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.

The Bog, corner George and London Sts.
Every Sunday, 7.30pm.
Open mike night with Jae Bedford & Mimz Craig.
Everybody welcome, some gear provided.

Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Friday, 8pm: Farideh.
Tuesday, 8pm: Saints & Sinners.
Wednesday, 8pm: Lord Bishop Rocks.

Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.

Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Thursday, 5pm: open mike night; 8pm: Chris Davies and Greg Aspinal (Melbourne), with Robin Murphy.

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, 8.30pm: Antz and Flanders.

Records Records, 393 Princes St (opposite Empire Tavern).
Tomorrow, from 6pm: Katharticus instore gig, with Wolfman (aka Banjo Stuey) and Brain Leak.

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

Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays. Free.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays. Free.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 10.30am: "Double Happy" - Make a Valentine's Day card, some paper Chinese New Year lanterns or a red and gold paper-chain-link good luck dragon.
All materials supplied on the activities table.

Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday 3.45pm-4.45pm in the Downes Room: Book Club for Kids.
Every Tuesday, 11am, excludes school holidays: Storytime, suitable for preschool children and their caregivers.

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.
Sunday, 3pm: Members of the Otago Bonsai Society will demonstrate advanced bonsai techniques.
Every Saturday and Sunday during February, Search Centre, Level 1, 2.30pm: Bonsai for Beginners.

Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Saturday February 13, 10am-12pm: Construction Workshop for Children.
Be inspired by "Built to Last" and create your own engineering masterpiece.
Ages: 7-12. Numbers: 15.
Cost: $5, Booking contact: 477-4652

Port Chalmers Library.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 11am.

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: Alexey Medvedev, acoustic guitar; Saturday: Tom Kelly, piano.
Sunday, 1.30pm, atrium level 1: The Rare Byrds.
Sunday, 7.30pm: Valentine's evening.
An evening of live music, red roses and bubbly, and a love-themed tour.
Learn the ultimate dance of romance, the Dominican bachata. $40 per couple, limited places.
Bookings essential.
Tickets at the Information Desk, ph 474-7474.

Talks and films

Bannockburn Hall.
Saturday, 7pm: "Starry Skies for Bannockburn".
Public meeting and talk by Steve Butler, astronomer and Chairman of the Dark Skies Group of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand.

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.
Saturday, 3pm: Eddie Clemens, Frances Hodgkins Fellow 2009, talks about his art practice and his residency.
Wednesday, 10.30am, Coffee morning: Peter Nicholls will speak on the themes of art, nature and ecology in his work.
Friends of the DPAG and members of the public warmly welcome.
No charge.

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 February: Mondays: 'The Monowai', Tuesdays: Takahe, Wednesdays: Moeraki Boulders, Thursdays: The Dunedin Volcano, Fridays: Samurai, Saturdays: The Yellow-eyed Penguin, Sundays: Maori cloaks.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens:Sunday February 14, 2pm-3pm: Floor talk: "Built to Last: Engineering in Otago".
Curator Peter Read discusses aspects of the exhibition.

Exhibitions

Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until February 24: "Geo-morph", by Andrew Craig.
Until February 28: " Steal", by Sam Mahon.

Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
Woodcuts by Liz Abbott.

The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
"A Gathering of Quirk" by Tony Cribb, Crispin Korschen, Cheryl Oliver and Hayley Hamilton.

Bellamy's Gallery Macandrew Bay.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Representing Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry.

Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
"The Grad Show".
Experimental and innovative art created by recent graduates from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts.
This year's exhibition will feature works by Debbie Adamson, Gwen Hudson, John Paxie, Alex MacKinnon, Lars Preisser and Jesse Simons.

Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
From tomorrow until March 4: : "Five New Works", by Martin Thompson.

Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until March 15: "Flight & Light", An exhibition by NZ wildlife painter Rebecca Gilmore and NZ landscape photographer Greg Slui.
Open 9am-6pm. Doc Visitors Centre, Aoraki/Mt Cook.
"Documenting the nesting season of a pair of wild NZ falcon", photography by Donna Falconer.

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 March: Ronnie van Hout "Rear Window".
Until May: Taryn Simon: "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".

Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Ends Sunday: "Think (and/or laugh) About It", by Ioan Grigore.
Until March 28: "White Gold - the Business of Milk" by Sally Burton.
Inspired by the immediate surrounds of Sally Burton's house and studio on the Waimea Plains south of Nelson.
Until March 21: "The Fishermen's Daughters" by Irene Schroder & Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
Ramonda's photomontage works feature the streets and people of the area, while Irene's crater glaze terracotta ceramics have been strongly influenced by the landscape and seascape, particularly in and around Moeraki.

Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six peninsula artists.

The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
"Sweet As" - Prints by Jason Kelly, Rita Angus, Hamish Allan, Ron Esplin, Barry Ross Smith, Diana Adams.
Chairs by James Stewart, ceramics by Marjorie Hay, Ro McQueen, Judy Ringland Stewart and others.

Heartland World Heritage Hotel, Haast Junction.
Until February 20: "Stranded" an exhibition of prints, etchings by Liz Hawker and photographs by Gilbert van Reenen about Davey Louston's sealing gang stranded on the Open Bay Islands from 1810-1814.

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.

Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until February 28: "Showing Favourites". Historical and contemporary art from local private collections.

Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until February 24: Elizabeth Rees, "In Motion".

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 February 28: Summer Exhibition.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
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: "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 February 14: Louise Thompson Parker & Judy Ringland Stewart.
From Monday: Jo Howard & Peter Gregory.

Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until March 1: Ceramics and art by Dunedin artist Stewart Larson.

Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
Until February 27: Ruth Myers, "And of no obvious use".

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