Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Friday, 7pm: Irish session with Tatterjack.
• Saturday, 8.30pm: Bill Morris, Swampy Both Sides of the Line and The Humboldt County Experience.
• Sunday, 3pm: Blues with Sweet Papa John.
The Bog, George Street.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers
• Saturday, 9pm: The Plasterers, Gate, Francisca Griffin, Mothlovesflame and more. Free.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Ash and the Matadors and Julian Temple and PMK.
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.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
• Sunday, 5pm: DJs Too Tone, Jungle Fari, Baden and Doctor Dave.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Opium, 68 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
• Saturday: Alizarin Lizard.
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 Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
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. Learn tips used for navigating by the stars.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.
Vertical Aerial Dance Studio, 27 Moray Pl.
• Friday, Saturday, 8.30pm: "Razzle Dazzle", Chicago-themed circus show.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Terrace.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: New Zealand String Quartet with Hungarian pianist Peter Nagy.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: New Zealand String Quartet with Hungarian pianist Peter Nagy.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Baba Yaga.
• Sunday, 1pm: Liz and Jono Conway. Terrace School Hall, Marslin St, Alexandra.
• Saturday, 2pm: "Serenade to Music", featuring Star Singers from Dunedin, A Capella from Invercargill, Central Otago Regional Choir and Central Otago Regional Orchestra.
Plays
Cromwell College auditorium, Cromwell.
• Until August 27: Stiff, Fine Thyme Theatre Co.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until September 17: Avenue Q.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until August 27, 7.30pm, August 28, 2pm: Waiting For Godot.
Talks and films
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• August 31, 7.30pm: the Dunedin Film Society will screen Kevin McMahon's German film director Ernst Lubitsch's 1921 silent film Wildcat, a comedy in which the exotic diva Pola Negri plays a bandit princess.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ Film Screening: Orangutan Island 201.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Midwinter Goethe-Institut Film Season: Picture Frames: Something Else Again. Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm, P152 Lecture Theatre, art seminar: Johanna Zellmer, "Visiting Art Schools in Europe" and Leoni Schmidt, "Visiting Art Schools in Prague and Notes on the Prague Biennale".
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.
• In the Barclay Theatre, Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ August: The Most Extreme: Freaky Flyers. Birds are masters of flight. But they are not the only creatures who can travel through the air. Why walk, run, crawl, jump or slither, when you can fly? Gold coin donation.
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.
• Until September 4: "Artarama!", A festival of South Canterbury student art.
ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
• Until August 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 October 1: "Play Off" exhibition, works by Edith Amituanai, Scott Eady and James Oram.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Until 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". Combining classics from the past and cutting-edge works of the present day.
Dowling St Studios, 20a Dowling St.
• Today, 5.30pm-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 11am-3pm: "A Room Full Of Toys", by Hamish Jones, and "The Trouble With Being A Proud Pakeha", by Laura Marsh.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until October 23: "Morning Has Broken", The Farjeon Family Collection.
Dunedin International Airport.
• From Friday until November 4: "Grahame Sydney's Central Otago", photographs by Grahame Sydney.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Ends Sunday: "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 September 25: "Aqua Vitae", Claire Earlie Maxwell.
• Until October 9: "Echoes", Sue McLean.
• Until 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.
• Until September 2: "Phillip Edwards: Time, Space and Shadows".
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Ends tomorrow: "Wilful Damage Part 1": paintings by street artist Levi Hawkin.
• Until September 4: Dunedin Zinefest Exhibition.
Underground artworks and writings and Zine library archive.
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 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.
• Until 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.
• From Saturday until September 21: "This Day, That Hour" by Garry Currin. From Saturday until October 19: "Spring Catalogue", various artists.
Modaks Cafe, George St
• Until 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.
• From Tuesday until September 4: "Within Landscape" by Notus, a group of City and Guilds International graduates in stitched textiles.
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.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until September 7: Rosemary McQueen & Peter Gregory, Special exhibition: "All Fired Up".
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.
