Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: Irish sing-along.
• Thursdays, 7pm: Singer/songwriter night;
• Fridays, 7pm: Irish session with Tatterjack.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Friday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Amanda Goodwin.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: Gate
• Saturday, May 21: Beastwars album-release tour, from 9pm. Support from Kahu and Operation Rolling Thunder
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Every Wednesday, from 8pm: open-mike night.
• Bands can register from 8pm. Bands to play from 9pm: TLA; the Falconets; Laxman; Hunting Beers.
• Every Thursday: live bands and jazz music, from 7.30pm.
• 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.
• Tonight, 5.30pm-7pm: The Plot Holes, Honeybone and Left or Right Soundsystem.
• Friday, 12.30pm: Amanda Goodwin.
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.
• Tonight, 9pm: Ink Mathematics EP Fundraiser, with Julian Temple Band and Soulseller.
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 Nick Cornish.
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.
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.
• Friday, 7.30pm: Cantores Choir and Friends combine with orchestra, dancers, jazz trio, soloists and piper. Song, dance and art - fundraising for Christchurch heritage buildings.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Youth Orchestra presents "A Place For Music". Door sales only.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: "Even Younger Organists and Pianists", featuring music by Bach and Ridout, and Handel's Water Music.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Tri-Otago plays Debussy: Sonata for Cello & Piano (1917), Piano Trio in G major.
Tessa Petersen, violin, Heleen Du Plessis, cello, Terence Dennis, piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Lunchtime music, Sunday, in the atrium: Jonny Dyas.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, Man St.
• May 19-28, 8pm: All Shook Up. A new rock'n'roll musical featuring the songs of Elvis Presley.
Plays
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• May 24-28, 8pm: Middle Age Spread, by Roger Hall.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 21: God of Carnage.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Until May 25, 7.30pm: Shadowlands (the life story of C.S. Lewis).
Matinee 2pm on Sunday, May 22.
Talks and films
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, noon, 4th floor: Mike Lord, president of Federated Farmers Otago, speaks on changes in farming and farm record-keeping.
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Wendy and Lucy.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• May 23, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting. Speaker: photographer Graham Warman.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Caroline McCaw, from the Otago School of Design, talks about international artist in residence Nina Katchadourian.
• Monday, 6pm: "Dark Ecologies", a talk by Prof Timothy Morton and Prof Douglas Kahn.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm, Seminar: Adrian Hall, Andre Stitt, Alistair McLellan: AAA Forum Discussion.
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"; Wednesdays, "Duck hunting".
Daily, 4pm: Museum Icon Talk: "Autahi the Leopard Seal".
• May 19 and 26, 6.30pm, Barclay Theatre, free: Celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011 with scientists from the University of Otago.
• This week: "Applied Chemistry: Science in Industry", with Prof Lyall R. Hanton.
University of Otago St David St Lecture Theatre
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: "Building A Sustainable Prosperity", a lecture from Sir Paul Callaghan.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• "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, 556 George St.
• Until June 10: "Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry".
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Paperworks 7", featuring work by Jenny Dolezel, Inge Doesburg, Jane Crisp, Steev Peyroux, Robyn Kahukiwa, Nico Madill, Crispin Korschen, Michel Tuffery and more.
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.
• "that which opens", by Suji Park.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 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".
Dowling St Project, 20a Dowling St.
• From Saturday until May 27: "Virtual Continuum", paintings by Philip Madill. 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", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.
• 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 McLeod.
The 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.
• Ends today: "Dracula, Spooks, Alley Cats", by Ivan Hill.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Until May 31: "Bush Walk", by Wallace Crossman. Until May 31: "5 Stone Sculptors", including Moira Crossman.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 18: "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 June 4: "Threads", by Lynne Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 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.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until June 3: Autumn Group Show, featuring Stephen Bambury, Shane Cotton, Richard Killeen, Michael Parekowhai and Kelcy Taratoa.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• May 20-27: "Zombie Load Blast", exhibition by Tedd Anderson.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until May 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 Canape", work by Zhonghau Chen, Oscar Enberg, Gaby Montejo and Sebastian Warne. Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
• Until May 30: "M Press", printing press by Chris Fersterer.
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.
F• rom Monday until June 4: Louise Thompson Parker and Judy Ringland Stewart.
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.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
• May 20-June 17: "Tipitipi Haere", by Kim Lowe and Jennifer Rendall.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Works by Ivan Clarke, Geoff Williams, Ben Ho, John Crump, Nigel Wilson and Peter Hackett.
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