Easter treats
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has an "Easter Art Walk", on which you can learn a little about Easter.
Saturday to Monday, 10am-5pm.
And at 3pm on Sunday the film The Virgin Mary in Art: From the Renaissance to the Reformation (58min G) will screen, courtesy of Roadshow Entertainment.
Songbirds head south
The New Zealand Youth Choir is holding a free open rehearsal in Dunedin on Tuesday at the Dunedin College of Education auditorium.
The rehearsal is open to children aged 10 and over, or those with a strong interest in choral singing, and their caregivers.
Simply arrive a little before the start time of 11.20am.
Freebies
We have four double passes to the youth choir's Knox Church concert to give away.
To enter the draw for one, send your name, address and daytime phone number to playtime@odt.co.nz with choir in the subject line, to arrive before Wednesday.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St, Dunedin. Tonight, 10pm: Easter Meltdown featuring multiple DJ's. Late licence.
Wednesday, 9pm: Local Dnb with Titts Magee and Satch.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon, Dunedin. Tonight, 6.30pm: Daniel Shea.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St, Dunedin. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar , Victoria hotel. Thursdays 9pm: open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin. Tuesday, 8pm: open mike night.
Tonight, 10pm: Rhythmonyx with Left or Right and Tsubliminal.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Ancient Briton Hotel, Naseby. April 10-12: Bards Ballads and Bulldust Festival, featuring Kiwi country and folk music, bush poetry and activities.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Today, 12.30pm: Saucy Reading: Jane Austen's Emma.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon. From Saturday until April 26, 10am-5pm: school holiday project: Build a Bird. Materials provided, free.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 10am-5pm: Easter art walk: take a stroll around the art gallery's exhibitions and, using the sheets provided, learn a little about Easter.
Main St, Clyde Villiage. April 12 from 11am: Clyde Wine and Food Harvest Festival.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds (free).
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium level 1: children's creative activities.
Weekends during April, noon and 3.30pm: interactive trolley: Apes, Hominids and Humans.
Weekends during April and May, 2.30pm: Nature's Bounty, learn about hunter-gathering and wild food safety.
Search centre, free.
School Holiday Programme: daily during the holiday: Percy the Penguin's Big Egg Hunt, collect your trail from the Search Centre Desk.
Saturday 2.15pm: Freaky Science: "What goes in, must come out" - discover how food and drink give our bodies fuel. Atrium level 1, free.
Tuesday, 2.15pm: "In tune with your immune system" - discover how our body fights germs, protects us from harmful viruses and bacteria, and the amazing ways it makes us healthy again. Atrium level 1, free.
Sunday, 2pm: Learn to grow a butterfly garden in your backyard. Search centre, free.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. From Saturday until April 26: school holiday programme. Various activities all day.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays. This week: Liz Bolwell and James Yoo.
Plays
Playhouse Theatre, Albany St, April 11-19: Sleeping Beauty. April 11, 12, 19: 2pm, April 13-19: 11am and 2pm.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. April 15, 7.30pm: Arnaud Desplechin's The Sentinel.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm, fourth floor: NHNZ film screening: Amazing Animal Adaptors. Free.
April 15, noon: Lyn Chapman, marketing and funding co-ordinator for the hospice, gives a talk on the hospice movement to Friends of the Library, fourth Floor.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 10am-5pm: Easter film screening: The Virgin Mary in Art.
April 15, 10.30am: Coffee morning with guest speaker Clive Humphries on his recent work. Free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Free daily talks, 2pm.
This month: Monday: the moa; Tuesday: New Zealand bats; Wednesday: Hooker's sea lions: Thursday: Melanesian masks; Friday: southern whaling; Saturday: Alexander the Great; Sunday: the Siebe-Gorman diving suit.
Weekends at 2.30pm in the search centre: "What's That You're Eating?" Every Saturday and Sunday during April, Nature Galleries, noon and 3.30pm: "Apes, Hominids and Humans". A look at human evolution.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until April 26: six New Zealand fashion designers - National Creative Fibre Festival.
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. Until April 26: new works by Michael Armstrong.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St, Dunedin. "Native", works by Allan Batt.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka. "Highly Geological".
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay, April 11-26: Hullabaloo art collective from Cromwell presents a collection of new works. Exhibiting artists: Luke Anthony, Jane Armour, Liz Kempthorne, Jillian Porteous, Rachel Hiribayashi, Kay Todd, Robyn Urquhart, Lynn Wilson, Nigel Wilson, Claire Worrall.
Open Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until April 18: "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot", works by Sylvia Schwenk.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St, Dunedin. "Shapes of Thoughts", works by Michael Harrison.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Open 10am-4pm. until April 19: "Zoom In, Zoom Out", works by Maxine Williams.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until June 21: "Michael Morley: You Say You Don't Love Me".
This Big Wall work is a key into Morley's long standing in the experimental noise/sound scene.
Until May 24: "Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable". Catharine Hodson's successful treatment for breast cancer three years ago was the starting point for this installation, which deals with the representation and coding of illness.
Until April 13: "John James Audubon: A very special gift". Works from Audubon's collection.
Until May 17: "Di ffrench: Activating Ideas".
Until June 17: "Te Huringa/Turning Points": includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.
Until April 12: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves: Japanese Prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Ongoing: "The Grand Tour: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Until June 14: Michael Morley, "You Say You Don't Love Me".
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore. Until May 10: Melvin Day: "Stabat Mater".
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru. Until May 3: "An Acquired Art", works from the Beryl and Bob McVie collection.
Until April 12: Oamaru artist Trish Shirley exhibits her latest works.
Until April 19: "It's Our History - Don't Knock It!" Jacqui Foley and Burns Pollock.
Until April 19: "By the Sea". Lyndsay Crooks and Janet Weir-Crooks.
Until April 12: "Landscape of Dreams", by Trish Shirley.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. Until April 27: "Run Rabbit Run". Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others.
Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St, Dunedin. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith.
Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment. Hocken Gallery, corner Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Until May 23: Heather Straka, "The Sleeping Room".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct. Until April 27: Jane Casey, photography. Open 10am to 4pm.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St, Dunedin. "Nova Botanica", works by Lynn Kelly (jeweller) and Tim Galloway (artist).
Open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell. From Good Friday until Easter Monday: Cromwell Combined Arts and Crafts Society presents its annual Easter exhibition.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until April 15: "Glass Invitational NZ", featuring works by New Zealand's leading glass artists. Gallery open Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until April 22: "Master Works". Various artists.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St, Dunedin. Until April 25: Yi-Ming Lin, "Something About Texture".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown. Until April 30: "Cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dwellers", by Rohan Wealleans, and "Vanatis", by Wayne Youle.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until April 26: "Art in the Attic", works by painter Clive Humphreys in the Animal Attic.
Until June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past from the Otago Settlers Museum Art Collection".
Until June: "Chinese Treasures", the history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until May 3: "Sisters in Art": Annette Patterson and Sue Ballantyne.
Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden, corner Junction Rd and Matai St, Ravensbourne. Until April 19: "Chicken Show", works by Jude Ansbacher.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton, Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm-5pm.
Until May 31: "Shades of Autumn".
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin. Until April 18: "Josephine's tea-party".
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until April 28: works by Silvia Carter.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Until April 19: "Airborne", a collaboration between Mary McFarlane and Jenny Bornholt.
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery, first floor, central library. Until July 3: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy". Open 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri.
Tell us
Promote your event by giving details to the Otago Daily Times.
Information must arrive by 3pm Tuesday for Thursday's paper.
Fax 474-7422 or email playlist@odt.co.nz
