Central culture
The Central Otago Regional Choir and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by John Buchanan, presents Faure's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Stanford's Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis In G.
With soloists Beth Calverley (soprano) and Julian Van Mellaerts (Baritone), plus acclaimed organist Kemp English.
On May 1, 7.30pm at Presbyterian Church, Queenstown.
May 2, 2.30pm at Lake Wanaka Centre. May 3, 2.30pm at Catholic Church, Alexandra.
Dear Dunedin
An exhibition of selected personal letters at the Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, at 556 George St, "City of Letters", provides an insight into peoples lives.
It runs from Monday until the end of May.
Meanwhile...
At the Hocken Library Seminar Room, Otago University, there is a series of lunchtime seminars featuring different speakers on personal letters as archives and what they can tell about people's lives.
May 4-8, 12.10pm-1pm.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St. Tonight, 10pm: Future Roots with Booof and Guests.
Tomorrow, 10pm: Rhyas Returns: D'n'b with Rhyas, MC Beau and guests.
Saturday, 10pm: The Way Of The Samurai release party featuring Geoff Presha (Samurai Records), with support from Woosh (SBK) and Premise and Mune (FSOD).
Wednesday, 10pm: The Others (UK Dubstep).
Clarendon Hotel, 28 MacLaggan St. Sunday, 7.30pm: Mamaku Project.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Thursdays, 5pm: Open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm.
Saturday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Tonight, 7pm: Ben Wood.
Friday and Saturday, 10pm: "DJ Dal".
Refuel, Otago University. Tomorrow, 9pm: NZ Music Month launch, featuring: "Incarnate, Osmium, The Ducats Kit, Twist of Fate and Black Mesa".
Saturday: Selwyn v Knox Battle of the bands .
Tuesday, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Wednesday, 9pm: Brains and Bad Sav.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon. Saturday: On the Horizon - Pages from Dunedin album release. Featuring 13 Dunedin artsits.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel. Thursdays, 9pm: Open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St. Tomorrow, 8pm: Organic Festival 2009 featuring: Tono, Biff Merchants, Fea St Hustle, Sex with Bowie, The Tomato Plants, DJ Booof, DJ Manick and Undertow.
Tonic, 138 Princes St. Tomorrow, 9pm: Graeme Tongue, live acoustic.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Knox Church, 449 George St. Friday, 1.30pm-2.30pm: Preschool music for children 0-5 and carers. Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel: preschool story time: every Tuesday, 11am, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. 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 May, 2.30pm: "Nature's Bounty", learn about hunter-gathering and wild food safety. Search centre, free.
Port Chalmers Library, preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, excludes school holidays, free.
Southern Lakes Festival of Colour, Wanaka, Until May 3. See www.festivalofcolour.co.nz for details.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Bannockburn Hall, Saturday, 7pm: NZ Army Dance Band.
Clyde Memorial Hall , Clyde. Tonight, 7pm: "Finders Keepers", dance performance from Hong Kong.
Glenroy Auditorium, Tuesday, 7.30pm: CMNZ presents "Haydn: Seven Last Words of The Cross", performed by the New Zealand String Quartet with specially commissioned artworks by Nigel Brown and poetry by Dinah Hawken.
Knox Church, 449 George St, 12.15pm-1pm: Lunchtime organ recital, "Music for Easter", by Peter Stockwell and Karen Knudson.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl. Saturday, 8pm: "Awesome Norma - the Grand Organ". Werner Andreas Albert, conductor; David Burchell, organ.
Marama Hall, Otago University. Wednesday, 1pm: Department of music lunchtime concert: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St. Sunday: "Cuban Carousel".
Regent Theatre, The Octagon, May 6, 8pm: "The Beatles Anthology Tour".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays.
This week: Kathryn McBeath/Trevor Coleman.
Sunday, 1pm: Dunedin Star Singers.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre , Corner of Union and Leith streets. Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Rapa Nui, A New Land. Adapted by Moria Fortin.
Bannockburn Hall 7pm: Strange Resting Places. Shines a light on the complex emotional bonds of New Zealand's wartime history and the three universals that Maori shared with the Italians: family, food and song
Fortune Theatre, corner Moray Pl and Stuart St. Until May 10: Emma, directed by Lisa Warrington.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. May 6, 7.30pm: Perfect Strangers, a film by Gaylene Preston.
Hocken Library Seminar Room,, Otago University. May 4-8, 12.10pm-1pm: "Epistolatory Perspectives". Lunchtime seminar series featuring different speakers on personal letters as archives and what they can tell about people's lives.
May 4:
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, tomorrow, 5.30pm: A talk from author Louise Bagshawe.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Saturday, 2pm: James Belich's The New Zealand Wars.
Sunday, 3pm: Bridie Lonie, head of school, Otago Polytechnic School of Art will speak on the Catherine Hodson exhibition "Touching the Unthinkable".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Free daily talks, 2pm. Today: "Melanesian Masks". For the people of Melanesia, mask-wearing is an integral part of their spiritual beliefs.
Friday: "The Wedding Gown".
Saturday: "Earnscleugh Cave".
Sunday: "Haast's Eagle". Special exhibition gallery talks, daily during May, 4.30pm: Andris Apse.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Friday, 5.30pm: Book launch Passageways; the story of a New Zealand family by Ann Thwaite.
Saturday, 2pm: A discussion on H. F. Hardy: "Dunedin's home grown architect".
Waikouaiti Library, May 4, 10.30am: "Meet the Author" - Ann Thwaite.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. May 2-17: Dennis de Visser: "The Waste Land" and aXs: "The Miners and the Sheiks".
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. From May 3: "Connections", new works by Elizabeth Marshall and Kirsten Wenborn.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St. "Native", works by Allan Batt.
Archives New Zealand, Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St. May 4-29: "City of Letters".
A collaborative exhibition of selected personal letters and archives and what they can tell about peoples lives.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick streets, Wanaka. "Vive le Coq", sculpture by Chris Meder.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until May 16: "Instructional Models", a collective exhibition featuring artists from Melbourne and Dunedin.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St. "The Untitled" by Jeffrey Harris.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Until May 31: "Toiling In Oils", by Alastair Begg. Open 10am-4pm.
Danny Moorwood Pottery, 8 Castle St. New lustre-glazed porcelain, plus traditional stoneware. Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Dunedin Community Gallery, Princes St, until May 5: "Nam - The Sky's Curved Mirror". Honouring Tibetan culture with a range of special events. See www.myspace.com/tibetan-arts-and-culture for details.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, 3rd floor: May 1-July 26: "O for a Thousand Tongues": Hymns from the Colin Gibson Collection.
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".
Until July 19: Ben Buchanan: "Sleeping".
Until July 26: "Francis Hodgkins: femme du monde".
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 June 7: "Brigid", Robin White. Works from the gallery collection.
Until June 14: "45 Minutes on the Somme" Michael Shepherd.
Drawings created in 1986 relating to an attack on September 15, 1916.
Until June 7: "Been There (still here!) Done That" works from the collection selected by former and current staff to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Forrester.
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. 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".
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St. Open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until May 17: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until May 6: "Cross My Heart" by Anita DeSoto and "A History of Flight" by Jenna Packer.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. May 1-14: "Zeigen", Lorraine Rastorfer.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St. May 2- May 23: "Eion Shanks".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown. Ends today: "Cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dwellers", by Rohan Wealleans, and "Vanatis", by Wayne Youle.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. "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 June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Until June 1: 100+ Southern Architecture, Then, now and next.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. 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.
Until May 24: "We Will Remember Them".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until May 3: "Sisters in Art": Annette Patterson and Sue Ballantyne.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St. Neil Emmerson: "The Glass Closet".
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. Until May 9: Paddy Carr and Nicole Kolig.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Until May 12: "Te Karaka Ki Te Tai O Arai-Te-Uru", curated by Simon Kaan.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown. Until May 13: 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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