The Guide: What's on this week

Gigs
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
 •Today, 8pm: Andrew Keoghan.

Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
 •Tomorrow, 9pm: Gravemine, Ostrader Aarvark, Scum hammer, guests.
 •Saturday: Triumphs, Bottle.

Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
 •Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club open mike night. Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
 •Saturday, 8pm: Both Sides of the Line.

Millers Flat Tavern, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
 •Saturday, 8pm: Two-piece band playing country/rock music.

Sherwood Manor Hotel, 554-558 Frankton Rd, Queenstown.
 •Saturday, 7pm: Kathryn Jones and Steve Passfield.

Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
 •Saturday: ''Family Styles'' with King Leo.

Family fun
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
 •Saturday and Sunday, 9.30am-4pm: Cromwell model railway exhibition.

Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
 •Tuesday to Sunday, 11.30am-3pm: Tractor-train rides depart near duck pond.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
 •Daily, 11am: Takahe feeding.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
 •Daily, 11am; also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
 •Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''Jurassic Bugs'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.

University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
 •Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.

Music and performance
Athenaeum Underground, Moray Pl (opposite First Church).
 •Today to Saturday, 6pm and 8pm: Metamorphosis, dance and live music performance (Fringe Festival).

Dog With Two Tails Cafe and Bar, 25 Moray Pl.
 •Today-Saturday, 9pm: Dunedin Fringe Festival Club late night shows.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
 •Sunday, 3.15pm: GASP Dance Collective solo performance (Fringe Festival).

Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
 •Sunday, 2.30pm: Organ concert by John Wells.

Marama Hall, University of Otago.
 •Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; Songs of Innocence and Experience, Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano), Terence Dennis (piano).

New Orleans Hotel, Arrowtown.
 •Today, 8pm: Gish vs Mincer, comedy show.

Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
 •Today, 6pm: Suitcase Theatre presents Poetry for the people (Fringe Festival).

The Rock Bar and Grill, 21 Tarbert St, Alexandra.
 •Tomorrow, 8pm: Gish vs Mincer, comedy show.

St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
 •Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Maurice Durufle and Marcel Dupre.

Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
 •Today and tomorrow, 8pm: Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School - Decadence Through the Decades, cabaret performance for audience to sketch (Fringe Festival).

Film and theatre
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
 •Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime Theatre, 2'36''.

Clyde Memorial Hall, cnr Newcastle and Fraser Sts, Clyde.
 •Tomorrow 7.30pm; Saturday and Sunday 2pm and 7.30pm: Alexandra Musical Society presents I want my mummy,children's theatre production.

Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
 •Today, 12.30pm: ''Lunchtime Bites'', sample the Fortune Theatre's upcoming production The War Play.

Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
 •Tomorrow to Sunday, 6.20pm: Home, play by Freya Desmarais (Fringe Festival).

Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
 •Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents The Big City. Memberships or three-film passes can be purchased on the night. No casual admission this week.

Talks and workshops
Dorothy Browns Cinema, Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
 •Tomorrow, 7pm: Artist's talk by Max Gimblett, in conjunction with his exhibition at Nadine Milne Gallery. Bookings essential.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
 •Tuesday, 5.30pm: Hard Country, author talk by Robin Robilliard. Bookings essential.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
 •Sunday, 3pm: Mary McFarlane will talk about her installation Room Temperature.

Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
 •Tuesday, 5.30pm: Talk by Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris, authors of Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History.

Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
 •Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
 •Until tomorrow: Brain Awareness Week. Full schedule of talks on Otago Museum website.
 •Saturday, 11am: ''Back in the Day'', talk about the life and work of Ralph Hotere by some of his friends, whanau and contemporaries, in conjunction with the ''Intersections'' exhibition.
 •Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
 •Daily, 1pm: ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts'' exhibition talk. Daily from Saturday, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.

Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
 •Tomorrow, 7pm: ''The Shipping Interests of John Jones'', author talk by Ian Farquhar.

Exhibitions
26 Tees St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to Monday: Sculpture by Dugal Armour (Outside Art Festival).

Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
 •Bronze native bird sculptures by Mike Norris.

Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
 •Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.

Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
 •Works by Pauline Bellamy. Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.

Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
 •Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Local Supercluster'', Michael Harrison.

Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
 •Tomorrow to May 31: ''Their war: Our Story - Gallipoli & ANZAC'', WW100 commemorative exhibition.
 •Until April 24: Native bird sculptures by Luke Anthony.

Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
 •Opens tonight, until April 8: ''Symbiosis'', photography by Mike Langford and Jackie Ranken.

Custom House Gallery, Tyne St, Oamaru.
 •Tomorrow to Sunday, 8pm: ''Vai Moana'', animated projection by Michel Tuffery and N8VLaB (Outside Art Festival).
 •Until April 4: ''Queen of Other Worlds'', paintings by Dylan Prujean, Debbie Price-Ewen, Donna Demente and Julia Sutherland.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
 •Until March 31: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
 •Until April 5: ''The town wrist watch'', Nick Austin.
 •Until April 12: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
 •Until April 26: ''Dodge'', Evan Woodruffe (rear window project).
 •Until May 17: ''Room Temperature'', Mary McFarlane.

Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
 •Until April 19: ''Selected Works from the Bosshard Browne Collection'' and ''Four Decades: Selected Drawings 1970-2003'', both by Jeffrey Harris.

Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to March 29: ''Look Again'', works from the permanent collection selected by local school students.
 •Until April 6: ''Tonga `I Onopooni'', contemporary Tongan artists.
 •Until April 30: ''Memorial Oaks''.

Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
 •Carved and painted surfboards by Aaron Kereopa, curated by Toi o Tahuna gallery.

Grainstore Gallery, Harbour St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to Monday: ''Signs & Sights'', Donna Demente and Watts Davis (Outside Art Festival). Open 10am-4pm daily.

Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island. 
 •Pottery by Danny Moorwood.

Hugh and Wynona Prebble, 23 Foyle St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to Monday: Contemporary sculpture in wood, metal and stone (Outside Art Festival). Open 9am-6pm dailyHullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
 •Until March 29: ''A road less travelled'', photographs by Eric Schusser.
 •Gallery open 10am-4pm daily.

Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
 •Until tomorrow: Works on paper. Open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by arrangement.

Lady Thorn Rhododendron Dell, Church St, Port Chalmers.
 •Monday, 11am-3.30pm: Historic photos of Port Chalmers on display.

Loan & Merc, Harbour St, Oamaru (top floor).
 •Saturday to Monday: Aoraki Polytech student art exhibition (Outside Art Festival).

Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
 •Until April 8: ''Still'' by Eliot Coates, John Parker and Christine Webster; ''The Social Fabric'' by Michael Shepherd.

Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
 •Until April 1: ''Queens Down'', Emily Valentine; ''Dog & Pony Show'', Joanna Braithwaite.

Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
 •Closes today: ''Shadow Self'', Salon des Femmes artists (Fringe Festival).

Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
 •Until March 27: ''From Karitane to Ngapara'', paintings by Joanna Tokona.
 •Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.

Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
 •Opens tomorrow: ''Paradise Valley'', Max Gimblett.

North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
 •Until April 30: ''From Little Towns in a Far Land'', World War 1 centennial exhibition.

The Oamaru Textile Emporium, 13 Tyne St.
 •Saturday to Monday,10am-4pm: Tote Art Exhibition (Outside Art Festival).

Oasis, Harbour St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to Monday: drawings and paintings by Katy Waite (Outside Art Festival). Open 11am-4.30pm daily.

Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
 •Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.

Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
 •Until April 12: Otago Art Society Summer exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
 •Saturday to September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.

Until May 10: ''Bugs: The Mega World of Minibeasts'', in the Special Exhibitions gallery.
 •Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.

Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
 •Until May 3: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.

Pottery on Tyne, 44 Tyne St, Oamaru.
 •Saturday to Monday, 10am-3pm: ''Pots of Colour'' (Outside Art Exhibition).

Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
 •Tomorrow to June 14: ''By the Author of Waverley'', exhibition featuring Sir Walter Scott.

Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
 •Until Sunday: ''Under the Cracks, Behind the Shadows'', Helen Back.

South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
 •Until April 30: ''South Coast Exhibition'', works by Lindsay Crooks, J.K. Weir and Fienze C.
 •Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday.

Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
 •''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.

Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
 •Until Sunday: ''The Unbeautiful, the Unloved, the Hated and Despised'', various artists (Fringe Festival).
 •Monday to April 9: Works by Jo Howard and Rosemary McQueen.

Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
 •New works by Sarah Anderson, Lizzie Carruthers, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue, Rebecca Stewart and Jim Wheeler.

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
 •Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
 •Victory Medal, a sculpture by Helen Pollock.

University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
 •Until May 29: ''Aliens, Androids & Unicorns: the Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection''Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
 •Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.

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