Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
•Today, 8pm: Bill Morris and Hyram Twang.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Cromwell Town and Country Club, Melmore Tce.
•Sunday, 2pm: Cromwell Country Music Club monthly concert afternoon.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Waystone, Omat Makkarat, Hatred, Scizerac, Innominatus.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Halloween Special - Joe Bishop, Tommy Gunners, Ejets, Scurvy Dogs, Silly Drunken Bastards. Fancy dress. Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
Today, 5.30pm: Erin Morton, Terry Ebeling and Steve Hudson.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Shakes and the Swell Guys.
Opoho Presbyterian Church, Signal Hill Rd.
•Saturday, 8pm: Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb. Owaka Memorial Community Centre, 3 Ovenden St, Owaka.
•Today, 7.30pm: Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb.
Riverton Union Church Hall, 126 Palmerston St, Riverton.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Tomorrow: Eb and Sparrow with guests.
Family fun
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: 15min tractor rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 2pm: Halloween storytelling with Kaitrin McMullan.
Larnach Castle, 145 Camp Rd.
•Sunday, 11am: ''Spring Fling'', plant sale, children's entertainment, BBQ.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Cracking Chaos'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Science vs Fantasy'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: preschool story time.
St Enoch's Church grounds, cnr Centennial Ave and Dunorling St, Alexandra.
•Saturday, 9am: ''Mac Fair'', plants, books, raffle, BBQ, teas, pipe band, etc.
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
Alexandra Memorial Hall, Skird St.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: Alexandra Musical Society singing, dance and drama competitions.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
•Tuesday, 11am: Operatunity Daytime Concert Series presents ''Rodgers & Hammerstein and Friends''. Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
•Tomorrow, 6.30pm: ''Superstition'', bellydance, music and LED performance for All Hallow's Eve.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Cesar Franck. St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd.
•Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera meeting, followed by performances by competitors in the performing arts competition junior vocal section.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 3pm: Artists' talk by Max Bellamy and Graham Fletcher.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Marian Maguire will talk about her exhibition ''Titokowaru's Dilemma''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: flamingos. Tomorrow: HMS Victory. Saturday: Ancient Egyptian life. Sunday: Karetao. Monday: Queen Lili'uokalani's feather cape. Tuesday: Maori cloaks. Wednesday: Mutiny on the Bounty.
•Daily, 2.30pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'' talk in the H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
•Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions Gallery talk.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex Tour'', guided historical tour of the H.D. Skinner Annex.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Sunday, 2pm: Man Alive, short film by Declan Wong about Dunedin painter Ewan McDougal.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
•Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until December 24: ''Readiness and Sacrifice'', an exhibition of World War 1 archives.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Until November 9: Otago Art Society spring exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•''Important and Unseen'', by Colin Wheeler.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Until November 12: ''Swell'', by Pauline Bellamy, Max Bellamy, John Bellamy, Manu Berry, Emma Chalmers.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Closes today: works by Nichola Shanley.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
•Until Saturday: ''Nice Background'', photographs by Mark Bolland.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until November 18: Spotlight on Design - Lee Sinclair, mixed media artist.
•Until November 30: artworks by Elizabeth Kempthorne.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
•From Tuesday, until November 6: ''Insight'', group exhibition by Dunedin artists.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until November 9: ''Jim McMurtry'', by Michael Parekowhai.
•Until November 16: ''Sleight of Hand'', curated by Lauren Gutsell.
•Until November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
•Ongoing: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Ongoing: ''Wild Life'', various artists.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
•Ongoing: Visiting artist projects by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano and Erica van Zon.
The Fix, Frederick St.
•Closes tomorrow: works by Anna Reid, Jacob Feenstra and Graham Geary. Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until November 16: ''Koreo Ko, Koreo Au'', by Moana Tipa.
•Until November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
•''Romantic images of village life'', by Kimmi Rindel. Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Until November 6: ''Southern Light Effect'' oil paintings by Philip Beadle.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•From Sunday to November 30: ''I Can Hear Her Breathing'', featuring Helen Carter, Emma Farry, Liz Wootton and Rowan Holt.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Opens tomorrow, 7.30pm: works by John White.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until November 15: ''Creation'', photography by Annemarie Hope-Cross.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until November 13: ''Selected Works''.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Closes today: clocks by Mark Lloyd, applique by Rhonda Beck, paintings by Laura Gregory, porcelain by Peter Gregory.
•Opens Saturday, until November 6: ''Xtreme Images'', textiles by Chris Reeve, Jean Steel and Karen Walton.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Until November 30: ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow'', by Bob Kerr.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
•Until November 10: ''I am an artist'', by Tanya Faiva.
•Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until November 19: ''Earth & Sky'', glass by Ann Robinson; ''Round-up'', paintings by Mervyn Williams.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until November 12: ''Centre Stage'', Elizabeth Rees; ''Spring Catalogue'', various artists.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Closes tomorrow: ''The Male Nude'', drawings by John Z Robinson.
•Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm and Saturday 11am-2pm.
National Mortgage Agency Building top floor, 49 Water St.
•Closes tomorrow: Three-dimensional fabric artworks by Motoko Watanabe.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
•Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until November 23: ''Gifts and Legacies'', honours people who have contributed to the museum.
•Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
•Until Sunday: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Joanne McLeary.
•Until February 15, 2015: contemporary jewellery by Bob Wyber.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Until January 11: ''European Treasure'', letters in French and Italian from the Reed Autograph Letters Collection.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until November 8: works by Anne McLean and Jo Howard.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Until Tuesday: a selection of works from the Taieri Art Group.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
•''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
Tony Williams Goldsmith Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
•Until December 24: spring exhibition.
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.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
