Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Friday, 8pm: Paul Ubana Jones.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: Brooke Singer "French for rabbits" 2011 tour.
• Saturday: The Eastern with Matt Langley.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Tonight, 8.30pm: Hepatitis C awareness gig, featuring Sybus, Squirm, The Doyleys and TLA.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Friday, 8pm: "Bayfield High School, The Musical", featuring Quick Wild Duck and more.
The Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Batchelorette, final Dunedin show.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Friday, 9pm: Soulseller's last Dunedin show, with support from Left Or Right Sound System, Osmium and Helter Skelter.
• Saturday, 9pm: Ink Mathematics, Hunting Bears and Julian Temple.
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.
Urban Factory, Great King St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Ash and the Matadors, Brown, Honeybone, The Skitzofrantics and Squid Pro Quo.
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.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• From Saturday until October 23,10am-4pm: School Holidays Activity: "Fun in Black", using the black paper and other materials on the activities table, be inspired by the exhibition "Back in Black" to draw your own ideas of New Zealand, a map, a landscape and words.
• October 10-14, 2pm-4pm: School holidays activity: Casting workshop with sculptor Aroha Novak. Bookings essential.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays, 11am: storytime.
• Tuesday, 2pm: Make a chalk and mosaic card. Bookings essential.
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.
• Daily during the school holidays, 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.
• Sunday: "Future All Blacks Arvo". Join special guests Rugger the Small Black, Harold from Life Education Trust and Manu Moa for rugby fun, rugby science and rugby skills.
• Daily during the school holidays: Go Black Trail, we all know of the Black Sticks, Tall Blacks, Black Sox, Black Ferns and of course the All Blacks. Follow this trail to discover the meanings and mysteries of black.
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
The Church, Dundas St.
• Friday, 8.30pm: Salsa Tango Night.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Recital by performance students.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Alexey Medvedev.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• October 7-29: The Truth Game, by Simon Cunliffe, directed by Lara Macgregor.
• October 10-22, 11am and 1pm, Mon-Sat: The Little Jester.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until October 8, 7.30pm, Sunday, 2pm: Prufrock's Love Song.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Until October 8, 8pm: The Mousetrap.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• October 8-16, 11am-2pm: Peter Pan. Sundays 2pm only.
Talks and films
ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
• Friday, 8pm: Southland artist Wallace T. Keown will guide you through the highlights of more than 60 years dedicated to his art.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 2pm: Cara-Ann Simpson in discussion with Su Ballard.
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Careful With Those Kids, a selection of recent short films in which Kiwi children get up to no good in amusing and rather disturbing ways.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Exhibition Talk: Lisa Matisoo-Smith on Fiona Pardington's "The Pressure of Sunlight Falling".
• October 12, 11.15am: Tours for Tots. Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for 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.
• Daily during the school hoildays, 10am, 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm: Scinema 2011 - Festival of Science Films.
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.
Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until October 9: "Beyond the Canvas" by Natasha Shackleton.
ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
• From Saturday until October 22: "60-Year Retrospective", by Wallace T. Keown.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Until October 15: "Fragmentum", by Geoff Williams.
• Until October 15: "Haka 2011" by David Teata.
• October 8-22: "Homeward", works by Jule Greig.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until October 18: Work by Manu Berry, Pauline Bellamy and Max Bellamy.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until November 12: "The Rituals of Control", by Emma Febvre-Richards; "Geodesic Sound Helmets", by Cara-Ann Simpson.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until November 12: "Frank", by Jenny Gillam.
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 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 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.
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 on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Re-opening. Celebrate at 2pm Saturday, October 8. Oil paintings by Charles Barrington, mirrors by Phil Jopson. Open Wednesday-Friday 1pm-4pm, weekends 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• From Saturday until October 21: "Red", a collection of new mixed media works by Kylie Duncan. Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• From Friday until October 27: "Flock", featuring work by Don Binney, Bing Dawe, Paul Dibble, Ben Reid, Jonathan Campbell and Lukeke.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• From Friday: "It could have been beautiful", a contemporary jewellery installation by Jessica Kitto.
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 February 18, 2012: "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.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until October 8: "Wicked Carvings" by Pav Pawlowicz.
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.
Meridian Mall, George St.
• From today until October 9: Green Island Art Group annual exhibition.
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.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, OAS gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until October 22: "A Rugged Paradise", photography by John Caswell.
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.
• Ends tomorrow: 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 22: Jo Howard and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until October 18: Photography by Janine Ferreira-Thomson.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "Grieving Over a Dead Fish; Secret Men's Business", by Hannah Joynt.
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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