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A RECORDED performance of a play performed by Shetland Youth Theatre (SYT) will screen in Mareelâs auditorium this Saturday (22 May) as the arts venue reopens.
Mareel is due to open its doors to the public again on Friday having been closed since Christmas due to Covid restrictions.
On Saturday at 1.30pm a pre-recorded Shetland Youth Theatre playÂ
Tuesday, by Alison Carr, will be shown.
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Shetland Arts said it is a “light, playful, and slightly sci-fi production, focussed on the confusion when a rip in the multiverse sucks up school staff and pupils, whilst also raining down new people”.
THERE appears to be no prospect of Sunday newspapers being on offer across Shetland any time soon despite airline Loganair increasing the frequency of flights to Sumburgh. The papers are thought to have been largely off limits for the last number of months due to Loganair's.
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PEOPLE will be able to browse the shelves in Shetland Library again from Monday (1 March).
After the local Covid-19 outbreak at the start of the year, customers have been unable to access to the main library, although the Learning Centre has remained open.
An expanded book delivery and collection service has been in operation to replace library access during this time.
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Shetland remains in level three for the time being, and although browsing will be possible from next week, customer access to the library building will still be limited.
A maximum of 12 customers can be in the main library at any one time and visits are restricted to 20 minutes.
SHETLAND Recreational Trust is to start a phased reopening of facilities across the islands from Monday (1 March). The Clickimin gym along with the fitness suites in the Unst, Yell and Whalsay sites will be the first facilities to open from Monday. Pool facilities at Scalloway,.
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Audiobooks and online reading were the stories of the year at Shetland Library, which noticed a change of literary habits during the pandemic.
With the library closed for a time during lockdown, borrowers turned in larger numbers to eBooks and audiobooks to maintain their reading.
The library’s most borrowed list shows the top spot for ‘physical loans’ in adult fiction went to Jojo Moyes’ The Giver of Stars, a novel about packhorse librarians in America.
When ebooks and audiobooks were added it was checked out 146 times.