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.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Friday, 9pm: Bluestone.
• Saturday, 9pm: Crude and Eye.
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.
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.
• Friday, 9pm: Three Man Woldpack, Dunedin's latest indie label presents: Two Cartoons and Gibbon.
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 featuring 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.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during June, 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Starry Nights.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queen's Gardens.
• Sunday, 1pm: Knit Purl - Learn how to knit from experienced tutors.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.
Various venues.
• Lantern-making workshops, June 11-12 and 18-19. Information and registration at www.midwintercarnival.co.nz.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital by Otago Girls', Otago Boys' and Logan Park high school choirs.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Linda Munro.
Plays
Athenaeum Hall, Arrowtown.
• Sunday, 7pm: Strange Resting Places by Rob Mokaraka.
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• Friday, 8pm: Strange Resting Places by Rob Mokaraka.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until June 25: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, by Alan Ball, directed by Lara Macgregor.
Tarras Hall, Tarras.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Strange Resting Places by Rob Mokaraka.
Twizel Events Centre, Twizel.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Strange Resting Places by Rob Mokaraka.
Talks and films
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• June 13, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting, featuring speaker John Hart: "70 years in photography".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Exhibition Talk: Te Putahitanga o Rehua with Bridie Lonie, Senior Lecturer, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Friends of the Gallery coffee morning with DPAG conservator Jenny Sherman as guest speaker.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for June, 2pm: Thursdays, "Black Stilt"; Fridays, "Hooker's Sea Lions", Saturdays, "The Three Bears of the Otago Museum"; Sundays, "Yellow-eyed Penguin"; Mondays, "Capybara"; Tuesdays, "The Moa"; Wednesdays, "Extinct Birds of the South Island".
• Today, 6pm: Join radio astronomer Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollitt as she explains and discusses the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - a global science project that is as big as the Hubble telescope or the Large Hadron Collider, and may be based in New Zealand.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 1pm-3pm: "Rogues and Gentlemen", walking tour of 19th-century Dunedin.
Waikouaiti Library, Tuesday, 7.30pm: NZ Art Talk: Juliet Novena Sorrel.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until July 8: "Black Holes Verses Baby Universes", by Rachel Taylor.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin, 556 George St.
• Ends tomorrow: "Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry".
Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
• From Saturday until June 30: Annual Exhibition: "Quotes and Quips".
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.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Winter hours: Wed-Sun, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• "Please God, let my children grow and live happily ever after", by Ro Bradshaw; "Storage Systems", by Margaret Feeney; "Castleland", by Justin Spiers; all until July 9.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• 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".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until Sunday, 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 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".
• Until August 28: "Radiant Matter Part II", by Dane Mitchell.
• Until August 21: "Nollywood", by Pieter Hugo.
Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh.
• Until June 30: "Kokako", works by Rebecca Gilmore.
• Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-3pm.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until Sunday: "An Exploration of the 45th Parallel", by Anthony McKee.
• Until Sunday: "Plateaux forming", by William Grenfell.
• Until Sunday: "Fresh off the Wall", by Jesse Geary.
• Until Sunday: "Wallpaper", an exhibition of printed artworks from the permanent collection of the gallery.
• Until Sunday: "The Ladies of the Forrester", an exhibition of artworks by many of the women artists whose work is retained in the permanent collection.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until June 23: "Smother", featuring work by Victoria McIntosh, Jason Greig and Maryrose Crook.
Glenfalloch Gardens Potters' Cottage, until June 23: "Shadow and Shine".
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 18: "Between The Tides", work by Darren Tautari.
• Until the end of June: "Choice", Featuring works by a variety of Dunedin Artists.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 25: "Ore Struck: The use of gold in contemporary art and photography".
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until July 7: Winter Show - selected works.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until June 19: "Art 2 Wear" - costumes from the recent Autumn Festival Show.
McAtamney Gallery, Upstairs, Old Post Office Building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Featuring work by James Robinson, John Badcock, Susan Wilson, Helen Badcock and Susan Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until June 22: "Encoded Whare (2011)", by Peata Larkin.
• Until June 22: "The World of Erodipolis", by Andy Leleisiuao.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• "Dream Swimmers", by Paul Martinson.
• "Florescentia", by Sue Hawker.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Ends tomorrow: "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.
• From Saturday until June 26: Annual Exhibition.
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. Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until June 19: "It's All About Me", 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.
• From Monday until June 24: "Artists At Rocda" - exhibition of selected works by senior art students from Otago Girls' High School.
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 18: Rosemary McQueen and Peter Gregory.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until July 4: a selection of works by artists from the Taieri Art Group.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Until June 28: "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.
