Fundraiser
The naughty but nice Shirley Valentine, featuring Nancy Schroder as Shirley Valentine, visits Dunedin tomorrow night, to raise funds for the Otago Community Hospice.
Shirley Valentine is on for one night only at 8pm in the Regent Theatre on July 3.
Colour up
Dr Stella Lange, of Otago Polytechnic's design school, will open up the world of colour theory, as proposed by artists Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten, on Saturday between 2pm and 4pm in a colour theory workshop at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. $15, includes materials.
Bookings essential, ph 4743249.
Last chance to see . . .
The Country Wife, at the Globe Theatre, London St. It ends on Saturday.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St. Today: Pick'n'mix with Katie and Grace.
Tomorrow: Scribe + Dj Shan, With support from Djs Marze and Endo. Limited door sales. R18. Doors open at 9pm.
Saturday: DJ Milk & DJ Syrus. Doors open 10pm.
Bx Bar & Bistro, Dowling St. Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club, American Night.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers. Saturday, 9pm: Delgirl with support from Marcus Tomato Plant.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Ironic Cafe, 9 Anzac Ave. Tonight, 7.30pm: The Bobby Vinson Combo.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night. Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans party night.
Saturday, 9pm: Amanda & Jo.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Friday, 6pm: Ben Wood; 10pm: DJ Dalboy.
Saturday, 11pm: DJs Jordan Higham & Ali Romanos.
Refuel, Otago University. Closed until July 13.
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. Tonight, 9pm: Slurtones, Thundercub & Alazarin Lizard.
Tomorrow, 8pm: Motocade Tightrope Highway album release tour with Clap Clap Riot and F in Math.
Tonic, 138 Princes St. July 3, 9pm: Graeme Tongue, live acoustic.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Excludes school holidays. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. July 6-10: Whitcoulls wall-to-wall big screen video spectacular: Pinocchio (G), Kung Fu Panda (PG), The Spiderwick Chronicles (PG). Suitable for most age groups. Bookings not required. All children must be supervised. Free.
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.
Friday, 3.45pm: Book Club for Kids.
Tuesday, 2pm: School Holiday Fun: Paper Craft.
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.
Daily during the school holidays: 2.30pm, Search Centre: "Game On! The Origins of Oware"; 12pm and 3.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Interactive Trolley: West African Cloth Stamping. Create your very own piece of adinkra cloth.
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday during the school holidays, 2.15pm, Atrium Level 1: Freaky Science Show: "Chocolate Storm".
Also: The African Safari Choc-a-block Trail. Solve the clues and reveal the secret of the Maitaztii Map to claim your delicious Cadbury treat. Trail available from the Search Centre, Free.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. July 4-19, 10am-5pm: School holiday programme.
July 7 and 8, 10am-noon: Children's two-day embroidery workshops. Children can construct their own samplers. Age groups 5-7, 8-11 and 12+. Materials provided.
Booking essential phone 474-2728 July 9 and 10, 10am-noon: Children's 2-day paintbox workshop. Children will produce their own work of art. Booking essential phone 474-2728.
Saturday, 2pm: Theatres of Dunedin: From Dens of Iniquity to Picture Palaces. Join members of the Southern Heritage Trust on a guided tour of Dunedin's inner-city theatres. Meet at the museum. Bookings required, ph 474-2728.
Port Chalmers Library. Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, excludes school holidays, free.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Knox Church, 449 George St. Today, 12.15pm: Organ Recital with Denis McCombe and Rhys Thorn.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon, this week: Beverly Kay/Merryn Gill.
St Paul's Cathedral, The Octagon. Saturday, 7.30pm & Sunday 3pm: "Anniversary Accolades" by the City of Dunedin Choir and Southern Sinfonia, with soloists Lois Johnston, Clare Barton, Stephen Chambers and Andreas Hirt. Conducted by David Burchell.
Featuring music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Purcell and Haydn.
Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St, until July 4, 8pm: The Country Wife, a romp through the morality and mayhem of 17th-century London.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Today, 12.30pm: Catch a snippet of the Fortune Theatre play Lucky Numbers by Mike Yeaman, directed by Ross Jolly.
Talks and films
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: Children of Heaven. Mosgiel Library, Downes Room, Friday, 2pm: Book Chat: Come along and share your favourite reads.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Free daily talks, 2pm.
Topics in July: Mondays, "The Art of Eeling"; Tuesdays, "Kimono"; Wednesdays, "The Legends of Maui"; Thursdays, "The Iconic Cabbage Tree"; Fridays, "Papua New Guinea"; Saturdays, "Magical Human Replicas"; Sundays, "Santa Cruz Red Feather Money".
Special exhibition gallery talk, daily at 4.30pm, free: "Charles Brasch".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Friday, 5.30pm: "`The Otago Mounted Rifles".
An illustrated talk on the history of this Regiment by Dr Don Mackay. Free.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until July 26: Melvin Day: "Stabat Mater".
Until August 3: Polly Rowe: "Devote".
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station. Until July 14: Ewen Cadzow: "A View for You".
The Artist's Room, Dowling St. "Seven Artists", featuring new works from Sam Foley, Greg Lewis, Alannah Brown, Sharon Singer, Claire Beynon, Michel Tuffery and Ro Bradshaw.
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 and 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 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.
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.
Until August 9: "Pilgrimage". Recent works by Mary Horn.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin. From tomorrow until July 9: "Me", an exhibition of works by Shane Hansen.
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 July 5: "Back of Beyond", landscape photography by Eric Schusser.
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. July 4-22: Peata Larkin, "Tuhourangi Revival".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St, July 4-22: "Works On Paper" by Dick Frizzell, Nigel Brown and Alexis Neal. A strong sense of exuberance, humour and nostalgia is evident in Dick Frizzell's bold sharp-witted slant on popular culture. Leading New Zealand figurative artist Nigel Brown presents eight hand-coloured lithographs titled "Seven Last Words". At the heart of Alexis Neal's practice is a quest to define a place for women's cultural identity. The exhibition opens from 10am on Saturday July 4 and runs until July 29.
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.
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.
Until July 6: "Willkommen to Dunedin: A History of German-speaking People in Otago".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until August 2: "Winter Woolly Show: Eat, Drink, Knit".
Sew Hoy Gallery , 29 Stafford St. "In the Dragons' Footsteps" - Chinese artefacts.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton. Weekends, 1pm-5pm.
Until September 19: "By the Sea", recent paintings by Janet Weir.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St. Until July 11: Marion Familton & Ro McQueen. Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Ends today: Philip James Frost: "The Safer Option".
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown. From Saturday until July 7: Aaron Kereopa.
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery, first floor, central library. Until tomorrow: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy". Monday-Friday, 8.30am-5pm.
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