A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Sunday, 3pm: Philtre jazz trio.
Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin.
Friday, 9pm: Scurvy Dogs, The Bradley Initiative, Mr Biscuit.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Tonight, 8pm: "Le Tour de Trois", featuing Marianne Dissard, Delaney Davidson and Flip Grater.
Saturday, 8pm: Ouch My Face & Sharpie Crows.
Sunday: The Show is the Rainbow.
Friday, 8pm: The Handsome Family.
Wednesday, February 3: Matt Joe Gow and the Dead Leaves (Australia).
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Thursdays, 5pm: open mike night.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank Street.
Sunday, 5.30pm: Too Tone, Jungle Fari & Doctor Dave.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Saturday, 8pm: Threefold.
Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Café and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Tonight, 8pm: Antz & Luke.
Friday, 7.30pm: Jimmy Higgs; 11pm: DJ Slideshow.
Saturday, 10.30pm: DJ D Fyance.
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.
Family fun
Cromwell Racecourse
Wednesday February 3: Southern DC3 "Legend of the Skies" Heartland Tour at the Cromwell Racecourse.
Phone 0800 323-359 for bookings.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Until January 31: "A World with Chocolate" - Summer chocolate hunt.
Free, bookings not required and suitable for all ages.
Children 7 years and under will require assistance and must be supervised.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Explorer backpacks for 7-12-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 January, 11.30am: "Bring Back the Butterflies".
We've planted a beautiful outdoor butterfly garden full of host plants and nectar plants to attract butterflies.
Find out how to create your own butterfly garden and why it is so important to encourage wild butterflies to our gardens.
Meet at the information desk, free.
- Daily during school holidays: Tooth Sleuth question trail.
Track down all the teeth-related collections in the museum.
Solve the fossilised mystery and collect your prize.
Collect a trail from the Search Centre desk, free.
- Daily during school holidays, 2.30pm, Search Centre: Bonsai For Beginners.
Explore bonsai, the Japanese art of miniature tree cultivation.
Unearth the beauty of this ancient craft as you discover the history behind bonsai and learn how to create your own living artwork.
- Daily during the school holidays, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Interactive Trolley - Reconstructing Dinosaur Cousins.
Help us rebuild an articulated bird skeleton and find out what bony features suggest that birds rather than reptiles are dinosaurs' closest relatives.
- Today, 2.15pm, Atrium Level 1: Freaky Numbers - Discover the mystery in the numbers all around us with a taste of pi, omega, fractals and more.
- Sunday, 2.15pm, Atrium Level 1: Freaky Summer - Join us as we investigate the freaky world of summer science! From burning skin with UV light to swimming in salt- and fresh-water pools.
- Tuesday February 2, 11am-4pm: World Wetlands Day.
New Zealand's wetlands are an important and endangered natural habitat.
Join us for an introduction to the wetlands' unique flora and fauna followed by a guided visit to the Sinclair Wetlands Reserve.
Adults $10, children $5 (includes talk on Museum wetland collections and fieldtrip to Sinclair Wetlands).
Bookings essential.
Contact the Search Centre, ph (03) 474-7474 ext 880
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
All of January: Cadbury's Crack the Code.
Pick up a free detective pack and hunt for clues and solve the museum mystery.
If you are clever you will discover the treasure.
Today and tomorrow, 11am-noon: Domino-toppling knockouts - Join us as we cover the marble floor of the original NZR bus station foyer in 10,000 dominos and compete for prizes for best toppling each day.
Sunday, 10.30am: Where the Wild Things Are - puppet-making worksho based on Maurice Sendak's famous children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are.
Free. Bookings not required.
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.
Sunday, 7pm: Bach Cantata, Ich Habe GENUG sung by Amanda Cole.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Gari Prysor; Saturday: Daniel Bennett.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sundays, 1.30pm and Wednesdays, 12.30pm: Free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
An overview of some of the favourite and most treasured works in the collection.
Saturday, 2pm: Amores perros, a film from Mexico.
Sunday, 3pm: Dr Martin Patrick will discuss aspects of Taryn Simon's exhibition "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
Special exhibition gallery free talk daily at 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking".
Daily gallery talks for January: Monday: The Mysterious Rat King; Tuesday: Women of Polynesia; Wednesday: The Dunedin Volcano; Thursday: Kiribati Warrior; Friday: KT Extinction; Saturday: Early Otago Museum History; Sunday: The Venus de Milo.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until February 24: "Geo-morph", by Andrew Craig.
Until February 28: " Steal", by Sam Mahon.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
Deane Weastell's latest sculpture, greeting cards by Wanaka textile artist Moni, and Rosemary Parcell's equine art.
"The Marriage of Black and White" by Alan Waters, and other minimalist contemporary works.
"As the Falcon Flies", photography by Sally Mason.
Open daily, Wanaka lakefront.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
From Saturday: "A Gathering of Quirk" by Tony Cribb, Crispin Korschen, Cheryl Oliver & Hayley Hamilton.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
Until January 31: Manu Berry, "Shadowlands", "Works on Paper", James Robinson.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
"The Grad Show".
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
"Six Spiromorphs", by Barry Brickell.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until January 31: Photographs by Olwynne Oliver and jewellery by Sonia Keogh.
Open 10am-4pm.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
Ends tomorrow: "Heresy, Sedition, Obscenity: The Book Challenged" - a selection of some books that have been banned, censored, or challenged.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, third floor.
Until February 8: "Rogues Gallery: the Villains of Charles Dickens".
Meet the unsavoury characters that are part of the Dickensian charm.
Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
"Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until February 28: Cho Duck Hyun, "Dark Water: the Antipodes Project".
An installation produced by South Korean artist Cho Duck Hyun in Auckland last year, this work continues the artist's interest in the effect of migration on recent social and cultural history.
Ongoing: "Poseur".
Portraits from the gallery's collection.
Until February: Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: "P. R. O. P".
Until February: "Tom Kreisler" - works spanning a 30-year period.
Until March 2010: Ronnie van Hout "Rear Window".
Until May 2010: Taryn Simon: "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Until January 31: "A World with Chocolate".
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six peninsula artists.
The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
"Sweet As" - Prints by Jason Kelly, Rita Angus, Hamish Allan, Ron Esplin, Barry Ross Smith, Diana Adams.
Chairs by James Stewart, Ceramics by Marjorie Hay, Ro McQueen, Judy Ringland Stewart and others.
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 February 20: "On Vacation: A History of Holidaying in Southern New Zealand".
Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
Until February 6: "Holy Cow", drawings and paintings by Liz Rowe.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until February 28: "Showing Favourites". Historical and contemporary art from local private collections.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
From Saturday until February 24: Elizabeth Rees, "In Motion".Artist talk January 30, 11:30am.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown.
Until February 17: "Summer Show": paintings, ceramics and glass works; and "Works on Paper:" Dick Frizzell, Penny Stotter, Julie Ross.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until May: "Sweat and Starch": textiles from the museum's collections. Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open daily.
Until January 31: "Pick n Mix" Christmas exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until May 23: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until April 19: "Charles Brasch: A great good man", People of the World Gallery, level 2.
Until May 2010: "Dinosaur Eggs and Babies", Special Exhibitions Gallery, level 1.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", interactive exhibition about Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until June: "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.
Until February 28: "Built to Last: Engineering in Otago".
Examines more than 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.
"Catlins Bound": watercolours by Fergus Sutherland.
Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden, corner Junction Rd and Matai St, Ravensbourne.
Until February 24: "Summer Show".
A group show of work by 20 artists.
Open: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays noon-5pm.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
Until February 27: "New Work", recent paintings by Ollie Crooks.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until January 31: Paddy Carr and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until March 1: Ceramics and art-work by Dunedin artist Stewart Larson.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
From tomorrow until February 27: Ruth Myers, "And of no obvious use".
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