Gigs
52Dundas, 52 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Sarah Jones.
Alexandra Community House, 12-20 Centennial Ave.
•Today, 5.30pm: Praguematique. Outside if weather permits (bring a rug or a chair).
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Susan Alcorn.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Today, 8.30pm: Violet-Ohs, Battlephant album release.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Steve Abel with Reb Fountain.
•Saturday, 8pm: Eden Mulholland, Hunted Haunted album launch.
The Commercial, 237 Main South Rd.
•Saturday, 9pm: Th' Leftovers.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Sere with Opposite Sex and Alien Beach Party.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Iron Mammoth, Bam Bam Bam single release.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Lucinda Lovepants presents Scurvy Dogs, King Weasel's Army and Silly Drunken Bastards.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Hana Fahy, Sunley, Some Other Creature and Karl Bray.
Normanby Tavern, 454 North Rd.
•Sunday, 2pm: Bluegrass jam led by Valley Bluegrass. All bluegrass instruments welcome.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Tomorrow People.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Triumphs, Beekeeper/Bastardknocker album release.
Family fun
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow, 6.30pm: Street party and fireworks display after dark. Market stalls, live music, night shopping, food and drink.
•Sunday, 9am-1pm: Cromwell Farmers and Craft Market.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
•Tuesday-Thursday 10.30am-3.30pm; weekends 10.30am-4pm: Ten-minute tractor-train rides around the lower Botanic Garden. Weather dependent.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 2pm-4pm: Diwali festival of light celebration and workshops. Geraldine, South Canterbury.
•Today to Sunday: Geraldine Arts and Plants Festival. Markets, entertainment, exhibitions, demonstrations, etc.
Maniototo Area School, 15 Caulfeild St, Ranfurly.
•Tomorrow, 12.45pm: School Gala Day.
Oamaru Heritage Precinct, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: 2015 Victorian Heritage Celebrations, with an Alice in Wonderland Theme. Programme of events at www.vhc.co.nz
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Opens Saturday: ''Einstein: 100 Years of the Theory of General Relativity'', interactive exhibition.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''The Greatest Science Show in the History of the World Ever!'', free with Discovery World admission. Daily 11am, also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with forest admission.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Saturday, 10am-noon: ''Town and Country Kids' Day'', farm animals, treats, etc.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and performance
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
•Sunday, 7pm: ''653 Days'', concert of music composed by Mozart Fellow Jeremy Mayall. Bookings essential: 479-8885.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
•Wednesday, 8pm: Octagon Poets Collective reading, featuring guest poets Carolyn McCurdie and Emma Neale.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 12.30pm: Chamber choir performance in the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
•Saturday, 8pm: ''[Still Moments]'', minimalist ambient music created by Jeremy Mayall.
•Sunday, 4pm: Diwali dance performance by Natyaloka School of Indian Dance.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin RSA Choir year-end concert. Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians November recital meeting featuring Febriani Idrus, Honor McKellar accompanied by Vivienne McLean, and The Dunedin Harmony Chorus.
Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, Maryhill Tce.
•Sunday, 2pm: The Choristers afternoon tea concert.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays early organ works, to include music by John Bull.
Film and theatre
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Saturday to December 12: Flagons & Foxtrots.
Otematata Community Centre, 1 West Rd, Otematata.
•Saturday: ''The Midtown Boys - Vegas to Motown'' dinner theatre show. Bookings: 0800 743 526.
Talks and workshops
Dunedin Chinese Garden, cnr Rattray and Cumberland Sts.
•Sundays, 2pm: Chinese calligraphy classes with a Chinese master calligrapher.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 7pm: Talk by Gecko Press editor Julia Marshall to launch the University of Otago Centre for the Book's annual research symposium. Booking essential: shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz or donald.kerr@otago.ac.nzTuesday, 6.15pm: Writer Steve Braunias talks about his new book The Scene of the Crime. Bookings: 474-3690.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Saturday, 3pm: ''Hokusai's Great Wave: What was he thinking?'', talk by Associate Professor David Bell, in association with the ''36 Views of Mt Fuji'' exhibition.
Guthrie Pavilion, Bayfield Park, Andersons Bay.
•Tomorrow, 4pm: New Zealand Psychological Society Otago-Southland branch public presentation, with guest speakers from Chatbus, Youthline, and Highlanders mental skills coach Natalie Van Leeuwen.
Maniototo Community Arts Centre, Reade St, Ranfurly.
•Saturday and Sunday: Painting workshop with Megan Huffadine. Contact: Kim 444-9652.
Nga Maara Hall, 63 North Rd, Dunedin.
•Saturday: Singing workshop led by choir leader Bert van Dijk. Details and registration: hamilton.terryc@gmail.com
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 2pm: Korowai (Maori cloak) weaving class with Robin Hill.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WW1'' exhibition talk.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until November 22: ''Polychrome'', Aoraki Polytechnic exhibition.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Art Bay Gallery, 13 Marine Pde, Queenstown.
•''Selected Works'', Craig S. Primrose, Rachael Errington and Grant Hanna.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•Works by Steev Peyroux.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•''Busts'', Rob McHaffie.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until November 29: Art Gold Awards 2015 exhibition.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, lower garden.
•Until January 16: ''Valley Artists: Out and About'', various artists.
Dunedin Airport.
•Until January 15: J.K. Weir.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday to February 28: ''Archives: Te Wahi Pounamu'', Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams.
•Until Sunday: ''History in the Taking: 40 Years of Photoforum''.
•Until November 29: ''36 Views of Mt Fuji'', Katsushika Hokusai.
•Until November 29: ''Sublime Worlds'', Martin Thompson.
•Until February 21: ''Stranger in Strange Land'', by Jae Hoon Lee.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until December 6: ''The Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition'', presented by the Botanical Art Society of New Zealand.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes tomorrow: ''Solo'', cast-glass works by Di Tocker.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, until December 5: ''In and around the village - Waitati'', paintings by Jacob Feenstra.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•''New Works'', by Thomas Elliott.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local art.
Hocken Library, 90 Anzac Ave.
•Until February 13: ''We Drove Here'', Hocken and Otago Motor Club Trust exhibition.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Closes Sunday: ''Cross Culture'', Lynne Wilson and Rachel Hirabayashi.
Kiki Beware, 344 George St.
•Until November 27: ''...And Other Fables'', prints and art by Emma Francesca.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until December 6: ''Out on a Limb'', fibre art by the COOTS collective.
Lot 3 cafe and art space, 2 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
•Until November 29: ''Southern Light'', Jeremy Town.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Closes Wednesday: ''The Geometric Figure'', Paul Dibble; ''Ardour'', Lorraine Rastorfer.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Saturday to December 9: ''Conversations'', Layla Walter; ''Dreams from Mirror World'', Charlotte Handy.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Opens tomorrow, 5pm: ''This Changes Everything'', James Robinson.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until November 26: ''Pick Up Six'', multimedia exhibition by Annie Nevin, John Z Robinson and Robert P. West.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Kermadec Islands, New Blueland'', Elizabeth Thomson.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until November 22: ''Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until January 31: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WW1'', in the 1877 gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Opens tomorrow 6pm, until December 11: ''Dromos'', Cobi Taylor. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, 11am-4pm.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Closes Sunday: Loris Ives and Lorna Isaac.
•Monday to November 22: Riki Julin and Jo Howard.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Until February 28: ''Life on the Edge: Otago Harbour Communities''.
Vortex Gallery, 104 Bond St, Dunedin.
•Closes Saturday: ''New Light'', Robert Piggott.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
