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.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
Saturday, 9pm: Barracuda, Humbolt Country.
Manny's Bar, St Andrew St, Dunedin.
Every Friday, noon-3pm: live lunchtime music with Amanda Goodwin and James Davy.
Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
Saturday, 8-11.30pm: Mosgiel RSA Dance music provided by the Breakthru. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
Thursday nights: 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.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
Wednesdays, 2-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
Tuesday, 10.30am: Storytelling at the Dunedin Botanic Garden, nature-themed interactive stories for children of all ages (caregiver required).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am, until December 10: Wriggle & Rhyme sessions for children aged 0-2 and their parents.
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Thursdays in November, 3pm-6pm: Come Write In Project, join a group of writers challenged with writing 50,000 words of a novel during the month.
Dunedin Prison Tours
Tuesdays and Saturdays in November at 10.30am. Book on www.dunedinprisontrust.co.nz.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Wriggle & Rhyme sessions for children aged 0-2 and their parents.
Thursdays 11am-11.30am, until December 12: Wriggle & Rhyme sessions for children aged 0-2 and their parents.
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.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 12.30-1pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus sing carols in the foyer to celebrate the festive season.
Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Ave
Saturday, 7.30pm: Bloodlust ''A Night of Terrifying Acts'', by Glorybox Collective, with Fuschia Gash, Jared and Damo, Tahu and the Takahes.
Eastern Southland Gallery, James Cumming Wing, Hokonui Dr, Gore.
Tomorrow, 8pm. Beyondsemble.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd.
Saturday, 2pm-4pm: Whistle Stop Tour poetry reading by Kay McKenzie Cooke and Jenny Powell.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music by Jean Langlais, to include Fantasy upon Two Scottish Themes.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until December 14: Boeing Boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross, directed by Lara Macgregor.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 3pm: Artist Seung Yul Oh and co-curators Aaron Lister (City Gallery, Wellington) and Aaron Kreisler (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) discuss aspects of the ''Moamoa'' exhibition.
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.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Barclay Theatre, Man Hunt: Kill to Survive - Vanuatu, NHNZ film screening, former zoo-keeper Hayden Turner heads to Vanuatu's Tanna Island to learn about the Namal people's hunting strategies.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Tomorrow, 12.15pm: Rebecca Macfie discusses her new book Tragedy at Pike River Mine. Free but ticket required, available from the University Book Shop or Toitu.
Sunday, 2pm: Dr Noel Waite from the University of Otago department of applied sciences discusses the history of printing and publishing in Dunedin.
Tuesday, 12.15pm: Documentary The Last Western Heretic, about Lloyd Geering.
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.
Until Saturday: ''Beachcoma'', by Sam Thomas.
From Wednesday to December 21: ''Stud Flight'', by Mike Hewson.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Until December 5: Don Driver, ''Old Tricks''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until December 5: ''CODAT Art Gold Awards'' exhibition.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
Opens tomorrow 6pm, runs until November 30: Otago Potters Group and Otago/Southland members of the New Zealand Potters Association annual exhibition and fundraising sale.
Corner SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
Deidre Copland ''At the nose'' recent works.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
From Monday until December 10: ''International Elimination of Violence Against Women'', display of 56 pairs of shoes highlighting statistics on deaths of women and children in New Zealand as a result of domestic violence.
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: ''Wonderwall,'' 50 paintings from the permanent collection.
Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Fallen Picture with Harpoon by Nick Austin.
Ongoing: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins.
From Saturday: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
Dunedin School of Art, Riego St.
From Saturday until November 28, 10am-4pm: ''Site 2013'', work by graduating students.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
Until November 30: Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s. Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until January 5: Parallel Threads, Oamaru textile artist Sue McLean collaborates with her husband, weaver Rod McLean.
From Saturday until February: Drawings by Alan Pearson.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
Finishes today: 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 Monday: ''Flight'' featuring Michel Tuffery, Peter Miller, Lukeke, Annie Smits Sandano and Simon Lewis Wards.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
Until December 12: Darren Tautari, ''Lost at Sea''. Gallery open Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers - Artists and Iconic Landscapes''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until December 7: Carved birds by Luke Anthony.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
From Saturday until December 7: Kirsten Ferguson, ''New Work''.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
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.
From Saturday until December 18: ''Vanitas,'' by Lorraine Rastorfer and ''Mountain Pass,'' by Simon Edwards.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until December 11: Hannah Kidd ''Under Dog'' and Christine Cathie ''Contour''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
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.
Until tomorrow: ''JZR+AN+RW= Very nice art'' with John Z Robinson, Annie Nevin and Robert West.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St.
Until December 6: 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.
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, 31 Dunmore 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.
Until Monday: ''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 Sunday: ''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.
From Friday 6pm until January 29: ''Essence of Central Otago'', photographs by Gilbert van Reenen.
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.
From Saturday until December 17: Albert McCarthy, with guests Steve Gwaliasi, Dan Dick and Johnny Penisula.
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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