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 and Mimz Craig.
Everybody welcome; some gear provided.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Saturday, 8pm: Katharticus CD launch with support from Special Neadz, Brain Leak and Banjo Stuey.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
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.
Tonight, 8pm: Six60, Cool Kids Club, Trei, Daniel Farley, Truth, Titts Magee, Drop Shop, Bassic.
Friday, 9pm: Left or Right with Operation Rolling Thunder & The Julian Temple Band.
Saturday, 6pm: "Day of Doom" featuring Ashes of Eden, Black Mesa, Bruer Grinder, Synesthesia, Injection of Death, Black Forest and the Uncut Blanks.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Friday, 6pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Duo.
Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Saturday, 6pm: Bobby Vinson combo.
Sunday, 3pm: iJazz.
• 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.
Sunday, 2pm, children's storypit: "Once upon a Sunday", join professional storyteller Kaitrin McMullan as she spins some magical tales.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 11.15am: Tours for Tots.
Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition followed by a chat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
Nappy-changing facilities just off the foyer.
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.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
Saturday, 9.30am-4.30pm: celebrate the launch of unguided walks at the ecosanctuary.
Activities for all.
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 Sea Week (March 7-14), Fish'n'Ships Question Trail - Collect your trail from the Search Centre.
Every Saturday and Sunday during March, 12pm and 3.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Interactive Trolley,"The Lapita Link" - Come and create your own piece of Lapita pottery and find out about their mysterious origins.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Friday 5 March, 7-8pm: Freaky Friday.
Danny will take you on an exciting evening adventure after dark.
Suitable for ages 7-12. Free.
Well-behaved parents may also attend.
Bookings required: contact robyn.johnston@dcc.govt.nz or phone 477-4652.
Port Chalmers Library.
Preschool story time, Wednesdays, 11am.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours.
Meet at the visitor centre.
• Music and performance
Clubs and socs, 84 Albany St.
Cantores Choir (OUSA), resumes this week, Thursday 5.30pm, practice room, level 1, All singers welcome.
Contact: webmaster@cantoreschoir.org or see www.cantoreschoir.org
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Gari Prysor.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera present: "Make Mine Music".
Bridget Telfer with an afternoon of songs and experiences from all the aspects of music and theatre that she has enjoyed since first performing as "A Daisy" at the Playhouse Theatre.
• Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
Until March 7, 7.30pm except March 7, 2pm: The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until March 13: Roger Hall's Conjugal Rites.
Show times: Tuesday 6pm, Wednesday-Saturday 7.30pm, Sunday 4pm.
• Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Andreas Dresen's "Summer in Berlin".
Dunedin Photographic Society, Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
Monday, 7.30pm: Guest speaker Grahame Sydney.
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.
Saturday, 3pm: Emma Bugden, Director of Artspace, Auckland and co-curator of "Cao Fei: Utopia", will talk about the work in the exhibition.
Sunday, 3pm: Documentary screening: Art: 21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Includes the artists Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann and Jeff Koons.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday, 2pm, Downes Room: Book Chat.
Come along and share your favourite reads of the moment with library staff.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
Special exhibition gallery daily at 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking".
Today, 6pm, Hutton Theatre: Talk with British-Chinese journalist/novelist Xinran.
Tuesday, 5.30pm, Barclay Theatre: Community Forum - An opportunity to share views about the museum and contribute ideas for future programmes, exhibitions and events.
Daily gallery talks for March, Monday: "Staff Gods of the Cook Islands"; Tuesday: "Legends of Maui"; Wednesday: "Kakapo"; Thursday: "West African gold weights"; Friday: "Slavery in ancient Greece"; Saturday: "The Little Blue Penguin"; Sunday: "The dynamic Otago Harbour".
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Sunday March 7 , 10am-noon: "Conservation Roadshow".
Bring in your object or artwork or even a photograph for our team of conservation experts, who will provide advice on how to care for and restore your precious collectables.
• Exhibitions
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
"The Huia Has Landed", sculpture by Chris Meder.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
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 and others.
Bellamys Gallery Macandrew Bay.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Representing Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
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.
From Saturday: Joanna Margaret Paul: "The Colour of Candour".
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.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until May 18: "Cao Fei: Utopia".
Chinese artist Cao Fei has a reputation for multimedia 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.
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 and 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.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Until Aptil 24: Eddie Clemens: "Delusional".
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
From tomorrow until March 27: Kirsten Ferguson, new work.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
From tomorrow until March 28: "Illumination" - National Association of New Zealand Quilters touring exhibition.
Lagniappe Gallery, 361 George St.
Until March 31: "Theodore Ursidae Shamans" by Larry Matthews Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave, Until March 27: Morgan Jones: "New Work".
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until March 24: Karl Maughan: "The Lost Path".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown
Until March 17: John Parker, "Black + White + Red".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Until March 10: "Pacific Shrine", works by Max Gimblett.
Neville Studios, 35 Crawford St.
Until 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 10am-4pm daily.
March 10-19: "Making Tracks", group show from Artsenta.
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".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
"Catlins Bound": watercolours by Fergus Sutherland.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
March 8-20: "Cross Purposes".
New jewellery and objects by Chaim Cleavin, Chris Idour, Ingrid Kaddatz, David McLeod and Stephen Myhre.
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
Until March 6: Fiona Stirling, "Sea Blue & Night Sky".
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until March 14: Ro McQueen & Paddy Carr.
