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.
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.
Sunday, 5pm: Karren Fields (Sydney).
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
The Penguin Club, Oamaru.
Saturday, 8pm: Katharticus.
Otago University, Main Common Room.
Saturday, 8pm: The Verlaines.
Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Tonight, 8.30pm: Antz and Flanders.
Friday, 6pm: Terry Ebeling; 10pm: Seabeast.
Saturday, 10.30pm: DJ Nick.
Wednesday, 8pm: Antz and Flanders.
Refuel, Otago University.
Wednesday, 8pm: Ash and the Matadors with the Exclamations.
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, 9pm: Sola Rosa.
Saturday, 10pm: The Dirty Funkin Mash Up featuring: Lucid, PWN574R, Rhanamism, NightOwl, Fattronix, Disco Lizard and Jahne.
Wednesday, 9pm: Black Sun Empire with local support from Woosh, Syrus & DVS.
Hosted by Jabz MC.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Friday: Calder Prescott Jazz Duo.
Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Sunday: Chocolate.
Tonic, 138 Princes St.
Friday, 9pm: Tono and special guest Michael Cathro.
•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.
Saturday, 11am-4pm, ground floor: Children's Library 100th Birthday Party - Meet children's authors Kyle Mewburn and Elizabeth Pulford.
Watch illustrator Robyn Belton.
Be spellbound by the magician and musicians.
Hug Geronimo.
Storytelling and activies all day long.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday, 2pm: Lettering workshop for children with Olga Hemmingsen from the Dunedin Public Library.
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 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, noon and 3.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Interactive Trolley,"The Lapita Link" - Create a piece of Lapita pottery and find out about their mysterious origins.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 1pm: "Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters", sea stories told by Kaitrin McMullan.
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
Catlins Woodstock Music Festival.
Signposted from Balclutha.
Saturday March 13: Country Music day.
Sunday March 14: Music and entertainment.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians of Otago annual meeting, followed by entertainment from Patricia Payne.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: Hilary Paterson, oboe (South Africa), Terence Dennis, piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: James Yoo; Saturday: George Arthur.
• Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until March 13: Roger Hall's Conjugal Rites.
• Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
March 17, 7.30pm: Serge Bozon's La France, a period romance/musical set on the battlefields of WW1.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm, Teenspace: NHNZ film screening: Orangutan Island, Cheating Extinction.
March 17 and 18, noon: Followers of Fashion Tour.
See vintage collections and latest fashion purchases, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Burda.
Discover the fabulous range of fashion books and magazines that are not on public display. (duration: 45 mins).
Bookings essential.
Contact: (03) 474-3690 or library@dcc.govt.nz
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, 11am: Andrew Logan, British sculptor/jeweller and personality, will talk about his approach to art, fashion and life.
Saturday, 3pm: 20-minute DVD presentation by Taryn Simon of her work, followed by a discussion on conceptualising well-being by Dr Gareth Treharne and Dr Tamlin Conner.
Wednesday, 10.30am: Friends talk: Join the Friends of the Gallery for coffee and a talk by Janet de Wagt.
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 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.
Wednesday, 5.30pm: Scottish singer Eddi Reader discusses Irish and Scottish songs for St Patricks Day.
• Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until April 18: Craig Freeborn, "Old Positions / New Traditions".
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
Open from 10am daily.
New water colours by Alan Waters.
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.
From Saturday: "Lasting Impressions", works by Richard Hansen.
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.
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.
Creative Arts Centre, 142 Clyde St, Balclutha.
Until March 14: South Otago Patchwork Group 2010 Exhibition.
Guest exhibitors Janine Thompson (fibre art), Lynette Hore and Heather O'Neill (patchwork).
Hoffman Travelling Exhibition on display.
Open 10am-4pm daily.
Doc Visitors Centre, Aoraki/Mt Cook.
Until April 6: "Karearea : NZ falcon": Photography by Donna Falconer documenting the nesting season of a pair of wild New Zealand falcon.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until March 22: Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: P. R. O. P.
Until May 18: "Cao Fei: Utopia".
Chinese artist Cao Fei has a reputation for multimedia installations.
Until April 18: Madeleine Child: "Sweet As". 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 April 24: Eddie Clemens: "Delusional Architecture".
Hope Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station.
Until March 19: "Making Tracks", multimedia group show by Artsenta.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until March 27: Kirsten Ferguson, new work.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
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".
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.
Until March 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.
Until March 20: "Cross Purposes".
New jewellery and objects by Chaim Cleavin, Chris Idour, Ingrid Kaddatz, David McLeod and Stephen Myhre.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until March 14: Ro McQueen & Paddy Carr.
From March 15: Dawn Palmer & Louise Thompson Parker.
