Orkney Music & Culture

People

We strive to embed Orkney cultural creativity at the heart of learning, provide people with opportunities to develop creative skills, ensure appropriate pathways for progression and leave a lasting legacy for future generations.

This ambition is at the heart of Orkney Music and Culture and its’ programme. In addition to our role as teachers, we support and nurture a cohort of music tutors, as well as supporting established tutors to offer their skills and we provide a platform for nurturing and sharing the musical talent of local and visiting musicians and storytellers. 

We seek innovative solutions to accessibility for the wider community, including the development of online learning. We reach out to connect with both local and hard-to-reach communities living in isolated areas or with ill health, infirmity, mental health problems and dementia.

We provide volunteer opportunities for local people to support our programme in a number of ways.  

Place

We help to express Orkney’s unique sense of place, as a source of inspiration for artists and a creative environment to which people are attracted to live and work. 

Orkney has a distinctive musical heritage, and Orkney Music and Culture provides a nurturing environment for the tradition bearers that thrive and play here; we uphold the musical traditions of Orkney and seek to expand the opportunities for our unique heritage to be shared with and passed on to new generations through teaching and performance.

Participation 

We stimulate new opportunities for dialogue and debate, encourage idea generation and empower people to be creative producers; we aim to contribute to a more creative, diverse, healthy, inclusive and sustainable Orkney.