Food for free
Learn about hunter-gathering and wild food safety in the Otago Museum search centre at 2.30pm on Saturdays and Sundays until the end of May.
Group easels The second "Dowling St Project" group exhibition opens tomorrow.
The exhibition is being held by an artist collective which shares the studio spaces at 20a Dowling St and includes paintings, drawings and video works by Anya Sinclair, Sam Foley, Liz Rowe, Alan Ibell, Ro Bradshaw, Charlotte Parallel and Jo Robertson.
"The Dowling St Project" opens at 5.30pm tomorrow and will then be open from 11am to 4pm till Sunday.
Last chance to see . . .
It's the last day of the Docs Rock! international film festival at Hoyts.
Today's treats include The Heart of Jenin, Full Metal Village, and Whetu Rere - The Sea Lion and the Comet.
Gigs
10Bar, the Octagon.Tomorrow, 9pm: DJ Sir Vere.
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm.
Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon, Dunedin. Tonight, 9pm: Daniel Shea.
Tomorrow, 7pm: Terry Ebeling.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St, Dunedin. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Frantic Fortnight and Noise Control.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin. Friday, 8pm: Biff Merchants album release with support from Tono, Entropy Trio, Julian Temple Band, Operation Rolling Thunder, Left or Right, Soulseller and Teddyruffspin.
Saturday, 9pm: State of Mind with support from Cause 4 Concern, Trei, FSOD and MC Twincam.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am. Free.
Mosgiel Library, preschool story time: every Tuesday, 11am, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds (free).
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium Level 1: children's creative activities.
Weekends during April, noon and 3.30pm: interactive trolley: Apes, Hominids and Humans.
Weekends during April and May, 2.30pm: Nature's Bounty, learn about hunter-gathering and wild food safety. Search Centre, free.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Saturday, 2pm: walking tour of Dunedin's historic hotels.
Sunday, 10am: Scout jigger racing. Members of Scouting Otago race in time trials at the southern end of the railway station platform.
Port Chalmers Library, preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, free.
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. Sunday, 3pm: the Footnote Dance Company will perform in the gallery spaces.
Marama Hall, Otago University. Wednesday, 1pm: Otago University department of music lunchtime concert: Haydn: Cantatas for Voice and Keyboard.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays.
This week: Sandra Crawshaw/Charlotte Francis and Trevor Coleman.
Sale-Black House Lecture Room, corner St David and Leith Sts, Sunday, April 5, 2pm: Prof Terence Dennis presents a profile of Siegfried Jerusalem with excerpts from Wagner, Strauss, Weber and Smetana operas.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre , Corner of Union and Leith Sts. Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Pink, written by Anri Kang and Company (NZ).
Fortune Theatre, corner Moray Pl and Stuart St. Today-Saturday, 7pm, Sunday 4pm: Lily: the story of a dance pioneer.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. April 8, 7.30pm: Manufactured Landscapes.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin, first floor. Today, 5.15pm: local author and Organic NZ editor Philippa Jamieson talks about her experiences on organic farms.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Saturday, 3pm: meet members of Footnote Dance company who will discuss their choreographies in "Made in New Zealand".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Free daily talks, 2pm.
This month: Monday: The Moa; Tuesday: New Zealand Bats; Wednesday: Hooker's Sea Lions: Thursday: Melanesian Masks; Friday: Southern Whaling; Saturday: Alexander the Great; Sunday: The Siebe-Gorman Diving Suit.
Weekends at 2.30pm in the Search Centre: "What's That You're Eating?"
Every Saturday and Sunday during April, Nature Galleries, noon and 3.30pm: "Apes, Hominids and Humans". A look at human evolution.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. April 3, 5.30pm: Keith Scott launches his book The Central Otago Soldiers of World War One and the Home they Left Behind. All welcome.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until April 26: 6 New Zealand Fashion Designers - National Creative Fibre Festival.
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. From Sunday until April 26: New works by Michael Armstrong.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St, Dunedin. Until April 4: "Double Vision", by Steev Peyroux and Olav Nielsen.
From April 4: "Native" works by Allan Batt.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay, until April 7: "Watercolour years", selected watercolours spanning four decades by Pauline Bellamy. Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until April 18: "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot", works by Sylvia Schwenk.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St, Dunedin. Opens tomorrow: "Shapes of Thoughts", works by Michael Harrison.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Open 10am-4pm. until April 19: "Zoom In, Zoom Out", works by Maxine Williams.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until June 21: "Michael Morley: You Say You Don't Love Me". This Big Wall work is a key into Morley's long standing in the experimental noise/sound scene.
Until May 24: "Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable". Catharine Hodson's successful treatment for breast cancer three years ago was the starting point for this installation which deals with the representation and coding of illness.
Until April 13: "John James Audubon: A very special gift". Works from Audubon's collection.
Until May 17: "Di ffrench: Activating Ideas".
Until June 17: "Te Huringa/Turning Points": includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.
Until April 12: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves: Japanese Prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Ongoing: "The Grand Tour: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Opens Saturday: Michael Morley, "You Say You Don't Love Me".
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until May 3: "An Acquired Art", works from the Beryl and Bob McVie collection.
Until April 12: Oamaru artist Trish Shirley exhibits her latest works.
Until April 13: "It's Our History - Don't Knock It!" Jacqui Foley and Burns Pollock.
Until April 19: "By the Sea". Lyndsay Crooks and Janet Weir-Crooks.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. From tomorrow until April 27: "Run Rabbit Run".
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati. Until April 5: "Topography of Genesis" by Sudhir Duppati.
Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St, Dunedin. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith.
Open Mon-Sat, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hocken Gallery, corner Anzac Ave and Parry St. From April 4 until May 23: Heather Straka, "The Sleeping Room".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct. Open 10am to 4pm.
Inge Doesburg Studio & Gallery, 6 Castle St, Dunedin, "Nova Botanica", works by Lynn Kelly (jeweller) and Tim Galloway (artist). Open Thurs-Sat, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until April 5: "Our Piece of Paradise, Cribbies in the Wakatipu, 1940s to 1980s".
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until April 15: "Glass Invitational NZ", featuring works by New Zealand's leading glass artists. Gallery open Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until April 22: "Master Works". Various Artists.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St, Dunedin. From Saturday until April 25: Yi-Ming Lin, "Something About Texture".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown. Tomorrow until April 30: "Cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dwellers", by Rohan Wealleans, and "Vanatis", by Wayne Youle.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St, until April 3, 2pm-4pm: "Come Together". Nicola Hansby and Hannah Joynt.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, Level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until April 26: "Art in the Attic", works by painter Clive Humphreys in the Animal Attic.
From Saturday until June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past from the Otago Settlers Museum Art Collection".
Until June: "Chinese Treasures". The history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden, corner Junction Rd and Matai St, Ravensbourne.
Until April 19: "Chicken Show", works by Jude Ansbacher.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton, Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm-5pm. Until May 31: "Shades of Autumn".
School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin. Ends today: "Pictures of Nothing", Alexandra Kennedy.
St John's Anglican Church, Union St, Milton. "No Ordinary Prophet: Jesus", by Judith Wolfe.
April 3, 2-4pm; April 4, 10am-noon, and April 5, 1.30pm-4.30pm.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin. Ends today: Peter Gregory and Rosemary McQueen.
From Saturday until April 18: "Josephine's tea-party".
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until April 28: works by Silvia Carter.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Until April 19: "Airborne", a collaboration between Mary McFarlane and Jenny Bornholt.
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery , first floor, Central Library, April 8-July 3: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy".
Open 8.30am-5pm, Monday-Friday.
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