Nigel and Norma
New Zealand organist Nigel Potts, now at Christ and St Stephen's Episcopal Church in New York City, plays at 3pm on Sunday in the Dunedin Town Hall.
The programme includes two trumpet tunes from King Arthur, by Henry Purcell; Mein Jesu (BWV487), by J. S. Bach and Sonata Op.65, No 2 in C minor, by Felix Medelssohn. Door sales only.
Alchemical romance
There's something a little different on Saturday at 1pm in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery - a presentation on "Renaissance alchemy and the court of Rudolf II": by Jonathan Cweorth and Phil Philpot.
It includes a performance of alchemical fugues by the Rare Byrds ensemble.
Last chance to see . . .
Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber, directed by Ross Jolly, at the Fortune Theatre. You have until Saturday.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St. Tonight, 9pm: Local Djs.
Tomorrow, 10pm: Polytix & Gus.
Saturday, 10pm: Satch & Titts MaGee.
The Bog, corner George and London streets. Sundays, 7.30pm: open mike night.
Clarendon Hotel, 28 Maclaggan St. Sunday, 7.30pm: Gilly Darby Band.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Saturday, 11pm: The Whirling Eddies.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night.
The Orchard Garden, Alexandra. Friday, 7.30pm: Gilly Darbey plays an eclectic mixture of blues, jazz and folk music.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Tomorrow, 9pm: Amanda Goodwin and Joe Setefano.
Refuel, Otago University. Tonight, 10pm: Hip-hop with DJ Endo.
Tuesday, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel. Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St. Friday, 9pm: "The Nice Up" featuring MC Beau, Live dub from Alphariddim with DJs Jahred and Laafta.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Sunday, 2pm: Haere mai ki nga whai - String Games Fun. An interactive workshop with Kaitrin McMullan, professional storyteller, teaching string games from Aotearoa and around the world.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon. Saturday, 10am-4.30pm: Midwinter Medieval Festival.
Knox Church, 449 George St. Friday, 1.30pm-2.30pm: preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel. Preschool story time, every Tuesday, 11am.
Naseby Town Hall Saturday, 8.30pm: Naseby Highland Ball. Fundraiser
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds (free).
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium level 1: children's creative activities.
Noon and 3.30pm, every Saturday and Sunday during June: interactive trolley - Treasures of the Sea.
The Octagon, Saturday, 5.30pm-8pm: Midwinter Carnival Port Chalmers Library. Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, free.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Tomorrow, 12.15pm: "Words and Music" with Gordon Ramage.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl. Tonight, 6.30pm: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Tiensuu and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon, this week: Alexey Medvedev/Tim Davis.
St Paul's Cathedral Crypt, Upper Stuart St. Friday, 7.30pm. Dunedin Medieval Society presents "Stella Splendens", a concert of early music, poetry and drama including works by Strozzi, Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Purcell, a Morris dance and a mummers' play.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St. Until June 20: Don Juan in Soho.
Talks and films
Academy Cinema, 50 Dundas St. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm: "Oi" - Short films and live performance in honour of the Puaka and Matariki celebrations.
Art Upstairs, 4 Helwick St, Wanaka, Sunday June 21, 3pm-5pm: Opening of an exhibition of new works by Eion Shanks, who will be present to discuss his works.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, tonight, 4th floor, 5.30pm: Former Wellington mayor Mark Blumsky talks about his new book, Slippers.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. 12.30pm Wednesdays and 1.30pm Sundays until July 26: "Frances Hodgkins: femme du monde" guided tours.
Sundays, 3pm, Until July 5: "A Season of New Wave Iranian Cinema". Free.
This week: Fireworks.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Free daily talks, 2pm. Topics in June: Mondays, "Goldrush Days"; Tuesdays, "Fin Whale"; Wednesdays, "El Nino"; Thursdays, "The Guatemalan Quetzal"; Fridays, "The Japanese Spider Crab"; Saturdays, "Matariki - the Pleiades"; Sundays, "The Little Blue Penguin".
Tonight, 5.30pm, Barclay Theatre, level 1: Steve Wing talks on "Climate Impacts on Antarctic Coastal Ecosystems".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Sunday, 2pm: Exhibition floor talk by Peter Read: "Wilkommen to Dunedin: A History of German-speaking people in Dunedin".
Port Chalmers Library. Tonight, 7pm: An evening with naturopath Francisca Griffin.
Exhibitions
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. Until June 26: Group show from the adult painting course, Kings High School.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station. Until June 28: Otago Art Society's 133rd annual exhibition.
The Artist's Room, Dowling St. "Paper Works 5" featuring Colin Wheeler, Phillipa Bentley, Claire Beynon. Liz Rowe, Geoff Williams, Michel Tuffery, Greg Lewis, Sam Foley, Ben Reid and more. Ralph Hotere - "Works on Paper".
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay. Works by Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry.
Open Wednesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until July 11: Anya Sinclair & Alan Ibell: "Future Girl & Tales from the Interior" and Markus Hofko: "Islands: You and Me A Second and a Lifetime".
Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Until June 30: "Unique Central" photographic competition.
Until July 31: "Just like the real thing". Open 10am-4pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, third floor. Until July 26: "O for a Thousand Tongues": hymns from the Colin Gibson Collection.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until August 16: "Ey! Iran: Contemporary Iranian photography", depicts a surprisingly familiar culture with narratives of family life, suburban sprawl and poignant observations.
Until September 6: Russian Art in New Zealand.
Until September 20: "I was Russia". Curated by Marcus Williams (New Zealand) and Konstantin Skotnikov (Russia), this exhibition brings together works by some of the most influential figures in Russian art today.
Until June 21: Michael Morley, "You Say You Don't Love Me". Ongoing: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves", Japanese prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection.
Ongoing: "The Grand Tour": Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection.
Until July 19: Ben Buchanan: "Sleeping".
Until July 26: "Francis Hodgkins: femme du monde". Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
Until August 2: "White Silence", 21 photographs of the Antarctic taken by Grahame Sydney.
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru. Until July 12: "The Burns Memorial". The annual exhibition featuring artwork by the children of the Waitaki district. June 20-August 9: "Pilgrimage". Recent works by local artist Mary Horn.
Foyer Gallery (Old Art School office). Until tomorrow: The Bachelor of Virgin Artists (3rd-year BVA exhibition).
Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith. Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hocken Gallery, corner Anzac Ave and Parry St. Until July 25: "At Home: The Interior World of Patricia France".
Until July 26: "A Private Eye: Guy Morris' photographs of Dunedin".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct. Open 10am to 4pm.
Until June 21: "Home and Away", drawings and ceramics by Liz Rowe.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. From Saturday until July 19: "Looking Down the Barrel: The Face of New Zealand Wine". Portraits of wine industry pioneers.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until July 1: Nigel Brown, "All Our Days".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until July 1: Neil Dawson, "Deck"; Mike Petre, "Field Study", landscapes by Callum Arnold.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St. Until June 27: Vivian Keenan: "Interwoven".
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru. Until October: "Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-Shed".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past", from the Otago Settlers Museum art collection.
Until July 5: "Passchendaele: The Belgians Have Not Forgotten".
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until August 2: "Winter Woolly Show: Eat, Drink, Knit".
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St. Neil Emmerson, "The Glass Closet".
Sew Hoy Gallery , 29 Stafford St. "In the Dragons' Footsteps" - Chinese artefacts.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton. Weekends, 1pm-5pm.
From Saturday until September 19: "By the Sea", recent paintings by Janet Weir.
School of Art Gallery, Otago Polytechnic, Riego St, Dunedin. Until June 20: fourth-year painting exhibition.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St. Until June 20: Riki Julin and Dawn Palmer.
From Monday until July 11: Marion Familton & Ro McQueen.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until June 30: works by the Taieri Art Group.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Until July 2: Philip James Frost: "The Safer Option".
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown. Until June 30: "Winter Stock Show".
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery, first floor, central library. Until July 3: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy". Monday-Friday, 8.30am-5pm.
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