A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Careys Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd.
Friday, 9pm: The Nukes with support from The Standing Spirits. Wednesday, 8pm: Jackie Bristow.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, Dunedin. Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl. Tonight, 5.30pm: Matt Langley, The Du Cats Kit and The Exclamations. Tomorrow, 12.30pm: Amanda Goodwin & Joe Setefano.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Every Thursday: open mike night. Friday, 8pm: Tama Taita and guests.
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, 9pm: Lachlan and Cass. Mosgiel Library. Tomorrow, 2.30pm: Beverley Kay.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Friday, 8pm: Seabeast; 11pm: DJ Nick. Saturday, 11pm: DJ Nick.
Refuel, Otago University. Tonight, 9pm: Death By Silo, Chris Matthews' new band. Friday, 9pm: OUSA Battle of the Bands heat 3. Saturday, 9pm: Collapsing Cities and guests. Monday, 8pm: Refuel Unplugged - open mike night. Tuesday, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket. Wednesday, 9pm: 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, 10pm: The Dirty featuring Urban Terror Unit, Syrus, Churburgers b2b Ridge, Jaggers, Fattronix and Night Owl. Saturday, 8pm: Grad Party 2, featuring: Aural Trash, Trei, Dan Aux, Supermodel, Jason Howson and Alf Danielson.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade. Friday, 5.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz DuoEvery Saturday, 3pm-6pm: live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish. Saturday, 6.30pm: Bobby Vinson Combo. Sunday, 2pm: iJazz. Tuesday, noon: lunchtime piano.
The Terrace Bar, Octagon. Saturday, 10pm till late: Livewire featuring Amanda Goodwin.
Tonic, 138 Princes St. Saturday, 9pm: Bill Morris.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library. Preschool story time, Fridays, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Every Wednesday 10.30am, 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.
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
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Today, 12.30pm: St Michael's Chorale - performed by the Rudolf Steiner school. Friday, 6pm: poetry night with Glenn Colquhoun.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Sunday, 7pm: Song, Dance, Art and Earth. Cantores Choir combines with dance and the art of Olav Nielsen, with guest soloist Emma Fraser.
First Church, Moray Pl. Friday 12.10pm: lunchtime concert - instrumental and vocal music - University of Otago music department.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru. Sunday, 12.15pm: lunchtime recital featuring Allen Hogan, flute, accompanied by June Cameron.
Marama Hall, University of Otago. Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: recital by department brass and wind performance staff.
Mosgiel Library. Today, 12.30pm: Silverstream (South) Primary School Choir. Wednesday, 11.30am: The Wise Women - folk and Celtic harp music.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon. Friday: Daniel Bennett; Saturday: Tom Kelly. Port Chalmers Library. Today, 7pm: Leo LaDell. Plays Fortune Theatre, Stuart St. From tomorrow until June 12: The 39 Steps. Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St. Until May 23: Showbiz Queenstown presents Oliver. Evening performances 7.30pm.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. Wednesday, 7.30pm: Close-Up (Nemaye Nazdik), 1990, Iran. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
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, 11am: guest speaker - artist Reuben Paterson. Sunday, 3pm: film screening: Arthur Boyd.
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". May 23-June 27, every Sunday, 2pm: Q & A with the collection and research team.
Otago Polytechnic, Block G, room G106, crnr Harbour Tce and Union St East. Friday, 6pm: free public lecture on NZ fashion design with Angela Lassig and Margi Robertson.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens. Friday, 5.30pm: exhibition floortalk: Mr Jones' Wives, presented by Dr Gabrielle Fortune, research assistant, department of history, University of Auckland.
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. Ends today: 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. "Ferns and Forms", by Denise Rackley.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St. From Saturday: New works by Sam Bennett.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn. Megan Huffadine: small sculptural works.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until June 12: "Light Sensitive: Alternative Photographic Technologies", photography by Alan Bekhuis, Joyce Campbell, Ben Cauchi and Darren Glass. Until June 12: "Fog", by Anna Perry.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St. From Saturday: Ossie T Baxter.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl. Until May 30: South Seas Gallery presents new work by Ollie Crooks, Peter Keane and Janet Weir.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Open 9am-6pm. Until June 13: "It's All About Me", by Sharon Gilchrist. Until June 30: "Central Rocks!", photographic competition. De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library. 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 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 June 6: "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 began 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. Sunday, 10.30am: Gallery at Glenfalloch 1st birthday celebration. All welcome.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St. From tomorrow until June 3: "Days and Nights", by Ricky Drew.
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. Until May 31: works by Heather Maxwell, Kylie Duncan and Kerry Fenton Johns. 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. Until May 29: Marilynn Webb.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. "Always Plenty to Do: Women of the Wakatipu - 1860-1920", from Saturday until June 20. 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. From Saturday until June 16: Reuben Paterson, "The Water Between Us".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9A Earl St. Until June 9: Peter James Smith: "Selected Sublime Echo Studies". 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. "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 the wall of memories. No original photos please. Until July 25: "My Invented History" by Victoria McIntosh. Exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Adult Adoption Information Act and reflecting on the link between ancestry and identity.
Presbyterian Archives Research Centre, Knox College, Arden St. Until May 28: "Stack & Steeple: Support of the Industrial Worker".
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St. From Monday until May 29: "Good Girl, Good Boy", by Flynn Morris-Clarke. 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. "And all I wanted was a . . .". A group show with works by Michaela Cox, Sarah Dolby, Phil Frost, Jay Hutchison, Ben Webb and others
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