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: Dave Coleclough, Aroha Ngatai, Drew Englehutt Experience.
• Sunday, 3pm: Blues with Sweet Papa John.
The Bog, George St.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Carey's Bay Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Rusty Strings Session featuring The Humboldt County Experience, Maddy Parkins-Craig, Francisca Griffin and Catherine KS and Guests.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm. Commercial Tavern, Green Island.
Saturday, 9pm: Sidewalk Sally.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
The Empire Hotel 396 Princes St.
• Saturday: Dave Coleclough, Aroha Ngatai, Drew Englehutt.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
MIllers Flat Hall
• Saturday: Jody Direen, country rock from 7.30pm till late. Contact: Rose Johnston (03) 204-8967
Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: open-mike night.
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
• Tonight: Tono and The Finance Company, Panther and The Zoo, and Males, from 9pm.
• Saturday, Dunedinmusic.com 6th birthday featuring 23 acts. From 2pm-6pm: All ages concert; 7pm-late: R18 concert.
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 with Nick Cornish and Jesse Kokaua.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Sunday, 2pm: Storytime: "Dads 'n Rugby", with Kaitrin McMullan.
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.
• Sunday, 1pm: The Dad's Day Great Contraption Challenge - Bring your family in to create a rugby-themed contraption to score points and win prizes.
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
12 Below, Moray Pl.
• Friday, 7.30pm: "Cheers! Club Comedy!", stand-up comedy hosted by Hannah Port. Open-mike session.
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Friday, 12.30pm: "The Robin's Return", Mark Wilson and friends, music and laughter.
Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Tuesday, 11am: Operatunity Young Artists Showcase.
King's and Queen's Performings Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Friday, 7.30pm: St Kilda Brass and Lyne Pringle present Ocean Wave, with guest conductor Davey Boyes.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: "English Song Cycles", Stephen Brown, tenor (UK), Terence Dennis, piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Heather Grant.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until September 17: Avenue Q.
Talks and films Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am, 5.30pm: NHNZ film screening: The Most Extreme Dads.
• Today, 5.30pm: Author Talk: Alexa Johnston, author of Ladies a Plate.
• Monday, 12.15pm: "New Zealand Sea Lions: A Native Treasure Under Threat". Talk by Jim Fyfe (Doc) and Steve Broni (NZ Sealion Trust).
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Robert Fischer's, Ernst Lubitsch In Berlin.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm, P152 Lecture Theatre, art seminar: Clive Humphreys, "Visiting Art Schools in England and Notes on Joan Miro at the Tate and other exhibitions".
• 2.30pm, P201 lecture room: Anna-Marie White, "Good Maori, Bad Maori: Connoisseurship and Contemporary Maori Art".
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Today, 2.30pm: Author Talk: Alexa Johnston, author of Ladies a Plate.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for September, 2pm: Thursdays, "New Zealand's Introduced Pests"; Fridays, "Maori Tattooing"; Saturdays; "Delhi Monkeys"; Sundays, "SS Port Chalmers"; Mondays, "The Mouse Deer"; Tuesdays, "New Zealand Frogs"; Wednesdays; "Goldrush Days".
• Daily during September, 4pm: Special Exhibition Gallery talk: "Hard on the Heels". Learn more about New Zealand rugby history. Meet at the information desk, 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.
• Until September 4: "Artarama!", A festival of South Canterbury student art.
• September 6-October 16: Trudy Mulligan, "100 Steps".
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.
• From Friday: "Bok a chi in 3D", by Rohan Wealleans.
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 International Airport.
• 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".
• 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.
• Until October 9: "Seven decades" selected works by Colin Wheeler.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Ends tomorrow: "Phillip Edwards: Time, Space and Shadows".
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• From Friday until September 22: "Urban Landscapes", featuring work by Aroha Novak, Daniel Unverricht, Sonia Keogh and Jane Mitchell.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Until September 4: Dunedin Zinefest Exhibition.
• Underground artworks and writings and Zine library archive.
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.
• New Landscapes by John Badcock, Photography by Susan Badcock, Mixed Media by James Robinson, Portraits by Susan Wilson and Helen 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.
• 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.
• Until September 21: "This Day, That Hour" by Garry Currin.
• 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 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.
School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin.
• "Suter Self", featuirng Jenny Bain, Michele Beevors, Victoria Bell, Neil Emmerson, Tenille Lategan, Simone Montgomery and Karen Taiaroa.
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.
• Ends today: works by Dawn Mason.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• 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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