The Guide : What's on this week

A look at what's happening around Dunedin.

Gigs

Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.

Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Sunday, 3pm: Philtre jazz trio.

Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin.
Friday, 9pm: Scurvy Dogs, The Bradley Initiative, Mr Biscuit.

Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Tonight, 8pm: "Le Tour de Trois", featuing Marianne Dissard, Delaney Davidson and Flip Grater.
Saturday, 8pm: Ouch My Face & Sharpie Crows.
Sunday: The Show is the Rainbow.
Friday, 8pm: The Handsome Family.
Wednesday, February 3: Matt Joe Gow and the Dead Leaves (Australia).

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.

Inch Bar, 8 Bank Street.
Sunday, 5.30pm: Too Tone, Jungle Fari & Doctor Dave.

Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Saturday, 8pm: Threefold.

Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.

Ra Café and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Tonight, 8pm: Antz & Luke.
Friday, 7.30pm: Jimmy Higgs; 11pm: 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.

Family fun

Cromwell Racecourse
Wednesday February 3: Southern DC3 "Legend of the Skies" Heartland Tour at the Cromwell Racecourse.
Phone 0800 323-359 for bookings.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until January 31: "A World with Chocolate" - Summer chocolate hunt.
Free, bookings not required and suitable for all ages.
Children 7 years and under will require assistance and must be supervised.

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: 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.
- Today, 2.15pm, Atrium Level 1: Freaky Numbers - Discover the mystery in the numbers all around us with a taste of pi, omega, fractals and more.
- Sunday, 2.15pm, Atrium Level 1: Freaky Summer - Join us as we investigate the freaky world of summer science! From burning skin with UV light to swimming in salt- and fresh-water pools.
- Tuesday February 2, 11am-4pm: World Wetlands Day.
New Zealand's wetlands are an important and endangered natural habitat.
Join us for an introduction to the wetlands' unique flora and fauna followed by a guided visit to the Sinclair Wetlands Reserve.
Adults $10, children $5 (includes talk on Museum wetland collections and fieldtrip to Sinclair Wetlands).
Bookings essential.
Contact the Search Centre, ph (03) 474-7474 ext 880

Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
All of January: Cadbury's Crack the Code.
Pick up a free detective pack and hunt for clues and solve the museum mystery.
If you are clever you will discover the treasure.
Today and tomorrow, 11am-noon: Domino-toppling knockouts - Join us as we cover the marble floor of the original NZR bus station foyer in 10,000 dominos and compete for prizes for best toppling each day.
Sunday, 10.30am: Where the Wild Things Are - puppet-making worksho based on Maurice Sendak's famous children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are.
Free. Bookings not required.