Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr of London and George Sts.
• Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason playing classic rock `n' pop hits.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Cinema Paradiso, 72 Brownston St, Wanaka.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Beyondsemble.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Friday, doors open 8pm: public gig with The Scurvy Dogs, Infinite Justice and Silly Drunken Bastards, $5.
Manny's Bar, St Andrew St, Dunedin.
• Every Friday, noon-3pm: live lunchtime music with Amanda Goodwin and James Davy.
• Saturday, 6pm: Both Sides of the Line CD release, free.
Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
• Saturday, 8-11.30pm: Mosgiel RSA Dance music provided by the Melody Makers. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans
Purple Rain Retro Bar and Cafe, 403 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Tonight, 6.30pm: Listening party for Metro Angel, the soon-to-be-released new album by Dunedin band Katharticus. Members will be playing an intimate set.
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.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2-3pm: preschool story and craft session. Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Tuesday, 10.30am: Storytelling at the Botanic Garden, Nature-themed interactive stories for children of all ages (caregiver required).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Dunedin Prison Tours
• Tuesdays and Saturdays in November at 10.30am. Book on www.dunedinprisontrust.co.nz.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Arachni-mania''. Investigation Station: sort the facts from fiction about our native spiders.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• 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
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: salsa music and dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Poetry readings, Octagon Collective. Guest poet: Bernadette Hall. MC: Carolyn McCurdie. Open mike. Free entry. All welcome.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians November Recital Meeting featuring ''Young and Young at Heart'', a programme of song presented by young soprano Sequoia Cunningham accompanied by Ladonna Loo and The Chatsford Chorus, conducted by Fay Ward and accompanied by Jennifer Dunbar. All welcome. Christmas supper. Guests $5.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: ''Acoustic Church Tour'', Dragon in concert.
Mary-Hopewell Theatre, College of Education, 145 Union St East.
• Saturday, 1-3pm: O-Taiko, Dunedin's Japanese-style Taiko drumming ensemble, is hosting a concert and open workshop. Gold coin entry.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Tomorrow 7,30pm and Saturday, 2.30pm: Crossroads: music comedies of chance. Two operattas, Mr Polly at the Potwell Inn, music by John Drummond, and Ticket Sixty Six, music by Jacques Offenbach.
• Monday, 11am: Daytime Concert Series presents its final show for 2013, The Royal Christmas Variety Show.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays 20th-century British organ works, to include works by Howells, Leighton and Darke.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Opens Saturday, until December 14: Boeing Boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross, directed by Lara Macgregor.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Tonight and tomorrow, 7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday, 2pm: Two programmes of readings from the novels of Charles Dickens, presented by John Watson. A special fundraiser for the Globe's ''Roof Fund''. Programme 1 - selected scenes - tonight and Saturday; Programme 2 - A Christmas Carol (abridged) - tomorrow and Sunday. All seats $20. Bookings: Globe Theatre door sales (no Eftpos).
ODT Cinema, Alexandra.
• Friday and Sunday, 7.30pm, Saturday, 2pm: Clyde Theatre Group - Two One-act Plays. Entry $5.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Today, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society showing Carnage. Bookings Phone (03) 445-4151.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Monday, 6pm: Beautiful and Delicious: Nadia Lim, nutritionist and MasterChef NZ winner shares her food philosophy and talks about her new Good Food Cook Book. Dunningham Suite, booking essential, tickets $2.
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 November: Today: the mutiny on the Bounty. Tomorrow: Tuhawaiki Kai Tahu chief. Saturday: Sri Lankan demon mask. Sunday: the upland moa - extinct bird of the South. Monday: the Piopio - extinct New Zealand songbird. Tuesday: Blaschka models - the lost art of glass specimens. Wednesday: the Shag Point plesiosaur - New Zealand's largest fossil.
• Daily during November, 4pm: special exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Meet at the information desk. Free.
Savoy, 50 Princes St, Dunedin
• Tuesday, 2.30-4.30pm: ''Women Chasing Men in Jane Austen?'' - Getting married was the main business of a woman's life, in Jane Austen's time. Here are some examples of how not to do it, presented by Jocelyn Harris and Terry MacTavish. Reservations: the Savoy 477-4649.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 7-9pm: Pecha Kucha Night - Presented in partnership with the Otago/Southland branch of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Pouhere Taonga. $10 waged/$8 unwaged.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: Raising Baby Seal. On the coast of Alaska a wildlife official rescues a baby harbour seal. Watch as she she grows and learns, getting ready for the day she is returned to the ocean. (Duration 1 hour). Free.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Diana Adams and Deidre Copeland, new works.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Open daily, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Don Driver, ''Old Tricks''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Closes today: ''Spotlight on design'' with Lynne Wilson and Joan Neil.
• Until December 5: ''CODAT Art Gold Awards'' exhibition.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Until Sunday: 44th Dunedin Festival of Photography. Images by top NZ photographers. 10am-6pm daily, Sunday closes 2pm.
Corner SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''At the nose'' recent works.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until Sunday: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until January 26: ''Derek Ball: High-Tech Fantasy''Until January 26: ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
• Until March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Jack Hadley, Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella.
• Ongoing: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until November 30: Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until Sunday: North Otago Art Society 16th Biennial Art Awards Exhibition - featuring entries from across the South Island.
• Until January 5: Parallel Threads, Oamaru textile artist Sue McLean collaborates with her husband, weaver Rod McLean.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Until November 21: Janet de Wagt ''(t)here and everywhere'' - a year of miniature paintings from around Otago, Fiordland and Southland.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until November 25: ''Flight'' featuring Michel Tuffery, Peter Miller, Lukeke, Annie Smits Sandano and Simon Lewis Wards.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Open Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: new work ''nine oil paintings of pots with flowers'' by Marie Strauss.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until tomorrow: ''Emerging From The Rubble''.
• Opens Saturday until November 30: Quilt Art, by Jeanette Hawker and Una Landreth.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until February 23: ''Sign of the Times'', memorabilia and objects signed by famous people.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: Neil Dawson ''Silver Linings'' and Mervyn Williams ''Coloured-In''. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens tomorrow until December 11: Hannah Kidd ''Under Dog'' and Christine Cathie ''Contour''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• ''New Identity'', by Dunedin visual artist Ross Davidson.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm until November 28: Dissimilitude - a joint show by Dylan Peat and George Fraser.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''JZR+AN+RW= Very nice art'' with John Z Robinson, Annie Nevin and Robert West.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St.
• Opens tomorrow: Fiona Pardington - Works from the Colin McCahon Residency.
Nectar Cafe, 286 Princes St
• Until November 30: paintings by Kate Williamson.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
OCTA Gallery and Workshop, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Ongoing: ''Habit'', an exhibition of street art and graffiti by Francis Lind.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until December 1: International Exhibition at Otago Art Society - OAS members who have made NZ home have submitted paintings, etc representing their homeland or heritage. All works for sale. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Opens Saturday until February 16: REVolution: 100 Years of Motorcycles - Get up close to more than 100 motorcycles, discover innovations in their design and technology, and kick start your summer with a ride on the wild side.
• Ongoing: Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until December 8: ''Cannibal Bay Kitchenalia'' ceramics by Esther Sinclair.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Red Thread, 1st floor of Allbell Chambers, 127 Lower Stuart St.
• Opens Wednesday until November 25: ''Naked Ambition,'' works on paper by Susan Videler and Kiri Mitchell. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until November 24: ''Antarctic Dreaming'', Irene Schroder and Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
• Until January 12: ''Julius Caesar - Military Genius and Mighty Machines''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open 1pm-5pm Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until November 30: Ron Esplin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until December 3: works by the Taieri Art Group.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• Aaron Kereopa. Rongomaiaia Te Whaiti ''Te Whare Wananga - The House of Learning and Knowledge''.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
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.
The Wallpaper House Gallery, Studio. 29 Lees St.
• Open Saturday, 11am-4pm. Sunday, 11am-4pm.
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