The Johnsmas Foy Shetland's summer festival

24th June 2009 Ranger Guided Walks - Hermaness National Nature Reserve Visit Shetland's finest seabird cliffs and view the UK's most northerly lighthouse. read more

22nd - 24th June 2009 Sail on the 'Swan' LK243 A unique opportunity to undertake a three-hour trip on Shetland's magnificently restored fishing 'Fifie' 'Swan' and to experience what life would have been like on such a vessel in the early 20th century. read more

24th and 26th June 2009 Rognvald's Journey Prepare to be transported back to the year 1151 in the company of master storytellers and musicians Bob Pegg, Tom Muir and Bill Taylor to learn of the pilgrimage undertaken by Earl Rognvald II of Orkney from Orkney to Jerusalem. read more

24th - 25th June 2009 Shetland Film Club presents Secrets of the Ancients Originally shown on BBC television in 1969 this film investigates whether the Vikings would have had to sail around the north of Shetland to reach the open Atlantic or whether, using the technology available to them at the time, they might have dragged their ships across the narrow isthmus at Mavis Grind read more

21st - 26th June 2009 Visit of Norwegian M/S Nybakk As part of the Johnsmas Foy's continuing maritime connections we are delighted to welcome the Norwegian vessel 'Nybakk' back to Shetland to coincide with this year's Foy. read more

24th- 28th June 2009 Visit of Norwegian M/S Haugefisk We are delighed to welcome to the Foy the Norwegian vessel 'Haugefisk' - originally built in 1977 and restored in 2005 by the Coastal Museum of Sogn og Fjordane. read more

18th - 28th June 2009 Displays of Viking Books and more... Throughout the Johnsmas Foy both The Shetland Times Bookshop and Shetland Library will be displaying a range of fiction and non-fiction books centered around Viking themes. read more

18th - 28th June 2009 Historic Lerwick Guided Walk Join local historian and registered tour guide Douglas Sinclair on a two-hour guided walk of old Lerwick. read more

18th - 28th June 2009 Islesburgh Photographic Club Exhibition - 'Our Viking Heritage' Shetland's long established amateur photographic club hold their annual Johnsmas Foy exhibition with a range of photos true to this years Foy theme. read more

18th - 28th June 2009 Sails in St Magnus - Exhibition Orkney's dramatic Sails in St Magnus exhibition comes to the Shetland Museum and Archive to coincide with this year's Johnsmas Foy and its Viking theme. read more

18th - 28th June 2009 Sixareen Trips around Lerwick Harbour Take part in a rowing trip around Lerwick harbour in a traditional Shetland sixareen, a direct descended from a Viking boat design. read more