Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Friday and Saturday, from 10pm: Livewire, featuring Jaimee Evans.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesdays, 7.30pm: live acoustic jam session.=
• Friday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club, While and Matthews
• Sunday, 7.30pm: Lindon Puffin and The Eastern,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.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Friday: SINATE, with Dunedin bands Osmium,Twist Of Fate and War Saw.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Saturday 2-4pm: Watercolour Workshop, bookings essential.
• Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Top Hat and Coat Tales.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays, 11am: story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free.
• Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
• Every Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm, Atrium level 1: "Maritime Marvels, Investigation Station".
• Explore all things maritime, from launching a vessel to Morse code.
• Monday, 3.30pm: Colossal Creatures! adventure tour.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: story time.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday April 4, 8pm: Michael Harlow and Annie Villiers.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: salsa lessons.
• Every Friday, 8.30pm: salsa tango night, $4 lesson then try out your dancing skills, or just enjoy the atmosphere.
• Saturday, 8.30pm: Masquerade Ball.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Liz and Jono Conway perform covers and originals: piano, guitar and vocals.
St Paul's Church, Oamaru.
• Sunday, 4pm: A combined choir presents Stainer's Crucifixion.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Saturday: 7.30-8.15pm: solemn music for Passiontide.
St Joseph's Cathedral Chapel, Tennyson St.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: The Southern Consort of Voices, "Music for Easter: Crux fidelis".
Plays
Maurice Joel Theatre, Otago Boys' High School.
• April 1, 6pm, April 2-4, 7.30pm: OGHS and OBHS production Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street. $12 adults, $8 concession.
Talks and films
Cromwell campus, Otago Polytechnic, corner of Erris and Ray streets.
• Thursdays, 6pm-8.30pm: Megan Huffadine is tutoring life-drawing classes in a five-week block.
The Church, 50 Dundas St
• Saturday and Sunday, 9-6am: The 2012 Dunedin in Festival of dilm and television craft.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Every Saturday, 2pm, free: "A New Zealand Artists
• Sundays at 2pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.30-1.30pm: Gavin Hipkins, "The Next Valley: Revisiting Narrative in Photography and Film".
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Friday, 6pm: Artist talk and catalogue launch.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for March, each weekday at 2pm.
• Thursday: "The Siebe-Gorman diving suit". Friday: "Marquesas Hair Garments". Saturday: "Staff Gods of the Cook Islands". Sunday: "The Brushtail Possum".
• Daily at 4pm: "Focal Point: 150 Years of the Otago Daily Times".
• Today, 5.30pm: "The News: What's The Future?" Panel discussion.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday April 4, 7.30pm: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• "Working in the Shadow", a group show of five emerging Dunedin artists.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 20: "Louise Greig From the Shadows".
• Until April 29: "10 Years New Zealand Hat and Hair Art".
The Anteroom, Port Chalmers.
• "Park", by Anna Perry.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "I went out walking", by Craig Freeborn and Anya Sinclair.
Attic Studio, 140 George St.
• Until Saturday: "Drawl", an exhibition of drawings, various artists.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until April 10: "Portholes", new and old works by Tony Tarasiewicz.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until April 7: "Castles from the Back Lot", by Becky Richards, and "A Diverse Cast", by Barbara Smith.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opening tomorrow, 5.30pm: "Hymns and Wee Plants", by Patrick Hartigan.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• March 31-April 15: "Chinese Fortnight".
Collectables, 51 Moray Place.
• Until Saturday: "Copycat RTW", by Chloe Idris. An exploration of appropriation, originality, and value within fashion.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University
• June 15: "Ray Guns and Rocket Ships", the Fred Fastier science fiction collection.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until May 6: "Chapter One. I Am Born": 200 Years of Charles Dickens.
Dunedin International Airport.
• Until April 30: Manu Berry and Pauline Bellamy.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Closes today: "Back in Black".
• Until April 25: "Colourbox", celebrating the wild, vibrant and fantastical flourishes of New Zealand painters including Philip Trusttum, Pat Hanly, Alan Pearson, Gretchen Albrecht and Jeffrey Harris.
• Until Sunday: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Until SunDay: "The French Connection", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.
• Until May 6: "Haunts of Dickens", celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth.
• Ongoing: "Myriad Worlds", by Ruth Watson.
• Ongoing: "Boys from the Black Stuff"', work from the gallery's permanent and long-term loan collections.
• Ongoing: "Kabuki: The Art of Transformation".
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until April 22: Rita Angus, selected works.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until May 6: "The Garden as Muse", an anthology exploring the meaning of gardens.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Until Saturday: Angela Burns recent works "To the Coast". Opening Saturday, March 17, 3pm.
Gallery open Wednesday to Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Closes today: "The Wonderful World of Ivan Hill" - paintings from the past three years from this 78-year-old naive artist.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Currently showing Barry Clarke, Katie Thomas, Hamish Jones, Amanda Shanley, Don Binney, Jason Greig, Alan Ibell and Richard Adams.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Works by established and emerging artists.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 14: "All things to all men", Kushana Bush.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Closes tomorrow: "Animalis", various artists.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Various artists.
Macandrew Bay Hall.
• Today until April 9: "Almost an Island", Otago Peninsula artists.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until April 10: John Badcock's "Stations of the Cross".
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.
• Preview Friday, 5.30, opening Saturday: "House of Rainbow", by Reuben Paterson.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• Upstairs: Karl Maughan. Downstairs: "Reboot".
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• "Kokoro Kara 2.0" by Georgie Peter.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until Saturday: Motoko Watanabe.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until April 14: "Just Brights", by Hope Gibbons.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Fiona Pardington and Neil Pardington.
Naseby Jubilee Museum, Leven St, cnr Earne St.
• "Maniototo Sporting Heroes". Open Monday-Friday noon-4pm, weekends 10am-4pm.
Contact: Jane Greer (03) 444-9393.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Art Society, OAS gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• "Fashion Focus". Open daily 10-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until June 17, Special Exhibitions Gallery: "Focal Point: 150 Years of the Otago Daily Times".
• "The Crescent Moon: The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand".
Oak Lounge, East Taieri Church.
• Today, 10am-4pm, Friday, 10am-6pm: East Taieri artists' exhibition.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until July 1: "Around-n-about: Art South Otago".
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
Packing Shed Gallery and Cafe, Boulton Rd, Earnscleugh, Alexandra.
• Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Parkside Posh, 7 Mailer St, Mornington.
• "Sunday Morning", by Danni Roberts".
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers Gallery: A continuously updated exhibition; works of New Zealand photographers. Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until Sunday: "Malu Minar".
• Until April 29: "The Blind Idealist's Black Dog", by Jo Torr.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Dawn Palmer and Rosemary McQueen.
• April 2-14: Jo Howard and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until Friday: Works by Brighton artist Darren Tautari.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• March 30-April 28: "Exceeding the Bounds", by Di Ffrench( 1946-1999).
Teviot District Museum, Abbotsford St, Roxburgh.
• Sundays, 2pm-4pm, or by request. Contact Robin (03) 446-8130 or Joan (03) 446-8671.
