Gigs
50dundas, 50 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Lutz Keller.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Friday, 8.30pm: Demonska, KWA, Bazooka, Death Call.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Karin Reid and Trevor Coleman, jazz duo.
Peregrine Wines, 2137 Gibbston Highway, Gibbston.
•Sunday, 5pm: Fat Freddy's Drop.
South Dunedin Community Hall, 261 King Edward St.
•Saturday, 8pm: South Dunedin Dance Club dance, with live music. All welcome.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Sunday, noon-2pm: Alistair Monteath.
Family Fun
Clyde Historic Precinct, Sunderland St, Clyde.
•Sunday, 10am-2pm: Clyde on Sunday markets. Food, music, stalls.
Cromwell Early Learning Centre, 53 Monaghan St.
•Saturday, 11am: Jonathan Usher magic show.
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•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 Chinese Garden, corner Rattray St and Cumberland St.
•Monday, 7.45pm: Chinese New Year celebrations. Performances, food stalls, etc. Fireworks at 10pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 2pm: ‘‘Once Upon a Sunday: Treaty Tales'', Waitangi Day storytime with Kaitrin McMullan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday to Monday, 10am-4.30pm: Make a paper-chain-link dragon for Chinese New Year.
•Saturday to Monday, 10am-4.30pm: Design a New Zealand flag to celebrate Waitangi Day.
Earnslaw Park, Beach St, Queenstown.
•Saturday, from 9am: Creative Queenstown arts and crafts market.
Hayes Engineering and Homestead, Hayes Rd (off Ida Valley-Omakau Rd), Oturehua.
•Sunday, 10am-5pm: Historical engineering works open day, with live music from Valley Bluegrass.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•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.
•Daily: The Perpetual Guardian Planetarium, several shows throughout the day. Bookings essential.
Pembroke Park, Wanaka.
•Sunday, from 10am: Wanaka Sunday craft market.
Pioneer Park, Kenmare St, Alexandra.
•Saturday, from 10am: Alexandra Summer Markets.
The Octagon, Dunedin Central.
•Monday, 7.15pm: Chinese New Year dragon parade from the Octagon to Dunedin Chinese Garden.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and Performance
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Saturday, 4pm: Lion Dance performance for Chinese New Year.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: David McAtamney, accompanied by Judy Faris (piano). Supported by Paul Tamati and Anna van Riel.
Lauder, Central Otago.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: Lauder Ukulele Festival 2016.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays popular organ music chosen by audience ballot.
Talks and Workshops
Dunedin Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
•Sunday, 10am-4pm: Members of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild will demonstrate their craft for World Embroidery Day.
Dunedin Chinese Garden, cnr Rattray and Cumberland Sts.
•Sundays, 2pm: Chinese calligraphy classes with Chinese master calligrapher.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: Treaty of Waitangi talk by Mark Brunton.
•Wednesday, 11.15am: ‘‘Tour for Tots'', baby-friendly half-hour tour of an 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.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-Iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until February 21: ‘‘I Am/We Are'', Nigel Brown.
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.
•‘‘Oamaru Belles'', new works by Katherine Kovacs and Donna Demente.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Until February 14: ‘‘Southern Waters'', oil paintings by Pauline Bellamy.
Bistro Gentil, 76A Golf Course Rd.
•Until February 29: Prints by Shane Cotton. Open Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm.
Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd.
•Until March 1: ‘‘Sculpture at Carrick'', various artists.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until February 29: ‘‘A Roundup of Central Otago Artists''. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, Lower Garden.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Botanical Expressions'', by members of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild. Open daily 10pm-4pm.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday to December 31: ‘‘Exploded Worlds'', works from the gallery's collection.
•Until February 21: ‘‘Stranger In Strange Land'', by Jae Hoon Lee.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Archives: Te Wahi Pounamu'', Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams.
•Until March 20: ‘‘Renaissance Days'', Jeffrey Harris.
•Until April 3: ‘‘The Future is a Do-Over'', curated by Ane Tonga.
•Until April 10: ‘‘Sitting for Frances'', portraits by Frances Hodgkins.
•Ongoing: ‘‘Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Closes Sunday: Paintings by Euan Macleod.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Wicked Stitch'', mixed media works by Val Griffith Jones.
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.
•Until February 20: ‘‘Susurrus'', oil paintings by Nigel Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio And Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Today to February 27: Selected works by Jo Ogier and Marilynn Webb.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Lakes District Museum And Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until February 14: ‘‘Ambi-Dexterous'', paintings by Esther Dexter.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until Wednesday: ‘‘Small & Key'' and ‘‘Aurora: Part One'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until March 2: ‘‘The Earl Street Journal''.
•Saturday until March 2: ‘‘New Works'' features Justin Boroughs, Nigel Brown, Zena Elliott, Bridie Henderson, Michael Hight, John Parker, Emily Siddell and Katherine Smyth.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until February 26: ‘‘Diorama - games with colour & light'', new works by Marion Mertens.
Mt Difficulty Winery, 73 Felton Rd, Bannockburn.
•Works by Odelle Morshuis.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•‘‘Te Raumati'' (Summer) exhibition.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until March: ‘‘Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Saturday to March 6: ‘‘Impact Summer'' exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until May 8: ‘‘Hakui: Women Of Kai Tahu''. Ongoing: ‘‘Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Until March 31: Paintings by Lizzie Carruthers.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•‘‘Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 lower Stuart St.
•Until Sunday: Works by Lisa Simpson and Kate Springford.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Life On The Edge: Otago Harbour Communities''.
Vortex Gallery, 104 Bond St, Dunedin.
•Ongoing: Works by Robert Piggott. Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am-3pm.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
•Saturday to Monday: Open studio and gallery. Open 11am-4pm daily.
