Maori to Mozart: Enjoy an afternoon of choral music at Otago Museum on Sunday as the Cantores Choir performs melodies from Mozart to traditional Maori and pop arrangements. In the atrium, 1.30pm, free.
Last chance to see: The Otago Settlers Museum exhibition For Auld Lang Syne: 250 years of Robert Burns closes on Saturday.
The museum's collection includes many artefacts associated with the poet, including some of his personal possessions and even some of his DNA.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Arc Cafe, High St. Tonight, 9pm: Brant Bjork and the Bros (US), with Soulseller.
Bath St, Dunedin. Tonight: Orientation 09 Mash Up, featuring Getafix, Booof, Gus and Contra.
Friday: Tim Phin (Auckland), Rich Carey and Abstrack.
Saturday: Alacazam O Week '09, featuring James Ashwin (Auckland), Jash, Jono McLauchlin, Haszari & Abstrack.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers. Friday, 10pm: Guided By Voices tribute night, featuring: The Gelatinous Bleary Vampires, The New New Randoms (UK), Aaron Sharma, Bill Morris and guests.
Carey's Bay HotelSaturday, 3pm: Guitar player Richard Wallis. Sunday, 3pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Empire Tavern, 396 Princes St. Saturday, 9pm: The Whirling Eddys.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm. Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar , 21 the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday, 7pm: Amanda and Joe.
Robbie Burns Pub , 374 George St, Dunedin. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Sammys, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin. Tomorrow, 9pm: Aesthetics album release. Support from Wolfskull, Bastardwisher & Crude.
St Lees, 50 Dundas St, Dunedin. Sunday, 7.30pm: King Leo and the Growling Dogs.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, Pre-school story time: Every Friday, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Preschool story time: every Wednesday, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon, Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm: National Children's Day. Listening and Talking is the theme this year.
Using the materials provided, create your own conversations Free, suitable for all ages.
Knox Church, 449 George St. Saturday, 11.30am: Family fun day.
Inquiries to Jane Anderson at the church office (03) 477-0229 or email knox.church@xtra.co.nz; a.h. 473-0525; or Suzanne Bishop, suzken.bishop@xtra.co.nz, phone (03) 476-3271 a.h.
Mosgiel Library, Pre-school story time: every Tuesday, 11am, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin.
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.
Weekends, 2.30pm in the search centre: "What's that you're eating?".
Weekends, noon and 3.30pm: Interactive trolley - The art of calligraphy. Atrium Level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library:, Pre-school story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, free.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd. Sunday, 2pm: Friends of the Opera. Claire Barton will present The Decline and Fall of Opera in Otago.
Waikouaiti Presbyterian Church Hall, Kildare St, Waikouaiti. March 1, 11am-4pm: Auditions for Theatre Restaurant/Musical opening night. Principals, chorus, dancers all required.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin.
Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays. This week: Jonathan Harper & Emily Berryman.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, corner Moray Pl and Stuart St. Until March 14: Peter Quilter's Duets.
Smiths Grain Store, Tyne St, Historic Quarter, Oamaru. Until March: The Great Storm of 1868.
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. Wednesday, 7.30pm: "What would Jesus buy?".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
Saturday, 1pm: Artist's talk: Catharine Hodson: "Touching the Unthinkable".
Saturday, 3pm: Talk by 2008 Francis Hodgkins Fellow Heather Straka.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
February: Thursday: Aboriginal Art.
Friday: Islamic Ceramics.
Saturday: Kakariki.
Sunday: The Yellow-eyed Penguin. Special exhibition gallery talk, daily at 4.30pm, free: "The Chinese Dragon".
Weekends, 11am and 4pm in the search centre: Hot topic - "Protecting Heritage".
The antiquities black market is built on looting, and many conflict-ridden countries are being stripped of their heritage.
Join us for a discussion on the importance of protecting heritage objects. Free.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Tuesday, 5.30pm: Nicola Bould, co-ordinator of the Harbour Cycleway Network, talks about the need for a harbour cycle/walkway.
Nicola will explain progress to date and how you can help. Free.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until March 1, 2009: "Just Hanging Out for a Ride", by David Woodings.
Until March 1: Rua Pick, "Te Whare o Anupihi".
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St, Dunedin.
Room one: "Looking Skywards", works by Crispin Korschen and Jan Kerr. Room two: Works from Thomas Elliott, Sharon Singer, Claire Beynon, Greg Lewis and others.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
Until March 1: Summer Exhibition.
Art Upstairs, cnr Ardmore and Helwick streets, Wanaka. Paintings by Jennifer Majeske.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until March 15: "Grad Show".
A sample of works by the 2008 graduates of the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St, Dunedin: Martin Thompson, "Six Large Works".
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Until March 8: Photography by Peter Peryer. Open 10am-4pm.
Dunedin Community Gallery, Princes St Dunedin. Ends tomorrow: "Artsenta", group show.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
February 28-May 24: "Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable". Catharine Hodson's successful treatment for breast cancer three years ago was the starting point for this installation which deals with the representation and coding of illness.
Until April 13: "John James Audubon: A very special gift". Collection given to the gallery by Mrs Edi Allshouse, a descendant of American natural history painter John James Audubon (1785-1851).
This exhibition has works from Audubon's collection, including colour lithographs of birds, drawings by Peter Rindisbacher, and paintings by James Nairn and D. K. Richmond.
Until March 8, 2009: "The Colour of Everyday: The European Watercolours of Frances Hodgkins".
Until March 15: Joyce Campbell, "Ice Falls".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. First Floor, until April 19: "A Man's A Man For A' That". Commemorating Robbie Burns at 250.
Until March 15: "Fash+Ography", a collaborative project between photographer Ute Mahler, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, (Photography); Design Department, (Fashion) and Ali McD Agency. Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until March 1: "Hard Out". Ewan McDougall.
February 28-April 13: "It's our History - Don't Knock It!". Jacqui Foley and Burns Pollock respond to the changes seen in the North Otago countryside.
February 28-April 19: "By the Sea". Lyndsay Crooks and Janet Weir-Crooks. These works by Lyndsay Crooks have never before been shown.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. Grahame Sydney and Glenda Randerson.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin. Until tomorrow: "Our Wider World": exhibition of photos by Gilbert van Reenen, accompanied by poetry by Brian Turner.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati. February 27-March 17: "Painting on Blueskin", new work by Nigel Wilson.
Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St, Dunedin. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris and sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith. Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct. Group show: Luke Anthony, Jane Armour, Jane Casey, Nina Conradi, Rachel Hirabayashi, Megan Huffadine, Liz Kempthorne, Odelle Morshuis, Jillian Porteous, Kay Todd, Robyn Urquhart, Lynne Wilson, Nigel Wilson, Claire Worral. Solo show until March 8: Nina Conradi.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until March 1: "Our Piece of Paradise - Cribbies in the Wakatipu 1940s-80s". Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
From Saturday until April 15: "Glass Invitational NZ", featuring work from Ruth Allen, Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams, Luke Jacomb, Lyndsay Patterson and Elizabeth Thomson alongside contributing artists such as Galia Amsel, Stephen Bradbourne, Evelyn Dunstan, John Edgar, Sue Hawker, Elizabeth McClure and Emily Siddell.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until March 4: Simon Ogden.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Until March 15: "The Emperor's Dragons: precious collections from the Shanghai Museum". Special Exhibitions Gallery. Free.
Until April 1: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, Level 3, Free.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Until June 2009: "Chinese Treasures". The history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration. Until March 25: "Shop Keeping". Celebrates the independent retailer in Dunedin. Ends Saturday: "For Auld Lang Syne', 250 years of Robert Burns. Until March 23: "On Your Bike: Cycling Then, Cycling Now". A ride down cycling's memory lane.
Port Royale Cafe, George St, Port Chalmers. Paintings by Jacque Ruston and Antoinette O'Flanagan.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
Rocda Gallery, 233 Stuart St (next to the Fortune Theatre), Dunedin. New works by Linda-H.
Scapes Gallery, 324 South Rd, Caversham. Ceramics by Riki Julin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin. Ends Saturday: Judy Ringland-Stewart and Dawn Palmer. From March 2: Riki Jlin & Marion Familton.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until March 3: Works in Pastel by Cathy Shemansky.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin, ends today; "10 Years and Counting".
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