Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
•Sunday, 3pm: Karin Reid and Bill Martin.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Cromwell Town and Country Club, Melmore Tce.
•Sunday, 2pm: Music from the Cromwell Country Music Club. Blackboard and guest artists. All welcome.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Gary Harvey & the Rowdy Friends, The Scruffs.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents The Phil Corfield Band.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 1pm: Linda Munro.
Purple Rain Retro Bar & Cafe, 403 Princes St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Both Sides of the Line, The Doll Drums, Europa Kid.
•Wednesday: Soup Club XVIII - ''Dirty But Clean''. Soup and comedy night.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Monday, 8pm: Young Back Benches, Wallace Chapman.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Today, 2pm: Preschool story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: Fifteen-minute tractor rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Dunedin Chinese Garden, corner Rattray St and Cumberland St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm: Moon Festival activities. Moon cake hunt, traditional Chinese games, puzzles and crafts.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow, 10.30am: Preschool story time.
Sunday, 2pm: ''Once Upon a Sunday: Spring Into Sustainability'', storytelling with Kaitrin McMullan.
•Tuesday, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme session for children 0-2 and parents.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes Room.
•Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Science vs Fantasy'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''It's a Gas!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Nice or Nasty?'' Investigation Station. Free. Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: Preschool 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
Alexandra Memorial Hall, Skird St.
•Sunday, 2pm: ''Three Choirs in Concert'', performance by the Central Otago Regional Choir, A Capella and The Star Singers.
First Church of Otago, Moray Pl.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: The Japanese Chor-Farmer Male Choir.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; performances by students from the contemporary music performance programme.
Otago Boys' High School Auditorium, 2 Arthur St.
•Saturday, 2pm and 7.30pm: ''Spring Fling'', Dunedin Harmony Chorus performance.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ music of the French classical school, to include works by de Grigny and Couperin.
•University of Otago, The Link, Cumberland StMonday, midday-1pm: A reading for Edward Snowden, poetry and prose.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
•Today, 1pm and tomorrow, 1pm and 7pm: Lunchtime theatre, Tone Clusters.
Balclutha Theatrical Society Hall, 4 George St, Balclutha.
•Today, 7pm: The Bacchanals theatre company presents Once We Built a Tower.
Clyde Memorial Hall, Clyde.
•Saturday, 7pm: The Bacchanals theatre company presents Once We Built a Tower.
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
•Until September 13: Lungs.
Millers Flat Hall, Millers Flat.
•Tomorrow, 7pm: The Bacchanals theatre company presents Once We Built a Tower.
Talks and films
Castle 1, University of Otago.
•Wednesday, 6pm: Geoff Baylis Lecture, Peter Johnson ''Long Leaves and Fat Roots''. Drinks and nibbles served from from 5.15pm in the concourse.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
•Tomorrow, noon: ''HortTalk: Dam it'', talk about water harvesting and the ReScape Resilience Education Centre.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: Dads, NHNZ film screening (part of the ''Most Extreme'' series).
•Wednesday, noon: ''Digital Interpretation of the Settlers Museum'', talk to Friends of the Library by Toitu Otago Settlers Museum acting director Jennifer Evans.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'', free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the Gallery.
Earnscleugh Hall, Alexandra.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: Peace & Love in Africa documentary screening as part of Drum and Dance workshop.
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.
•Sunday, 5.30pm-6.30pm: ''Is it time to forget?'', facilitated discussion about the legacy of WW1, led by University of Otago Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies Prof Kevin Clements and history department research fellow George Davis. 18+.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Akan gold weights. Tomorrow: Fin whale. Saturday: New Zealand bats. Sunday: The woollen bathing suit. Monday: Queen Lili'uokalani's feather cape. Tuesday: Maori cloaks. Wednesday: Falkland Islands wolf.
•Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions gallery talk.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Sunday, 2pm: Walk and Talk, ''Dunedin Goes to War''.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
•Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Open Wednesday-Sunday, 12pm-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Until September 18: ''Shunga'', Japanese erotic prints.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
•''Working Men'', Jeffrey Harris, Ewan McDougall, Neil Emmerson, Philip J. Frost, Greg Lewis, Flynn Morris-Clarke.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until September 30: Spotlight on design - Debbie Malcolm.
•Until October 12: ''Their War, Our Story: A Call to Arms'', WW1 commemorative exhibition.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until October 12: Photographs by Max Bellamy (Rear Window project).
•Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
•Until November 9: ''Jim McMurtry'', by Michael Parekowhai.
•Until November 16: ''Sleight of Hand'', curated by Lauren Gutsell.
•Until November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes today: ''Pin-Ups'', by Frank Gordon.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
•''Onederment,'' by Nicola Reeves. Open 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections,University of Otago.
•Until October 25: ''Art Between the Covers: Artists and the Book''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Closes today: Paintings, prints and objects by Kathryn Madill.
From Saturday, until September 27: ''Works on Paper'' by Mate Pavic.
•Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until October 12: ''Shadows of Shoah'', multidisciplinary Holocaust exhibition.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until September 24: ''New Paintings'', Lorene Taurerewa; ''New Works'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until September 17: ''Crystal Palace'', by Mike Crawford; ''To Dance'', by Lorraine Rastorfer.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Opens tomorrow 5pm, until September 18: ''Au'', by Murray Eskdale, Tara Douglas and Ben Webb.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•''Into Arrowtown'', oil on canvas by Nigel Wilson.
•Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Until September 18: Works by Sam Mitchell and Mary-Louise Browne.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
•Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries.
•Until November 23: ''Gifts and Legacies'', honours people who have contributed to the museum.
•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 Joanne McLeary.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
•Until September 13: ''Token Politics'', jewellery by David McLeod.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Until September 28: ''Keepsakes - Rediscovered Souvenirs of the Great War''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until September 13: Rosemary McQueen and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
•''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', WW1 commemorative exhibition.
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.
•Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
