Gigs
12 Below, Moray Pl.
• The Fiddy Club, Saturday, 1pm-5.30pm (all ages), then 9pm (R18): Featuring Matt Langley, Honeybone, Ash and the Matadors, Oleh and Rusty Pilot.
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede. Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: Irish sing-along. Wednesday, 7pm: Luke Hurley. Thursday: singer/songwriter night.
• Fridays, 7pm: Irish session with Tatterjack.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Friday: Gate, 10pm, free.
• Saturday: Sophie Burbery and Little Bark, 9pm. Sunday: Left Or Right Soundsystem and Alizarian Lizard, 8pm.
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.
Dunedin Public Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 5.30pm-7.30pm: Both Sides, Catgut and Steel and Black Boy Peaches.
• Friday, 12.30pm: Leo Ladell.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Mou Very, 357 George St.
• Thursday: *Ink presents: My,Oh and Manthyng, electrofest, 8.30pm. Free.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Today, 7pm: Leo Ladell and Elise Allen.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: Open-mike night.
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
• Tonight, 9pm: Not For You!, Honeybone, Black Sky Hustler and Flower.
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.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Every Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Ben Stegmann.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime, free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme, active movement for early learning.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: Storytime.
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: Discover the technologies that 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 play group, 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
• Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
Sunday, Monday 7pm: "Young, Wild and Fortunate".
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians May recital meeting featuring a presentation by Donald Cullington on "The Many Faces and Phases of Chopin's Music".
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Young organists in recital.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: NZ Composers Concert: a concert of works by living NZ composers. Featuring a new song cycle by Anthony Ritchie, compositions by Mozart Fellow Chris Adams, and Peter Adams. La Belle Alliance with Rebecca Ryan, soprano.
Oamaru Opera House Foyer.
• Friday, 12.15pm: Allen Hogan, flute with June Cameron, accompanist.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Lunchtime music, Saturday, 1pm in the atrium: Linda Munro.
Plays Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 21: God of Carnage.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• May 18-25, 7.30pm: Shadowlands (the life story of C.S. Lewis). Matinee 2pm on Sunday May 22.
Talks and films
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 2pm: Talk on Chinese contemporary art with Bridie Lonie, of the Dunedin School of Art.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ Film Screening: Raising Baby Gorilla.
• Dunningham Suite, Tuesday, noon: Talk by Dr Michael Stevens, on muttonbirding in the South.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm, Seminar: Louise Baillie: "Facing It - Exposing the Anatomy of the Face".
• Tuesday, 12.15pm,Seminar: André Stitt: "AAA Solo Lecture #1, Why Must I Be So Misunderstood?".
• Wednesday, Seminar: 12.15pm: Flynn Morris-Clarke: "Drag Queens: Painting and Performance".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 2.30pm: Artist's Talk: Dane Mitchell.
• Saturday, 3pm: NZ Music Month Flying Nun Special featuring talks by Lesley Paris, ex-Flying Nun Records and musician (Look Blue Go Purple) and Diane McAllen from The Film Archive. Supplemented by some Flying Nun videos.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Coffee morning featuring speaker Jamie Hanton, new director of Blue Oyster Project Art Space.
• Sunday, 3pm: "The French Connection" - Join Aaron Kreisler, curator, and Robyn Notman, public programmes manager, in conversation.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for May, 2pm: Thursdays, "Orangutan"; Fridays, "Rangi and Papa"; Saturdays, "The southern sky"; Sundays, "Southern whaling"; Mondays, "Capybara"; Tuesdays, "Early Egyptian stone vases"; Wednesday, "Duck hunting".
Every Thursday during May, 6.30pm, Barclay Theatre, free: Celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011 with the experts, as scientists from the University of Otago share their insights.
This week: Dr Carla J Meledandri discusses Madame Marie Curie.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• From today: "VS, the art of going over" by DWT.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until June 6: "Range", by Susanna Izard, and "Capriccios", by Nigel Buxton.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Until June 10: "Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry". Part of Records and Archives Week 2011.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Paperworks 27".
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn.
• Until the end of May: "Vestiges" by Jill Brandon.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Winter hours: Wed-Sun, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until May 28: "Indigo Blues", by Ana Terry and Don Hunter; "Boy Love - Dummy Heart", by Angela Lyon, and "Nervous System", by Ben Pearce.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• From tomorrow: "that which opens", by Suji Park.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• May 12-20: Otago Multiple Sclerosis Society Wobbly Art Exhibition.
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 International Airport.
• Until June 14: Maria Kemp, "Recent Works".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Ongoing: "Beloved": Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• 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. Until April 15, 2012: "The French Connection", celebrating Frances Hodgkins' special relationship with Impressionism.
• From Saturday until October 30: "Jeena Shin: Fractus". Dunedin School of Art, behind O Block (ceramics block).
Col Fay, "(sur)face"; Don Myers, "Feathers Wheels & Things".
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until May 31: "Our Animals and Us", by Jane McLeodThe Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Until May 31: "Palm-Leaf Art", by Gae Wilson, etchings on palm leaves, as practised in Laos.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Contemporary works by Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until May 19: "Dracula, Spooks, Alley Cats", by Ivan Hill.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Ends tomorrow: New Work by Jack Monaghan.
• May 15-22: "Bush Walk", by Wallace Crossman.
• May 15-22: "5 Stone Sculptors", including Moira Crossman.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• May 14-June 16: "Between The Tides", work by Darren Tautari.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 25: "Ore Struck: The use of gold in contemporary art and photography".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until May 14: "Iron" by Eric Schusser.
• May 15-June 4: "Threads" by Lynne Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• May 13-28: "Strolling along the Roof of Hell/ Gawking at Flowers", new work by Kirsten Ferguson.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until May 29: Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, Upstairs, Old Post Office Building, 47-49 Talbot St Geraldine.
• Featuring work by Susan Wilson, John Badock, James Robinson, Susan Badock, and Helen Badock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until May 25: "Hen's Teeth" by Joanna Braithwaite and "Deluge" by Lorraine Rastorfer.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until June 1: "The Royal Queenstown Easter Show". Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until June 10: "Fabrication" by Sandra Thomson.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
• Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• May 14-22: Otago Embroiderers Guild hosts the Southern Regional Exhibition. Open 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander": mementos given by Lady Hillary.
• "Finely Furnished". "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition".
• 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.
Port Chalmers Museum, 19 Beach St, Port Chalmers.
• Maritime and local history.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin.
• "Pate Canapé", work by Zhonghau Chen, Oscar Enberg, Gaby Montejo and Sebastian Warne. South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until June 24: Works by Lindsay Crooks, Ollie Crooks, Janet Weir, Peter Keane and Lorraine Marlow. Open Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until May 21: Paddy Carr and Lisa Simpson.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until June 1: Works by Amanda Clow-Hewer.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "As it is on Earth", by Peter Nicholls.
Teviot District Museum, Abbotsford St, Roxburgh.
• Sundays, 2pm to 4pm, or by request. Contact Robin (03) 446-8130 or Joan (03) 446-8671.
