Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: Irish Sing-along.
• Wednesdays, 7pm: Folk Night.
• Fridays, 6pm: Open Irish Session.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Friday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Amanda Goodwin.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Friday, 9pm: Haywood Williams and Matt Langley.
• Saturday, 9pm: Marrianne Dissard.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Every Friday: Viernes Latin music fiesta from 8.30pm. Free beginners' lesson from 7.30pm.
• Every Sunday: Ukulele class. Ukes supplied if you don't have your own. 6pm-7pm.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club presented by Ken Nicol, guitarist, singer, songwriter.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St. • Saturday, 9pm: Foe, Deviated Septum, Death Throes, Frank Grimes, and Bolt Cutter.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Long Beach Hall, Long Beach.
• Saturday, 8pm: "Long Beach Shake-Down", featuring Both Sides of the Line, The Lounge Lizards, Three Dollar Easy and Delgirl. All proceeds to Red Cross Earthquake Relief fund.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: Open-mike night.
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
• Wednesday, 9pm: Ash and the Matadors with Threads.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open-mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Friday, 9pm: An Emerald City with The Checks and Alizarin Lizard. • Saturday, 8pm: Little Bushman album release tour with Nudge.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime, free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: Join storyteller Kaitrin McMullan and friends as she spins some fashionable tales about hats and handbags.
• Every Tuesday until April 12, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning. Aimed at children from 0-2.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: Storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• April 1-15, 10am-5pm: "Pacific Panoramas" - Using materials provided on the activities table, map an aerial view or patterns of roads, rivers, birds, fish, lizards, city views. Include any blots or smudges in your drawing. In association with the exhibition "John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals)".
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Fridays, 1.30pm-2.30pm: Preschool music for children aged 0-5 and carers.
Middleton Road Community Centre. • Gala Day, Saturday from 11am. Featuring music, activities, games and more.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays, 11am: Storytime.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7 to 12, free.
• Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
• Mountaineer's Montage - Every Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Have you wondered why it was so much harder for Sir Edmund Hillary to get to the top of Mount Everest than it is for mountaineers today? Discover the technologies which have helped climbers conquer Earth's extreme peaks. Free.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: Storytime.
Roxburgh Baptist Church • Every Tuesday: Music and Movement coffee and playgroup, 10am-11.30am. Contact Gemma on 446-8221.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 12.15pm: Organ concert, A Musical Banquet, by Christopher Hainsworth.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: Subject to change in concert.
Plays
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• Until April 17, Tuesday-Saturday, 7.30pm; Sunday, 4pm: The Second Test, written and performed by Jonathan Brugh.
Talks and films
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 6pm: NZ Book Month: "The Secret Life of Writers". Join a journalist, author, poet and playwright to find out what they love and loathe in their careers, the highlights and pitfalls.
• Wednesday April 6, noon on the ground floor: "Vintage Fashion Archives". Part of iD Dunedin Fashion Week. Unveil the secret to creating authentic vintage items; and view the worlds of Dior and Chanel through the lens of Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Free. Bookings essential, phone (03) 474-3690
• Wednesday April 6, 6pm-7pm: Geek/Chic Fashion Show . Vintage boutique Modern Miss transforms Dunedin's librarians from geek to chic in this catwalk show with a difference. Free.
Dunedin Film Society, The Church Cinema, Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Breach, directed by Billy Ray.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm: Art Seminar from Daniel Belton: "Choreographing the Screen".
• Friday, 12.15pm: Art Seminar from Henry Symonds: "Interloculations/Speaking Between: The Studio as a Site for Interrogation and Conciliation in a Post-post Colonial Context".
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".
• Sunday, 3pm: DVD Screening, Marcus Gheeraerts II.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks, 2pm. Today, "Ferns of New Zealand". • For April: Fridays: "Otago's giant skinks". Saturdays: "Cook Island staff gods".
• Sundays: "Kakapo: An unusual bird". Mondays, "Chinese snuff bottles". Tuesdays, "The sneaky stoat". Wednesdays, "Slavery in Ancient Greece".
PaperPlus, Golden Centre Mall
• Noon-2pm: Charlotte Smith, curator of the Darnell Collection, signs copies of her books Dreaming of Chanel and Dreaming of Dior. Part of iD Fashion Week.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until April 9: Phillip James Frost, "Paper Work".
Open Saturdays.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until April 10: Rachael Polson, "Now & Always". Until April 10: Marian Maguire, "The Labours of Herakles".
Archives New Zealand , Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Until April 15: "Refer to Gold Fields Secretary: Administration of the Otago Gold Fields", featuring original letters written by Gabriel Read regarding his discoveries, along with other records from the 1850s though to the 1920s. Open Monday to Friday 9.30am-5pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Life Spirit", Llew Summers and Emma Milburn.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn.
• The artwork of Amber McGrath.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until April 11: "Deeply Bitten Ground", by Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, Max Bellamy, Jodie Austin. Open daily noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: "Arytipidal", by Andy Leleisi'uao.
• Until April 16: "The Fullness of Empty Pockets", by Colleen Altagracia, and "At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)", by Clare Fleming.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Downing St.
• "An Alternative History", by Ben Cauchi.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 8: "Drift" by Anna Smythe.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
• April 1-June 17: "Forging A Magical Landscape: The Works of Robert Graves, Poet".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 12, Reed Gallery, third floor: "Guts, God & Gold: Dunedin in the 1860s".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 3: Frances Hodgkins' portraits.
• Until April 17: Simon Morris, "Black Watercolour".
• Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Until May 8: "Hauaga (Arrivals)" featuring works by Niuean artist John Pule.
• Until June 5: "The First City in History", by Fiona Amundsen.
• Until July 10: "A la Mode: Early 19th-century fashion plates from the collection".
• Until July 10: `Te Putahitanga o Rehua", by Reuben Paterson.
• Until July 17: "Seat Assignment", by Nina Katchadourian. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until April 10: "Bohemians of the Brush", Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists.
• Until April 10: "2010 Adam Portraiture Award".
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until April 10: "8 Years, 8 Works", by Marcus Wainwright.
• Until April 10: "Still Lives", by Sue Marshall.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Contemporary works by Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until April 4: Ben Webb.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• From Saturday until April 17: "Containment" by Joanna Tokona. Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 30: "Honey in the Rock", by Joanna Langford.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until April 2: "Vanitas", a series of small still-life paintings by Liz Kempthorne.
• April 3-23: paintings by Odelle Morshuis.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Selected works. Open Thurs-Sat noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until April 18: Lindsay Kennett, Master Milliner: "A Life in Art and Fashion".
Lure, 130 Stuart St Dunedin, 1st floor.
• Until April 6: "Goldfinger", featuring work by Andrea Daly, Ang Jewiss, Ann Culy, Barry Clark, Brian Adam, Elfi Spiewack, Frances Stachl, Jane Dodd, John Z Robinson, Lynn Kelly, Neke Moa, Octavia Cook, Pauline Bern, Penelope Barnhill, Rainer Beneke, Renee Bevan, Sharon Fitness and Victoria McIntosh.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• April 2-27: "Material Motives", group show featuring work by painters Peata Larkin, Reuben Paterson and Lorraine Rastorfer, photographer Richard Orjis and ceramist John Parker.
• April 2-27: "Shades of Blue and Clear" by Galia Amsels.
• April 2-27: "The Backlands", by Bruce Hunt.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until April 6: Elizabeth Rees, "A Short Walk From My Brother's Bach".
• Until April 6: Emily Siddell, "Drift". Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until April 10: "Doppelganger", by Nicola Jackson.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• April 4-18: "Essence" by Leanne Trbuhovic.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until April 8: Gretchen Albrecht, Stephen Bambury, Dick Frizzell, Heather Straka, Max Gimblett, Elizabeth Thomson, Rohan Wealleans, Fiona Pardington.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander": mementos given by Lady Hillary.
• "Finely Furnished": focusing on the specialised skills of expert furniture-makers.
• "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition".
• "Mo Tatou", presenting the journey of Ngai Tahu Whanui.
• Special Exhibitions Gallery, Level 1: "Your Face Here". Come face to face with creatures from the natural world, merge your face into famous portraits and even become part of the exhibition.
• "Otago's Ocean", Explore the stories of Otago's ocean life from tidal zones to the deep sea.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until June 19: "It's All About Me": colourful, playful works by Sharon Gilchrist.
• Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
• Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• April 5-16: "Focus on the Fellas", jewellery for blokes and ceramic sculptures by Robert Rapson.
Port Chalmers Museum, 19 Beach St, Port Chalmers.
• "Layers of Gold" exhibition, gold dredge display.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin
• Violet Faigan's "Venn Diagram With Tears and Onion".
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until April 10: Peter Gregory and Jo Howard. Tangente Cafe, Moray Pl.
• Until April 24: "From the Mountains to the Sea", by Cheryl and Deano Shirriffs.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until April 4: Works by the Amana Art Group.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "As it is on Earth", by Peter Nicholls.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Work by John Crump, Ben Ho, Nigel Wilson and Ivan Clarke.
Waikouaiti District Museum , State Highway 1.
• Until April 3: "Gold: Past and Present".
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