Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tonight, 7pm: Dave Colecough and Chrissy Hundelby and friends.
• Friday, 7pm: Blarney Boys Irish session.
• Sunday, 3pm: Sweet Papa John and The Revelators.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Irish sing-along with Blarney Army.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Tonight, 8.30pm: Katharticus with The Tommy Gunners and guests.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: Alex and BB, banjo duo.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, from 5.30pm.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, from 9pm: Elton John after-party. L10 Noiseband, Foe, Boozooka, The Anals.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Jam night, from 8.30pm. Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• Tonight, 9pm: Strange Harvest and My, Oh.
The Riverhouse, Wanaka.
• Saturday, 8pm: Alex and BB, banjo duo.
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.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: The Clean with the Subliminals.
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.
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 during November, 3.30pm: Investigation station, atrium, level 1, "Seeing is Believing" - Discover how your eyes and brain can mislead you.
Saturday, 2pm: Freaky Science with the Alexander Piano.
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
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 8pm: "Voices Of Our Ancestors", Ngai Tahu musicians Ariana Tikao, Christine White and Mahina-Ina Kaui perform Celtic, folk and pop-influenced music using traditional Maori instruments and chant.
Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
• Friday, 10.30pm: Late Night Improv, "Night at the Oscars".
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Voices NZ Chamber Choir present "Voices of Aotearoa".
Octagon, Dunedin
• Tomorrow, noon-2pm: Concert for White Ribbon Day.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Adrian Mann plays his favourite melodies on the Alexander Piano.
• Saturday, 1pm: Talia Caradus.
• Sunday, 1pm: Stevie Rice.
• Sunday, 7pm: "An Evening with the Alexander Piano", featuring a selection of Dunedin's finest pianists.
Penguin Cafe, Portobello.
• Saturday, 6pm: Medieval Christmas concert and feast: A "moving feast" held at various locations throughout Portobello. Tickets and further details available from the Penguin Cafe.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Hayley Westenra, "The Paradiso 10th Anniversary Homecoming Tour", with Chase Douglas.
• Friday, 7.30pm: Heath Franklin's Chopper, "A Hard Bastard's Guide to Life".
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tonight, 7pm: "Ancient and Modern", featuring soprano Lois Johnston.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until December 17: A Short Cut To Happiness, by Roger Hall.
Talks and films
Archway 1 lecture theatre, University of Otago
Wednesday November 30, 5.15pm: "Holding Fast: From Scotland to the New World, 1791-2011", by Canadian novelist and short-story writer Alistair MacLeod.
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
• Tonight, 5.30pm-6.30pm: "In Search of the Alpine Fault through bush, rain and sandflies: Nine man-decades of research", with Prof Richard Norris and Prof Alan Cooper. Public welcome.
Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ film screening: What Lies Beneath: In Search of Good Keen Whalers.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Every Saturday, 2pm, free: "A New Zealand Artists Tour". Free guided tours.
• Sundays at 2pm: Free guided tour of award-winning exhibition "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Sunday, 3pm: Free guided tour for blind and partially sighted of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for November, on each weekday at 2pm: 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".
• Wednesdays, 4pm: "Focal Point: 150 Years of the ODT". Free.
Today, 5.30pm in the Hutton Theatre: Neville Peat presents a talk titled "Seabird Genius", about Dr Lance Richdale, pioneering Dunedin seabird researcher and the subject of his latest book.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening: Equator: Reefs Of Riches. The Indonesian archipelago contains the largest concentration of coral reefs in the world.
Tuesday, 2pm in the Barclay Theatre: Reading by Canadian novelist and short-story writer Alistair MacLeod.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until December 3: "Sector 8", by Gary McMillan. Open Saturdays 10am-4pm or by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until November 27: "Polychrome".
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Sam Foley, "Tiefschwarz", featuring works from Berlin, and Ben Ho, new works.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until November 26: "The Cabinet of Curiosities", featuring work by Dan Roberts, Anne-Mieke Ytsma, Craig Freeborn and Mariya Semenova.
• Until December 23: "Walk", by Kate Fitzharris; "A Collection of Still Life", paintings by Nicola Hansby; "Memory and Fabric", by Rose McLeod.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• "Laurence Aberhart".
Courthouse Cafe, 8 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until November 30: "Lacock Botanicals", by Anne-Marie Cross.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until January 22, in the Reed Gallery: "Signs and Symbols: Decoding Medieval and Renaissance Iconography".
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.
• Until April 1, 2012: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• 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 1, 2012: "The French Connection", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.
• Ongoing: "Myriad worlds", by Ruth Watson.
Dunedin School of Art, Riego St.
• Ends today: "Site 11". Works by final-year art students in ceramics, electronic arts, jewellery and metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and textiles.
Sculpture dept (mezzanine floor): "Gravity and Levity in Ceramic Art", by John Paxie.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• Ends tomorrow: Paintings and drawings by Jane Hamilton.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until November 27: "Steampunk: tomorrow as it used to be" and "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 December 1: Jill Perrott: "Landscape of the Heart" and Jasmine Middlebrook: "Never Without".
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Ends today: "Where Angels Dare to Tread", by Jane Mitchell.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St. Open noon-6pm.
• From tomorrow until December 5: Logan Park High School graduate exhibition.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until December 9: Photographs by Amy Moffat and Nic Reeves; art by Stuart Maxwell, Ron Esplin, Pat Hunter, Scott Drummond and Genny Hanning.
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 December 10: Luke Anthony, carved wooden bird sculptures.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until 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.
• Until December 3: "Ash and Lithium", by Bronwyn.
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.
• Ends tomorrow: "Lecture Series", by John Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until December 7: "Time and Tide", works by Neil Frazer.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Until December 14: Evelyn Dunstan: "Pathways". Works in glass.
• Until December 14: Nicolas Dillon: "Birds - from Central to the Coast". Paintings.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until November 30: "Collecting Dust", photographs by Auckland artist Ken Downey. Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until December 2: Nadene Milne's 10th anniversary exhibition, featuring Shane Cotton, John Pule & Michael Parekowhai.
Naseby Jubilee Museum, Leven St, cnr Earne St.
• Until December 31: "Maniototo Sporting Heroes" exhibition.
• Open Mon-Fri noon-4pm, weekends 10am-4pm.
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 December 11: "2011 City Of Dunedin Art Awards".
• Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
"Translation", works in glass by Luke Jacomb.
• Until June 17, 2012, Special Exhibitions Gallery: "Focal Point: 150 Years of the Otago Daily Times".
• Until December 5, foyer: "The Alexander Piano: The World's Longest Piano". See the world's longest piano, built by Adrian Mann in a tractor shed in South Canterbury.
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.
Pioneer Women's Hall, lower Moray Pl.
• Ends tomorrow, 10am-4pm: King's High School fine and visual arts exhibition.
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.
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 27: Ro McQueen and Peter Gregory.
• From Monday until December 4: Jo Howard and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until December 1: Works by Green Island Art Group.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
"Celebrating Spring", new works by Peter Hackett and oil paintings by Raquel Clarke.
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