Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Today, 7pm, Songwriters Dave Coleclough, Chrissy Hundlbey.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Irish sing-along with the Blarney Boys.
• Sunday 3pm, Blues with Sweet Papa John and the Revelators.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Irish Jam with Blarney Army.
The Bog, George St.
• Friday night, from 10pm: Livewire featuring Jaimee Evans.
Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow: The New Self, David Khan, Nick Knox.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Tonight, 8.30pm: Acoustic night with Simple Thieves and Hunting Bears.
• Tomorrow, 8.30pm: Salsa tango night. Free lesson.
• Saturday: King Leo Blues Band.
• Sunday, 6pm: Ukulele lessons. 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Allan Johnston, a Scottish folksinger, songwriter and player of guitar, bouzouki and octave mandolin.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Jam night, from 8.30pm. Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St
• Saturday, from 9pm: The New Self, David Khan, Nick Knox.
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.
Urban Factory, Great King St.
• November 11: The Bats.
Blueskin Bay Library
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime.
Dunedin City Library 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Today, 12.30pm, ground floor: "Saucy Reading: A Short Cut to Happiness" Discover Roger Hall's latest play, in which cultures and personalities collide in pursuit of a new leisure activity - Russian folk dancing. Win a ticket to opening night. Free.
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.
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
Alexandra Community Hall, Skird St.
• Saturday, November 12, 2pm: Octagon City Big Band.
Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, Maryhill Tce.
• Sunday, November 13, 2pm: The Choristers present an afternoon tea concert. Conductor: Noela Simpson. Accompanist: Frances Brodie.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm, atrium: Andy Parsons, acoustic guitar.
• Sunday, 1pm, atrium: Heather Grant.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Saturday, 9pm, Sunday 2pm and 7pm: Dances About Love, choreographed by Hahna Briggs, Brendan Kydd and Lisa Wilkinson.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• November 12 and 13: The Sleeping Beauty, Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Until November 13, 8pm: Berlin Burlesque, The Loons Circus Theatre Company.
St Paul's Church, Coquet St, Oamaru.
• Sunday November 13, 2pm: Oamaru Choral Society presents an end-of-year concert, including a sing-along Messiah with choruses and selected solos.
Waiora Scout Camp, Whare Flat, Dunedin.
• November 11-15: Circulation Festival, featuring more than 100 national and international acts.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Every Saturday, 2pm, free: "A New Zealand Artists Tour". Free guided tours.
• Sunday, November 13, 3pm: Curator's Floor Talk: "Back in Black" with Aaron Kreisler, curator at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. All welcome.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for November: Mondays: "Greek coins"; 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".
St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St.
• Wednesday, November 16, 7.30pm: Pecha Kucha Night Dunedin Volume 12.
506 Kaikorai Valley Rd
• Saturday, 2pm-5pm: "Whale, Bear, Aurochs, Parrot", by Emma J.V. Hogg.
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• November 12-December 3: "Sector 8" by Gary McMillan. Open Saturdays 10am-4pm or by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• November 11- 27: "Polychrome".
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.
• November 15-December 23: "Walk", by Kate Fitzharris; "A Collection of Still Life", paintings by Nicola Hansby; '"Memory and Fabric", by Rose McLeod.
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.
Courthouse Cafe, 8 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• November 11-30: "Lacock Botanicals", by Anne-Marie Cross.
Creative Arts Centre, 142 Clyde St, Balclutha.
• November 16-20, 10am-5pm daily: Art South Otago 2011 Annual Exhibition and Art Awards. Guest artist, speaker and judge: Ron Esplin. Guest exhibitors: art by Karen Davis, pottery by Katie Gold and Neil Hey, Liq'rish Kidz Dolls by Allison Rohan, jewellery by Susan Broad and metalwork by Bill and Elisha Clarke.
Dunedin International Airport.
• Until January 9: Artists in the Terminal - Watercolourists Pauline Bellamy, Tony Shields, Sharon Murcott, Ron Esplin.
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 December 11: "Gymnauseum", by Jane Venis.
• 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.
• Ongoing: "Myriad worlds", by Ruth Watson.
Dunedin School of Art Sculpture Dept (mezzanine floor), Riego St.
• Opens tomorrow, 9am: "Gravity and Levity in Ceramic Art", by John Paxie.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Until November 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.
• Sculpture by David Donnelly; 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.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until November 17: "New paintings by Suzy Platt".
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until November 30: "Where Angels Fear to Tread", by Jane Mitchell.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St.
• November 10-13: Group Show: "Art School Schmuck". Contemporary jewellery exhibition.
• November 11-20 (opens 5.30pm tomorrow): "Lucy Fulford: For the Love of Waste", Glue Hall.
Open noon-6pm.
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.
• November 12-December 9: "Side Seam". Works of sewing and embroidery by Inge Doesburg, Lynn Kelly, Kathryn Madill, Mary McFarlane, Victoria Mcintosh, Marion Mewburn, Jenna Packer and Elfi Spiewack.
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.
• November 11-25: "Lecture Series", by John 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.
• November 12-December 7: "Time and Tide", works by Neil Frazer. Preview November 11 from 5.30pm.
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", photographs by Auckland artist Ken Downey.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• 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.
• 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. Open daily 10am-4pm.
• 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.
• Until November 13: "Caring for the Dead: A photographic essay on the funeral profession", by Bridgit Anderson.
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".
• November 16-June 17, 2012, Special Exhibitions Gallery: "Focal Point: 150 Years of the Otago Daily Times".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• In the NZR Foyer, until November 27: "Golden Stitches", celebrating 50 years of the Otago Embroiderers Guild.
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.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• 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.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd, State Highway 8, Alexandra.
• Until December 31: Works by Nigel Wilson.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until November 13: Lisa Simpson and Kevin Black.
• November 14-20: Lorna Isaac and Judy Ringland Stewart.
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.
• Until November 22: "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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