Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tonight, 7pm: Singer songwriter session.
• Friday, 7pm: Irish traditional session with Crackerjack.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Irish sing-along with the Blarney Boys.
The Bog, George St.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans. Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: Shakes and the Swell Guys and Three Dollar Easy.
• Saturday: Gardens Pharmacy Methadone Coffee Club with Axe Handel and Scattered Brains of the Lovely Union.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7:30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Beyondsemble.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Beyondsemble.
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.
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 Ben Stegmann, Jesse Kokaua, Lloyd Williams and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Monday, 4pm: Talk Like a Pirate Day. Come along and make a sword, eye-patch and hat.
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 performance12 Below, Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Club Comedy from AntiSocial Tap.
Cromwell Conference Centre, Golden Gate Lodge.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Beyondsemble. Book: Cromwell I-Site.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians September recital meeting, featuring winners of the senior instrumental competitions chamber ensemble class and a programme by University of Otago performance students, introduced by Prof Terence Dennis.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Recital by performance students.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
• Today and tomorrow, 7.30pm: The Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan Performance Trust presents Utopia (Limited).
Sunday, 7pm: Otago Daily Times Aria contest final.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Celtic Shenanigans: ballads, stories, jigs and reels, as part of the Celtic Arts Festival.
• Sunday, 1pm: Far Frae Caledonia, Celtic Arts Festival.
Roxburgh Town Hall
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Beyondsemble. Door sales.
• St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd. Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera present "An Afternoon with Jud Arthur", featuring a talk and performance.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until September 17: Avenue Q.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Patu! , documentary on the 1981 Springbok Tour.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Coffee morning featuring milliner and fashion expert Lindsay Kennett, speaking on "My Life in Art and Fashion".
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm: Vijay Devadas, "Patriotism and Nationalism in Indian Cinemas".
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Saturday, 3pm: Artists' floor talks from Sue McLean and Claire Earlie Maxwell.
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.
St David Street Lecture Theatre, cnr St David and Castle streets.
• Today, 7.30pm: Environmentalist James Blake: "A Fragile Canvas".
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until October 16: Trudy Mulligan, "100 Steps".
• Until October 16: "The Making of The Word Witch - The Poetic and 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.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• From Sunday until October 18: Work by Manu Berry, Pauline Bellamy and Max Bellamy.
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.
• 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.
• Until January 2012, "Back in Black", featuring work by Len Lye, Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere and Lisa Reihana.
• Until January 2012: "The Pressure of Sunlight Falling", by Fiona Pardington.
Dunedin School of Art, behind O Block (ceramics block).
• Ends tomorrow: "Rivers of Colour", by John Cosgrove.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Until October: "Prints and Paintings", by Anna Reid.
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.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Until September 18: "SHEEP-O", by Jai Hall.
• Until October 2: "Heaven and Earth, Gold Heart, Ritual Womb", by James Robinson.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until October 1: "Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity".
• Hocken Library foyer, until November 26: "Ruck It!: How Otago shaped rugby history".
Photographs and sporting memorabilia.
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.
• From Saturday until October 12: "In a Man's World", by Hannah Kidd.
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 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.
• Until December 4: "Champions", photography by Jessie Casson.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Photography by Gilbert van Reenen, Mike Langford, Jackie Ranken, Christopher Thompson, Craig Potton, Paul Gummer, Chris McLennan, Adam Buckle and Helmut Hirler.
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.
Station Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until September 25: "The Hard Yards", paintings of Dunedin training grounds by Jude Ansbacher. Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St. Until October 3: "All Fired Up".
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "Grieving Over a Dead Fish; Secret Men's Business", by Hannah Joynt.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Until October 1: Exhibition of goldsmiths' tools. Tues-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
• Until October 18: "Group Show" featuring work by Israel Birch, Star Gossage, Robert Jahnke, Hemi Macgregor, James Ormsby, Ngatai Taepa, Todd Couper, John Bevan Ford, Robyn Kahukiwa, Aaron Kereopa, Rangi Kipa, Para Mitchett, Tracey Tawhiao and Roi Toia.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• "Celebrating Spring", new oil paintings by Peter Hackett.
