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.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Tie Die, Apache Rose and the Tommy Gunners.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
• Friday, 8pm: Ostranda, Ardvark, Funtime, Cacafogos and the Runt.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Friday, 9pm: Amanda Goodwin and the Mighty Mightys, Cult Disney, Skybus and 2 Meters of the Universe.
• 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.
• Saturdays, 2.30pm: live jazz with Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Until July 22: Tongue Twister Challenge: Pick a poem from the desk and see how fast you can say it without making a mistake. Celebrating National Poetry Day 2011.
• Tuesday, 9am-5pm: Chocolate Book Hunt: Pick a question from your librarians. Hunt down the answer and receive a chocolate treat.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme, active movement for early learning.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Until July 22: Tongue Twister Challenge: Pick a poem from the desk and see how fast you can say it without making a mistake. Celebrating National Poetry Day 2011.
• Tuesday, 9am-5pm: Chocolate Book Hunt: Pick a question from your librarians. Hunt down the answer and receive a chocolate treat.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until July 24: School holiday project. "Cool Collage".
With the materials provided on the activities table, create your own cool collage. Go in the draw to win a prize.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Until July 22: Tongue Twister Challenge: Pick a poem from the desk and see how fast you can say it without making a mistake. Celebrating National Poetry Day 2011.
• Today, 2pm: Kids Bingo. Match all the numbers on your special card to the ones you hear. Be the first to shout "Bingo!" and win a prize.
• Tuesday, 9am-5pm: Chocolate Book Hunt: Pick a question from your librarians. Hunt down the answer and receive a chocolate treat.
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.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Starry Nights. Learn tips, tricks and instruments used for navigating by the stars.
• Today, 2.30pm: Freaky Science: "Krazy Kitchen Concoctions".
• Sunday, 2.30pm: "The Man On The Moon". Is there really a man on the moon? Is the moon made from cheese? This is your chance to go mad about our moon with some far-out science experiments.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.
• Until July 22: Tongue Twister Challenge: Pick a poem from the desk and see how fast you can say it without making a mistake. Celebrating National Poetry Day 2011.
• Tuesday, 9am-5pm: Chocolate Book Hunt: Pick a question from your librarians. Hunt down the answer and receive a chocolate treat.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: "Showtime 2011", featuring local performers.
Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
• Friday, 10.30pm: Late Night Improv featuring Improsaurus.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Sunday, 6.30pm: Toi Ora Performance, Matariki celebration.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Lunchtime recital, Wednesday, 1pm: Cellists of Otago: Works for three to eight cellos by Pachalbel, Albinoni, Albinez, Popper, Grieg, New Zealand composer Anthony Ritchie and South African composer Allan Stephenson.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Friday, 7-9pm: National Poetry Day poetry evening featuring readings from Fiona Farrell, Joanna Preston, Richard Reeve, Michael Steven, Rhian Gallagher. MC: David Howard.
• Saturday, 1pm: Irish Beat Dance School performance.
Plays Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until July 30, 7.30pm: The Tutor by Dave Armstrong, directed by Patrick Davies.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Until July 23, 7.30pm: 2011 Gang Show.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Until July 24, 11am and 2pm daily: Alice in Wonderland.
Talks and films
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 2pm: Maggie Gresson, of the Artists Alliance, and Antony Deaker from Artist Development Agency in Dunedin will discuss issues facing young and emerging artists as well opportunities available to them.
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Tuesday 7.30pm: Eric Bednarski's The Strangest Dream, a portrait of antiwar activist Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to resign from the Manhattan project on moral grounds.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting. Terry Maguire talks about composition and design.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Until July 23: "Dudzilla": Video screenings of the best entries in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery phone camera competition.
• July 24, 3pm: Tour for the blind and partially sighted.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm, art seminar: Jamie Hanton, "The Curatorial Hand".
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, "The Lawrence Lions"; Tuesdays, "Watom Island"; Wednesdays, "Southern Lifeways".
• Daily, 4pm: Museum icon talk: "Autahi the Leopard Seal".
University of Otago, Burns 7 (arts building).
• Today, 7.30pm: Prof Mark Griffith of University of California at Berkeley will present a talk entitled "Meaning, Music and Gods in Greek Tragedy".
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until August 4: "Glory Days", works by Dyana Gray.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until August 10: "Eau Revoir", by Claire Earlie.
• Until August 14: "Braided" by Bronwyn Shimmin.
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.
• Opens Saturday: "New Works", works by Helen Back, Laila Ataya and Anna Majboroda.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• "Remix" by Tony de Lautour.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until September 2: "Karearea: The Eastern Falcon", photography by Donna Falconer and Darryl Busbridge.
Creative Arts Centre, 142 Clyde St, Balclutha.
• July 27-31: Cathy Hurst, patchwork and quilting; Corale Willocks, traditional patchwork with machine embroidery; Tamsin Cooper, handmade accessories and Esther Sinclair, pottery.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
• Until September 23: "Experimental Philosophy: Old and New".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• 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.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until August 7: "Painting the View", Constable, Turner and British Landscape Watercolourists, 1760-1860.
• July 22-August 14: North Otago Art Society Awards.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until August 4: "Winter and Birthday Exhibition".
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Ends today: "View" by Richard Adams.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Until July 24: "Solutions", paintings and poetry by Blueskin Bay artist, Rachel Cameron.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St
• On now: "The Wreath Series", by Anet Neutze.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until July 30: "Trains, Boats and Plains". Recent watercolours by Scott Drummond.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until October 1: "Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity", works by Ralph Hotere.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell.
• Until August 2: " 'Five", midwinter group show celebrating the gallery's 5th birthday.
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.
• Work by James Robinson, John Badcock, Susan Wilson, Helen Badcock and Susan 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.
• July 23-August 15: "Parallel", various artists.
• July 23-August 15: "Works on Paper".
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.
• Ends today: Winter Catalogue Exhibition.
• July 22-August 12: "Then and Now" by Stephen Bambury.
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 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".
• "Hard On The Heels: Capturing the All Blacks", photography by Peter Bush.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until August 14: "Young at Art", Catlins Area School art show, years 3-10.
• Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until July 30: New ceramic works, by Liz Fea, Blue Black and Robert Rapson.
Richardson Building, Seminar Room 5, Law Faculty, Otago University.
• Until November 17: "Art in Law 4", work by students and graduates of the Otago School of Art.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until July 30: Paddy Carr and Lorna Isaac.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until August 1: Selected works by Dunedin artist Margaret Calder. Open 9.30am-5pm.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "Poisons", by Martin Sullivan.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Paintings by Bruce Hodgson. 11am-2pm Saturday, 11am-5.30pm Tuesday-Friday.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• "Celebrating Solstice", fine art and sculpture by New Zealand artists.
Wilson Gallery, 45 Beach St, Queenstown.
• Until July 29: "The Art of Dr Seuss".
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