The Guide: What's on this week

Gigs

1908 Cafe, Portobello.
• Saturday, 6.30pm-8pm: Lionel Reekie.

Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.

Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesday, 7pm: The Blarney Boys.
• Wednesdays, 7pm: folk night.
• Friday, 7pm, David Colecough and friends.
• Sunday, 3pm: blues with Sweet Papa John, in Delta blues bar.

Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers
• Tomorrow: The Scruffs Big Nite Out, from 9pm

The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesdays, from 8pm: open-mike night.
• Thursdays: jazz, from 7.30pm.
• Fridays: Latin music from 8.30pm.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: blues night, hosted by Jeffery Robinson.

Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm on.

Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.

Dunedin Town Hall
• Tomorrow: The Black Seeds, P Money, I Am Giant, Knives at Noon, The Black Seeds.

Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.

Port Chalmers Town Hall.
• Saturday: Down and Dirty Blues Party with the Scruffs, from 9pm.

Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: open-mike night.
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
• Tonight: Black Sky Hustler, Idiot Prayer and TLA, from 9pm.Tomorrow, 9pm: Good Books live album recording. TLA, Kitten Surprise, Laxed Out.
• Saturday, 9pm: Osmium and Zerstiren (Chch). Wednesday: Honeybone, 9pm.

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 Urban Factory, Great King St.
• Tonight, 8pm: Head Like A Hole with Cairo Knife Fight Valley Lodge, Dunedin.
• Saturday: Sidewalk Sally.

Family fun

Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Saturday, 11am-4pm: Storylines Festival - free family day.
• Meet New Zealand authors and illustrators, face-painting, storytelling, competitions and activities.

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 information desk.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Starry Nights. Tips for navigating by the stars.

Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.

Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.

Music and performance

Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.

• Tonight, 5.30pm and 7pm: "A Night at the Museum". Live performance.

Evison Lounge, Clubs and Socs, 84 Albany St.
• Saturday, 7,30pm: Kirtan Concert, with Carmella Baynie and friends.
• Sunday, 11am-2pm: Born Singing workshop.
Inquiries: Jane Beecroft, ph 471-7149

Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Gala concert, Otago Girls' and Boys' high schools. Three choirs.
• Music from Handel, Mozart, Gershwin, Childs to Glee. Karen Knudson, conductor; Sandra Crawshaw, piano. All tickets bought for August 14 concerts are valid.

Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Tuesday, 5.30pm: Lilburn Trust Composition Prize Concert. Free.
• Lunchtime recital, Wednesday, 1pm: "Liszt and beyond", La Belle Alliance - Tessa Petersen, violin, and John Van Buskirk, piano. Tom McGrath, piano.

Oamaru Opera House foyer.
• Tomorrow, 12.15pm: lunchtime recital, Wendy Eckhardt (soprano) and Richard Bowering (bass).
June Cameron accompanist.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Lionel Reekie.

Plays

Cromwell College auditorium, Cromwell.
• August 19, 20, 25-27: Stiff, Fine Thyme Theatre Co.

Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• August 19-September 17: Avenue Q.

Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• August 18-20, 23-27, 7.30pm, August 20 and 28, 2pm: Waiting For Godot.

Talks and films

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tomorrow, 1pm: 15th Annual Ethel Benjamin Address, by Her Honour Justice Ellen France.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Midwinter Goethe-Institute Film Season, Saturday August 20, 3pm: Grill Point (107min, 2001). Sunday, 2.30pm: exhibition talk: Emeritus Prof Elizabeth Isichei will talk about the way Nigerian belief systems operate in conjunction with Christianity and the resultant societal effects.

Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm, P152 Lecture Theatre, art seminar: Rachel Gillies, "Visiting Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Scotland" and "Notes on the Venice Biennale".

Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, August 22, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting, Spring Print exhibition, and presentation of awards.

Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Tomorrow, 6pm: Talk by sculptor Graham Bennett on his exhibition "Weighting And Waiting".

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". New Zealand rugby history from the sidelines. Free.

Exhibitions

A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until September 3: Kluster****. Sam Ovens, Nathan Forbes and Ant Scarer.

Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• August 20-September 4: "Artarama!", A festival of South Canterbury student art.

ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
• August 20-27: "Deep Space Art". Works by Makouri Scott.

The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "New Works", works by Helen Back, Laila Ataya and Anna Majboroda.

Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until August 20: Dunedin School of Art graduate exhibition.
• August 23-October 1: "Play Off" exhibition, works by Edith Amituanai, Scott Eady and James Oran.

Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• August 20-September 1: "The Bruce And Denny Show", by Billy Apple.

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".

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 August 21: "Nollywood", by Pieter Hugo.
• Until August 28: "Radiant Matter Part II", Dane Mitchell.
• Until October 2: sculpture and photography by Sarah Lucas.
• Until October 30: "Jeena Shin: Fractus".
• Until November 20: "Pathway to the Sea - Aramoana", by Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert.
• Until April 15, 2012: "The French Connection", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.

Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until August 21: North Otago Art Society Awards.
• Until September 25: "Aqua Vitae", Claire Earlie Maxwell.
• August 20-October 9: "Echoes", Sue McLean.
• August 22-October 9: "The Match: Portraits of NZ Rugby Players" an exhibition by David Matches on tour from New Zealand Portrait Gallery.

Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Until August 31: "Philatelic Philanderings", mini-exhibition by Catriona Holgate.

Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Ends today: "A Week at Betty's - and other paintings", by Nic Dempster.
• August 20-September 2: "Phillip Edwards: Time, Space and Shadows".

Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Until August 26: "Wilful Damage Part 1": paintings by street artist Levi Hawkin.
• Until September 4: Dunedin Zinefest Exhibition.

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".

Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct
• Until Saturday, August 27: Solo exhibition by Marion Vialade.

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.
• Portraits by Helen Badcock, Susan Wilson, John Badcock; photography by Susan Badcock; James Robinson, mixed media.

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.
• August 20-September 14: "Weighting And Waiting", Graham Bennett.
• Until September 14: "Works on Paper" by Dick Frizzell, Stanley Palmer, Karl Maughan, Reuben Paterson and Nigel Brown.

Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until August 24: "The Review", various artists.
• Until August 24: "Selected Paintings 1981-2009", by Dick Frizzell.

Modaks Cafe, George St
• August 24-September 30: "Awoken in the Ether", group exhibition looking at climate change. Artists include: Deano Shirriffs, James Colin Bellaney, Chris Crooked Spoke, Veronica Brett, Rory MacMurdo, Nada Crofskey-Rayner, Shipsey Caldwell, Nimue Dingemans, Haleia Dingemans.

Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until September 4: "Preoccupied", by Ross Gray.

North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".

Otago Art Society, OAS gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until August 28: Premier Art Awards.

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.
• "Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander".

Richardson Building, seminar room 5, Law Faculty, Otago University.
• Until November 17: "Art in Law VI", work by students and graduates of the Otago School of Art.

School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin.
• Ends tomorrow: "Hoop", by Rob Cloughley and Prue Edge. Open 9am-5pm.

Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until September 1, works by Dawn Mason.

Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Until August 30: "Picture Gallery", by Max Oettli.
• Until September 3: "Resisting Africa", by Victoria Bell.

Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Paintings by Bruce Hodgson. 11am-2pm Saturday, 11am-5.30pm Tuesday-Friday.

Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
• Until September 7: "New Works", Aaron Kereopa.

Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Fine art and sculpture by New Zealand artists.


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