Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Friday, 7pm: Irish session with The Blarney Boys.
• Sunday, 3pm: Blues with Sweet Papa John and The Revelators.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Traditional session with the Blarney Army.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: The Blue Onesies with Brown, and The Something Quartet.
• Saturday, 8.30pm: Flying Nun Tribute Show featuring F in Math with Alphabethead, Two Cartoons, Idiot Prayer, Killmore Girls and Murderbike.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Roots and Roll Review and the Dead Sparrows.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
James Cumming Wing Lecture Theatre, Gore.
• Tonight, 8pm: The Oxo Cubans.
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.
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.
• Wednesday, November 9, 11.15am: Tours for Tots.
A free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition followed by a chat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor. Nappy-changing facilities.
• Saturday, 7pm: "Puppets and Percussion".
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.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: 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, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: "Scotland the Brave". Join storyteller Kaitrin McMullan and friends as she spins tales to delight children of all ages.
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
Cardrona Hall, Wanaka.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Richard Grainger and Chris Parkinson, English folk duo.
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm-1.30pm: "Duelling Pianos", by Les Richardson and Mark Wilson.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: The Melancholy Babes with Eric Boeren . Jeff Henderson, Tom Callwood and Anthony Donaldson perform on saxophone, bass and drums, with Dutch trumpet player Eric Boeren.
Flagstaff Union Church, Wakari, Dunedin.
• Friday, 7pm: Steve Apirana and Derek Lind.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Merryn Gill.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 8pm: A Festival of Russian Ballet.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Berlin Burlesque.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Friday, 7.30pm: North American Welsh Choir.
St Peter's Church, Queenstown.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: North American Welsh Choir.
Waitati Community Hall, Harvey St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Ad Hoc Cabaret: Blackboard session featuring Resonance Trio and Dunedin Jazz Workshop.Plays
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• November 3-5, 7.30pm; November 6, 6pm: Peter Rowley with his audio-visual stage show Billy T & Me.
Talks and films
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 2pm: "Facing Animals in Recent Art: An Addendum to Jenny Gillam's Dog Frank", a talk by Dr Cecilia Novero.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Prof Dame Anne Salmond, department of Maori studies, University of Auckland, will discuss aspects of the exhibition "Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling".
Hunter Centre, Great King Street (opposite the School of Dentistry), room G30 A and B, ground floor.
• Wednesday, 6pm: Reading by Miriam Frank, author of My Innocent Absence.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for November: Mondays: "The Penguin Wreck"; Tuesdays: "Southern whaling"; Wednesdays: "Pounamu"; Thursdays: "Peripatus, the living fossil"; Fridays: "Pre Dynastic Egyptian stone vases"; Saturdays: "Auckland Island teal"; Sundays: "The dynamic Otago Harbour".
Exhibitions
53 Cockerell St, Brockville.
• Saturday and Sunday, 10am-2pm: Various works by Vanessa Paton-Myers.
506 Kaikorai Valley Rd
• Saturday, 2pm-5pm: "Whale, Bear, Aurochs, Parrot", by Emma J.V. Hogg.
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• "The Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition".
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until November 6: "South Canterbury Arts Society 59th Annual Exhibition".
Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
• "Down the Track", 25 years of Artsenta studios.
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.
• Until November 26: "The Cabinet of Curiosities", featuring work by Dan Roberts, Anne-Mieke Ytsma, Craig Freeborn and Mariya Semenova.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until November 12: "Frank", by Jenny Gillam.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• "New Works", by Jim Cooper.
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 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.
• Until December 11: "Gymnauseum", by Jane Venis.
• Ongoing: "Myriad worlds", by Ruth Watson.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• November 5-25: Paintings and drawings by Jane Hamilton.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until November 27: "Steampunk: tomorrow as it used to be".
• Until November 27: "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", monoprints by Jason Greig.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Oil paintings by Charles Barrington, mirrors by Phil Jopson.
Open Wednesday-Friday 1pm-4pm, weekends 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Ends today: "I See You" by Jo St Baker.
• November 5-17: "New paintings by Suzy Platt".
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• From tomorrow until November 30: "Where Angels Fear to Tread", by Jane Mitchell.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Paintings by Paul Cardno, Charles Barrington, Nigel Wilson; mirrors by Phil Jopson; pots by Peter Gregory.
Open Wednesday-Friday 1pm-4pm, weekends 10.30am-4pm.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• Until November 6: "ctrl+s or #+s on a mac", by Ted Whitaker.
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".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until November 19: "Jazz at the Dinner Table" by Kay Todd.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until November 5: New work by Kikkawa Motoko.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Work by local artists.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until December 12: "The Match, Portraits of New Zealand Rugby Players" by David Matches.
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.
Memorial Hall, Outram
• November 5 and 6: Jill Luxmoore's "Kids' Art 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 November 9: "Oroua Valley", by Karl Maughan.
• Until November 9: "Never Before Shades", by Toni Mackinnon.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until November 16: "Luminance", by Neal Palmer.
• Until November 16: "Red", non-white ceramics by John Parker.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until November 30: "Collecting Dust" by Auckland artist Ken Downey.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• From tomorrow until November 19: "dot it down", by Annie Nevin, John Z Robinson and Robert West.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Nadene Milne's 10th anniversary exhibition.
Naseby Jubilee Museum, Leven St cnr Earne St.
• Until December 31: Maniototo Sporting Heroes' exhibition.
Open Mon-Fri noon-4pm, weekends 10am-4pm.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• Ends today: "Discomfort/Disappointment", Tania Robinson/Jimmy Currin.
• From tomorrow until November 13: " ... or I'll dress you in mourning", by Flynn Morris-Clarke.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, OAS gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until November 13: "Bakers Dozen", featuring work by Angela Dunn, Angela Laby, Cath Sheard, Cheryl Irwin, Claire McIntosh, Kerry McNeil, Kylie Law, Lorna Allan, Marimba Powley, Natalie McMurchie, Sharlene Schmidt, Sue Shore and Tanya Dann.
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.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• From Monday until November 26: "Celebr4te", cast and blown glass by Katie Brown, Gem Chapman, Craig Columb, Matt Hall, Isaac Katzoff, Annabel Menzies-Joyce and Lou Pendergrast.
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: "The Sixth Great Extinction", Max Bellamy.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Road, State Highway 8, Alexandra.
• Until December 31: Works by Nigel Wilson.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until November 6: Louise Thompson Parker and Paddy Carr.
• From Monday until November 13: Lisa Simpson and Kevin Black.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until December 1: A selection of works by the Green Island Art Group.
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.
• "Haka Back in Black", by David Teata.
• Until November 23: "Storms In Paradise", by Anneke Stewart.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• "Celebrating Spring", new works by Peter Hackett and oil paintings by Raquel Clarke.
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