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 and Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Carey's Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd, Careys Bay.
• Tuesday, 9pm: Matt Langley and Darren Watson, with special guest Matt Hay.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: The Flaming DriversThe 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.
• Wednesday, 9pm: Matt Langley and Darren Watson, with special guest Matt Hay.
• Sunday, August 7, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club presents: Anna Bowen.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Reverbaration, Honeybone, Shakes and the Swell, Tommygunners and more.
• 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: Ash and the Matadors with Cult Disney and Sunley Band.
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.
The Shed, Northburn Station, Cromwell.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Hot Club Sandwich.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Saturdays, 2.30pm: live jazz with Jesse Kokaua and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime.
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" - Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery.
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.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Starry Nights. Learn tips used for navigating by the stars.
• Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Foolish Frolics with storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
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
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Mark Wilson and Friends music and laughter.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Sunday, 2pm: "Heavenly Choirs for Hospital Chaplaincy", featuring Dunedin Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines, Otago Girls' and Boys' high schools choirs, Southern Consort of Voices and Sunny Side Up.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Lunchtime recital, Wednesday, 1pm: Debussy Rarities for 4 Hands.
• Sunday, 11am, 2pm: Newzats Cleveland Encouragement Awards.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Otago Girls' and Otago Boys' high schools choirs. Southern Sinfonia rooms, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 3pm: Otago Symphonic Band presents "Chamber Music and All That", a programme of small ensemble performances. Door sales only.
Plays
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• Saturday, 3pm: Read Out Loud Series: Two Fish 'n A Scoop by Carl Nixon. Door sales only.
Features Nadya Shaw Bennett, Mark Neilson and Gresham Worth, directed by Karen Elliot.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• August 6-13, 8pm; August 7, 3pm: The My?terious Mr Love, directed by Graham Wilson and Liz Nisbet.
Talks and films
Colquhuon Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Dunedin Public Hospital, Great King St.
• Today, 5.45pm: Amnesty International and Medical Students for Global Awareness (MSGA) present the film: The Stoning of Soraya M.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 5.30pm: Author talk, Lauren Kate.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, botanic garden centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
• Friday, noon: "The Elfin World of the Moss - the Forest Beneath our Feet", talk by John Steel, teaching fellow, University of Otago botany dept.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Saturday, 3pm: Midwinter Goethe-Institut Film Season: Goodbye Lenin! .
• Sunday, 3pm: Dr Emilie Sitzia, senior lecturer in art history and theory, University of Canterbury, will discuss depictions of the weather in a selection of works from the "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery" exhibition.
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm, art seminar: Bridie Lonie, "Nature: Some Questions".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for August, 2pm: Thursdays, "Sheep Farming in the South"; Fridays, "The Sri Lankan Mask"; Saturdays, "The KT Extinction"; Sundays, "Rapa Nui"; Mondays, "The Mouse Deer"; Tuesdays, "New Zealand Frogs"; Wednesdays, "Goldrush Days".
• Until October 31, 4pm: "Hard on the Heels". Learn more about New Zealand rugby history from the sidelines. Free.
Monday, 7.30pm, Hutton Theatre: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting, including talk by Photographic Society of NZ president Ron Parry.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Ends today: "Glory Days", 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.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "New Works", works by Helen Back, Laila Ataya and Anna Majboroda.
Attic Studio, 140 George St.
• Ends today: "A Winter's Exhibition", by Manu Berry, Peter Gregory and Pauline Bellamy.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until August 20: Dunedin School of Art graduate exhibition.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• "271 People (mostly alive): vintage prints 1967-75", by Max Oettli.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• 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 City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until October 23: "Morning Has Broken", The Farjeon Family Collection.
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 21: "Nollywood", by Pieter Hugo.
• Until August 28: "Radiant Matter Part II", Dane Mitchell.
• Until October 2: sculpture and photography by Sarah Lucas.
• From Saturday until November 20: "Pathway to the Sea - Aramoana", by Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until August 7: "Painting the View", Constable, Turner and British Landscape Watercolourists, 1760-1860.
• Until August 14: North Otago Art Society Awards.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Until August 31: "Philatelic Philanderings", mini-exhibition by Catriona Holgate. Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Ends today: "Winter and Birthday Exhibition".
• From tomorrow until August 18: "A Week at Betty's - and other paintings" by Nic Dempster.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• On now: "The Wreath Series", by Anet Neutze.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until August 30: "Max Well's Art", featuring works by Heather Maxwell and Stuart Maxwell.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until October 1: "Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity".
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, Helen Badcock, Susan Badcock, Susan Wilson.
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 August 17: "Parallel", various artists.
• Until August 17: "Works on Paper".
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until August 24: "The Review", various artists.
• Until August 24: "Selected Paintings 1981-2009", by Dick Frizzell.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until September 4: "Preoccupied", by Ross Gray.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until 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 August 28: Premier Art Awards. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Translation", 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.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St.
• Until August 6: Oliver van der Lugt.
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.
School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin.
• Until August 12: "We Are Here", drawings by Juliet Novena Sorrel.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until September 1, works by local artist Dawn Mason.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Until August 6: "Tikkun Olam" featuring work by Allie Eagle, Joanna Margaret Paul, Stefan Roberts, Esther Hansen, Andrew Panhono, Helen Dent and Sacha Lachlan.
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.
• Fine art and sculpture by New Zealand artists.
