Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Poetry. The Octagon Collective presents guest poets Joan Fleming, Kelly Malone. MC: Orchid Tierney. Open mike. Free. All welcome.
Dunedin Musicians' Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, 9pm: A Night of Metal @ Musos featuring Perpetuity, Waystone, Pandemonic, Abstract Survival, Triumphant Skull and Mentally Speaking. Members free, public gold coin donation.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays 9pm: Open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 9pm: The Roadtrip 2013. Christchurch bands Setting Fire To Stacey, Phantom Empire and Sammy J and The Cucumbers join Dunedin bands War Saw and Ignite The Helix. $5 entry.
Starfish Cafe and Bar, St Clair Esplanade.
• Tomorrow, 7.30-9.30pm: Erin Morton.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Jazz duos hosted by Bill Martin. Free. $5 wines.
• June 21, 7pm: Bill Direen with Opposite Sex and Grant McDougall, $5.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Cromwell Bowling Club, Alpha St.
• Thursdays, 1.30pm: Euchre. All welcome, warm venue, friendly atmosphere and afternoon tea provided. Inquiries to Keith, 445-0554.
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2-3pm: Preschool story and craft session. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: Wish Upon a Star. Make a wish for Matariki, the Maori New Year. Write it on a star and hang it in your local library to share with others. Free.
• 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.
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: Puaka Matariki storytelling: ''Terrific Tales and Taniwha''. A celebration of the midwinter Maori New Year with traditional tales of courageous feats, magnificent beasts and stunning feasts. Tangata Whenua Gallery. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• 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. Thursdays until July 4, 3.30pm: ''Mega Matter'', Discovery Club. $12 per child per session, ages 8-12. Bookings essential. Phone 474-7474.
• Weekends during June, 11am and 3pm: ''Absolute Zero'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Weekends during June 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones'' Investigation Station. Atrium level 1, free. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton.
Guided museum tours. Daily, 11.30am: Highlights of the Museum: $12 per person or free for Otago residents bringing non-Otago visitors.
• Daily, 3.30pm: Southern Land, Southern People. Cost as above.
• Daily, 1.30pm: Tropical Forest. $26 per person (includes Tropical Forest admission).
• For bookings, phone 474-7474 or book online at www.otagomuseum.govt.nz.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
The Moorings, Perriam Pl, Pisa Moorings.
• Tuesdays: Quiz evening (minimum 2 per team). Bookings essential. Phone 445-4211.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Today, 6pm-8pm: Craft Collective: Share your work with fellow crafters. Bring whatever you're working on, share techniques, ask questions or just be inspired. Please bring all the materials you require.
• Tomorrow, 10am-11am: Toddler time.
• Tuesday, 12.30-12.45pm: ''Staff pick''. Staff share their favourite pieces in the museum. Free.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Coronation Hall, Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• June 20-29: Taieri Musical Society presents Les Miserables. Tickets $45 (adults), $42 (seniors/students), $35 (children). Available from TicketDirect and the Regent.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: All at Sea perform a range of easy-listening music and original compositions. Atrium level 1. Free.
St Andrew's Church, corner of Blyth and Donegal Sts, Cromwell.
• Sunday, 3pm: The Big Sing, all welcome. Free, donations welcome.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: Alan Edwards (director of music, St John's Church, Roslyn, Dunedin) plays organ works by Bach and Buxtehude. Free entry/donations welcome.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Plays
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
• June 22, noon and 2pm: The Dunedin Medieval and Renaissance Society presents Sir Mannelig and the Troll Maiden, The Pardoner's Tale and Bottom's Midsummer Nightmare. Free.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Saturday until July 13: Tribes, by Nina Raine. About a young deaf man's place in his family.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Today, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society presents Perfume - the story of a murderer. Prepaid bookings essential. Phone 445-4151 for bookings.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Daily until June 30: Spotlight on design. Jane Whittaker, from Naseby, showcases her landscapes.
Centre for Sustainability, seminar room, 530 Castle St.
• Today, 4pm: ''Building and living comfortably in a $50,000 off-the-grid, energy-efficient house''. Murray Grimwood discusses his unconventional Dunedin home.
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 June. Today: Plesiosaur - New Zealand's largest fossil. Tomorrow: The Egyptian mummy. Saturday: Southern whaling - a lost industry. Sunday: Te Paranihi - a waka of three parts. Monday: The three bears of the Otago Museum. Tuesday: The fin whale skeleton. Wednesday: Tuatara - ancient reptile.
• Daily during June, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
The Apartment, upstairs from The Malcam Trust, 174 Princes St (entrance on Dowling St).
• June 19, 5.30pm: Permaculture 101, with Peta Hudson, local permaculture educator. Cost: Koha. For more information, email permaculture.dunedin@gmail.com.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''A hand-built penny-farthing''. Graeme Simpson, of the Oamaru Ordinary Cycle Club, shares the challenges faced in the construction of the museum's new penny-farthing.
Zoology Benham Building, 346 Great King St, Room 215.
• Tuesday 5.30pm: Forest and Bird talk: ''Science and sea lion management''. Dr Bruce Robertson, Department of Zoology. All welcome.
Exhibitions
Anneloes Douglas Studio+Gallery, 91 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Ping Wang.
Artbay Gallery, level 1, 32 Rees St, Queenstown.
• Until June 19: ''Days Gone By, Pieces of Kiwiana History'', by Rachael Errington and David Lee.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until June 23: ''Winter'', Pauline Bellamy.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''Beauty and desire in Edo Period Japan''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• June: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jane Whittaker.
• Daily, 10am-4pm: ''Behind The Name''. An exhibition exploring the lives and stories of our namesakes (William Bodkin, Russell Henderson, John McCraw and Elizabeth Heafey). Gold coin entry.
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.
• Until June 30, 10am-4pm: ''Botanical Artists Acclaimed in New Zealand and Abroad''. Showcasing the work of Pat Brooke, Audrey Eagle, Sue Wickison and John Noakes.
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''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
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 St.
• ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', by Ivan Hill.
• Opening Saturday: ''Winter Group Show'', featuring paintings from Nic Dempster, Suzy Platt, Philip James Frost, Flynn Morris-Clarke, Simon Kaan, Philip Maxwell, John Badcock, Maria Kemp, Brad Novak, Philip Beadle, Shane Hansen and Phillip Beadle.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery 33, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until June 28: Louise McRae, ''Top of the Lake'' and Jane Mitchell, ''Postscapes''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until July 14: ''In The Steps Of My Father'', by Ron Esplin. Gallery open Monday-Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until June 23: Solo exhibition ''Chicks and Chooks'' by French-born Marion Vialade.
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.
• Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday 11am-3pm.
• Until July 3: Lorene Taurerewa, ''Tafelspiele''.
• Until July 3: ''Small Works''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until July 24: ''The Review''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• ''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• From tomorrow until July 2: ''Violet Dusk'', by Gretchen Albrecht.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow until June 21: ''Hung'', work by Otago Polytechnic Dunedin School of Art third year electronic arts and photography students.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
OCTA Gallery and Workshop, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until July 30: ''Habit'', an exhibition of street art and graffiti by Francis Lind.
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: ''Built Small: Miniature Models''. A look at the history of model-making.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of The Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until June 30, 1pm-5pm: ''The Body Worked Art Exhibition''. Pay 'n' go art by artists including Jemima Pedro, Lindsay Crooks and Janet Weir.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until July 2: Works by Kaori Jackson.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Until June 28, 8am-4pm: ''Welcome to the Jungle'', paintings by Craig Freeborn.
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.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday. Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
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