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.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
- Friday: Direct Influence.
- Saturday: How to Kill and Squirm.
- Wednesday, 8pm: Film school open screening.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin.
- Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
- Tonight, from 5.30pm: Jonny Bollox, Catgut and Steel and Leo Ladel.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
- Every Thursday: open mike night.
- Friday, 6.30pm: All-ages gig featuring Ashes of Eden.
- Saturday, 8pm: Edison Hoax.
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: "Fiddy Club", a songwriters' night featuring Julian Temple, Kylie Anne Price, Mitch Smith, Justin Vanderwater and Jimmy Higgs.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St.
- Sunday, 7.30pm: Hyram Ballard.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
- Tonight, 9pm: Antz and Flanders.
- Friday, 7-10pm: Ryan Caldwell. 11pm: DJ Nick.
- Saturday, 11pm: DJ Nick.
Refuel, Otago University.
- Friday, 8pm: OUSA Battle of the Bands Heat 2.
- Saturday, 9pm: Kitch with guests.
- Monday, 8.30pm: Refuel Unplugged - open mike night.
- Tuesday, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
- Wednesday, 9pm: Sunley Band and Thundercub.
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.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
- Friday, 6pm: Calder Prescott jazz duo.
- Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
- Saturday, 6.30pm: Steve King.
- Sunday, 6pm: Chocolate.
- Tuesday, Noon: Lunchtime piano.
Tonic, 138 Princes St.
- Saturday, 9pm: Matt Langley.
~ FAMILY FUN ~
Blueskin Bay Library.
- Preschool story time, Fridays, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
- Every Wednesday 10.30am, Story time.
- Wednesdays 10.30am: Preschool story time.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
- Fridays, 1.30-2.30pm: preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Mosgiel Library, 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 ~
Coronation Hall 97 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
- Monday, 7.30pm: Operatunity - "It's a Great Day for the Irish".
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
- Saturday, 7.30pm: Otago Symphonic Band presents "Black Magic," a wine and cheese concert.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
- Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: A concert of new NZ music featuring the première performances of John Drummond's song-cycle Dunedin Pictures.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
- Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
- Friday: Sandra Crawshaw and Charlotte Francis; Saturday: Jonny Dyas.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
- Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera present "Remembering Vincente" - Memories and Reminiscences of Vincente Major, with music by Arnold Bachop, Ainslie Bannister, Peter Chin and Gladys Hope.
~ PLAYS ~
Bannockburn Hall, Bannockburn.
- Friday, 8pm: A Vote for Cynthia.
Becks Hall, Becks.
- Sunday, 7pm: A Vote for Cynthia.
Clyde Memorial Hall.
- Until May 15, 7.30pm: Heaven Help Us. Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
- Until May 15: Love or Nearest Offer, directed by Natalie Ellis for the Dunedin Repertory Society.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St.
- Until May 23: Showbiz Queenstown presents Oliver.
- Evening performances 7.30pm, matinees, May 15 & 16.
~ TALKS AND FILMS ~
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
- Wednesday, 7.30pm: McLaren the Innovator, directed by Norman McLaren.
Dunedin School of Art, P152 Lecture Theatre.
- Today, noon: Dr Susan Ballard presents "Erewhon: Nowhere". An antipodean media history constructed from the hopeless remains of electronic art.
- 2.30pm: Alicia Frankovich, performance and installation artist and recipient of the CNZ Berlin Visual Artists Residency 2010/11, will speak about her art practice at the Dunedin School of Art
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".
- Sunday, 3pm: "Communism was our Utopia: Traces of the Past in Utopian Futures", talk by Dr Susan Ballard.
Wednesday, 10.30am: Coffee morning featuring speaker Rodney Hamel.
- Wednesday, 12.30pm, International Museum Day: Free tour of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Gasworks Museum, 20 Braemar Street.
- Sunday, noon-4pm: museum tours.
Hocken Library, Seminar Room, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St. Otago University.
- Today,12.30pm: Talk by Dr Patricia Hannah, "Herakles Comes to New Zealand: Hellenic Heroism in the work of Marian Maguire".
- Tuesday, 12.10pm: Seminar by Bill Cowan, "Rails to Roxburgh: The Construction of the Roxburgh Branch Railway Line".
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".
- Saturday, 2pm: "Inside the Vault", with Neil Pardington.
- Sunday, 11am, noon, 1pm and 3pm: International Museum Day - public basement tours. Book at the information desk.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
- Sunday, 2pm: The Museum's Future: Director, Linda Wigley will outline the Otago Settlers Museum's exciting redevelopment plans.
~ 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.
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, Queenstown.
- Until May 20: Work by Shaun Burdon.
ArtSouth Gallery of Fine Art, 105 Main St, Gore.
- 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.
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.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
- From tomorrow until August 20: "All Aboard" - The Ernie Webber Railway Collection.
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 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.
- Until May 20: "Structure" by Catherine Garrett.
- Until May 20: Jenufa Waiti.
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.
- 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, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
- Work by local artists. 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.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
- From tomorrow until May 29: Marilynn Webb.
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.
- From Saturday until June 9: Peter James Smith: "Selected Sublime Echo Studies".
- From Saturday until June 9: "Winter Show".
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
- Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
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.
- From Saturday: "The Vault" - Discover what goes on behind the scenes with the Otago Museum collection.
- 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.
Presbyterian Archives Research Centre, Knox College, Arden Street.
- Until May 28: "Stack & Steeple: Support of the Industrial Worker".
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
- Until May 22: Rob Piggott's "Landmarks II".
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
- 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.
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