The book launch is accompanied by Fergus Sutherland's art exhibition opening, the unveiling of a model of the McPhee schooner Owake by Robin Watkins and a CD launch, plus sea shanties performed live by Maritime Crew.
At 7.30pm in the Owaka Community Centre, a fundraising concert for the museum and search and rescue will feature Maritime Crew.
Auction action
The Peninsula Art & Craft Auction is on tonight at Glenfalloch Chalet from 7.30pm, in support of art programmes at Macandrew Bay School.
Works for sale can be viewed from 5pm-6pm.
The auction features work by Peninsula artists including Ewan MacDougall, Janet de Wagt, Pauline Bellamy, Chris Idour, Doug Wiliams and more.
Call 476-1004 to book. Ticket numbers are limited.
• Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Bath St.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Concord Dawn with Woosh, Loki and Titties. Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin.
Saturday, 8pm: The Planz.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Tonight: Street Chant.
Friday: The Renderers.
Saturday: The Gladeyes and John White.
Sunday: Andrew Potter (US).
Tuesday: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (US)
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.
Tonight, 8pm: The Duo.
Friday, 9.30pm: Seabeast.
Saturday, 11pm: DJ James.
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, 8pm: The Veils with An Emerald City and Knives at Noon.
• Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Excludes school holidays. Free.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Friday, 1.30-2.30pm: Preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Preschool story time, every Tuesday, 11am.
First Friday of the month, 3.45pm: Kids' Book Club.
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.
Weekends during November and December, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Interactive Trolley - The Earth's Riches.
Weekends during November and December, 2.30pm, Search Centre: Origami: The Art of Folding Paper.
Tuesday, 7pm: Otago Museum Collection Store Tour - Join the collection co-ordinator for a sneak peek at how the museum stores and cares for its wide variety of objects.
Port Chalmers Library.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 11am.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
• Music and performance
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians November recital meeting featuring operatic favourites presented by Gladys Hope and Peter Chin.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Today, 12.15pm: lunchtime recital: "Farewell Recital: Rebecca Thomson". Organ music by Bach, Durufle and others.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: 50th anniversary concert of the famous Chinese Butterfly Lovers violin concerto plus Haydn's London Symphony. Joshua Tang (violin) with the Collegiate Orchestra.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
Wednesday, 7pm: Barbirolli String Quartet featuring Katie Stillman, violin; Rakhi Singh, violin; Ella Brinch, viola; Ashok Klouda, cello. Performing Beethoven and Brahms.
Owaka Community Centre,
Saturday, 7.30pm: Maritime Crew
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Sandra Crawshaw and Charlotte Francis.
Saturday: Liz Conway.
Sunday, 1.30pm: The Melrose Singers.
Somerville Lounge, Memorial Hall, Balclutha,
Monday, 7.30pm: Maritime Crew
• Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
November 13 to December 12: Roger Hall's Four Flat Whites in Italy.
• Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Friday, 5.30pm: A discussion with a panel of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's artistic and production staff focusing on Peter Pan.
Saturday, 3pm: French Film 1: La Victoire de Cézanne.
Sunday, 3pm: French Film 2: Buren et le Guggenheim.
Wednesday, 10.30am: Coffee morning with 2009 Frances Hodgkins Fellow, Eddie Clemens.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Saturday, 11.30am: artist talk with Ann Robinson.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St,
tomorrow, 5.30pm: Artist talk by Neil Pardington.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm. November daily talks: Monday: "Karetao - a Maori puppet"; Tuesday: "Piopio"; Wednesday: "The Lawrence Lions"; Thursday: "Kaka"; Friday: "New Zealand ferns"; Saturday: "Otago skinks"; Sunday: "The dynamic Otago Harbour".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Michael Findlay presents a talk: "Moving Architecture: Streamline modernism in the 1930s".
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera present "From Mozart to the Full Monty" - Stories behind the many productions at the Mayfair Theatre from theatre manager Bruce Collier, preceded by annual meeting. All welcome.
Upstart Building, 333 Princes St.
Wednesday, 7pm: The Dunedin Theosophical Society presents: "The Pilgrim and the Corporation: Destructive Organisations and the Spiritual Life", talk by Jonathan Cweorth.
• Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until November 22: "Polychrome". Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka. Sculpture by Minhal al Halabi.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Room One: "Trilogy", new works by Patricia Murdoch, W. F. Moore and Brian Strong.
Room Two: Works including those of Donna Demente, Helen Back, Olav Nielsen, Matt Gauldie, Sam Foley, Greg Lewis, Sam Bennett, Geoff Williams and others.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store.
Until November 30: Works by Alexandra photographer Olwynne Oliver. Hours: 9am -5pm.
Bellamys Gallery Macandrew Bay.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Until November 15: "Celtic Imprints" - part of the Dunedin Celtic Arts Festival.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Heather Straka, "Do Not Resuscitate" and Hannah Riley, "Still Occupants".
Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Patrick Hartigan: Until November 19: "The Dark Chamber", five new works by Ben Cauchi.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Open 10am-4pm.
Ends tomorrow: "The Extraordinary Art of Alan Waters".
Ends tomorrow: "Unique Central", photographs by John Douglas.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
Until January 29, 2010: "Heresy, Sedition, Obscenity: The Book Challenged".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
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".
Until February 2010: "Tom Kreisler" - works spanning a 30-year period.
Until January 2010: David Clegg: "Rerecordings 2006-2009." Showcases recordings the artist made in Dunedin this year alongside previous recordings, assembled here for the first time, which were made in Chile in 2006.
Until January 2010: "Miguel Angel Rios". Works by New York and Mexico City-based artist Miguel Angel Rios. Forrester Gallery, Oamaru.
Until December 6: "Steampunk: tomorrow as it used to be". Exquisite objects by New Zealand's finest artists, including the entire collection of Weta Workshop's Dr Grordbort portraits, complemented by weapons of moon destruction.
Until November 29: "From Here to Kakanui", recent works by Watts Davies.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
Until November 19: new works by Frank Gordon and Kirsten Lovelock.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Ends tomorrow: "I Love You to Distraction", by Miranda Parkes and Alexandra Kennedy.
The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
Arty Collection: Robert Wyber, Ron Esplin, James Stewart, Marjorie Millhon Hay, Rosemary McQueen, Judy Ringland-Stewart, Ernest Papps, Gilbert van Reenen, Murray Ayson, Anne Smart, Gay Webb, Ray Ansin, Peta Dowle, Angela Meecham, Mags Meechang, Hilda Thomson, Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer, Liz Abbot, Janet de Wagt, Blue Hall, Sally Jorys.
Open Thursday-Monday.
Glenfalloch Chalet, 430 Portobello Rd.
Today, 5-6pm: Peninsula Art and Craft auction viewing.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St.
Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith.
Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
Until Saturday: "Blue Velvet", new ceramic works by Lynne Wilson.
From Monday until December 6: "Silent Landscapes Under A Clouded Fate", new works by Liz Kempthorne.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
From tomorrow until December 5: New paintings by Kathryn Madill.
Macandrew Intermediate School, 213 Macandrew Rd.
From November 20: Snail Mail postcards exhibition. Postcards are still being accepted.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
From Saturday until December 14: "Celebrating the Recession", by Ann Robinson.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until November 18: Megan Huffadine: "Alms for the Memory Keeper".
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Ends tomorrow: "Winter on Clutha", by Nigel Wilson.
From Sunday until December 4: New work by James Kerr.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
From Friday until December 4: "The Vault", by Neil Pardington.
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open daily 10am-4pm.
Until November 29: 2009 City of Dunedin Art Awards.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until May 16, 2010: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Special exhibitions gallery: "West Africa: Rhythm + Spirit". Free.
Until November 29: Otago wildlife photography exhibition. Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
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".
Until February 28: "Square and Compasses: Freemasonry in New Zealand". Shares the history and traditions of Freemasonry. The story of the craft of Freemasonry in Otago is also revealed.
Until February 28: "Built to Last: Engineering in Otago". Examines over 150 years of engineering achievement in Otago - the development of telecommunications and transportation networks, water and wastewater systems, mining industries, electricity supplies, buildings, bridges and more.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
"Growing Home - Catlins Gardens: Photographs of then and now". Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
Until Saturday: BFA students exhibition.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until Saturday: Judy Ringland-Stewart and Peter Gregory.
November 16-21 : Nicole Kolig & Dawn Palmer Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until November 30: Art by the Green Island group.
