A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
• Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, corner George and London Sts.
Every Sunday, 7.30pm.
Open mike night with Jae Bedford & Mimz Craig.
Everybody welcome, some gear provided.
Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Tonight, 8pm: Rusty String Sessions featuring Catgut and Steel, The Eilas, Bill Morris and Kristin MacDonald.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Friday, 8pm: The Ruby Suns.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Thursday, 5pm: open mike night; Friday: Blistering Tongues, Skaface Claw, Freddy Fuddpucker.
Doors open 8pm. $10 public, $8 members.
Esplanade Motel & Apartments, 14 Esplanade, St Clair.
Friday 19: Calder Prescott.
Saturday 20: James Macandrew & Dave Brett.
Sunday 21: iJazz.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Outram School , 1 Beaumaris St, Outram.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Delgirl.
Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
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.
Saturday, 7.30pm: The 3Ds with Haunted Love and Street Chant.
Tuesday, 9pm: The Gaslight Killer with support from Olie Bassweight, Undertow, Booofa and Disco Lizard.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
• Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays. Free.
Friday, 4pm, Library car park: Barking Mad Booksale.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday 3.45pm-4.45pm in the Downes Room: Book Club for Kids.
Every Tuesday, 11am, excludes school holidays: Storytime, suitable for preschool children and their caregivers.
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.
Every Saturday and Sunday during February, Search Centre, Level 1, 2.30pm: Bonsai for Beginners.
Every Saturday and Sunday during February, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Reconstructing Dinosaur Cousins - help rebuild an articulated bird skeleton.
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
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Southern Sinfonia presents "Last Night of the Proms".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Kathryn Roy; Saturday: Trevor Coleman.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Friday, 8pm: Music by Emily Smith & Jamie McLennan. St Peter's Church, 2 Church St, Queenstown.
Wednesday, 8pm: The Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
February 19-March 13: Roger Hall's Conjugal Rites.
• 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 treasured works in the collection.
Sunday, 2pm: Free film screening: Amores Perros, a Mexican film containing three distinct stories connected by a car accident in Mexico City.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
Special exhibition gallery daily at 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking".
Daily gallery talks for February: Mondays: The Monowai, Tuesdays: Takahe, Wednesdays: Moeraki Boulders, Thursdays: The Dunedin Volcano, Fridays: Samurai, Saturdays: The Yellow-eyed Penguin, Sundays: Maori cloaks.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens
February 21 and 28, 2-3pm: "Motoring in Otago: an individual perspective" Join us in On the Move: Road Transport in Otago for an entertaining look at our motor transport collection.
• Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until February 24: "Geo-morph", by Andrew Craig.
Until February 28: " Steal", by Sam Mahon.
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown
Until February 28: "My Life in Glass", works by Virginia Leonard.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
"The Huia Has Landed", sculpture by Chris Meder.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
From Saturday: Norfolk House Realist Invitational featuring Sam Foley, Greg Lewis, Neil Driver, Steve Harris, Geoff Williams, Kenneth Beatson, Stephen Martyn Welch, Sheryl McCammon, Sandro Kopp, Freeman White, John Toomer & others.
Bellamy's Gallery Macandrew Bay.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Representing Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
"The Grad Show".
Experimental and innovative art created by recent graduates from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts.
This year's exhibition features works by Debbie Adamson, Gwen Hudson, John Paxie, Alex MacKinnon, Lars Preisser and Jesse Simons.
From Tuesday until March 20: "RE-FIBRA: Contemporary Textile Art - A Dialogue Between New Zealand and Sweden", featuring work by Victoria Andersson, Andrea Chandler, Anna Eckert, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Ngahina Hohaia, Malena Karlsson, Genevieve Packer and Jeanette Scharing.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Until March 4: "Five New Works", by Martin Thompson.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until March 15: "Flight & Light", An exhibition by NZ wildlife painter Rebecca Gilmore and NZ landscape photographer Greg Slui.
Open 9am-6pm. Doc Visitors Centre, Aoraki/Mt Cook.
Until February 28: "Documenting the nesting season of a pair of wild NZ falcon", photography by Donna Falconer.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "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.
Until May 18: Cao Fei: "Utopia".
Chinese artist Cao Fei has a reputation for multi-media installations that respond to the manic pace and dizzying scale of urbanisation in her culture.
Until April 18: Madeleine Child: "Sweet As".
A playful installation featuring Child's signature range of oversized and deliciously rococo popcorn.
Ongoing: "Poseur".
Portraits from the gallery's collection.
Until March: Ronnie van Hout "Rear Window".
Until May: Taryn Simon: "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until March 28: "White Gold - the Business of Milk" by Sally Burton.
Inspired by the immediate surrounds of Sally Burton's house and studio on the Waimea Plains south of Nelson.
Until March 21: "The Fishermen's Daughters" by Irene Schroder & Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
Ramonda's photomontage works feature the streets and people of the area, while Irene's crater-glaze terracotta ceramics have been strongly influenced by the landscape and seascape, particularly in and around Moeraki.
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.
Heartland World Heritage Hotel, Haast Junction.
Until February 20: "Stranded" an exhibition of prints, etchings by Liz Hawker and photographs by Gilbert van Reenen about Davey Louston's sealing gang stranded on the Open Bay Islands 1810-1814.
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 27: Photography by Eric Schusser.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until March 4: Helen Badcock, "New Work".
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until February 28: "Showing Favourites".
Historical and contemporary art from local private collections.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until February 24: Elizabeth Rees, "In Motion".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown
From Saturday until March 17: John Parker, "Black + White + Red"
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
February 19-March 10: "Pacific Shrine", works by Max Gimblett.
Neville Studios, 35 Crawford St
February 22-March 5: "Over The Hill". works by Elaine Knight.
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 February 28: Summer 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: "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.
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
From Monday until March 6: Fiona Stirling, "Sea Blue & Night Sky".
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 February 28: Jo Howard & Peter Gregory.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until March 1: Ceramics and art by Dunedin artist Stewart Larson.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
Until February 27: Ruth Myers, "And of no obvious use".
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