Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd, Port Chalmers.
•Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Jazz High Tea'', bookings essential.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Tomorrow, 9.30pm: Triumphs, Bad Sav and Evil Kid. R18.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, 50 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: John Egenes.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
•Tomorrow, 8.30pm: The Whirling Eddys.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8am-11pm: Dance, with music by Breakthru.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday, 6pm and 8pm: Shayne Carter.
•Sunday, 7pm: Skyscraper Stan.
Family fun
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 11am-3pm: ''Storylines Family Day'', featuring children's authors, face-painting, prizes, crafts, sausage sizzle, etc.
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
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: Takiri Ensemble opera performance.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
•Today to Saturday: Band of Magicians, four-piece magic supergroup. Shows 7pm daily, also 2pm Saturday.
St Andrew's Anglican Church, cnr Blyth and Donegal Sts, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 3pm: Group sing-along to celebrate spring, led by Mark and Emma Wilson and Mason Stretch.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music by Edward Cuthbert Bairstow.
Film and theatre
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: Bullet Heart Club presents Daffodils, contemporary New Zealand musical production.
Waikouaiti Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Fawlty Towers dinner theatre show. Tickets from Waihemo Pharmacy, Palmerston, or The Pharmacy Depot, Waikouaiti.
Talks and workshops
Alexandra Community House,14-20 Centennial Ave.
•Wednesday, 9am-4.30pm: Film-making workshop for ages 11-18. Limited spaces, register at www.theoutlookforsomeday.net/workshops
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 11am-3pm: ''Zine Zone'', zine workshop with graphic novelist Spencer Hall. Bookings essential.
•Saturday, noon-1pm: Young writers' workshop with Kate de Goldi. Aimed primarily at high-school-aged writers. Limited space, bookings essential.
•Wednesday, noon: Barbara Wheeler talks to Friends of the Library about Dunedin Botanic Garden.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 3pm: Dr Christine Whybrew discusses the works in the ''History in the Taking'' exhibition.
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.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
•Wednesday, 2pm: ''Travel Tales''. Hear about some recent travel to Singapore, Malaysia and Tonga.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until Sunday: ''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.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•New paintings by Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Tomorrow to October 4: ''Reflections'', commemorative exhibition for Alexandra artist Doug Ayson.
•Until September 8: Spotlight on Design - Matt McCutcheon.
Croydon Aircraft Heritage Centre, Mandeville.
•Until August 28: Intrepid Art Group exhibition.
Dunedin International Airport.
•August: Artist in the Terminal - Mark Sharma.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Opens Saturday, until November 1: ''Wanderings'' works from the collection on the theme of travel.
•Opens Saturday, until November 15: ''History in the Taking: 40 Years of Photoforum''.
•Until August 30: ''For Luck'', Zina Swanson.
•Until September 20: ''Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours'', Gabrielle Amodeo.
•Until September 27: ''Parallel Play: Frances Hodgkins and her European Contemporaries''.
•Until November 8: ''The Sargood Gift: A Tribute to the Sargood Family''.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
The Fix, Frederick St.
•Until August 31: Paintings by Kerry Fenton-Johns.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: Woodworks by Damien McNamara.
•Until August 30: ''The Bridge'', by Ioan Grigore.
•Until September 6: ''The Bridge'', by Burns Pollock; ''Forged'', by Johanna Zellmer; works by Motoko Watanabe.
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: ''Hakataramea Valley'', Nigel Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Until September 2: ''Nearby'', 50 local landscapes by Liz Abbott.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until August 30: ''Referencing the Land'', paintings by Janet de Wagt.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until Wednesday: ''South Seas Idol'', Jenna Packer; ''Neke Atu I Te Tutaki I Te Kanohi'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, until September 16: ''Signal'' by Graham Bennett; ''The Catchments'' by Wayne Barrar.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Closes today: ''Don't Quite Belong'', photographs by Samantha Matthews.
•Opens tomorrow 5pm, until September 3: ''Black Mirror'', paintings by Brendan Jon Philip.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until August 27: ''History Repeats'', photography by Jenny Longstaff.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Earthrise'', paintings by Russell Moses.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Until August 30: Edinburgh Realty Premier Art Awards exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until August 30: ''Art and Light'', artists' responses to scientific research. Open 10am-3pm daily in the H.D. Skinner Annex.
•Until September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
•Until September 27: 2015 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
•Ongoing: ''Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
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.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until Sunday: ''pocket star'', by Miranda Parkes.
•Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat, 11am-4pm.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until August 29: Loris Ives and Kate Springfield.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Until September 6: ''Cats 'n' Dogs: An Illustrated History''.
