Gigs
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
•Tomorrow and Saturday, 9.30pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crofters Pub, 160 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Anthem.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: ''Delete the Elite 2'' featuring Innominatus, Waystone, Warsaw, Ravenous and Hatred.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents the Dunedin Fiddle Club and friends.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Ewan, Dooley and Shakes.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
•Tomorrow, 6pm: Machina Rex plays at Affective Intensities in Extreme Music Scenes book launch.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Today, 7pm: MUSI245 and MUSI345 performances.
•Wednesday, 9pm: Cure Motel, Symbols with Haszari.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday, 8pm: The Violet-Ohs and Luckless.
Family fun
Cromwell Public Library, 43 The Mall, Cromwell.
•Today, 2pm: ''Halloween'' school holiday activity. Ages 5-10. Bookings essential.
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 City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow, 10.30am: ''The Wonky Donkey Show'' with author and songwriter Craig Smith. Ages 2-5. Saturday, 1pm: ''Making music from vegetables'' workshop with Levity Beet. Bookings essential. Public performance at 2pm.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Daily until Sunday: ''Treasure jar'' playspace activity. Fill the jar with a drawing of your favourite things.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Today, 11am: ''Let's make some Christmas decorations!'' school holiday activity. Bookings essential.
•Saturday, 10am: ''Making music from vegetables'' workshop with Levity Beet. Bookings essential. Public performance at 11am.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Tomorrow, 2pm: ''The Radical Mathematical Show'', Atrium level 1.
•Today and Saturday, 2.30pm: Mythical Mayhem adventure tour. Meet at information desk.
•Sunday, 11am: Spring Storytelling Series: hear Russell and the Lost Treasure and make a keepsake box to take home. Atrium Level 1.
•Daily until Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Cracking Chaos'', science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily until Sunday, 1pm: ''Science vs Fantasy'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily until Sunday: ''The School Holiday Trail of Chaos''. Pick up any time from Discovery Desk.
•Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: Preschool story time.
•Tomorrow, 2pm: ''Making music from vegetables'' workshop with Levity Beet. Bookings essential. Public performance at 3pm.
Roxburgh Library, 120 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
•Tomorrow, 2.30pm: ''Halloween'' school holiday activity. Bookings essential.
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.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Road, Waikouaiti.
•Tomorrow, 10am: ''Making music from vegetables'' workshop with Levity Beet. Bookings essential. Public performance at 11am.
Music and performance
Dunedin City New Life Church, 48 Stafford St.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''Spring Fresh'', showcase of multiethnic dance troupes and local music performance groups. Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
•Tomorrow, 1pm: ''Voices of Tomorrow'', Christchurch Boys' Choir performance.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
•Today, 1pm and 7pm; tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime theatre; a selection of scenes from the first act of Holding the Man.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
•Until Saturday, 11am and 2pm daily: Alice in Wonderland.
Shed 40, 40 Fryatt St.
•Until October 18: Fortune Theatre presents The Caretaker. Talks and filmsBlueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Today, 6pm: ''A Few Strange Ideas About the Origins of Image-Making, Creative Minds and Symbolic Consciousness'', talk by Dr Pip Cotton.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: Rainforest Warrior, NHNZ film screening.
•Monday, 5.30pm: Authors Kirsty Gunn and Vincent O'Sullivan discuss writing and Katherine Mansfield.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 3pm: ''Exile and Belonging'', talk by Greg Dawes, in conjunction with the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
•Sunday, 3pm: Linda Gill talks about Frances Hodgkins, in conjunction with the exhibition ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
•Wednesday, 10.30am: DPAG Society public coffee morning with guest speaker Gary Blackman on ''The Beauty of the Grotesque''.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Hocken Seminar Room, 90 Anzac Ave.
•Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''Our Modern Girl in Hollywood'', Dr Natalie Smith talks about Miss New Zealand 1927 Dale Austen and her career in Hollywood. McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Sunday, 2pm: Artist talk by Bob Kerr, for the opening of his exhibition ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Flamingos. Tomorrow: HMS Victory. Saturday: Ancient Egyptian life. Sunday: Karetao. Monday: Queen Lili'uokalani's feather cape. Tuesday: Maori cloaks. Wednesday: Mutiny on the Bounty.
•Daily, 2.30pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'' talk in the H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
•Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions Gallery talk.
University of Otago Central Library, second floor staffroom.
•Today, 5pm: ''`Miss Silvia ... Reads Like a Great Woman' The Education of a Young English Girl in the 18th Century'', talk by Jill Shefrin.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
•Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Alexandra Community House, Centennial Ave.
•Until October 18: ''The Hoffman Exhibition'', 35 fabric works.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until December 24: ''Readiness and Sacrifice'', an exhibition of World War 1 archives.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Until Sunday: Otago Embroiderers' Guild exhibition.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•''Land, Leather, Metal & Feather'', Jane Crisp and Julie Greig.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Opens Sunday, until November 12: ''Swell'', by Pauline Bellamy, Max Bellamy, John Bellamy, Manu Berry, Emma Chalmers.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Closes today: ''Morphologies'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, until October 30: works by Nichola Shanley.
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 Sunday: ''Their War, Our Story: A Call to Arms'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
•Until October 21: ''I Buy Therefore I Am'', by Andrew Price.
•Until November 18: Spotlight on Design - Lee Sinclair, mixed media artist.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•Closes today: ''Sea Baskets'', woven works by Jasmie Clark.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until October 19: ''A Palette of Poetry'', Poems in the Waiting Room collaborative exhibition.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: Photographs by Max Bellamy (Rear Window project).
•Until Sunday: ''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: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Ongoing: ''Wild Life'', various artists.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Flagstaff Community Church, 9 Centennial Ave, Wakari.
•Opens today, 6.30pm: Wakari Art Group annual exhibition.
•Open Friday and Saturday 10am-4pm.
The Fix, Frederick St.
•Until October 31: works by Anna Reid, Jacob Feenstra and Graham Geary. Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until November 16: ''Koreo Ko, Koreo Au'', by Moana Tipa.
•Until November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes today: ''Fabric Earth'', paintings by Maria Kemp.
•Opens tomorrow, until October 23: new works by Simon Kaan and Jasmine Middlebrook.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Paintings by Liz Abbott and furniture by Rudi Verhoef.
•Open Friday to Sunday.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•Until October 24: ''6 x 2'', works by Michel Tuffery and Flox, Simon Kaan, Nicky Foreman, Kiya Nancarrow, Louise Greig, and Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis.
Glenfalloch woodland garden, 430 Portobello Rd.
•Sunday, 12.30pm: Exhibition of sculpture by various artists, with working artists in the garden and musical entertainment.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
•Until October 25: ''Art Between the Covers: Artists and the Book''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until October 25: ''Casting Shadows'', by Andi Regan.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until October 18: new works by Emma Chalmers, Ruth Cleland and Motoko Kikkawa.
•Gallery open Thursday-Friday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Until Wednesday: ''Contemporary Fiordland'', pastels by Dawn Glynn.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until Sunday: ''Shadows of Shoah'', multidisciplinary Holocaust exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Opens Sunday: ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow'', by Bob Kerr.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
•Until Sunday: ''Krystal's Colours'', by Krystal Hyslop.
•Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until October 22: ''Velvet Dreams'', Shigeyuki Kihara; ''Singularities'', John Parker.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until Wednesday: ''Abstract geology'', by Kate Woods; ''Orbit'', by John Edgar.
•Until November 12: ''Spring Catalogue'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Until October 23: ''Post Implosion'', by Jessica Crothall.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until October 31: ''The Male Nude'', drawings by John Z Robinson.
•Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm and Saturday 11am-2pm.
National Mortgage Agency Building top floor, 49 Water St.
•Until October 31: Three-dimensional fabric artworks by Motoko Watanabe.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Until Wednesday: ''2000 Grounds For Error'', by Julia Morison.
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 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 November 2: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Joanne McLeary.
•Until February 15, 2015: contemporary jewellery by Bob Wyber.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: Lorna Isaac and Loris Ives.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
•Until October 21: ''No Animals Were Harmed'', paintings by Lizzie Carruthers.
•Gallery open 10am-5pm daily.
Supporting Families Central Otago, 28 Ashworth St, Alexandra.
•Until Saturday: ''Tall Poppies III'', artworks by users and supporters of mental health services.
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'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
Tony Williams Goldsmith Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
•Until December 24: Spring 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.
