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.
Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Tonight, 8pm: Rusty String Session featuring John White, Skybus, Hana Fahy and Drew and friends.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Tomorrow, 9pm: The Eastern with special guests The Broken Heartbreakers and friends Skybus.
Saturday, 8pm: Matt Joe Gow and the Dead Leaves and The Unfaithful Ways and Bullit.
Wednesday, 8pm: Doug Jerebine (Jesse Harper) and Jordan O'Jordan (US).
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin.
Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
Tonight, 7pm: NZ Music Month presents TFF, Honeybone and The New Shelf.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Saturday, 8pm: The Blistering Tongues with Skybus.
Every Wednesday from 5pm: Open mike/jam night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St.
Sunday, 7.30pm: String Contingent - New group from Australia with Chris Stone (fiddle) and Holly Downes (bass).
Penguin Club, Oamaru.
Tonight, 8pm: Matt Joe Gow and the Dead Leaves.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Friday, 7pm: Lachlan Grant; 11pm: DJ Nick.
Saturday, 11pm: DJ Nick.
Sunday, noon: Jimmy Higgs.
Refuel, Otago University.
Tonight, 9pm: Clap Clap Riot, The Scare, Honeybone.
Doors 9pm.
Friday, 9pm: OUSA Battle of the Bands Heat 1.
Saturday, 9pm: The Du Cats Kit, Honeybone, the George Kay Experience.
Monday, 8.30pm: Refuel Unplugged - open mike night.
Tuesday, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Wednesday, 9pm: The Final Countdown. Sonic Smith - Electro Shock Dubstep, Breakz.
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 Phoenix Foundation.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Friday, 6pm: Calder Prescott jazz duo.
Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Tonic, 138 Princes St.
Saturday, 9pm: Julian Temple.
• Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, Fridays, 10.30am. Free.
Cromwell Public Library.
Celebrating 70 years of Puffin - party for preschoolers, 2-3pm; party for primary school children, 3.30-4.30pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl..
Wednesdays 10.30am: Preschool story time.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Fridays, 1.30-2.30pm: preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Fridays 3.45pm-4.45pm in the Downes Room: Book Club for Kids.
Tuesdays, 11am: Story time, 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.
Every Saturday and Sunday during May, noon and 3.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Interactive Trolley - Make a Melanesian Mask.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Friday, 7-8pm: Freaky Friday: Enjoy a freaky after-dark tour of the museum.
Suitable for ages 7-12.
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
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: 2010 Commemorative Composers Performance.
Staff perform works by Robert Schumann, William Schuman and Samuel Barber.
Mayfair Theatre
Saturday, 7.30pm: "Saints and Divas".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Jonathan Harper; Saturday: James Yoo.
• Plays
Clyde Memorial Hall.
May 9-15, 7.30pm: Heaven Help Us.
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
Until May 8, 7.30pm: Comedy & Chaos - an evening of short plays.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
From Saturday until May 15: Love or Nearest Offer, directed by Natalie Ellis for the Dunedin Repertory Society.
• Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Heartbeat Detector, France, 2007.
Directed by Nicolas Klotz.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Today, 12.30pm: Blind Ambition - Julie Woods, aka "That Blind Woman", talks about her latest book.
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".
Saturday, 3pm: DVD double feature: "Pleasures and Dangers & Madam Morison".
Sunday, 3pm: Floor talk with curator Aaron Kreisler on the exhibitions "The Asian", "Utopia" and "An Expanding Subterra".
Tuesday, 1pm: Antony Deaker speaks on careers in the arts. Hocken Library, Seminar Room, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Tuesday, 12.10pm: Peter Petchey: "Developments at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum".
Knox College, Arden St.
Saturday, 9am-noon: Tours of the Presbyterian Church Archives of New Zealand.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Tomorrow, 1.30pm: Blind Ambition - Julie Woods, aka "That Blind Woman", talks about her latest book.
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 April: Mondays - "Southern Sky".
Tuesdays: "Kereru".
Wednesdays: "Early Otago Museum History".
Thursdays: "Watom Island".
Fridays: "The Queensland Groper".
Saturdays: "The Totem Pole".
Sundays: "The Venus de Milo".
• Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until June 7: "I must not use so much colour", by Ewan McDougall; "The Rose-Papered Room", by Diana Smillie.
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
Until May 23: "Tainted Love", group exhibition.
Archives New Zealand, Dunedin office, 556 George St.
Until May 28: "Soldiering On Back Home: The Rehabilitation of Returned Servicemen and Their Return to Industry".
Monday-Friday, 9.30am-5pm.
From tomorrow until May 28: "Stack & Steeple: Support of the Industrial Worker".
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown.
From tomorrow until May 20: Work by Shaun Burdon.
ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
From tomorrow until May 22: "Ephemeral Perception, journey of the senses" by Beverly Claridge.
Art Upstairs, cnr Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
May and June: Watercolours by Adrian M. Cave and Maurice Middleditch.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Until Saturday: Helen Back, "Social Acrobats"; "Alchemy", collaboration by Claire Beynon and Kate Alterio.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn.
Megan Huffadine: small sculptural works.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Until May 15: Simon Kaan: "The Asian", Anna Muirhead: "Polytears" and Bryce Galloway: "Same Same (Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People)" and a new public piece of art by James Voller: Displacement.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Colin McCahon.
Cafe Rue, 368 Moray Pl.
Until May 30: South Seas Gallery presents new work by Ollie Crooks, Peter Keane and Janet Weir.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, third floor.
Until June 13: "By Trench and Troopship", Journals of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces.
Showcases the library's collection of soldiers' newspapers written by and for New Zealand's armed services between 1899 and 1943.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until May 18: "Cao Fei: Utopia".
Until May 9: Taryn Simon, "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Until June 20: Heather Straka: "The Asian".
Until June 27: Wayne Barrar: "An Expanding Subterra".
Until August 1, on the Big Wall: "Jan van der Ploeg: Dignity". Until August 29: "Frances Hodgkins and Morocco", curated by Dr Roger Collins.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until May 30: "Land of Rock", Rod Eales.
Until June 6: "Limnage - images inspired by limestone", by Zuna Wright.
Until June 6: "10x13".
Thirteen works mark each decade from 1884, when the bank commenced business on the site of the gallery, to 2009, the 125th birthday of architect R. A. Lawson's design of the Historic Places Trust Category One building.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
From tomorrow until May 20: "Structure" by Catherine Garrett.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until May 22: "Ceramics Now!", featuring Carol Brent, Madeleine Child, Kate Fitzharris, Katie Gold, Zekiah Heath, Lee Houlihan, Philip Jarvis, Andy Kingston, Cheryl Lucas, Robert Rapson and Chris Weaver.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
From tomorrow until May 30: "Subject to Change" by Jacob Feenstra.
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.
Green Island Gallery, 149 Main South Rd, Green Island, exhibiting works by Heather Maxwell, Kylie Duncan and Kerry Fenton Johns until the end of May.
Open Wednesday to Saturday.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Until July 17: "Forever After - Conversations with the Past" and "The Labours of Herakles".
Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
Until May 23: "Undercurrent", new works by Rachel Hirabayashi.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until May 16: Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
Painting, photography and mixed media.
Lanyop, 361 George St.
Throughout May: "Birdchild and the Night Voyage".
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
"Savage, Hardy and Mariner".
Sculpture by Grant Wylie.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Until May 19: Dick Frizzell, "Works on Paper".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
Until May 12: Nigel Brown, "Selected Works".
Until May 12: "Autumn Show" Glass and sculpture from Galia Amsel and John Edgar, paintings by Neil Frazer and Karl Maughan. Works on paper from Ralph Hotere, Stanley Palmer and Andrew Drummond.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St. Manu Berry: "Watermarks".
Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open 10am-4pm daily.
Until May 29: Hope and Sons Art Awards exhibition
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until May 23: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
"Dinosaur Eggs and Babies", Special Exhibitions Gallery, level 1. "Long live the Modern", People of the World Gallery, Level 2.
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 August 29: "War Brides - Leap of Faith", by Bev Tosh, daughter of a World War 2 New Zealand pilot and his Canadian war bride.
Until May 30: "We Will Remember Them". Memorial banners record Dunedin people who died in the wars of the 20th century.
Visitors may bring in copies of photographs of family members who served, for display on our wall of memories. No original photos please.
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
Opens 5.30pm Monday and runs until May 22: Rob Piggott's "Landmarks II".
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until May 9: Paddy Carr.
Until May 23: Lisa Simpson.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until June 1, oils and acrylics by Elaine Knight.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
"Stirfry", by Philip James Frost.
