The Guide: January 21, 2010

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Gigs

Alibi, the Octagon, .Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers. Friday, 9pm: The Secret Lunch.
Saturday, 9pm: Dubstep Night.
Wednesday, 9pm: Charlie Parr.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Café and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Tonight, 7pm: Antz & Luke.
Friday, 10pm: DJ Slideshow.
Saturday, 10.30pm: DJ D Fyance.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel. Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night. Gear provided.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade. Tomorrow 6pm-9pm Calder Prescott Duo.
Saturday 3pm-6pm Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish; 6.30pm-9.30pm Stephen King.
Sunday 3pm-6pm iJazz.

Family fun

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until January 31: "A World with Chocolate" - Summer chocolate hunt.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Explorer backpacks for 7-12-year-olds, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, atrium level 1: children's creative activities. Weekends during January, 11.30am: "Bring Back the Butterflies". We've planted a beautiful outdoor butterfly garden full of host plants and nectar plants to attract butterflies. Find out how to create your own butterfly garden and why it is so important to encourage wild butterflies to our gardens. Meet at the information desk, free.
Daily during school holidays, 2.30pm, search centre: Origami: The Art of Folding Paper. Daily during school holidays: Tooth Sleuth question trail. Track down all the teeth-related collections in the museum. Solve the fossilised mystery and collect your prize. Collect a trail from the Search Centre desk, free. Daily during school holidays, 2.30pm, Search Centre: Bonsai For Beginners. Explore bonsai, the Japanese art of miniature tree cultivation. Unearth the beauty of this ancient craft as you discover the history behind bonsai and learn how to create your own living artwork.
Daily during the school holidays, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Interactive Trolley - Reconstructing Dinosaur Cousins. Help us rebuild an articulated bird skeleton and find out what bony features suggest that birds rather than reptiles are dinosaurs' closest relatives.
Sunday, 2.15pm, atrium level 1: Freaky numbers science show.
Tuesday, 2.15pm, atrium level 1: Freaky summer science show.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.

Music and performance

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Kathryn Roy;
Saturday: George Arthur.
Sunday, 1.30pm, atrium, ground level: Pianist Daniel Bennett.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St. Tonight, 8pm: Queenstown Violin Summer School showcase concert.
Friday, 8pm: Queenstown Violin Summer School finale concert.

Talks and films

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Monday, 12.30pm, ground floor: "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow!" - Celebrating Robbie Burns' birthday and the Robert Burns Fellowship. Michael Harlow will talk about his year as the 2009 Burns Fellow.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Sundays, 1.30pm and Wednesdays, 12.30pm: Free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery". An overview of some of the favourite and most treasured works in the collection.
Sunday, 3pm: Dr Susan Ballard will talk about the use of sound in David Clegg's exhibition "Rerecordings 2006-2009".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Free daily talks, 2pm. Special exhibition gallery free talk daily at 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking".
Daily gallery talks for January: Monday: The Mysterious Rat King; Tuesday: Women of Polynesia; Wednesday: The Dunedin Volcano; Thursday: Kiribati Warrior; Friday: KT Extinction; Saturday: Early Otago Museum History; Sunday: The Venus de Milo.

Exhibitions

Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until February 24: "Geo-morph", by Andrew Craig. Until February 28: " Steal", by Sam Mahon.
Archives New Zealand, 556 George St, Dunedin. Ends tomorrow: "Built to Last: Five Otago Engineering Feats", archives relating to engineering sites and structures which have been milestones in New Zealand's engineering history. 9.30am-5pm.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka. Deane Weastell's latest sculpture, greeting cards by Wanaka textile artist Moni, and Rosemary Parcell's equine art. Open daily, Wanaka lakefront.
Bellamy's Gallery Macandrew Bay. Until January 31: Manu Berry, "Shadowlands", "Works on Paper", James Robinson.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Reopens Tuesday, January 26 with "The Grad Show".
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St. "Six Spiromorphs", by Barry Brickell.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Open 10am-4pm. Until January 24: Photographs by Olwynne Oliver and jewellery by Sonia Keogh.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library. Until January 29: "Heresy, Sedition, Obscenity: The Book Challenged" - a selection of some books that have been banned, censored, or challenged.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, third floor. Until February 8: "Rogues Gallery: the Villains of Charles Dickens". Meet the unsavoury characters that are part of the Dickensian charm. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until February 28: Cho Duck Hyun, "Dark Water: the Antipodes Project". An installation produced by South Korean artist Cho Duck Hyun in Auckland last year, this work continues the artist's interest in the effect of migration on recent social and cultural history.
Ongoing: "Poseur". Portraits from the gallery's collection.
Until February: Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: "P.R.O.P". Until February: "Tom Kreisler" - works spanning a 30-year period.
Until March 2010: Ronnie van Hout "Rear Window".
Until May 2010: Taryn Simon: "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Until January 31: "A World with Chocolate".
Until January 24: "David Clegg "Rerecordings, 2006-2009".
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore. Until January 24: Russell Beck: "Forces of Land". A survey exhibition spanning more than 40 years of sculpture and carving.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens. Contemporary works by six peninsula artists.
The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Ron Esplin at the gallery during the Lawrence Summer Arts Festival this weekend. Display of workings by James Stewart Chairs (Lawrence); works by Lawrence artists Marjorie Hay, ceramic artist; Angela Meecham, Peta Dowle, Blue Hall, Gay Harris. Plus other New Zealand artists and crafts people.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith.
Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St. Until February 20: "On Vacation: A History of Holidaying in Southern New Zealand". Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct. Until February 6: "Holy Cow", drawings and paintings by Liz Rowe.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until February 28: "Showing Favourites". Historical and contemporary art from local private collections.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until January 27: Summer Show: including artists J.S. Parker, Garry Currin and Nigel Brown. Glass works by Ann Robinson and ceramic works by Christine Thacker.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown. Until February 17: "Summer Show": paintings, ceramics and glass works; and "Works on Paper:" Dick Frizzell, Penny Stotter, Julie Ross.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru. Until May: "Sweat and Starch": textiles from the museum's collections.
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open daily. Until January 31: "Pick n Mix" Christmas exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Until January 24: "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition", 1877 Gallery, level 1.
Until May 23: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until April 19: "Charles Brasch: A great good man", People of the World Gallery, level 2.
Until May 2010: "Dinosaur Eggs and Babies", Special Exhibitions Gallery, level 1.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", interactive exhibition about Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until June: "Willkommen to Dunedin: A History of German-speaking People in Otago".
Until February 28: "Square and Compasses: Freemasonry in New Zealand." Shares the history and traditions of Freemasonry.
Until February 28: "Built to Last: Engineering in Otago". Examines more than 150 years of engineering achievement in Otago - the development of telecommunications and transportation networks, water and wastewater systems, mining industries, electricity supplies, buildings, bridges and more.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. "Catlins Bound": watercolours by Fergus Sutherland.
Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden, corner Junction Rd and Matai St, Ravensbourne. Until February 24: "Summer Show". A group show of work by 20 artists. Open: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays noon-5pm.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton. Until February 27: "New Work", recent paintings by Ollie Crooks.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St. Until January 31: Paddy Carr and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until February: works by photographic artist Murray Crawford.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. "Every painting is a way of saying goodbye", works by women artists, including Michaela Cox, Lynda Cullen, Sarah Dolby, Mary McFarlane, Mirana Parkes, Seraphine Pick, and Heather Straka.