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.
• Thursdays, 7pm: singer/songwriter night.
• Fridays, 7pm: Irish session with Tatterjack.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Friday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
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.
• Tonight, 9pm: Ambulant. Sunday: Grant Ramsay (aka Swampy), from 7.30pm.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Friday, 8.30pm: Hunting Bears, Friendly Ghosts, The Repressed, The Tommy Gunners and The Big T Experience.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
• Friday, 8pm: Puddle, album release, with support from Opposite Sex.
The Empire Hotel 396 Princes St.
• Saturday, 8.30pm: Both Sides of the Line, The Humboldt County Experience, Inge Andrew and Jo Little.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm. Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
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: live jazz with Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: Once Upon a Saturday: Matariki Stories. A storytime celebration for Maori Language Week with Kaitrin McMullan.
Dunedin Chinese Garden
• July 8-10: The Chinese Garden is celebrating its third birthday with three days of family-friendly activities.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme, active movement for early learning.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 11.15am: Tours for Tots. A free, baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Friday, 11.30am: Waiata Performance: St Mary's School Room 5 sings a selection of waiata to celebrate Maori Language Week in Mosgiel.
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.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Starry Nights. Learn tips, tricks and instruments used for navigating by the stars.
• Until July 10: Te Reo Trail: Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery to find the answers to the trail questions and learn some Te Reo. Collect trail from Search Centre. 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
Alexandra Memorial Theatre
• Saturday, 2pm: Variety concert featuring pupils of Ruth Reid School of Music, Cassidy's Danceworld and Harim and Esther Oh.
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Friday, 12.30pm: Vanessa Kelly (vocalist) and Les Richardson (pianist).
Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
• Friday, 10.30pm: "Improsaurus", improvised comedy theatre presented by AntiSocial Tap.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Footspa. St Paul's Church, Oamaru.
• Sunday, 2pm: Oamaru Choral Society Midyear Concert.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• From tomorrow until July 30, 7.30pm: The Tutor by Dave Armstrong, directed by Patrick Davies.
Talks and films
Burns 7, Arts Building, University of Otago.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Richard Seaford, Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter presents the talk, "The Staging of Aeschylus" Persians.
• New light from Persepolis and Sousa'. All welcome.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ Film Screening: The Most Extreme Leaders.
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Kevin McMahon's McLuhan's Wake.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Saturday, 2pm: Amiria Stirling, principal at Kura Kaupapa Maori ki Otepoti, gives a tour in te reo Maori of selected works on display at the gallery.
• Saturday, 3.15pm: Tangiwai Rewi, senior lecturer at Te Tumu/School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, will give a talk on this year's theme of manaakitanga (hospitality) as part of Maori Language week.
• Sunday, 3pm: Talk and DVD screening: This is Nollywood.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for July, 2pm: Thursdays, "Egyptian Amulets"; Fridays, "The Pataka Whakairo"; Saturdays, "The Fin Whale"; Sundays, "The New Zealand Falcon", Mondays, "Papua New Guinea"; Tuesdays, "Watom Island"; Wednesdays, "Southern Lifeways".
• Daily, 4pm: Museum icon talk: "Autahi the Leopard Seal".
St David Street Lecture Theatre, cnr St David and Castle streets.
• Tuesday, July 12: "Sink or Swim: Sea Level Rise Implications for Dunedin", hosted by NZ Institute of Surveyors. Free.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Ends tomorrow: "Black Holes Versus Baby Universes", by Rachel Taylor.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until August 10: "Eau Revoir", by Claire Earlie. Until August 14: "Braided" by Bronwyn Shimmin.
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
• "De-Frag", textile exhibition by Matthew Siwerski.
Art Zones Strip Gallery, 57 Hanover St.
• Until July 28: "Window on Dunedin", paintings of Dunedin by Ron Esplin.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Eye of the Ancestor", paintings by Steev Peyroux and sculpture by Nick Dryden.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Winter hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Ends Saturday: "Please God, let my children grow and live happily ever after", by Ro Bradshaw; "Storage Systems", by Margaret Feeney; "Castleland", by Justin Spiers.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• "John Patrick McKenzie is Culture Humbug Sexy".
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• From tomorrow until September 2: "Karearea: The Eastern Falcon", photography by Donna Falconer and Darryl Busbridge.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
• Until September 23: "Experimental Philosophy: Old and New". Combining classics from the past and cutting-edge works of the present day.
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.
• Until October 2: sculpture and photography by Sarah Lucas.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until July 24: "Southland 2010", photographs by Andrew Ross.
• Until July 24: "Drawing the Waitakere Coast", by Don Binney.
Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh.
• Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 11am-3pm.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until July 16: Burns Memorial Schools Exhibition.
• Until August 7: "Painting the View", Constable, Turner and British Landscape Watercolourists, 1760-1860.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• From Friday until August 4: "Winter and Birthday Exhibition".
• Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until July 21: "View" by Richard Adams.
• Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island. July 9-30: "Trains, Boats and Plains". Recent water colours by Scott Drummond.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• From Saturday until October 1: "Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity", works by Ralph Hotere.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Ends today: winter show - selected works.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until September 14: "Anne Frank: A History for Today" - world touring exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, Upstairs, Old Post Office Building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Featuring, portraits by Susan Wilson and John Badcock, mixed media by James Robinson, Susan Badcock photography and pastels by Helen Badcock.
Metalworks Gallery, 54 Ballantyne Rd, Wanaka
• "Unfolding Landscape", works by Ernie Maluschnig, sculptor in metal.
• Open weekdays or weekends by appointment.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until July 20: "Mitre", by Nigel Brown. Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until July 27: "the silence collector's notebook", by Megan Huffadine.
• Until August 24: "The Review", various artists.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• "Preoccupied, part 1", by Ross Gray.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until July 15: group show featuring Richard Killeen, Grahame Sydney, Stephen Bambury and Paul Dibble.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• From Friday until Sunday: "My Little Empire", new collage works by Peter Lewis.
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 tomorrow until July 24: Otago Art Society Youth Art Awards.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Translation: new works in glass by Luke Jacomb.
• "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until August 14: "Young at Art", The Catlins Area School art show, years 3-10.
• Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin.
• "Slap Happy Stick", by Claire Mahoney.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until July 16: Kevin Black and Lisa Simpson.
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.
• Sculpture, paintings and drawings by Martin Sullivan.
• From tomorrow: "Poisons", by Martin Sullivan.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Ends tomorrow: exhibition of antique watches and paintings by Bruce Hodgson.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• "Celebrating Solstice", selected fine art and sculpture by New Zealand artists.
Wilson Gallery, 45 Beach Street, Queenstown.
• From Wednesday until July 29: "The Art of Dr Seuss".
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