The Guide: What's on this week

Jim Hopkins
Jim Hopkins
Highlight of this week: Debatable. The end is nigh... or is it? That is the topic of debate at the OUSA Speight's Great Comedy Debate at 7pm in the Dunedin Town Hall tomorrow night.
Geriatric grinning men Gary McCormick and Jim Hopkins will attempt to hustle a gaggle of comedians across the line in the annual debate, including Ginette "Lyn of Tawa" McDonald, Steve Wrigley, Michele A'Court and Millen Baird.
Tickets from OUSA reception or at www.ousa.org.nz

Rhythm aces
Dunedin dancers have a chance to experience the liberation and energy of West African dance, this Sunday.
A beginner's workshop at Otago Museum will introduce dance from Guinea, West Africa, exploring dance techniques and the cultural history behind it.
No dance experience is required. Sunday at 3pm, in the Hutton Theatre, $5.


• Gigs

Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.

Captain Cook Tavern, 354 Great King St.
Friday, 9pm: Ash and the Matadors.
Saturday, 9pm: Biff Merchants with guests.

Carey's Bay Hotel.
Tonight, 8pm: "The Rusty String Sessions", featuring Robert Scott, Sunley, Nadia Reid and Bill Morris.

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.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: I Jazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.

Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.

Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Thursday, 9.30pm: See Beast.
Friday, 9pm: Terry Ebeling.
Saturday, 11pm: DJ James.

Refuel, Otago University.
Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Wednesday, 8pm: Soulseller, Maid in China, Ink Mathematics.

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.

Swell, St Clair, Esplanade.
Friday, 6.30pm: Trevor Coleman.

Tonic, 138 Princes St.
Friday, 9pm: Biff Merchants.
Saturday, 9pm: Julian Temple.

Family fun

Blueskin Bay Library.
Pre-school story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Excludes school holidays. Free.
From Monday until October 11: Kiwiana colouring competition and exhibition - Colour in one of our pictures and include it in our exhibition. Entries will be judged after the school holidays.
From Monday until October 31: Kiwiana wordsearch and crossword.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
From Monday until October 11: Kiwiana colouring competition and exhibition - Colour in one of our pictures and include it in our exhibition. Entries will be judged after the school holidays.
From Monday until October 31: Kiwiana wordsearch and crossword.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
September 26-October 11, 10.30am-4.30pm: School holiday event: Kreisler cartoon challenge - Pick out up to four words from the hat and, using these for inspiration, draw a cartoon. Materials supplied.
Sunday, 2pm: Gamelan performance - Indonesian music and puppets.

Knox Church, 449 George St.
Friday, 1.30pm-2.30pm: Pre-school music for children 0-5 and carers.

Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Pre-school story time, every Tuesday, 11am.
From Monday until October 11: Kiwiana colouring competition and exhibition - Colour in one of our pictures and include it in our exhibition. Entries will be judged after the school holidays.
From Monday until October 31: Kiwiana wordsearch and crossword.

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.
Every Saturday and Sunday during September, noon and 3.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Interactive Trolley: Tea.
Discover the difference between tea varieties, its history and some of the tools and crockery associated with tea.
Saturday and Sunday during September, 2.30pm, Search Centre: "Snap Happy to Snap Savvy" - Learn what all those settings on your camera are really for and how they affect the image.
School Holiday Programme: Sunday and Thursday, 2.15pm, Atrium level 1: Yucky Slime Time - Find out what happens to an ecosystem when pollution takes over.
Tuesday, 2.15pm, Atrium level 1: Extreme Space - Experience the extreme conditions of space as we celebrate the International Year of Astronomy.
Sunday, 2pm, Hutton Theatre: West African art workshop series: Dance: Rhythm, Spirit, Movement.
From Sunday until October 3, 11am and 4pm, Search Centre: New Zealand Frogs Gallery Talk.

Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
School Holiday Programme: From Saturday until October 11 - Family fun all day, every day, of the school holidays. Dress in olden-day costume. Play indoor games - Snakes and Ladders, draughts, jigsaws. Stage your own puppet performance and take part in one or more of our terrific holiday workshops.
Saturday and Sunday, 2.30pm: Spring Crafts - Drop in and craft a spring creation with tutor Jenee Still.
Monday, 10.30am: Children's knitting workshop.
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10.30am: Museum drama workshop. Bookings essential.

Port Chalmers Library.
Pre-school story time, every Wednesday, 11am.
From Monday until October 11: Kiwiana colouring competition and exhibition - Colour in one of our special kiwiana pictures and include it in our exhibition. Entries will be judged after the school holidays.
From Monday until October 31: Kiwiana wordsearch and crossword.

Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.

Music and performance

Dunedin Bowls Centre, 190 Union St.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus open night. First Church, Moray Pl.
Friday, 12.10pm: Lunchtime concert: Instrumental recital.

Knox Church, 449 George St.
Sunday, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital: "Well-behaved women rarely make History" - Music to mark women's suffrage, by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and others. Sandra Crawshaw, piano; Karen Knudson, organ.

Marama Hall, Otago University.
Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: Subject2Change (formerly Cambio).

Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
Saturday, 7.30pm: St Kilda Brass Band presents "20th Century and Beyond - A musical journey through the 20th century" featuring special guest artist Gladys Hope.

Opoho Church Hall, cnr Farquharson St and Signal Hill Rd.
Saturday, 8pm: "Recycling Popular Music" with Russell Ward, friends and the Three Altos.
Sunday, 2pm: Southern Consort of Voices concert.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon. This week, Friday: James Yoo; Saturday: George Arthur. St Paul's Cathedral, Sunday, 2pm: Cothram Foirfe and friends present a concert to benefit Heart Children Dunedin.

Plays

Allen Hall Theatre, cnr Union and Leith Sts,
today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime Theatre: Project Macbeth by Simon Sharkey, directed by Dell McLeod.
Evening performance tonight, 7.30pm.

Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Tuesdays 6.30pm, Wednesdays to Saturdays, 8.30pm, Sundays 4pm, until October 10: Glorious by Richard Huber, directed by Patrick Davies.

Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
From Saturday until October 4 (Saturday, September 26 and Sundays: 2pm only; all other days: 11am and 2pm); The Frog Prince.

Talks and films

Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Today, 4pm: Saucy reading: The Day My Bum Went Psycho, by Andy Griffiths, adapted and directed by Laura Cooney.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 2pm: Christopher Brodrick, president of the Wagner Society of New Zealand, presents "Wagner and the Visual Arts" to the WSNZ Dunedin Group and Friends of the Art Gallery.

Opoho Church, cnr Farquharson St and Signal Hill Rd.
Today, 7.30pm: Prof Andrew Bradstock gives a talk entitled: "Profits without Honour? Economics, Spirituality and the Current Global Recession".

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm. Topics in September: Monday, "New Zealand Lizards"; Tuesday, "The Wreck of the Penguin"; Wednesday, "The Extinct New Zealand Huia"; Thursday, "The Rocks of Otago"; Friday, "Sheep Farming in Southern New Zealand"; Saturday, "The Prehistoric Plesiosaur"; Sunday, "The Three Bears of Otago Museum".
Daily at 4.30pm: Special Exhibition Gallery talk: "West African Cultures".
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm, Barclay Theatre: NHNZ film screening: Diabetes: In Search of a Miracle Cure.

Exhibitions

Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until October 11: Jane Zusters' "Wall Talking" and Terrence Johnston's "Mystery".

Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers.
Until September 27: "The Westland", a collaboration with Lynn Taylor (Dunedin) and Joanne B. Karr (Scotland).

Art Upstairs, cnr Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
New works by Nigel Wilson, and sculpture by Minhal al Halabi.

The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
New works by Neil Driver.

Aurum Wines Cellar Door, 140 State Highway 6 (1km north of Cromwell).
Until the end of September: Tribal Eastern rug exhibition.

Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
"Unstable Institutional Memory: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster".
Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.

Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Until October: "Sleep Depraved", by Jason Greig.

Dunedin Community Gallery, Princes St.
Until September 27: The Otago Leathercraft Guild and Joy Morton - Bonsai.

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, third floor.
Until November 1: "Samuel Johnson 1709-2009: Life and Afterlife".

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until November 8: Joanna Langford, "The Landless".
Until October 25: "Frances Hodgkins: femme du monde" and "Frances Hodgkins: family and friends".
Ongoing: "Poseur". Portraits from the gallery's collection.
Until December 6: "Kind of Blue: new acquisitions and loans".
Until February 2010: Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: "P. R. O. P".
From Saturday until February 2010: "Tom Kreisler" - paintings in a range of media and a rich spectrum of drawings, altered ready-mades and personal writings, which span a 30-year period..

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until September 27: "Kurow... Looking Up", by Waikouaiti artist Gill Hammond.

Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six peninsula artists.

Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
Until September 30: Unique floral works by Ben Webb.

Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until October 9: "Head On", new work by Bing Dawe and Peter Cleverley.

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, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Until October 8: "Charles Brasch - In the Company of Artists".

Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until October 26: "Speaking of Change - Memories of the Wakatipu 1900-1980".

Luminous Gallery, George St, Port Chalmers,
Until September 30: "Works of Light", art by Karijn Molema.

Maritime Museum, Beach St, Port Chalmers.
Until late September: "Capturing Port: D. A. De Maus and his photos of early Port Chalmers".

Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until October 14: Niki Hastings-McFall: "Have a little faith". Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
From Saturday until October 21: Tim Main: "The Spring Vine". Sculptural artworks.

Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Until October 16: Ans Westra, Fiona Pardington and Peter Peryer.

North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until October 1: "Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-Shed".

Opoho Church, cnr Farquharson St and Signal Hill Rd.
Until September 26, 4.30-6.30pm and by appointment: "Recycled Art Exhibition": art from recycled materials.

Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open daily 10am-4pm.
From Saturday until October 4: Spring Exhibition.

Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until May 16, 2010: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery. Free.
Special exhibitions gallery: "West Africa: Rhythm + Spirit". Free.

Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past", from the museum art collection.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until June 2010: "Willkommen to Dunedin: A History of German-speaking People in Otago".

Queenstown Airport,
from tomorrow until October 25: Deidre Copeland: "Face Forward".

Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until October 3: Riki Julin and Dawn Palmer.

Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until September 29: "Acrylics on Canvas" by Mosgiel artist Marie Reid.

Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
From tomorrow until October 15: A survey exhibition of South Island artists.

Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
September 26-October 21: new works by Fleur Yorston.

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