Lerwick Celtic have struggled since winning the eight-strong Ocean Kinetics Premier League in 2015, James was their player of the year and top scorer last season, popping up with 23 goals, mostly from central midfield.
For the Shetland team, the biannual highlight is playing against the likes of the Falklands, Greenland and the Isle of Man in the Island Games, a kind of Olympics for small islands, from the Falkland Islands to Gotland in Sweden. The Shetland team famously won the competition in 2005, beating Guernsey 2-0 in a final on home turf. Other than that, the big match is the summer game against Orkney, the islands to the southwest that have an almost identical population to Shetland.
Life sounds busy away from football, too. As well as admitting to enjoying a night out in Lerwick, James plays hockey, volleyball and golf. Not long before we meet at the fish market, his family had hosted the the award-winning Welsh revivalist folk band Calan at their Lerwick home for the Shetland Folk Festival. “They were blown away by the place,” he says. “I think they were really surprised, and they said it was one of their favourite places they’ve ever toured.”
A lot of people have misconceptions about Shetland, he says. “People think we sit in our houses and drink cups of tea and knit Fair Isle jumpers,” says James.
“So many people at uni would ask me: Is there working internet? But, actually, there’s loads going on, from the gigs and other events at [Lerwick cultural space] Mareel to the galas and festivals in the summer. And the sporting facilities are brilliant: where we train and play football, there’s a brand new gym, and a brand new indoor training facility. It’s brilliant.”
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Lerwick fish market
stills from the fish market. 8 Nov 2010. Kodak ZX3 play sport
Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2017
Up Helly Aa 2017. The Jarl Squad and Galley moving from the Lerwick British Legion into the town centre.
Shetland Skate
skating in shetland
WHAAP - Shetland Stone Carving
Whaap (Shetland dialect - Curlew). Stevie Wark carves a stone curlew at his outdoor workshop in Bigton, Shetland.
Shetland 2005
A short video of my week spent in the Shetland Islands in 2005
UHA morning
The first glimpse of Guizer Jarl Sweyn 'Forkbeard' Haraldsson (aka Lyall Gair) as he leads his squad from Islesburgh. Have a great day! #UpHellyAa
Chris Harris gives a tour of the Schoolhouse cinema in Skerries
Shetland views
Some views of Shetland