Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon: Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers: Today and tomorrow, 8pm: The Phoenix Foundation, Tom's Lunch EP release tour.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St: Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Gin and Raspberry, 155 Ardmore St, Wanaka: Sunday, 8pm: Tiny Ruins.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St: Today, 8.30pm: Nick Knox.
Lake Wanaka Centre, Ardmore St: Friday, 7.30pm: The Troubles.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St: Saturday, 1pm: Linda Munro. Sunday, 1pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru: Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke. Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St: Saturday, 5.30pm and 8pm: Tiny Ruins.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati: Today, 2pm: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre: Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl: Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents. Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon: Until August 3: Build a creation in the Olafur Eliasson ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' Lego exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave: Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room. Tuesday, 11am: Pre-school story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St: Daily: Discovery backpacks. Walk around the museum with a backpack full of activities. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Sunday, 10.30am-4pm: Activities for World Butterfly Awareness Day. Free with Tropical Forest admission. Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''The Science of Fun!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission. Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Snapping Science'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with Discovery World admission. Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Kept under wraps!'', Investigation station. Atrium Level 1. Free. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St: Today and Tuesday, 10am: Pre-school story time.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St: Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St: Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St: Fridays 9pm: Salsa music, dancing.
First Church of Otago, Moray Pl: Tomorrow, 12.30pm: Performance by local secondary school musicians.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin: Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Heath Franklin's Chopper - ''Repeat Offender''. St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin. Tomorrow, noon: A short ceremony to mark Sweden's National Day. A brief introduction and national song. Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works for Pentecost, to include music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St: Until Saturday: Souvenir, play by Stephen Temperley.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St: Until Saturday: The History Boys, play by Alan Bennett.
Talks and films
The Art Station, 1st floor, Dunedin Railway Station: Wednesday, noon: Public talk by Alyth Grant, trustee and volunteer at Orokonui Ecosanctuary, in connection with the Otago Art Society's 138th Annual Exhibition.
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum: Wednesday, 5.30pm: David Murray talks about architecture and building records in the Hocken Collections.
Burns 1 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Albany St: Today, 6.30pm: talk by Kay Baxter, of the Koanga Institute.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl: Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ film screening, Paradise Drowned - Tuvalu, The Disappearing Nation.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon: Saturdays, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Anzac'' WW100 commemoration exhibition. Sundays, 2pm: ''Birdies and bunkers'', talk by sports scientist Dr Peter Lamb on the science attached to golf. In association with the Steve Carr exhibition. Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for tots'', free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay: Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin: Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St: Daily talks, 2pm: Today: The Monowai. Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab. Saturday: Woollen bathing suit. Sunday: Kereru. Monday: Matariki. Tuesday: Santa Cruz red feather money. Wednesday: Akan gold weights. Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex. Daily, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St: Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St. Etchings by Donald Paterson.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St: New works by Zuna Wright, photographs by Cally Whitham.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay: Until June 30: Pauline Bellamy retrospective, ''Pretty dreams, hard work, survival''.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St: Until June 28: ''Attachment Drawing: Interface'', Ali Bramwell.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St: From tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Considered Standing'', Patrick Hartigan.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra: Until June 15: ''South by South East'', photographs by Laurence Aberhart. Until July 4: Spotlight on Design presents Jose Hall.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information centre, lower garden: Until June 30: ''Birds of the Botanic Garden'', photographs by Paul Sorrell.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon: Until June 15: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''. Until June 23: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic. Until July 6: ''Liar, liar, pants on fire'', Victoria Mcintosh (rear window project). Until August 3: ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'', Olafur Eliasson. Until August 3: ''Wild Life'', works from the collection. Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart. Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''. Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore: Until June 15: ''Kermadec - Lines in the Ocean''.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens: Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin. From tomorrow until June 13: ''The bright and shining lie'', Ben Webb.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. Opens tomorrow 5pm, until June 27: ''Keylines'', Richard Adams.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island: Recent work by Alistair Begg, Scott Drummond and Tania McIntosh. Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago. Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct: Until June 21: ''Remembrancer'', Megan Huffadine.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St: Closes today: ''Works on Paper''. Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown: Until June 15: Costumes from the Autumn Festival ''Art 2 Wear'' fashion show.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl: Until June 12: ''Helmet men'', Travis Cameron. Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St: From Saturday until July 2: ''Message Beacon'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St: Until June 25: ''Selected Works'', Neil Dawson. Until July 23: ''The Review'', various New Zealand artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl: Until June 12: ''Conjunctures'', Philip Madill. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St: New etchings by Gary Tricker. Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru: ''The Works: Pukeuri 1914-2014'', an exhibition about the Pukeuri meatworks in Oamaru.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell: Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello: Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station: From Saturday until June 30: Otago Art Society's 138th Annual Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St: Until July 20: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery. Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries. Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka: Until September 21: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''. Until November 2: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Jo Macleary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka: New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve: Until August 31: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''. Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library. Until June 15: ''Tales from a Long, Bright Land: Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra: Until June 15: Hinton art exhibition, photographers Annemarie Hope-Cross and Eric Schusser.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru: ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St: Until Saturday: Rosemary McQueen and Judy Ringland Stewart. From Monday until June 21: Riki Julin and Lorna Isaac. Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn: Until June 30: ''Place & Time - Five Women Artists'', Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown: ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl: Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti: Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday: Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St. Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
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