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;
• Thursday, 7pm: Singer/songwriter session;
• Fridays, 6pm: Open Irish session with Tatter Jack.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Friday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Amanda Goodwin.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Every Friday: Viernes Latin music fiesta from 8.30pm. Free beginners' lesson from 7.30pm.
• Every Sunday: Ukulele class. 6pm-7pm.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• 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 Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: Open-mike night;
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
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, 10pm: Triage with support from Soulware, Olie Bassweight, Espionage and Ruffstep.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Every Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman, Nick Cornish and Ben Stegmann.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime, free.
• From Saturday until April 30: Colouring competition: Design and decorate an Easter egg and add it to the library basket - the best entry wins a • giant easter egg.
• From Saturday until April 30: Easter puzzles: Can you match all the pictures with the words, complete our special Easter word-search, or finish the Easter crossword?
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: Storytime.
• From Saturday until April 30: Colouring competition: Design and decorate an Easter egg and add it to the library basket - the best entry wins a giant easter egg.
• From Saturday until April 30: Easter puzzles: Can you match all the pictures with the words, complete our special Easter word-search, or finish the Easter crossword?
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 15, 10am-5pm: "Pacific Panoramas" - Using materials provided, map an aerial view or patterns of roads, rivers, birds, fish, lizards, city views. In association with the exhibition "John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals)".
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays, 11am: Storytime.
From Saturday until April 30: Colouring competition: Design and decorate an Easter egg and add it to the library basket - the best entry wins a giant easter egg.
• From Saturday until April 30: Easter puzzles: Can you match pictures with words, complete our Easter word-search, or finish the Easter crossword?
• Monday, 11am-2pm: Razzle-dazzle Butterflies. Make butterflies with felt and sparkles to stick on your wall.
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: Discover the technologies that have helped climbers conquer Earth's extreme peaks. Free.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: Storytime.
• From Saturday until April 30: Colouring competition: Design and decorate an Easter egg. The best wins a giant Easter egg.
• From Saturday until April 30: Easter puzzles: Can you match all the pictures with the words, complete our special Easter word-search, or finish the Easter crossword?
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 Place.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: City of Dunedin Choir and the Southern Sinfonia present Bach's final masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians April recital meeting featuring Southern Sinfonia member and pianist Sandra Crawshaw and friends presenting "Women of Note".
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: Margaret Lion, piano. Featuring Brahms' Variations on a theme of Handel and works by Mozart and Jenny McLeod.
• Oamaru Opera House Foyer, Friday, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital with Neil Johnston, tenor; Erik Badcock, bass/baritone; and June Cameron, accompanist.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm in the atrium: Les Belles Vilaines showcase traditional French dance St John's Church, 373 Highgate.
• Sunday, 2pm: Musick's Appeal - a Concert for Christchurch: Judy Bellingham (soprano), St John's Choir, Rare Byrds.
St John the Baptist Church, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: The Central Otago Regional Choir conducted by John Buchanan and accompanied by organist Kemp English presents The Crucifixion, by John Stainer.
• St Peter's Church, 2 Church St, Queenstown.
• Saturday, 8pm: The Central Otago Regional Choir conducted by John Buchanan, with organist Kemp English presents The Crucifixion, by John Stainer.
Ranfurly Hall.
• Tonight, 8pm: "Songs My Mother Taught Me".
Roxburgh Town Hall .
• Saturday, 7.30pm: "Songs My Mother Taught Me".
Plays
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: C'Mon Black! by Roger Hall.
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• Until April 17, Tuesday-Saturday, 7.30pm; Sunday, 4pm: The Second Test, written and performed by Jonathan Brugh.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 2pm: Stories Behind the Portraits with actors Danny Still and Kaitrin McMullan.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, The Church Cinema, Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Mizoguchi Kenji's Sansho The Bailiff, Japan, 1954.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm: Art seminar with Christine McCarthy: "Interior Archaeology".
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".
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Coffee morning featuring Rodney Hamel speaking on "Primary School First World War Memorials in Dunedin".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks, 2pm. For April: Thursdays: "Mammalian aliens". Fridays: "Otago's giant skinks". Saturdays: "Cook Island staff gods".
• Sundays: "Kakapo: An unusual bird". Mondays, "Legend of Osiris". Tuesdays, "New Zealand bats". Wednesdays, "Rakiriri - The Dunedin volcano".
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until June 6: "Range", by Susanna Izard, and "Capriccios", by Nigel Buxton.
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
• "The Wreath Series - Like Autumn Leaves We're in For a Change", by Anet Neutze.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Ends tomorrow: "Refer to Gold Fields Secretary: Administration of the Otago Gold Fields", featuring original letters by Gabriel Read. Open Monday to Friday 9.30am-5pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• New works by Susan Webb, Brian Strong and J.K. Reed.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: "Arytipidal", by Andy Leleisi'uao.
• From Saturday until May 28: "Indigo Blues", by Ana Terry and Don Hunter; "Boy Love Dummy Heart", by Angela Lyon, and "Nervous System", by Ben Pearce.
• 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.
• From tomorrow: "The Heat of Winter", by Michael Harrison.
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.
• Until 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 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. Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh.
• Until April 30: New works by Rebecca Gilmore. Detailed studies of New Zealand native birds.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Contemporary works by Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• From tomorrow until April 28: "Remembrance", new works by Janet de Wagt.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Until April 17: "Containment", by Joanna Tokona. Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until April 30: "Southern Scenes", by Ron Esplin.
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 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".
Macandrew Bay Hall.
• From tomorrow until April 24: "Almost an Island", by Otago Peninsula Artists (OpenArts).
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until April 27: "Material Motives", group show featuring work by painters Peata Larkin, Reuben Paterson and Lorraine Rastorfer, photographer Richard Orjis and ceramist John Parker.
• Until April 27: "Shades of Blue and Clear", by Galia Amsel.
• Until April 27: "The Backlands", by Bruce Hunt.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until May 4: "Gems", works by painters Nigel Brown, Garry Currin, Robert Ellis, Ralph Hotere, Karl Maughan and Gary Waldrom, glass artist Ann Robinson and sculptor Neil Dawson.
• Until June 1: "The Royal Queenstown Easter Show".
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until April 18: "Essence", by Leanne Trbuhovic.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until April 29: "Breathe", by Tony Lane.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• From Sunday until April 30: "Coast to Coast", by Debbie Lambert and Sue Simpson.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander": mementos given by Lady Hillary.
• "Finely Furnished".
• "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition".
• Until April 17: "Mo Tatou", presenting the journey of Ngai Tahu Whanui.
• Special Exhibitions Gallery, Level 1: "Your Face Here". 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.
• Until April 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.
• Laura Shepard and Tao Wells: "6% Forced Unemployment, Stops Wages Rising. Fakes Job Competition".
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until June 24: Works by Lindsay Crooks, Ollie Crooks, Janet Weir, Peter Keane and Lorane Marlow. Open Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until April 24: Riki Julin & Louise Thompson Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until May 2: Landscape photography by Murray Crawford.
Tangente Cafe, Moray Pl.
• Until April 24: "From the Mountains to the Sea", by Cheryl and Deano Shirriffs.
• Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "As it is on Earth", by Peter Nicholls.
Tony Williams Gallery, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: An exhibition of large jewellery by goldsmith Tony Williams.
The Tussock Room, Oakridge Resort, Wanaka.
Cnr Cardrona and Studholme roads.
• Until April 17: "A Common Thread", by Coots Fibreart Group. Wanaka Arts Centre, 21 Brownston St.
• Until April 17: Work by the Wanaka Painters Group.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Festival of Colour - oil paintings of Central Otago landscapes.
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