Gigs
12 Below, Moray Pl.
• Friday, 9pm: Ash and the Matadors with Hana Fahy and the Low Tones and The Great Jali.
• Saturday, 10pm: Ink Mathematics EP release with support from Osmium, Cult Disney and The Altar Vendetta.
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. Friday, 10pm:
• Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Friday. 8.30pm: Luke Hurley.
• Saturday, 9pm: The Harbour Union featuring The Eastern, Lindon Puffin, The Unfaithful Ways and more.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Copa, George St.
• Saturday, 10pm: The annual Duds City Stars MC Battles, featuring iMC, S.A.I.D, Jigz, Ridge Jaggers, Young Pretty and Sativa.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• 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.
The Riverhouse, Wanaka.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Beyondsemble.
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 featuring Nick Cornish and Jesse Kokaua.
Urban Factory, Great King St.
• Saturday. 9pm: The Chills with Robert Scott and guests.
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.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Stuart Skelton, tenor (Australia), Terence Dennis, piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Merryn Gill.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 1pm: Richard Brown and Rhys Thorn present a programme of short works for the organ and extemporisations on chorale tunes.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until September 17: Avenue Q.
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• Saturday, 3pm: Read Out Loud, 2011 Series: Sketchby Kate Morris.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Artist's talk: Fiona Pardington.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: Tours for Tots, baby-friendly half-hour tours.
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 12.15pm: Art seminar with Alex Kennedy: "Report on exhibiting in Paris and Visiting Art Schools in the Netherlands."
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Saturday, 3pm: Artists' floor talks from Sue McLean and Claire Earlie Maxwell.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society meeting.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks f or 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.
• Friday, 5.30pm, Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening, I Survived... 9/11.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until October 16: Trudy Mulligan, "100 Steps".
• From Saturday until October 16: "The Making of The Word Witch. The Poetic & Illustrative Magic of Margaret Mahy and David Elliot".
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.
• "Bok a chi in 3D", by Rohan Wealleans.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• From tomorrow until October 27: Central Otago Art Awards.
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.
• From Saturday until January 2012, "Back in Black", featuring work by Len Lye, Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere and Lisa Reihana.
• From Saturday until January 2012: "The Pressure of Sunlight Falling" by Fiona Pardington.
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 Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until September 22: "Urban Landscapes", featuring work by Aroha Novak, Daniel Unverricht, Sonia Keogh and Jane Mitchell.
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.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm, runs until October 23: "When in Rome", sculpture by Bryn M. Jones.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, OAS gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until September 25: Spring Exhibition: theme "Celtic".
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".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm.
• Weekends: 10am-4pm.
• From tomorrow until December 4: "Champions", photography by Jessie Casson.
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: "About Photography", an exhibition by staff and postgraduate students of the photography department at Dunedin School of Art.
Station Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until September 25, "The Hard Yards" paintings of Dunedin training grounds by Jude Ansbacher. Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• From Sunday: "Grieving over a dead fish; secret men's business", by Hannah Joynt.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Exhibition of goldsmiths' tools. September 13 - October 1.
• Tues-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• "Celebrating Spring", new oil paintings by Peter Hackett.