A look at what's happening around Dunedin.Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Bath St.
Thursday, 10pm: "Cooh" featuring Ivan Sashev Shopov wth support from Devilution, Lightly Toasted, Plan B, ODC and Darnikal.
Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Tonight, 8pm: The Rusty String Sessions featuring Matt Langley, Tim Moore, Marlon Williams and Nadia Reid.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Friday, 8pm: Ethanol 58, Doppler, The Zoup.
Saturday, 8pm: The Broken Heartbreakers Wintersun album release tour with Bond Street Bridge and Death by Silo.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin.
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Every Thursday: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Saturday, 8pm: The Fiddy Club - Songwriters evening.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St.
Sunday, 7.30pm: Peter Madill. Ra Cafe and Bar, 21, the Octagon.
Friday, 9.30pm: Sea Beast.
Refuel, Otago University.
Friday, 9pm: MC Stormtroopa, Cartoon (Wellington), Golden Axe (Auckland) with local supporting acts TFF and The Hyenas.
Tuesdays, 8.30pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel.
Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
Tomorrow, 8pm, open mike and Black Star Art Auction.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Every Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, Fridays, 10.30am. Free.
Cromwell Public Library
Wednesday June 23: Story & Craft 2pm-3pm "Peacock".
Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult. Phone (03) 445-0213.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Every Wednesday 10.30am, story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 11.15am: "Tours for Tots".
Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Fridays, 1.30-2.30pm: preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Fridays 3.45pm-4.45pm in the Downes Room: Book Club for Kids.
Tuesdays, 11am: story time, suitable for preschool children and their caregivers.
The Octagon, Dunedin.
Saturday, from 5.30pm: Midwinter Carnival featuring a "Creatures of the Sea" themed lantern procession.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds, free.
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, atrium level 1: children's creative activities.
Every Saturday and Sunday during June, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Make a Melanesian Mask - modelled on the masks of Papua New Guinea.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Friday, 7pm-8pm: Freaky Friday - an after-dark museum adventure. Suitable for ages 7-12. Free, bookings required.
Port Chalmers Library.
Preschool story time, Wednesdays, 11am.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 2.15pm: "Double Agents", a sociographic movement work involving two University of Otago performers and organised by Dr Larry Lavender, writer and teacher of dance and creativity from the University of North Carolina.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Sunday, 7pm: Missa Dominicalis by Viadana (1609) for soloist and organ. Karen Knudson (organ) Rosemary Tarbotton (mezzo).
Regent Theatre, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Burn the Floor, direct from Broadway - a new Latin and ballroom dancing production.
Oamaru Opera House, Thames St, Oamaru.
Friday, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital featuring Wendy Eckhardt, soprano, and Richard Bowering, bass. Accompanist June Cameron.
Otago Girls High School Hall.
Saturday, 8pm: The Southern Consort of Voices celebrates its 30th anniversary with a recital.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Tom Kelly; Saturday: Anthony Berry.
St Hilda's Collegiate Chapel, 2 Cobden St.
Saturday, 2pm: Farewell and fundraising concert for violist Helen Bevin. Entry by donation.
Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
Until July 3, 7.30pm except Sunday, June 27: 2pm. No performance on June 28 or July 1.
Kindly Leave the Stage, by John Chapman.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until July 10, 10.30am and 1pm Monday-Saturday: The Frog Prince.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sundays, 1.30pm and Wednesdays, 12.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Saturday, 3pm: Chinese Film Season: The Knot.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
Tuesday, 6pm: Joe Bennett talks about his latest book, Hello Dubai.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
Daily gallery talks for June: Monday: "Rapa Nui"; Tuesday: "Brushtail possum"; Wednesday: "The Japanese spider crab"; Thursday: "Indian monkeys"; Friday: "Pre-dynastic Egyptian stone vases"; Saturday: "Matariki"; Sunday: "The Vault - Staff Series".
Special exhibition gallery daily at 4.30pm: "Long Live the Modern".
Until June 27, every Sunday, 2pm: Q & A with the collection and research team.
This Sunday: Scott Reeves, collection co-ordinator, humanities.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening What Lies Beneath, Signs of Tsunami and The Missing Miners.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: Author talk - Emma Farry.
Exhibitions
Amisfield Bistro, 10 Lake Hayes Rd, Arrowtown.
Until July 12: Simon Taylor: "Wakatipu Valley Landscapes".
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown.
Until July 5: "Goodbye Blue Monkey" by Tony Cribb.
Art Upstairs, cnr Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
June: Watercolours by Adrian M. Cave and Maurice Middleditch.
"Ferns and Forms", by Denise Rackley.
New Matukituki Valley series by Nigel Wilson.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
"Paperworks IV, 2010" featuring new works from Michel Tuffery, Marilynn Webb, Sam Foley, Jenny Dolezel, Olav Nielsen, Steev Peyroux, Greg Lewis, Catherine Garrett, Liz Rowe, Geoff Williams, Don McAra, Brian Strong, John Toomer and more.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn.
Megan Huffadine: small sculptural works.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
Until July 15: Artists including Barry Cleavin, Chris Gaskin, J.Z. Robinson, J. S. Parker, Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, Marion Mewburn, Jose Jay, Annie Baird and others.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Until July 10: "Nice to meet you Eddie Clemens and Simon Lawrence".
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Laurence Aberhart: "Across the Bridge of Sighs".
From Saturday: Kushana Bush.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until June 30: "Central Rocks!", photographic competition. Open 9am-6pm.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
Until August 20: "All Aboard" - The Ernie Webber railway collection.
Dowling Street Project, Milford House, Dowling St.
Until June 27: Winter Show. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Ends Sunday: Wayne Barrar: "An Expanding Subterra".
Until August 1, on the Big Wall: "Jan van der Ploeg: Dignity".
Until August 29: "Frances Hodgkins and Morocco", curated by Dr Roger Collins.
Until September 19: Alicia Frankovich: "Effigies".
Until September 26: "Seraphine Pick".
Survey exhibition bringing together 80 works made between 1994 and 2009, accompanied by an illustrated publication, featuring essays and responses to individual works by art writers.
From Saturday until August 8: Albrecht Dürer and 16th-century German printmaking.
Eats Cafe, Dowling St.
Ends tomorrow, "Green Man Carvings", by Pav Pawlowicz.
First Church Heritage Centre (rear of First Church), 415 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
Until mid-July: "From the Past to the Present". Craft display. Gold coin donation.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
Ends tomorrow; "Me v. 2", new works by Shane Hansen.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until June 30: "Incalmo", new glass by Katie Brown and "Do The Dance", new sculptures by Llew Summers.
The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
"Sweet As", prints by Jason Kelly, Rita Angus, Hamish Allan, Ron Esplin, Barry Ross Smith, Diana Adams.
Chairs by James Stewart, ceramics by Marjorie Hay, Ro McQueen, Judy Ringland Stewart and others.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
Until July 10: "Past and present", works by Heather Maxwell. Open Wednesday to Friday 11am-6pm. Saturday 11am-4pm.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Until July 17: "Forever After - Conversations with the Past" and "The Labours of Herakles". Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
Until July 5: "Back of Beyond", landscape photography by Eric Schusser.
Until July 2: "Dwell", hand-painted photographs by Annemarie Hope-Cross.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
"Savage, Hardy and Mariner". Sculpture by Grant Wylie.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until July 14: Simon Clark, "A New Coat of Paint".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
Until July 7: Neal Palmer, "Woven Paths". Vivid, accurate, larger-than-life paintings of native flora.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
Manu Berry: "Watermarks".
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open 10am-4pm daily.
Until July 4: 134th annual exhibition "ABSTRACT". Incorporating the Gaye Rowcroft awards and Lula Currie award.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
"The Vault", Neil Pardington.
Otago wildlife photography.
"Long Live the Modern".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", interactive exhibition about Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until August 29: "War Brides - Leap of Faith", by Bev Tosh, daughter of a World War 2 New Zealand pilot and his Canadian war bride.
Until July 25: "My Invented History", by Victoria McIntosh. Exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Adult Adoption Information Act and reflecting on the link between ancestry and identity.
Until August 29: "Just Passing Through - Celebrity visitors to Dunedin". Remembering visits by the Beatles, Batman and James Bond, Antarctic explorers and famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope. We also invite visitors to add their memories of other famous visitors who just passed through. Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until July 4: Riki Julin and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until June 29: Works by local artist Justin Morshuis.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
Until June 30: "Night garden", collages by Michaela Cox.
Until July 9: "Moment", solargraphy by Chris Reid.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
Until June 30: Denise Sabourin.
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