In harmony
Join Dunedin Harmony Chorus on Saturday for a free "Friends & family Night" - an hour of close harmony singing, barbershop-style.
Hear pre-contest perfomance packages from the chorus and quartets at Wesley Street Church Hall (off Hillside Rd) from 7.30 pm.
Build it and they will come...
Meet at the Settlers Museum for a guided walk celebrating Dunedin's engineering features.
The walks are on Saturday April 18 at 2pm and Sunday April 26 at 2pm. Book by phoning 474-2728..
Last chance to see...
"A Man's A Man For A That: Celebrating Robert Burns at 250".
The exhibition at the Dunedin City Public Library, in Moray Pl, commemorates poet Robert Burns, born on January 25, 1759, and his association with the Edinburgh of the South. Especially noteworthy are two volumes of A Selection of Original Scottish Airs (1793-1794) once owned by Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet and father of early Dunedin settler the Reverend Thomas Burns.
It closes on Sunday at 4pm.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Arc Cafe, High St. Wednesday: I Walk the Line (Finland), with support from The Outsiders.
Bath St, Dunedin. Tonight, 8pm: Electro House with Abstrack.
Friday, 10pm: Milk v Syrus, DnB Dubstep.
Saturday, 10pm: local DnB with Titts Magee, Milk & Loki.
Wednesday: Lynx & Kemo (UK).
Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon, Dunedin. Tonight, 8.30pm: Ben Wood.
Friday, 6.30pm: Joe and Amanda.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St, Dunedin. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel. Thursdays 9pm: open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin. Friday, 8.30pm: Hannah Howes "Candy" NZ release tour.
Saturday, 8.30pm: The Phoenix Foundation with support from Double Ya D.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Tonic, 138 Princes St. Friday 9pm: Matt Langley, Graeme Peters and Jake Langley.
Family fun
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon. Until April 26, 10am-5pm: school holiday project: Build a Bird. Materials provided, free.
Mosgiel Library, school holiday programme, bookings essential: Today and tomorrow, 11am: Making a Picture/ Aquarium Box. Bring an old shirt.
Monday, 2pm: Decorating a Pencil Holder.
Wednesday, 11am: Iris Card.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds (free).
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium level 1: children's creative activities.
Weekends during April, noon and 3.30pm: interactive trolley: "Apes, Hominids and Humans".
Weekends during April and May, 2.30pm: "Nature's Bounty", learn about hunter-gathering and wild food safety. Search centre, free.
School holiday programme: daily during the holidays: "Percy the Penguin's Big Egg Hunt", collect your trail from the search centre desk.
Tuesday, 2.15pm, Atrium level 1: Freaky Science: What happens after we swallow? Discover how food and drink give our bodies fuel.
Saturday, 2.15pm, Atrium level 1: Freaky Science: Discover how our body fights germs, protects us from harmful viruses and bacteria, and the ways it makes us healthy again.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Until April 26: school holiday programme.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Church of Christ, St Andrew St, Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians April recital meeting featuring works by Handel and Haydn, performed by Dianne James and Vivienne McLean.
Knox Church, 449 George St. Saturday, 7.30pm: New Zealand Youth Choir.
Marama Hall, Otago University. Wednesday, 1pm: Department of music lunchtime concert: Mendelssohn: Rarities for Violin and Piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays. Sandra Crawshaw/Charlotte Francis and Gail Quayle/Kevin McLoughlin.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd. Sunday: Friends of the Opera: "Remembering Bertha" the music of Bertha Rawlinson presented by Erin Pickering and "Schumann's Garden" - the music of Schumann presented by Nicola Steel.
Wesley Street Church Hall (off Hillside Rd). Saturday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus "Friends and Family Night".
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. April 22, 7.30pm: Lech Majewski's "The Garden of Earthly Delights", a joyous, erotic and melancholy meditation on sex, death and the meaning of Bosch's painting.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Wednesday, noon: "Library Conference in Shanghai", a talk to Friends of the Library by Linda Geddes.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Tonight, 6pm: Artist Michael Morley talks about his latest installation "You Say You Don't Love Me".
Sunday, 3pm: "Reading Colonial Images", an illustrated lecture by Roger Blackley, senior lecturer in art history at Victoria University, of Wellington.
Tuesday, 2.45pm: Artist Catharine Hodson presents a paper, in conjunction with the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators conference, which relates to her exhibition "Touching the Unthinkable".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Free daily talks, 2pm.
This month: Monday: the moa; Tuesday: New Zealand bats; Wednesday: Hooker's sea lions: Thursday: Melanesian masks; Friday: southern whaling; Saturday: Alexander the Great; Sunday: the Siebe-Gorman diving suit.
Weekends at 2.30pm in the search centre: "What's That You're Eating?" Every Saturday and Sunday during April, Nature Galleries, noon and 3.30pm: "Apes, Hominids and Humans". A look at human evolution.
Saturday, 2pm, Animal Attic: Artist Clive Humphreys will discuss his exhibition "Sheet Music (for Cheryl)".
Monday, 5.30pm, museum foyer: Allan Wilson Lecture by Dr Jack Harris: "In Darwin's Footsteps: Bipedalism, tools and foraging in the early stages of human development".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Friday, 5.30pm: Dunedin's Engineering Achievements pamphlet launch.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until April 26: National Creative Fibre Festival.
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. Until April 26: new works by Michael Armstrong.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St, Dunedin. "Native", works by Allan Batt.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka. "Highly Geological".
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay, April 11-26: Hullabaloo art collective from Cromwell present a collection of new works.
Exhibiting artists: Luke Anthony, Jane Armour, Liz Kempthorne, Jillian Porteous, Rachel Hiribayashi, Kay Todd, Robyn Urquhart, Lynn Wilson, Nigel Wilson, Claire Worrall.
Open Wednesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until April 18: "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot", works by Sylvia Schwenk.
From Tuesday until May 16: "Instructional Models", a collective exhibtion featuring artists from Melbourne and Dunedin.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St, Dunedin. "Shapes of Thoughts", works by Michael Harrison.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Open 10am-4pm. until April 19: "Zoom In, Zoom Out", works by Maxine Williams.
Danny Moorwood Pottery, 8 Castle St, Dunedin. New lustre-glazed porcelain, plus traditional stoneware.
Open Thursday-Saturday. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until June 21: "Michael Morley: You Say You Don't Love Me".
Until May 24: "Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable". Catharine Hodson's successful treatment for breast cancer three years ago was the starting point for this installation.
Until May 17: "Di ffrench: Activating Ideas".
Until June 17: "Te Huringa/Turning Points": includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.
Ongoing: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves: Japanese Prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Ongoing: "The Grand Tour: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore. Until May 10: Melvin Day: "Stabat Mater".
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru. Until May 3: "An Acquired Art", works from the Beryl and Bob McVie collection. Until April 19: "It's Our History - Don't Knock It!" Jacqui Foley and Burns Pollock.
Until April 19: "By the Sea". Lyndsay Crooks and Janet Weir-Crooks.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. Until April 27: "Run Rabbit Run". Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St, Dunedin. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith. Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hocken Gallery, corner Anzac Ave and Parry St. Until May 23: Heather Straka, "The Sleeping Room".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct. Until April 27: Jane Casey, photography. Open 10am to 4pm.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St, Dunedin. "Nova Botanica", Lynn Kelly (jeweller) and Tim Galloway (artist). Open Thu-Sat, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until May 17: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. April 18-May 6: "Cross My Heart" by Anita DeSoto and "A History of Flight" by Jenna Packer.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until April 22: "Master Works".
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St, Dunedin. Until April 25: Yi-Ming Lin, "Something About Texture".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown. Until April 30: "Cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dwellers", by Rohan Wealleans, and "Vanatis", by Wayne Youle.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until April 26: "Art in the Attic", works by painter Clive Humphreys in the Animal Attic.
Until June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin.
Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past from the Otago Settlers Museum Art Collection".
Until June: "Chinese Treasures", the history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
Until May 3: "Sisters in Art": Annette Patterson and Sue Ballantyne.
Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden, corner Junction Rd and Matai St, Ravensbourne.
Until April 19: "Chicken Show", works by Jude Ansbacher.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton, Until May 31: "Shades of Autumn". Weekends, 1pm-5pm.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin. Until April 18: "Josephine's tea-party".
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until April 28: works by Sylvia Carter.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Until April 19: "Airborne", Mary McFarlane and Jenny Bornholt.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown. From tomorrow: Exhibitions by Ewan McDougall and Jenufa Waiti.
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery, first floor, central library. Until July 3: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy". Open 8.30am-5pm, Monday-Friday.
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