Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr London and George streets.
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.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
Tonight, 8pm: Yolanda, Tourettes, Astro Children and Nannystate.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Manny's Bar, St Andrew St, Dunedin.
Tomorrow, 8pm: The Foxy Tones.
Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
Sunday, 8-11.30pm: Mosgiel RSA Dance, music provided by Reg McTaggart. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Tonight, 8pm: Dunedin Cat Rescue fundraiser - Fuchsia Gash, Tahu and Bill, Glen Ross, Darryl Baser, GCM (Gardens Corner Music), Proff Goff, Simon Maclaren, James Dignan + more TBC. Door charge $6.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Daniel Madill album release with Strange Harvest and Tahu and the Takahes, $5.
Saturday, 9pm: Brown The Scalene Tour with Alex V and Paul Cathro $5.
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 City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Dunedin Prison Tours
Every Saturday during December, 10.30am. Private bookings by arrangement. Book on www.dunedinprisontrust.co.nz.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
Tuesday, 11am: Santa Storytime - Suitable for pre-school children and their caregivers. Children's area. Free.
Thursdays 11am-11.30am: Wriggle and 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.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Tomorrow, 10-11am: Toddler time. Free, no booking required.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
Every Friday and Saturday, 10.30am: Story-time in the Children's Room on the magic carpet.
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 Botanic Garden, information center, lower garden.
Sunday, 4pm: Sound Shell, Carols in the Gardens - traditional carols with story-telling, dance, choirs. Come dressed as a character from the Bethlehem Christmas story. Venue if wet: Nga Maara Hall, Sacred Heart School, 63 North Rd.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Saturday, 1pm: Dunedin a cappella gospel choir Sunny Side Up will sing for your pleasure.
Hampden Presbyterian Church, SH1.
Saturday, 3pm: ''No more sorrow'' Italian Renaissance songs and dance music, $25 waged/$20 concessions.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Today, 12.15pm: ''Festive Music For The Advent Season'' lunchtime concert organ recital by Simon Mace, Nicholas Haslam and Richard Brown. Gold coin donation.
Lady Thorn Rhododendron Dell, Church St, Port Chalmers.
Sunday, 2.30pm: Christmas music with the Salvation Army Band and Dunedin Harmony Chorus. Entry is free but a gold coin donation to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal would be appreciated. If it is wet, this event will be transferred to the Iona Church just down the road from the Rhododendron Dell. This is a Port Chalmers & District Lions Club project.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
Saturday, 1pm: Monty Bevins plays a blend of folk, roots and pop combining vocal harmonies and bass riffs with melodic, heartfelt tunes.
Sunday, 1pm: Dunedin Star Singers - upbeat variety choir performs classic and contemporary hits.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays Marian organ music, to include works by Peeters and Tournemire et al.
The Terrace Bar, Octagon.
Tomorrow and Saturday: Isabel Rivera, direct from Spain - beginners 11am-1pm (learn the basics of flamenco rhythm, singing, dancing); advanced 7-9pm (people with some previous flamenco knowledge dancing/singing). $35/person.
Sunday, 5pm: Flamenco performance by Isabel Rivera, $15 adults, $5 children, family pass $35. Supported by Otago' s Hispanic Group.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 12.30-1.30pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus - Christmas carols in the Josephine foyer.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until Saturday: Boeing Boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross, directed by Lara Macgregor.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
Until Saturday: The Middlemarch Singles Ball II, by Ella West, directed by Ellie Swann.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sundays during December, 2pm: free guided tours of the delightful collection exhibition ''Wonderwall'' on the first floor and the stunning exhibition ''Hotere Culbert'' in the lower galleries.
Sunday, 3pm: Join Lauren Gutsell and Henry Davidson, curators of ''Wonderwall'' in a floor talk on the exhibition. All welcome.
Sunday, 4pm: Signed Tour - Brydee Jenkin Strang, NZ sign language interpreter, gives a tour of some of the works in the ''Hotere Culbert'' and Seung Yul Oh exhibitions.
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 December: Today: Autahi the Leopard seal. Tomorrow: extinct birds of the South Island.
Saturday: Rapa Nui - culture of Easter Island.
Sunday: Greek vases - pottery of the ancient world. Monday: Piltdown man - the phoney ''missing link''. Tuesday: Ranginui and Papatuanuku - a Maori creation story.
Wednesday: the three bears of Otago Museum.
Daily, 4pm: special exhibition talk - REVolution: 100 Years of Motorcycles. Free.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until March 2: Mary Macpherson ''Old New World''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
Visit our new Gallery space.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Diana Adams and Deidre Copeland.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
Until January 25: ''Wildlife'' and features works by Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry at Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay. Open daily, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Basement, 24b Moray Pl.
Until December 21: ''Stud Flight'', by Mike Hewson.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
''The Hors Commerce'', by Jason Greig.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14d Dowling St.
Opens tomorrow until December 30: ''Birds ...'' by Flynn Morris-Clarke.
Carrick Winery, 247 Caimmuir Rd.
Until February 28: Jenny Hill exhibition.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until January 30: Christmas Showcase - Local artists with an under-$200 section for Christmas gift shopping.
Corner SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
Deidre Copland ''At the nose'' recent works.
Croydon Aviation Centre, Mandeville.
Until February 24: ''4 Colour Lovers'' exhibition featuring Christine O'Connor, Jodie Marlow, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Liz Bristow.
9.30am-4.30pm weekdays and 11am-3pm weekends.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Until March 2: ''A Distinct New Zealand Flavour: McNab's Gift to Dunedin.''Celebrating 100 years of the McNab Collection.
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''.
Until April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
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.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until January 5: ''Parallel Threads''. Oamaru textile artist Sue McLean collaborates with her husband, weaver Rod McLean.
Until February: Drawings by Alan Pearson.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
''A Round Christmas'', group show featuring circular works.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Opens today until December 27: Works by Tom Ellison ''Cla'r/eo-e're''. Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until December 31: ''X'' - Collectable works by many fantastic artists.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
Closes today: 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.
Christmas exhibition.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until December 28: Christmas Show - Various artists.
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: ''Vanitas,'' by Lorraine Rastorfer and ''Mountain Pass,'' by Simon Edwards.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Until December 24: ''Perpetually Summer'', by Kate van der Drift.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St.
Christmas exhibition 2013.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''. Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
Until February 2: ''Affordable Art'' exhibition at Otago Art Society.
Open daily 10-4pm. Note: closed December 20, 25 and 28, January 1, 4 and 5.
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.
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.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
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 January 29: ''Essence of Central Otago'', photographs by Gilbert van Reenen.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until February 3: Photography on Canvas and Corrugated Iron by Murray Crawford.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
Until Tuesday: Albert McCarthy, with guests Steve Gwaliasi, Dan Dick and Johnny Penisula.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
Until December 24: The Green Man and other new pieces.
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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