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.
• Tonight: Luke Hurley.
• Tomorrow: Patrik Fitzgerald, Daved Eggelton, Opposite Sex.
• Saturday, noon-5pm: Chickstock, all ages.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesdays, from 8pm: open-mike night.
• Thursdays: live bands and jazz music, from 7.30pm.
• Fridays: Viernes Latin music fiesta from 8.30pm. Free beginners' lesson from 7.30pm.
• Sundays: Ukulele class. 6pm-7pm.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Commercial Tavern, Green Island.
• Saturday, 8.30pm: Sidewalk Sally.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
• Saturday, 5pm: All-ages gig featuring: Arcacend, Beneath the Fading Sky, As Chaos Falls, Mirikachinst and Warsaw.
Dunedin Public Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 5.30pm-7pm: Mr Biscuits, The Doyleys and Death By Silo.
• Friday, 12.30pm: Thomas MacArthur.
• Tuesday, 5.30pm-7pm: Logan Valentine, Ash and the Matadors and Robert Scott.
Golden Gate, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 8pm: Gary McCormick and Paul Ubana Jones.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Tonight: Osmium, Intergracia and Twist of Fate.
• 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.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: Live jazz from Nick Cornish and Jesse Kokaua.
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
Araiteuru Marae, Kaikorai. Sunday, 3pm: Otago Symphonic Band presents "Matariki", a programme of concert-band music to celebrate Maori New Year. Conductors Justine Pierre and Nicole Batchelar. Entry by koha/donation.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Tutti, the big Otago Girls' High School and Otago Boys' High School choir, performs music by Faure, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen and Handel.
• Sunday, 7pm: Mozart Missa Brevis in D minor KV 65/61a. Presented by Knox Church Choir; Conductor: Karen Knudson; Organ: David Burchell.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: The Southern Youth Choir, conductor Josh Clark.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
Saturday, 7.30pm: A Night at the Opera II featuring soloists Emma Fraser and Jason Balla.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday, 1.30pm: Fairfield School Recorder Ensemble, Forte Choir and Marimba Band.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Fenella Christensen, Erica Lovelock, Katrina Melrose, Kenya Quin and Samantha Addington. Queenstown Memorial Hall, Man St.
• Until May 28, 8pm: All Shook Up. A new rock'n'roll musical featuring the songs of Elvis Presley.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
• Sunday, 2pm: Lives of Song, celebrating 80 years of music with Les Cleveland and Stan Forbes.
Plays Cromwell College Auditorium, Cromwell
• Until May 28: Fine Thyme Theatre Company presents I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until June 4 (no performance May 30), 7.30pm: Carluccio and the Queen of Hearts, by George Rosie, directed by Nigel Ensor.
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• Until May 28, 8pm: Middle Age Spread, by Roger Hall.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Saturday, 3pm: Australian film-maker, writer and film historian Andrew Leavold presents a talk: "Nollywood Boulevard: A Pop Culture Postcard From Nigeria's Wild Film Frontier".
• Sunday, 3pm: Artist's talk: Dane Mitchell.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm, Seminar: Susan Ballard, "Curiosity Killed the Cat: Accidental Encounters in the Art Gallery".
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: "Autahi the Leopard Seal".
• Today 6.30pm, Barclay Theatre, free: Celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011 with scientists from the University of Otago.
• This week: "Everyday Chemistry - A Plastic World" with Dr David McMorran.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ Film Screening: China's Lost Pyramids.
University of Otago, Burns 7 (Arts Building).
• Today, 7.30pm: Lecture by James Harding, department of theology and religion, University of Otago entitled "Classical `Pairs of Friends' and the 19th-Century Reception of David and Jonathan".
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.
• From Friday: Frances Hodgkins.
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.
• 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".
• May 28-August 28: "Radiant Matter Part II" by Dane Mitchell.
• May 28-August 21: "Nollywood" by Pieter Hugo.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until May 31: "Our Animals and Us", by Jane McLeod.
Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh.
• Until June 30: "Kokako", works by Rebecca Gilmore.
• Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-3pm
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Until May 31: "Palm-Leaf Art", by Gae Wilson, etchings on palm leaves, as practised in Laos.
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 John Badcock, mixed media by James Robinson, portraits by Susan Wilson, spitbite prints by Helen Badcock and photography by Susan Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• May 28-June 22: "Encoded Whare (2011)" by Peata Larkin.
• May 28-June 22: "The World of Erodipolis" by Andy Leleisiuao.
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.
• Ends tomorrow: "Zombie Load Blast", exhibition by Tedd Anderson.
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". "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.
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 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.
• From Friday: "Nightgarden" by Michaela Cox.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
• Until 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.
