Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, George St.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Today: Sleeping Dogs, House Of Mountain, Hera and Happiness Stan.
• Tomorrow: Bluestone.
• Saturday: Gold Medal Famous, Gate, John White and Ded Sparrows.
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.
The Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Friday, 9.30pm: My, Oh album release.
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.
• Saturday, 9pm: Mountaineater and Left or Right with Thundercub and DJ Ra Ne.
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.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Saturday, 2.30pm: live jazz featuring Trevor Coleman 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.
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
Common Room, University of Otago.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Pecha Kucha Night #11.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Wednesday, 12.30pm: Scottish Early Music: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music from Scotland with Rare Byrds and Ceilidh Club dancers.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: "Last Night of the Proms", Southern Sinfonia featuring Jud Arthur and Tecwyn Evans.
• Tuesday, 6.30pm: The 42nd Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival.
• Wednesday, September 28, 6.30pm: "Odes to Joy", New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen.
King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Sunday, 2pm: Dunedin Star Singers Inc presents "Star Concert 2011".
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Coleman and Cornish: Improvisation on Classics.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Linda Munro. Sunday, 1pm: Les Belles Vilaines.
Urban Factory, 101 Great King St.
• Tonight, 8pm: "Sins and Sequins": cabaret, burlesque and Latin dance show.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Hall.
• September 24-30, 8pm daily, except Sunday 25, 4pm: The Full Monty.
Tickets from www.iticket.co.nz or Alexandra Box Office 12-2pm Monday-Friday only.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• From Saturday until October 8, 8pm; matinees, September 25 and October 2, 2pm: The Mousetrap.
Talks and films
Anteroom Gallery, 29 Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers
• Today, 12.15pm-1.15pm, Dunedin School of Art seminar: Mark Soltero, "Modernism & The Black Index".
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 2pm: Dr Natalie Smith gives a talk, "Fancy Dress Balls and National Identity in Early New Zealand (1900-1910)".
Dorothy Browns, Arrowtown
• Tonight, 5pm: Author talk with Atka Reid and Hana Schofield, authors of Goodbye Sarajevo, a true story by the two Bosnian sisters. Free. Book by phoning (03) 442-1964.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: Author talk: Paul Holmes: Daughters of Erebus. Ticketed entry.
Dunedin Film Society, The Church, Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky.
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".
• Sunday, 3pm: Gregory O'Brien, poet, curator and author of "Hotere - Out the Black Window", will discuss aspects of Ralph Hotere's work.
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: Free Special Exhibition Gallery talk: "Hard on the Heels', ' about New Zealand rugby history. Meet at information desk.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening - Man Made Marvels, Okinawa Aquarium.
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".
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
• Until September 27: Blossom Festival Art Exhibition 2011. Open daily, 10am-4.30pm.
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown.
• Until September 29: "Slang", by John Shewry and Simon Morrison-Deaker.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Fragmentum", by Geoff Williams.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• 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.
• From Saturday: "Bushman/Folk Artist", paintings by Dick Lyne.
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".
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.
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", by David Matches.
• Until October 9: "Seven decades", selected works by Colin Wheeler.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• From tomorrow until October 4: "Fragile Canvas", by Martin Hill.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• 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.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• From tomorrow until October 8: "New Work" by Issac Leuchs.
The Link Mezzanine, Otago University.
• Until tomorrow: Student art exhibition and sale.
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 October 12: "In a Man's World", by Hannah Kidd.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until October 19: "Spring Catalogue", various artists.
• From Saturday until October 19: "New Works" by Peata Larkin, Andy Leleisi'uao and Reuben Paterson.
Modaks Cafe, George St.
• Until September 30: "Awoken in the Ether", group exhibition.
• 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.
Naseby Jubilee Museum, Leven St cnr Earne St.
• Until September 30: "Maniototo Sporting Heroes".
Open daily 10am-4pm.
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".
• Until September 25: "The Hard Yards", paintings by Jude Ansbacher.
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.
• Until December 4: "Champions", photography by Jessie Casson.
• Open Mon-Fri, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
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 Otago School of Art.
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 works by Peter Hackett and oil paintings by Raquel Clarke.
