Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Today, 9pm: The All Seeing Hand, Seth Frightening and Alphabethead. R18.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Slitzkrieg, With Teeth, God Awful, Scum Hammer, Conniption.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Wednesdays, 8.30pm: JBE open mike/jam night with karaoke.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: The All Seeing Hand, Seth Frightening, Wolfskull, Cracker Jacks, Lady Lazerlight.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5.30pm: Fireside jazz with Karin Reid and Bill Martin.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Valley Bluegrass.
Pequeno, Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Today, 8.30pm: Valley Bluegrass.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
• Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 2pm: Peg doll workshop with Victoria McIntosh. Suitable for age 7 and over. Bookings essential.
• Until August 3: Build a creation in the Olafur Eliasson ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' Lego exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Pre-school story time.
The Octagon, Dunedin Central.
• Saturday, 5.30pm: Dunedin Midwinter Carnival. Weather postponement date: Sunday June 22.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''The Science of Fun!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Snapping Science'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Kept under wraps!'', Investigation station. Atrium Level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: Pre-school story time.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music, dancing.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tuesday, 11am: Balmacewen Intermediate School kapa haka performance for Matariki.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Otago secondary students and Nicholas Haslam perform chamber music and music for pipe organ.
Oamaru Opera House Ink Box theatre, 90 Thames St.
• Tomorrow, 12.15pm-1pm: lunchtime recital by Waitaki Girls' and Boys' high schools.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Les Belles Vilaines.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: Donald Cullington and Sydney Manowitz play Baroque works for violin and organ.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Rd.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Friends of the Opera'' concert with guest performer Professor Terence Dennis.
Plays
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, noon and 2pm: ''In the Grimm Midwinter'', Medieval midwinter puppetry. Bookings essential.
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Promise and Promiscuity, one-woman show by Penny Ashton.
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
• From today until June 29: The keys are in the margarine, a verbatim play about dementia.
Talks and films
Bannockburn Bowling Club, Bruce St, Stirling.
• Saturday, 4pm: Screening of Braveheart. Entry by donation.
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''Why conserve our historic cemeteries?'' Lecture by Stewart Harvey.
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Tomorrow, 5pm: Paradise Drowned - Tuvalu, NHNZ film screening.
Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd.
• Tomorrow, 6pm-8pm: ''A Wee Dram'' whisky tasting with a master guide. Bookings essential.
Central Cinema, Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Today, 7.30pm: Sione's Wedding (Central Otago NZ Film Festival).
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Boy (Central Otago NZ Film Festival).
• Saturday, 7.30pm: White Lies (Central Otago NZ Film Festival).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturdays, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Anzac'' WW1 commemoration exhibition.
• Sundays, 2pm: Free guided tour of the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
The Kitchen, 430a Bannockburn Rd.
• Sunday, 4.30pm: ''Bannocks Tea'', afternoon tea with a talk on Scottish poets and writers by Sue Wootton, with Celtic music from Steve McDonald. Bookings essential.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Wednesday, noon: ''Word Pictures'' free lunchtime talk by Rachel Scott, publisher at Otago University Press.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: The Monowai. Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab. Saturday: Woollen bathing suit. Sunday: Kereru. Monday: Matariki. Tuesday: Santa Cruz red feather money. Wednesday: Akan gold weights.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex.
• Daily, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
St John rooms, Barry Ave, Cromwell.
• Today, 10am-noon: two U3A Cromwell talks, on the ''So They Can'' charity and podiatry. Bookings required.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by Nigel Wilson.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• ''Mad Dogs by an Englishman'', watercolours by Nick Eggleston.
• ''SEVEN'', joint show featuring work by Alex Lovell-Smith, Gillian Buckley, Hannah Joynt, Tom Field, Emily Hlavac-Green, Tama Taita and Anna Priluka.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until June 30: Pauline Bellamy retrospective, ''Pretty Dreams, Hard Work, Survival''.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until June 28: ''Attachment Drawing: Interface'', Ali Bramwell.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Until June 26: ''Considered Standing'', Patrick Hartigan.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
• Until June 26: ''New Dunedin Painting'', featuring a range of local artists.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Until July 4: Spotlight on Design presents Jose Hall.
• From tomorrow until July 21: Photographic Exhibition in the Russell Henderson gallery, 10am-4pm daily.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information centre, lower garden.
• Until June 30: ''Birds of the Botanic Garden'', photographs by Paul Sorrell.
Dunedin International Airport.
• Until June 30: Artist in the Terminal - Janet de Wagt.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Monday: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic.
• Until July 6: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until July 6: ''Liar, liar, pants on fire'', Victoria McIntosh (rear window project). Until August 3: ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'', Olafur Eliasson.
• Until August 3: ''Wild Life'', works from the collection.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until June 27: ''Keylines'', Richard Adams.
• Recent work by Alistair Begg, Scott Drummond and Tania McIntosh.
• Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
The Hill, 140 Highcliff Rd.
• From Tuesday until June 29: ''Peninsula Artists on The Hill''.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until Saturday: ''Remembrancer'', Megan Huffadine.
• From Sunday: ''Winter Wonderland'', Ro Bradshaw.
• Gallery open 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until July 26: ''Works on Paper''.
• Gallery open Saturdays, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• From Monday, until July 5: Korowai weaving exhibition by Ocean View weaving group.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
• Until July 11: ''It's a wonderful day, it's a wonderful night'' Matariki art exhibition.
• Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until July 2: ''Message Beacon'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Selected Works'', Neil Dawson.
• Until July 23: ''The Review'', various New Zealand artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''Languishing, Vexed and Reclining Nudes'' by Annie Nevin.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until July 9: ''Heavenly Creatures'', Max Gimblett.
None, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: One-night exhibition by Erica Sklenars, a collection of videos and live video performance.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• ''The Works: Pukeuri 1914-2014'', an exhibition about the Pukeuri meatworks in Oamaru.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copeland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until June 30: Otago Art Society's 138th Annual Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until July 20: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until September 21: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''.
• Until November 2: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Jo Macleary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Until August 31: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Riki Julin and Lorna Isaac.
• From Sunday until July 4: Kate Springford and Loris Ives.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
• Until June 30: ''Place & Time - Five Women Artists'', Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday: Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
