Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Arthur Daley's Tavern, Green Island
• Tomorrow, 9.30pm: Oxo CubansChick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Tonight: Black Sky Hustler, Racket Empire album release tour, with support from Machina Rex and Bottle.
• Tomorrow: Big Rick, Beyond The Valley Of The Trolls EP release tour, with Bad Sav and Mavis Gary.
• Saturday, 9pm: GPOGP and Young Hellions. R18.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents the Otago Hayride featuring Valley Bluegrass and friends.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Waitati.
• Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Songs for Birds'', Ariana Tikao and Ben Lemi.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
• Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
• Saturday, 8pm-11pm: Dance to the music of Rodney Clayton.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Today, midday: Richard Wallis.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Pre-school story time.
Clyde Memorial Hall, cnr Fraser and Newcastle Sts.
• Sunday, 10am-2pm: Clyde Winter Markets. Stalls, hot food and fun for all the children.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until August 3: Build a creation in the Olafur Eliasson ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' Lego exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Pre-school story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Saturday and Sunday 11am and 3pm: ''It's a Gas!'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''The Science of Fun!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Kept under wraps!'', Investigation station. Atrium Level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: Pre-school story time.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Alexandra Elim Church, 156 Tarbert St.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: The Secret Chord Fundraising Concert with guest artist Keri Officer, to support volunteer work in Uganda.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music, dancing.
Dunedin Town Hall Auditorium, Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: Royal Dunedin Male Choir winter concert featuring Sophie Sparrow (soprano), Sean Stenhouse (cello), Samson Setu (bass), Boen Deng (piano) and accompanist Tom McGrath.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Concert by Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Saturday, 7pm: ''Sing South'', choirs of Burnside High School, Otago Girls' and Otago Boys' high schools in concert.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Tomorrow, 11am: Operatunity presents ''Modern Musicals!'', a selection of modern musical hit songs.
The Rock Bar and Grill, 21 Tarbert St, Alexandra.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Gish ''Stink Bro'' tour, stand-up comedy show.
Roxburgh Town Hall and Entertainment Centre, 132 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Roxburgh Area School variety concert.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: Organ recital by Donald Cullington.
Plays
Cromwell College auditorium, Barry Ave, Cromwell.
• Today and tomorrow, 7pm: Cromwell College presents Alice in Wonderland.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites - sample the Fortune Theatre's latest play, Jumpy.
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
• Until Sunday: The Keys are in the Margarine, a verbatim play about dementia.
Talks and films
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Equator 2: Rivers of the Sun, NHNZ film screeing.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Fenton Cres, St Clair.
• From tomorrow to Sunday: 2014 National Interfaith Forum, hosted by the Dunedin Interfaith Council.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Anzac'' WW1 commemoration exhibition.
• Saturday, 3pm: Film screening, Confluence: The Art and Practice of Simon Kaan.
• Sunday, 1.30pm: Paranesia, film about Maori and Pasifika artists working in New Zealand.
• Sunday, 2pm: Free guided tour of the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
• Sunday, 3pm: Talk by Peter Trevelyn in conjunction with Olafur Eliasson's ''Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' interactive exhibition.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: The Monowai. Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab. Saturday: Woollen bathing suit. Sunday: Kereru. Monday: Matariki. Tuesday: Santa Cruz red feather money. Wednesday: Akan gold weights.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex.
• Daily until July 20, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 6.30pm: Memoir-writing workshop with writer and editor Philippa Keaney.
Exhibitions
140 George St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Fresh and Fruity'', various artists. One-night only exhibition to mark the launch of Dreary Modern Life and New Vogue Idea magazines and Succulents ephemeral jewellery.
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by Nigel Wilson.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Ongoing: ''Mad Dogs by an Englishman'', watercolours by Nick Eggleston.
• Ongoing: ''SEVEN'', joint show featuring work by Alex Lovell-Smith, Gillian Buckley, Hannah Joynt, Tom Field, Emily Hlavac-Green, Tama Taita and Anna Priluka.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until Monday: Pauline Bellamy retrospective, ''Pretty Dreams, Hard Work, Survival''.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until Saturday: ''Attachment Drawing: Interface'', Ali Bramwell.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Closes today: ''Considered Standing'', Patrick Hartigan.
• Opens tomorrow, until July 16: ''Anu'', Suji Park.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
• Closes today: ''New Dunedin Painting'', featuring a range of local artists.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Until July 4: Spotlight on Design presents Jose Hall.
• Until July 21: Photographic Exhibition in the Russell Henderson gallery, 10am-4pm daily.
Downes Room, Mosgiel Library.
• From tomorrow until Saturday, from 10am: Taieri art group Winter Exhibition.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information centre, lower garden.
• Until Monday: ''Birds of the Botanic Garden'', photographs by Paul Sorrell.
Dunedin International Airport.
• Until Monday: Artist in the Terminal - Janet de Wagt.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until July 6: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until July 6: ''Liar, liar, pants on fire'', Victoria McIntosh (rear window project).
• Until August 3: ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'', Olafur Eliasson.
• Until August 3: ''Wild Life'', works from the collection.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until tomorrow: ''Keylines'', Richard Adams.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Alistair Begg, Scott Drummond and Tania McIntosh. Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
The Hill, 140 Highcliff Rd.
• Until Sunday: ''Peninsula Artists on The Hill''.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Ongoing: ''Winter Wonderland'', Ro Bradshaw.
• Gallery open 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until July 26: ''Works on Paper''.
• Gallery open Saturdays, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Until July 5: Korowai weaving exhibition by Ocean View weaving group.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
• Until July 11: ''It's a wonderful day, it's a wonderful night'' Matariki art exhibition.
• Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Message Beacon'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until July 23: ''The Review'', various New Zealand artists.
• From Saturday, until July 23: ''Waking up to the Oculus People'', Andy Leleisi'uao.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Opens tomorrow, until July 10: ''Coppertone'', Brian Alexander.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''Dunedin overlooking the harbour'' and ''Town Hall, Dunedin'', David Corballis.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until July 9: ''Heavenly Creatures'', Max Gimblett.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• ''The Works: Pukeuri 1914-2014'', an exhibition about the Pukeuri meatworks in Oamaru.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copeland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until Monday: Otago Art Society's 138th Annual Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until July 20: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until September 21: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''.
• Until November 2: '' Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Joanne McLeary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Until August 31: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until July 4: Kate Springford and Loris Ives.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
• Until Monday: ''Place & Time - Five Women Artists'', Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until Tuesday: Works by local artist Fay Mitchell.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• 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.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
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