Gigs
Cromwell Presbyterian Church Hall, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Johnny Cash Tribute with Peter Caulton. Tickets from Cromwell i-Site.
Cromwell Town and Country Club, Melmore Tce.
•Sunday, 2pm: Cromwell Country Music Club.
Mornington Tavern, 36 Mailer St.
•Saturday: Sidewalk Sally.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, 50 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: ''Bloke Folk'', selection of male folk musicians.
Family fun
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 2pm: ''Once Upon a Sunday: Margaret Mahy Mayhem'', story time with Kaitrin McMullan.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''The Best Science Show in the History of the World Ever!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily 11am, also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
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
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 8pm: ''Modern Maps on Ancient Ground'', musical performance by Rob Thorne and Steve Cournane.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: The Southern Sinfonia presents Elgar's Cello Concerto.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Sunday, 11am and 2.30pm: New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing Teachers (Newzats) junior and senior singing competitions.
•Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; piano performance students' recital.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tomorrow, 2pm: Elm Grove School kapa haka group performance for Maori Language Week.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday, 1pm: King's and Queen's high schools and Otago Boys' and Girls' high schools kapa haka groups perform for Maori Language Week.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Sigfrid Karg-Elert and Josef Rheinberger.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
•Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera presents ''Mayfair Memories'', a programme of musical comedy and opera.
Film and theatre
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
•Today, 12.30pm: ''Lunchtime Bites'', a sample of the Fortune Theatre's upcoming play The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Talks and workshops
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Monday, 3.30pm: ''E-bike Workshop'', electric bike show and tell session with Nathan Parker.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 6.30pm: ''Raising Resilient Teens'', seminar by Responding to Tricky Teens author Karyn Chalk. Bookings essential: 474-3690.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
•Daily, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until Sunday: ''Stations of the Cross'', John Badcock; ''Fire and Earth'', South Canterbury pottery group.
•Monday to August 23: ''Artarama''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Until Sunday: ''Hinterland/Revival'' by Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry; ''Wonder Word'' by Emma Chalmers.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•''Mine Mine Mind'', Jim Cooper.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until August 9: ''Food For Thought'', photographic exhibition.
•Until September 8: Spotlight on Design - Matt McCutcheon.
Dunedin International Airport.
•July and August: Artist in the Terminal - Mark Sharma.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ''Crossing the Line'', rear window project by David Green.
•Until August 9: ''Private Utopia'', contemporary art from the British Council Collection.
•Until August 16: ''Lace Collars and Calico: Textiles and Dress in the work of Frances Hodgkins''.
•Until August 30: ''For Luck'', Zina Swanson.
•Until September 27: ''Parallel Play: Frances Hodgkins and her European Contemporaries''.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until August 30: ''The Bridge'', by Ioan Grigore.
•Until August 23: Woodworks by Damien McNamara.
•Until September 6: ''The Bridge'', by Burns Pollock; ''Forged'', by Johanna Zellmer; works by Motoko Watanabe.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Until August 7: ''Home Port'', Phillip Edwards.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local artwork.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until Saturday: ''Sense of Place'' group show.
•Sunday to August 22: ''Hakataramea Valley'', Nigel Wilson.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Until August 8: Oil paintings by Jampa Stuart.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until August 30: ''Referencing the Land'', paintings by Janet de Wagt.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Saturday to August 26: ''South Seas Idol'', Jenna Packer; ''Neke Atu I Te Tutaki I Te Kanohi'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until August 19: ''A Sense of Order'', Mark Mitchell; ''By Appointment'', Darryn George; ''The Review'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Until August 6: Prints by Manu Berry in response to the poems of Richard Reeve.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Closes today: ''Riders of the Storm'', paintings by James Bellaney.
Monday to August 27: ''History Repeats'', photography by Jenny Longstaff.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown
•''Earthrise'', paintings by Russell Moses.
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.
•Saturday to August 30: Edinburgh Realty Premier Art Awards exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
•Until September 27: 2015 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Until October 11: ''Dunedin City of Literature: The First 100 Years''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Until October 25: 15th birthday exhibition, ''Artist at Work'', by J.K. Weir. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: Peter Gregory and Marion Familton.
•Monday to August 15: Louise Thompson Parker and Lisa Simpson.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Until September 6: ''Cats 'n' Dogs: An Illustrated History''.
Union Hall, University of Otago campus.
•Monday to August 7: OUSA Art Week student art exhibition and sale.
