Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St, Dunedin
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire, featuring Tim Kent, plays classic rock 'n pop hits.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Kylie Price, Golden Guitar winner, live acoustic performance. Ground floor, free.
• Tonight, 5.30-7pm: Whiskey & The Wench: acoustic, folk and punk. Sarah Foley: guitar and piano, originals and covers. Julian Temple Band: alternative rock 'n' roll. Ground floor, free.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Jam night.
• Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Mosgiel Library Music Month at Mosgiel
• Today: Beverley Kay: Easy-listening piano keyboard, free.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturday, 4pm: Afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays 9pm: Open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: The Kindred Soundsystem play roots and dub, $10 on the door. Limited edition Dub mix CD to the first 100 people.
• Saturday, 8pm: Battle of the Bands national championship regional final, featuring A Distant City, Creamery, Growler, Hunting Bears, Russian Blue, Simple Thieves, Soul Manor, TieDye, The Fu King and War Saw. $10; student/unwaged, $7.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Heartwarmers. Storyteller Kaitrin McMullan and friends spin magical tales.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two. Fourth floor, free.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am (excludes school holidays): Preschool story time, story pit.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''A Winter's Tale'' - True Stories Told Live. Local musician Martin Phillipps, and Dunedin writers Maxine Alterio and Karen Trebilcock will be joined by poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman from Christchurch, and children's writer Kyle Mewburn from Millers Flat. Entry: koha. Bookings essential.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am: ''Big Bug, Little Bug - Storytelling Series''. Hear the story Big Bug, Little Bug by Paul Stickland. Nature Galleries, free, suitable for ages 3-10.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during June 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones'' Investigation Station. Atrium Level 1, free. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton.
• Monday, 11am: ''Mountain Mugs'' children's workshop. Make your own clay mug to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's successful ascent of Mt Everest. Atrium level 1, free.
• Daily during June: ''Karetao Creations'' Children's Workshop. Make your own paper karetao puppet to tell stories and put on shows. Atrium level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Allan Theatre Hall, Otago University.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Dancing in the Wake.
Arrowtown Hall.
• Sunday, 7pm: Dancing in the Wake.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesdays 8pm. Poetry readings. Open mike. Free entry. All welcome.
Dunedin Town Hall
• Wednesday: NZCF Big Sing Secondary Schools Choral competition for Otago/South Canterbury. Adjudicated sessions 11am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, gold coin donation. Gala concert 6.30pm, door sales $15/adults, $5/children, $30/family.
Knox Church, 449 George St, Dunedin.
• Today, 12.15pm: ''Choral Singing''. Secondary school choirs present choral music from 17th century to present day. David Burchell/organ, Karen Knudson/conductor. Gold coin donation.
Oamaru Opera House
• Tomorrow, 12.15-1pm: Lunchtime recital - Neil Johnston (tenor), Erik Badcock (bass/baritone), June Cameron (accompanist).
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dancing in the Wake.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Alexey Medvedev, acoustic guitar for background music in a wide range of styles. Atrium level 1, free.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays music composed by organists from York Minster, to include works by Edward Bairstow and Francis Jackson.
Twizel Event Centre.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Dancing in the Wake.
Plays
• Fire Station Theatre, Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• Roger Hall's Glide Time, ends Saturday, 7.30pm.
Playhouse Theatre, Albany St, Dunedin.
• Opens Tuesday until June 8, 7.30pm: Neil Simon's comedy, The Sunshine Boys. Bookings 477-6544.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Tonight and Monday, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society presents Quartet. Prepaid bookings essential. Phone 445-4151 for bookings.
Broad Bay Community Hall, Clearwater St, Broad Bay.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Inspiring Stories third annual road trip.
CSAFE seminar room, 547 Castle St.
• Today, 4pm: Film-maker Sofie Welvaert will screen and discuss her film Green or gold, it's not black and white, which looks at some of the ecological and farming values in the Mackenzie/Waitaki basin when tensions were building over dairying in the area.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Friday, June 7, noon: Botanist Dr Peter Johnson presents ''How it Was - plants and vegetation of Dunedin 150 years ago''. Free. Botanic Garden Centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until tomorrow: Career Quest. Take a career questionnaire and discover career options that match you and what you love to do. Free.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
• Daily tours, at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through May and June.
• Thursday: Mutiny on the Bounty.
• Friday: The Lawrence Lions.
• Saturday: The Union Steam Ship Company.
• Sunday: Maori creation myth.
• Daily during May and June, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat henu People of the Land. Please meet at the Information Desk, free.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 1-3pm: Talk and Walk: Theatres of Dunedin: From Dens of Iniquity to Picture Palaces. Meet at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum Josephine Foyer. $20
Exhibitions
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
• Saturday-Monday, 10am-4.30pm: The Great 2013 Queen's Birthday Weekend Art Sale, featuring Debbie Malcolm and Suzie Sykes, 10am-noon, and Maggie Cross and Melanie Eade, 1-3pm.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Ping Wang
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling Street, Dunedin
• Until June 12: ''The Fountain of Youth''.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until June 23: ''Winter'', Pauline Bellamy.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opening tomorrow: ''Beauty and desire in Edo Period Japan''
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• June: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jane Whittaker.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 25: ''From Apprentice to Graduate - 50 Years of Pharmacy Education at the University of Otago, 1963-2013''.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
• Tomorrow 5pm: 2013 Dunedin Botanic Garden Botanical Art Exhibition.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: ''Caxton Press: The Art of Ordered Plainness''. Meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry.
Dunedin International Airport.
• May-June: Kylie Duncan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: ''Te Po: works from Dunedin collections''.
• Ongoing: Saskia Leek ''Desk Collection''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins ''Colour and Light''.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A'' by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Until June 9: ''A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy''.
• Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru. Fifteen paintings and 15 poems celebrating the pearl wedding anniversary of Ewan and Sarah McDougall.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart Street Dunedin.
• Opens tomorrow, 5pm: ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', by Ivan Hill.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 8: John V. Hart exhibition. Selected works by this eminent New Zealand photographer and artist.
• Open Monday-Saturday from 11am.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 8: Shigeyuki Kihara, ''Undressing the Pacific''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until tomorrow: Sue Rutherford, ceramic works.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until June 8: Kathryn Madill, Selected Works.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery Arrowtown.
• Until June 16: ''Art to Wear'' Costumes from the 2013 Autumn Festival.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until June 16: Ewan McDougall ''It's Life Jim''.
• Gallery open 11am-3pm Thurs to Mon, other times by appointment.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: Hannah Kidd, ''The Race''.
• Until Wednesday: Large Works.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday until July 24: ''The Review''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''The City Beneath The Sea'', by Diana Smillie.
• Tomorrow until June 15: ''Sea State'', new work by Chris Reid.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until tomorrow: ''Domestic Vessels'', Riki Julin. Ceramist.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Aberhart Pardington Campbell.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until August 4: ''Paint the Town'', by Unn West.
• Ongoing: ''Mementos of the South''.
Art South Otago.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm.
• Weekends: 10am-4pm.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until June 23: Philip Trusttum, ''Trusttum''.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of The Southland Times''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until June 8: Lisa Simpson and Anne McLean.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until June 4: Works by local artist Noel-Ann Stroud.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The wallpaper house, Downstairs at 29 Lees St.
• Saturday: 11am-4pm. Pamela Brown: Open Studio and Gallery.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
Featuring works by Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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