Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Tomorrow and Saturday night, 10pm: Livewire, featuring Katie Mason, pop and rock covers.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow 8.30pm: Flip Grater, Pigalle album release tour.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Tomorrow: Paul Ubana Jones.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: preschool story time.
• Saturday, 10am-noon: Blueskin Community Art Project with Janet De Wagt. Help create a rug for the children's area in the new library. Free.
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. Fourth floor.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: Tours for Tots, baby-friendly half-hour tour of the gallery followed by a cup of tea.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Thursdays, 11am-11.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: Friday Flicks, free family movie screening.
• Tuesday, 11am: preschool story time. Children's area.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am-4pm: ''The Big Get Together 2014''. Free festival featuring entertainment, live acts and food.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Otago Polytechnic Cromwell Campus Nursery, Blyth St, Cromwell.
• Friday, 10am-2pm: Annual autumn plant and food fair. Local plants and delicious food.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: preschool story time, children's area.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time, children's room.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performanceThe Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: salsa music, dancing.
The Dunedin Entertainers Club, St Clair Women's Club hall, 47 Albert St.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Variety concert and supper.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: ''A Celebration of Women Composers'', piano works of Mrs H. A. Beach, Cecile Chaminade and Luise Le Beau. Performed by pianist Sandra Crawshaw.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 1pm: University of Otago student choir Cantores sings spirituals, pop songs, traditional Maori waiata, Schubert, Mozart and Handel.
Roxburgh Town Hall and entertainment centre, 132 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
• Saturday 9am and 7pm and Sunday from 1pm: Otago/Southland brass band competitions.
• Saturday from 9am at several public buildings in Roxburgh, solo and party events.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Bach, Tournemire and Langlais.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: lunchtime theatre: Shared Agendas. Improvised cross-disciplinary performance structured as a series of ''dialogues'' between participants.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Tomorrow: Chekhov's Prop. Improv show.
• Until April 19: Peninsula, by Gary Henderson.
Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Tonight, 6.30pm. University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival. Secondary school pupils perform Shakespeare scenes.
Talks and filmsA Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell, opposite Sandflat Rd.
• Cromwell Film Society showing of In a World. All welcome. Bookings (03) 445-4151.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Saturday, 2pm: lecture series, John McEwan AgResearch, ''Sheep'', ODT Theatre.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 11am: Join a monthly book group, recommend your favourite books and get ideas for what to read next. Fourth floor. Registrations (03) 474-3690. Free.
• Wednesday, noon: ''Changes to Library Systems'', a talk by Dean McDonald to Friends of the Library, at the Dunningham Suite, fourth floor.
• Until June 15: ''Tales from a long, bright land - Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''. Reed Gallery Exhibition. Third floor. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Curatorial intern Henry Davidson and artists Juliet Carpenter, Biljana Popovic and Sorawit Songsataya talk about their exhibition ''Campaign Furniture''.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Friends' monthly coffee morning. Guest speaker Brian Miller on his father, Dunedin artist Ralph Miller.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm-7.30pm: NHNZ Film Screening of Vintage is the New Black (an episode from the series LA Frock Stars). Free.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Daily at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Monday: Te Paranihi, Otago Museum's waka taua. Tuesday: New Zealand falcon. Wednesday: Nisga'a totem pole segment. Thursday: Watom Island. Friday: life on Endeavour. Saturday: Karetao, Maori puppets. Sunday: yellow-eyed penguins. 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the world'', exhibition talk.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', talk to complement exhibition in the Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex.
• Daily: Discovery Backpacks. Walk around the museum with an Explorer Backpack or rummage around our jungle with a Tropical Forest Backpack.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Snapping Science'' Discovery World science show about photography. Free with Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Magic Busters'' Discovery World Science Show.
• Uncover the secrets of magicians. Free with Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: The Dunedin Film Society will screen Zazie Dans Le Metro.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New photographs by Russ McLean.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Until April 30: ''Expressions of War ... portraits of veterans'', Hon Captain Matt Gauldie.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until April 30: Pauline Bellamy watercolours. Open Wednesday-Sunday noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Saturday until May 3: ''Who Opens The Door'', by Annie Mackenzie and Dave Marshall. Exhibition preview tomorrow at 5.30pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''Paper Works - 1978 and 1980'', Gary Blackman.
• Central Stories Russell Henderson Gallery, Centennial Ave, AlexandraUntil May 4: ''Wool Away'', history of sheep and stations in Central Otago.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Until Sunday: ''Art in April'', painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, fibre art. Gallery hours: 10am-5pm.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
• Until April 27: ''Not all White'', wedding dresses by Tanya Carlson.
• Until June 15: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
• From Saturday: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• From Saturday: ''Francis Hodgkins in 1913''.
• From Saturday: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• Until tomorrow: ''Mountain, moon and volcano strip'', Louis Graham.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until May 11: ''Broken Idols'', by Tom Simpson.
• Until May 18: ''Xistence'', by Richard Mountain.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Until April 24: ''Reflections on a Coastline'', new paintings by Angela Burns.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Scott Drummond. Open Wednesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday, 11am-4.30pm.
• Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until April 19: ''Absence/Presence'', by Odelle Morshuis.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• April 18-May 10: Choice, a selection of work. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until tomorrow: ''From City to Central'', works by Jenny Longstaff and friends from the Otago Art Society.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until April 30: ''Woodland'', by Karl Maughan.
• Until April 30: ''The Royal Queenstown Easter Show''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• ''Exorcise/Exercise'', by James Robinson.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm: ''Mt Cargill, Leith Valley & Purakaunui'', Rodney Hamel.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Open daily 10am-5pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''. Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Pt Rd,
• Oils and acrylics by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Until May 11, 9.30pm-5pm: 2014 sculpture exhibition. Presented by the Otago Sculpture Trust. Free.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until April 23: ''Treasures Revisited Exhibition'', pre-owned artworks for sale. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the world''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until May 18: ''Sheep, Shearing and Scenery'', photography by Joanne McLeary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.
D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Ongoing: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until tomorrow: ''Apocalypse and Amulets'', new work by Nikkie Gibson. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Until June 15: ''Tales from a long, bright land: Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until May 6: Works by local artist Margaret Calder.
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.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• Until May 23: ''Make It New! Modernism and the Medieval Presence''.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday.
