Gigs
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
• Saturday, 7.30-11pm: Alexandra Childcare Centre presents
Jody Direen Live in Concert. Doors open at 7pm. Tickets cost
$35 prepaid, $40 door sales and $300 for a group of 10.
Tickets on sale at Harcourts.
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Bland Park, Almond St, Waitati.
• Saturday, 11am-11pm: Waitati Music Festival 2013 (blues,
rock, punk, Celtic fusion and more!). $5 entry, kids free.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Every Friday 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with The Bill Martin
Trio.
Carrick Winery, Bannockburn.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Jackie Bristow with guest artist Mark Punch.
Tickets $25 available from Carrick cellar door or phone
445-3480.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Tonight, 9pm: Vorn - direct songs; honest, cynical,
sincere, hilarious and in many cases ridiculously catchy.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club - Jackie Bristow,
special guest Mark Punch. Wednesdays, 7.30pm: Open mike. All
performers and artists welcome. Free.
Coronation Hall, Maori Hill.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Vorn (see above).
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Not From Space and A Distant City. Ettrick
Hall, Ettrick.
• Tuesday, 8pm: The Eastern. Door sales and Ettrick Tavern
$20.
The Fork and Tap, Arrowtown.
• Saturday, 4pm: Vorn (see above).
Forsyth Barr Stadium, 130 Anzac Ave.
• Sunday, 5.30pm: 5.30pm Clara van Wel on stage, 6pm The
Adults on stage, 7pm Anika Boh & Hollie on stage, 8:30pm
Fat Freddy's Drop.
• Wednesday, 8pm: OUSA Comedy Show.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo
Cubans.
Re:Fuel, University of Otago.
• Tonight, 8pm: Mihirangi ''Somebody Shake The Tree'' Album
Tour.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands Roxburgh Rd.
• Sunday, 11,30am-2pm: Alistair Monteath plays.
Waitiri Creek Winery, Queenstown.
• Tuesday, 6pm: Winery Tour - Fat Freddys Drop, Anika, Boh
and Hollie, The Adults.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays until April 16, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme:
Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 12-1pm: Lunchtime snooker.
Play snooker on the grand billiard table. During
February.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tours for Tots'' - Parents and
caregivers: a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an
exhibition at the gallery.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Every Saturday and Sunday of February, 3.30pm: ''Liquefy
This!'' - see some real earthquake liquefaction from
Christchurch and liquefy some soil for yourself.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided
tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Roxburgh Sports Ground
• Saturday: Mt Benger A&P Show. A full day of family
entertainment: horse riding/jumping, pony classes, grand
parade, sheep/wool classes, children's pet parade, pavilion
competition.
Toitu, 31 Queen's Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 10-11am: Toitu Toddler Time - storyteller helps
uncover a museum full of stories and songs. This month,
dressing up as pioneers and discovering how Dunedin families
lived in the 1840s.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet
at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays, 9pm: Salsa music and dancing. All welcome, free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 6pm-7.30pm: Poetry with a Pulse: Prelude - Join
the first in a trio of unique live readings. Immerse yourself
in the poetry of Rhian Gallagher and Bernadette Hall.
• Tomorrow, 12.30-1.30pm: English folk guitarist Jake Wilson
brings the fated Scott expedition to life through music
before embarking on his own expedition to Antarctica.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Dance performance, choreographed by Hahna
Briggs, Caroline Plummer Fellow (Dance) at the University of
Otago, with costumes designed and props created by artist
Katrina Thompson.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays Psalm
Preludes by Herbert Howells.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Michael James Manaia, written by John
Broughton.
Talks and films
Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room, 547 Castle St,
Dunedin.
• Thursday, February 21, 4pm. Energy transition in the Czech
Republic: Future challenges and opportunities. Ondrej
Sumavsky, of the Charles University in Prague, talks about
the current energy situation in the Czech Republic and the
challenges it faces in transitioning to more sustainable
sources of energy. Free entry, all welcome.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: China Revealed: Great Wall - See it grow
in strength and breadth across China, as the icon of a
nation. (Duration 1 hour).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Yvonne Todd talk by Dr Catherine Fowler senior
lecturer in film, University of Otago, will discuss stillness
and movement, time, space and cinema in relation to the work
of Yvonne Todd, on display in the exhibition ''Wall of
Seahorsel''.
Northeast Valley Community Rooms, North Rd.
• Tonight, 7pm: The Vagina Monologues Northern Artery
presents - The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler. Part of One
Billion Rising - a global movement against violence to women.
$5, supper provided.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through February: Monday; Rakiriri, the
Dunedin volcano. Tuesday; Akan gold weights. Wednesday; The
mysterious rat king. Thursday; Kakapo. Friday; Osiris.
Saturday; Northern royal albatross. Sunday; The carved
gateway. Free.
• Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''.
Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Zoology Benham Building 346 Great King St.
• Tuesday, 7.40pm: ''Much more to whitebait than a tasty
fritter - Discovering our mysterious native galaxiids''. Lan
Pham, Department of Conservation. Room 215, level two.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until March 3: Sue Pearson, Barbara Pen, Kryssi Staikidis,
Kate Walker and Melanie Yazzie, ''Animal Sign/Animal Mind''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Caryl Watts paintings.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic
Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open daily 10am-4pm.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Opens Saturday: Claire Beynon. Olav Nielson and Kate
Alterio.
Bannockburn Country Store, Bannockburn.
• Until February 28: Arrowtown artist Pat Jones exhibiting.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Martin Thompson, ''New Works''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Local artist Fay Mitchell is having a exhibit of her 2012
works. Fay drives for the Southern District Hospital Board
and painting is her passion.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave,
Alexandra.
• Until February 28: ''Spotlight on Design'' Rachel
Hirabayashi.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until March 15: ''Natural Disasters'' - New Zealand's
natural environment is beautiful, but it can also be deadly.
Discover the strength of mother nature in this powerful
display by the Earthquake Commission. Ground floor.
• Until March 10: Mai i Rangiatea: the portrayal of Maori
myth and legend in print.
Dunedin International Airport.
• February: Anya Sinclair is ''Artist in the Terminal''
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until February 24: Jeffrey Harris, ''The Melbourne
Drawings''.
• Until March 3: ''True stories. Scripted Realities''.
• Until March 10: Philip James Frost, ''Forkboy''.
• Until March 10: Yvonne Todd, ''Wall of Seahorsel''.
• Until March 17: ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in
France 1820-1900''.
• Until April 7: ''Elsewhere'', contemporary work.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato, ''Reproduction of Double
Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and
Collectors''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the
billiard room of Horton House''. Eastern Southland Gallery,
Gore.
• Until April 7: Haunts of Dickens: Touring exhibition
celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles
Dickens. Admission free. Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm,
weekends and public holidays 1pm-4pm.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm, (03) 482-2080 and
(03) 425-0475.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until February 22: ''Nether Regions - Souvenirs of the
South'', Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Opens Saturday until April 13: ''The Liquid Dossier Nick
Austin''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic
precinct.
• Until Sunday: Ro Bradshaw as solo artist in a variety of
materials.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Various artists. Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm or by
appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until March 10: ''Old and New''. Paintings by Gore artist
Margaret Palmer McKenzie.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building,
47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Ongoing: new artists and work by Sarah Harper, John
Badcock, Sarah Blackler (ceramics) and Douglas Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Opens Satuday until March 13: Ian Scott ''Lattices'' and
Ray Ching ''Aesop's Kiwi Fables''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until March 6: Mike Crawford ''The Bird Collector'' and
Sally Smith ''No Boundaries''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until February 28: Artists James Bellaney ''The recent
violence he represents, come to be emotional simplicity'' and
Murray Eskdale ''Place''. Noon-5.30pm weekdays and noon-4pm
Saturdays.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St,
Arrowtown.
• Until March 1: new works.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Until Sunday: ''Worlds Within'', by Jenny Longstaff. 9.30am
to 4.30pm daily.
• Artist talks: ''Artistic inspiration from nature'',
February 9, 10, 16 and 17, 1pm.
Otago Art Society, OAS Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station,
first floor.
• Until February 24: ''Crème de la Crème'' 25 recognised
invited OAS artists have submitted more than 100
two-dimensional works and jewellery. Daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until May 5: ''Canterbury Quakes''.
• ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the
Land''.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until March 10: ''Mementos of the South''.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends:
10am-4pm.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery: a continuously
updated exhibition.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello roads,
Otago Peninsula.
• Monday-Sunday,10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Monday-Friday, noon-5.30pm; Saturday,
10am-2pm.
Port Royal Cafe, Port Chalmers.
• February: ''Hope Machines'', new works by Ross Davidson.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St,
Invercargill.
• Until February 24: CS Art ''Inscapes''.
• Until March 17: Garry Freemantle ''Digging Deep''
• Until April 7: Peter Balton ''On Being There''.
• Until April 28: Royal Society of New Zealand and New
Zealand Portrait Gallery ''The Art of Science''.
• Ongoing: ''Southland 150''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open Friday-Sunday, 1-5pm, or by appointment,(03) 481-1805.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart
St.
• February 11-23: Louise Thompson Parker and Lorna Isaac.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until March 5: Oils by the late Kenneth Nelson, past
president of the Otago Art Society.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray
Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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