Gigs
12 Below, Moray Pl.
• Friday, 9.30pm: Home Brew with support from Dudstown Soundsystem, DJ Shan, DJ Substance, DJ Definite and MC Chopper Weed, Soundclash Soundsystem, Junglefari, Dave Boogie,amd Max Dad E.
• Saturday, 9pm: Lawrence Arabia with Ed Gains and The Human Remains and A.J. Sharma.
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, George St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Carey's Bay Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Saturday, 10pm: Denis Henderson, "The Southern Man".
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tonight, 8.30pm: Maenad and Civilian Sol, Wolves at the Door tour.
• Friday, 9pm: Mel Parsons Red Grey Blue Album Release.
• Saturday, 5pm: Nick Knox and Kill Martha.
• Sunday, from 2pm: "Colours of Noise", 11 performances of experimental/noise music.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club presents:Jock Walton's Accordion Crimes.
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.
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.
• Friday, 9pm: Alizarin Lizard.
• Saturday, 9pm: Mirikachinist and guests.
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.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: "Once Upon a Sunday: Vege-tales and Fruity-fables" with storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
• 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: Seeing is Believing - Learn the truth behind optical illusions and discover how your eyes and brain can mislead you during everyday life.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Saturday, 11.30am: Fishy Fables with storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St.
• Friday, 8.30pm: Salsa Tango Night.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 7pm: The Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: John Ritchie's 90th birthday concert, featuring the NZ String Quartet.
Oamaru Opera House foyer.
• Wednesday, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital featuring tenor Neil Johnston; bass/baritone Erik Badcock and accompanist June Cameron.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Stevie Rice plays blues, rock, funk and jazz.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: The Southern Youth Choir and The Southern Consort of Voices perform a concert.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Hall.
• Last performance tomorrow, 8pm: The Full Monty.
Tickets from www.iticket.co.nz or Alexandra Box Office 12-2pm.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Until October 8, 8pm; matinee October 2, 2pm: The Mousetrap.
Talks and films
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 5.15pm: Artist panel discussion: Cara-Ann Simpson: Geodesic Sound Helmets, Jenny Gillam: Frank, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Emma Febvre-Richards: The Rituals of Control.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm. Saucy Reading: The Truth Game.
Dunedin Film Society, The Church, Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm, DVD Screening: Energy Dairies.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Ross Calman, writer and editor, and contributor to the publication Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling will talk about the exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for September and October:
• Thursdays: New Zealand's introduced pests; Fridays:Maori tattooing; Saturdays: Yellow-eyed penguin; Sundays: Rabbits; Mondays: Capybara; Tuesdays: Rocks of Otago; Wednesdays: Northern royal albatross.
• Free Special Exhibition Gallery talk, daily, during October, 4pm: "Hard on the Heels', ' about New Zealand rugby history. Meet at information desk.
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 Anteroom, Port Chalmers.
• "Secret Lives" featuring work by Michael Morley, Tania Robinson, Nathan Thomson, Isaac Leuchs, Kathryn Molloy, Jimmy Cooper, James Robinson, Bob Scott and Hector Hazard.
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown.
• Ends today: "Slang", by John Shewry and Simon Morrison-Deaker.
Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
• From Saturday until October 9: "Beyond the Canvas" by Natasha Shackleton.
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.
• "Bushman/Folk Artist", paintings by Dick Lyne.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until October 27: Central Otago Art Awards.
Dunedin Community Gallery, 300 Moray Pl (opposite Otago Community House).
• Until October 4: "Celtic Art Gallery".
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 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.
• Until April 15, 2012: "The French Connection", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Until October: "Prints and Paintings", by Anna Reid.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• 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.
• Until October 4: "Fragile Canvas", by Martin Hill.
Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Saturday and Sunday: "Exhibition in Homestead", Sunday: "Art in the Garden".
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Until October 2: "Heaven and Earth, Gold Heart, Ritual Womb", by James Robinson.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• "The Mountains to the Sea" by Norman Sinclair.
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.
• Until October 8: "New Work" by Isaac Leuchs.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• From Saturday until October 30: "'Colourific", presented by the Association of New Zealand Embroiderers' Guilds.
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.
• Until October 19: "New Works" by Peata Larkin, Andy Leleisi'uao and Reuben Paterson.
Modaks Cafe, George St.
• Ends tomorrow: "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.
• Ends tomorrow: "Maniototo Sporting Heroes".
Open daily 10am-4pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
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.
School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin.
• Until October 7: Fiona Gillmore, with Amelia Holmes, presents "John Ward Knox, Light Wave - An itinerant physics room project".
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until October 3: "All Fired Up".
• From Tuesday until October 15: Jo Howard and Riki Julin.
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 19: "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.
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