Editing Stromness (section)

==Media and the arts==
The Stromness branch of the [[Orkney Library and Archive]] is housed in a building given to the library service in 1905 by Marjory Skea Corrigall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2019/08/wasps-historic-buildings/|title=Wasps: An Artistic Chapter in the Story of Historic Buildings|date=20 August 2019 |publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref>

Writer [[George Mackay Brown]] (1921–1996) was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound. His poem "[[Hamnavoe (poem)|Hamnavoe]]" is set in the town, and is in part a memorial to his father John, a local postman.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061004035607/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1540 "Hamnavoe by George Mackay Brown"]. Poetry Archive. Retrieved 23 June 2012.</ref>

Stromness is also named in the title of Sir [[Peter Maxwell Davies]]'s popular piano piece "Farewell to Stromness", a piano interlude from ''[[The Yellow Cake Revue]]'', which was written in 1980 to protest against plans to open a [[uranium]] mine in the area. The title refers to [[yellowcake]], the powder produced in an early stage of the processing of [[uranium ore]]. The ''Revue'' was first performed by the composer at the Stromness Hotel on 21 June 1980, as part of the [[St Magnus Festival]]; plans for the uranium mine were cancelled later that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boosey.com/cr/music/Peter-Maxwell-Davies-The-Yellow-Cake-Revue/1769|title=The Yellow Cake Revue (1980)|publisher=Boosey & Hawkes|access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref>

''Stromness'' is also the title of a 2009 novel by [[Herbert Wetterauer]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Stromness: Roman: Amazon.co.uk: Herbert Wetterauer: 9783898414876: Books |id={{ASIN|3898414876|country=uk}} }}</ref>

Stromness plays host to the [[Pier Arts Centre]], a collection of twentieth-century British art given to the people of Orkney by artists such as [[Margaret Gardiner (art collector)|Margaret Gardiner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pierartscentre.com/blog/9/7/2019/margaret-gardiner-the-life-the-gift-the-legacy|title=Margaret Gardiner|first= Kari |last=Adams|date=9 July 2019 |publisher=Piers Arts Centre| access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref>