Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays, 8.30pm-10.30pm, Bill Martin jazz trio.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch Unplugged - Inge Andrew, folk singer and guitarist. 5.30pm-7pm: Gig night - Both Sides of the Line, Kill, Martha and Nick Knox. Ground floor. Free.
• Saturday, 12.30-1.30pm: Lunch Unplugged - Dunedin Harmony Chorus. Ground floor. Free.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Saturday, 10pm: The Itchy Brothers, ISO12, Big Fat Raro, Danny Brady and special guest Swampy. Also featuring Motoko Kikkawa and RAKULA. Tickets available at the door, $5.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin.
• Friday, May 31, 9pm: The Kindred Soundsystem play roots and dub, $10 on the door. Limited edition Dub mix cd to the first 100 people.
• Saturday, June 1, 8pm: Battle of the Bands national championship regional final, featuring A Distant City, Creamery, Growler, Hunting Bears, Russian Blue, Simple Thieves, Soul manor, TieDye, The Fu King and War Saw. $10; student/unwaged, $7.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Cromwell Bowling Club, Alpha St.
• Today, 1.30pm: Euchre. All welcome, warm venue, friendly atmosphere and afternoon tea provided. Inquiries to Keith, (03) 445-0554.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme - active movement for early learning, term two. Fourth floor, free.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am (excludes school holidays): Preschool story time, story pit.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: active movement for early learning, term two, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday during May, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!''. Investigation Station.
• Saturday and Sunday during May, 11am and 3pm: ''Strange Science!''. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Thursdays until July 4, 3.30pm: ''Mega Matter''. Discovery Club term two. For ages 8-12, $12 per child per session. Bookings essential, (03) 474-7474.
• Monday, June 3, 11am: ''Mountain Mugs'' children's workshop. Make your own clay mug to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's successful ascent of Mt Everest. Atrium level 1, free.
• Open daily: Discovery World Tropical Forest. Admission charge applies.
• Available daily: Explorer Backpacks. Discover the museum galleries with an Explorer Backpack or rummage around our jungle with a Tropical Forest Backpack. Available from the Search Centre. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
St Francis Xavier school, 27 Benhar St, Maryhill.
• Saturday, 2pm-3pm: Hispanic Group Otago, Saturday's Hispanic (Sábados Hispanos) with Spanish language storytelling and children's activities.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Alexandra Baptist Church, 6 Gregg St.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Tear Fund Presents ''Peter Shurley Carry You Tour''.
Alexandra Community House, Skird St.
• Today noon-1pm: Lunchtime Ukulele ''Sess'' led by Barry Bemrose and Ukes in Thyme. Gold coin donation.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Mark Wilson Concert in Central Stories, $5 donation entry.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesdays, 8pm. Poetry readings. Open mike. Free entry. All welcome.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: ''The Nine Faces Of The Octagon'', the story of the Octagon, past, present and future, told via an arts-fusion spectacular, with music, dance, drama, comedy and illuminations. All welcome. Tickets available from The Dolls House Dance Shop and The Craic Irish Tavern. Proceeds to Child Cancer.
Knox Church, 449 George St, Dunedin.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime Recital: OBHS, OGHS and St Hilda's Collegiate School choirs. Conductors: Karen Knudson and Michael Grant. Organists: Simon Mace and David Burchell.
Mosgiel Library, 7 Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 1.30pm: Fairfield School Choir. Free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Alexey Medvedev plays background music on acoustic guitar. Atrium level 1. Free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Thursday, 6.30pm-7.30pm: Live Music at Port with Leo LaDell.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ works for Pentecost, to include music by Dupre.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd, South Dunedin.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: ''The Journey Home'' - Prof John Drummond will discuss and demonstrate the composition and performance of his oratorio as part of the anniversary celebrations of Scott's journey to the Antarctic. All welcome.
Plays
Fire Station Theatre, Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• Roger Hall's Glide Time, May 24-June 1 (excluding May 27), 7.30pm each night except May 26 (2pm matinee).
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 25: You can always hand them back, by Roger Hall.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St.
• Opens tonight until May 25, 7.30pm: Chicago, director Bryan Aitken, music director Emma Wilson, choreographer Anna Stuart.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society is showing the film Mental. Prepaid bookings essential.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Saturday: Central Cinema presents Maori Boy Genius. Director/producer Pietra Brettkelly will be present at 7.30pm to talk about making the film and run a question and answer after the film.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Friday, June 7, noon: Botanist Dr Peter Johnson presents ''How it Was - plants and vegetation of Dunedin 150 years ago''. Free. Botanic Garden Centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays in May, 1pm-2pm: eBook Clinic. Having trouble downloading library e-books? Our drop-in sessions can help. Bring your question, your laptop and the device you want to read with. Ground floor, free.
• Tomorrow, noon-2pm: Train to gain with Literacy Aotearoa, Dunedin. Is there room for improvement in your business? Could you do things more efficiently? Come and learn about how on-the-job literacy training will give your business a competitive edge. Fourth floor. Free. Inquiries to Ana and Marg on (03) 477-2055, lit.dunedin@xtra.co.nz
• Wednesday, 1pm-2pm: ''Why Work So Hard to Find Hard Workers? Making it Easier to Recruit Great Staff''. A look into practical ways employers can use the tools available to them to attract great staff. Fourth floor. Free. Inquiries to Callum McKirdy on 021-880-162, callum@leadingideas.co.nzUntil • May 31: Career Quest. Take a career questionnaire and discover career options that match you and what you love to do. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturdays during May, 2pm: ''Tours@two''. Free guided tours of the collection exhibition ''The Pleasure Principle: Collecting and Collectors'', and the exhibition ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House.''
• Sunday, 3pm: Lynda Cullen, visitor programmes coordinator, discusses historical dress and make-up practices in relation to the Japanese prints in ''The Pleasure Principle'' exhibition. Accompanying this talk are two short films on the Maiko (trainee Geisha) painting her face and being dressed in kimono.
Havana Lounge, upstairs 12 Filleul St.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Swimming Pool, by Azouz Begag, fundraiser to bring the director to Dunedin for a public lecture.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
• Daily tours, at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through May. Monday: Kaka - New Zealand's rowdy parrot. Tuesday: The unsolved hoax of the Piltdown Man. Wednesday: Kereru - the New Zealand native pigeon. Thursday: Mutiny on the Bounty. Friday: The Lawrence Lions. Saturday: The Union Steam Ship Company. Sunday: Maori creation myth. Daily at 4pm during May, special exhibition talk: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu,T'chakat Henu - People of the Land''.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Abalone Wars (NHNZ film screening). The first of two parts. Barclay Theatre. Entry by gold coin donation.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre, Scotland St.
• Sunday, 4pm: ''Share an Afternoon'' with film-maker Pietra Brettkelly - 20 years in the documentary film-making industry. Free with your admission to Maori Boy Genius.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Finishes Sunday: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Early 20th-century New Zealand artists.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Finishes Sunday: Manu Berry, woodcuts ''White Noise''.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Patrick Hartigan ''The people will be healed''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• May: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jim Robbie's woodwork.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 25: ''From Apprentice to Graduate - 50 Years of Pharmacy Education at the University of Otago, 1963-2013''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: ''Caxton Press: The Art of Ordered Plainness''. Meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry.
Dunedin Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Finishes Saturday: Otago Girls' High School senior art exhibition ''Portfolio''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• May-June: Kylie Duncan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Finishes Sunday: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: ''Te Po: works from Dunedin collections''.
• Ongoing: Saskia Leek ''Desk Collection''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins ''Colour and Light''.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A'' by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Finishes tomorrow: ''The Material World: Dunedin School of Art Sculpture 2002-13''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Until June 9: ''A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy''.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Fifteen paintings and 15 poems celebrating the pearl wedding anniversary of Ewan and Sarah McDougall.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Finishes tomorrow: Painters, featuring work from Bing Dawe, Agneta Ekholm, Thomas Elliott and J.S. Parker.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 8: John Hart Exhibition. Selected works by this eminent New Zealand photographer and artist. Open Monday-Saturday from 11am.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 8: Shigeyuki Kihara ''Undressing the Pacific''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until May 31: Sue Rutherford, ceramic works.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until June 16: Ewan McDougall ''It's Life Jim''. Gallery open 11am-3pm Thurs to Mon, other times by appointment.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until June 5: Hannah Kidd ''The Race''.
• Until June 5: Large Works.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 29: Neal Palmer ''Return Journeys'' and Sue Hawker ''A Singular Occasion''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until May 30: ''The City Beneath The Sea'', by Diana Smillie.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Finishes tomorrow: Riki Julin.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Aberhart Pardington Campbell.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Finishes Sunday: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land''.
• Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until August 4: ''Paint the Town'', by Unn West
• Ongoing: ''Mementos of the South''.
Art South Otago.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Finishes Sunday: Royal Society of New Zealand ''Butterflies returning''.
• Finishes Sunday: ''Southerly Buster''.
• Until June 23: Philip Trusttum ''Trusttum''.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of The Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Finishes Sunday: ''Brighton Show''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Finishes Saturday: Jo Howard and Louise Thompson Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until June 4: Works by local artist Noel-Ann Stroud.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
• Featuring works by Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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