Gigs
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Friday, 9pm: Stonehurst, Osmium, Kentucky Fried Children, Warsaw. Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents My Pennyworth.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
•Today, 8.30pm: Shakes & The Swell Guys.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Shakes & The Swell Guys.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8pm: Dance, with music by Margaret Bates.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday: Some Other Creature album release show.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: Monty Bevin's Come Back Here EP release tour with Amiria Grenell.
Family fun
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: 15min tractor-train rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Earnscleugh Hall, 207 Strode Rd, Earnscleugh.
•Sunday, 10am-1pm: Earnscleugh Country Fair; local arts, handmade crafts, furniture, vintage ware, plants, food.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Frozen Discoveries'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Cracking Chaos'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Pembroke Park, Wanaka.
•Sunday, from 10am: Wanaka Sunday Craft Market.
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
Glenfalloch Woodland Garden Restaurant, 430 Portobello Rd.
•Tomorrow and Saturday: ''Faulty Towers 2014 Staff Christmas Crack-up'' dinner theatre show. Bookings essential.
ODT Theatre, Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm and Saturday, 2pm: LX Ukes fundraising concert.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Marcel Dupre.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until December 13: Ladies Night. Talks and filmsDunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Today, 7.30pm: Mindspaces: The Artist's Studio documentary screening. Sunday, 3pm: ''Belonging?'', talk by Dr Paola Voci.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Forsyth Barr Stadium, 130 Anzac Ave
•Saturday, 3pm: Despicable Me. Gold coin entry at Gate F.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Ancient Greek coins. Tomorrow: The Monowai. Saturday: New Zealand's native frogs. Sunday: The gold rush days. Monday: Rapa Nui. Tuesday: Mapoutahi pa. Wednesday: Japanese spider crab.
•Daily, 2.30pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'' talk in the H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
•Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions Gallery talk.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex Tour'', guided historical tour H.D. Skinner Annex.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
•Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
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.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Till November 30: artworks by Elizabeth Kempthorne.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•From tomorrow till December 11: ''The Jewellery Box'', works by local jewellers.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Till November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
•Till November 30: ''A History of Things I Once Had'', rear window project by Ted Whitaker and Rachel H. Allan.
•Ongoing: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Ongoing: ''Wild Life'', various artists.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
•Ongoing: Visiting artist projects by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano and Erica van Zon.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
•From Saturday till November 27: ''Site'', senior art students' exhibition. Open 10am-4pm Saturday, noon-4pm Monday-Thursday.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Till December 7: ''Close to Home'', photographs by Grahame Sydney.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Till November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Till November 28: ''Points of View'', paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Till November 27: ''Colour Sounds'' by Annie Smits Sandano.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Till November 30: ''I Can Hear Her Breathing'', featuring Helen Carter, Emma Farry, Liz Wootton and Rowan Holt.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•Until November 28: paintings by Jasmine Middlebrook.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Works by John White.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Till December 6: ''Dream City'' by Liz Rowe.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Till December 5: ''From Bamiyan to Puketapu'' by Peter Cleverley.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Till Saturday: ''Fabric Fantasy'' by Jeanette Hawker.
•From Wednesday till December 7: ''Eco Artists''.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Until November 30: ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow'', by Bob Kerr.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•From Saturday till December 17: New works by Michael Hight.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Till December 10: ''Parison Pacific'' by Luke Jacomb; new works by Mike Petre.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•From tomorrow till December 4: New work by Odelle Morshuis.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Till November 28: ''John Z Robinson + Annie Niven + Robert West = 15''.
•Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Edwards + Johann fundraising exhibition.
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.
•Till Sunday: ''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.
•Till February 15, 2015: contemporary jewellery by Bob Wyber.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Till January 11: ''European Treasure'', letters in French and Italian from the Reed Autograph Letters Collection.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Till November 30: Hinton Estate art exhibition, features works by Jan Rasmussen, Ron Esplin, Esther Dexter and Clark Esplin.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Till Saturday: works by Judy Ringland Stewart and Rosemary McQueen.
•From Sunday till December 6: works by Lisa Simpson and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Till January 7: works by photographer Murray Crawford.
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.
•Till 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.
