Gigs
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Jakob, Sines album release tour.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Coronation Hall, Balmacewen Rd.
•Saturday, 8pm: CW Stoneking and band.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Needless Cane with Scurvy Dogs, Innominatus and Waystone.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents ''WomenFolk'', a celebration of the club's female talent.
Gin and Raspberry, 155 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Today, 6pm: ''Nightclass'', evening of jazz and soul performed by Mount Aspiring College senior music students.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
•Tomorrow, 7pm: The Dark Beaks.
Lake Hawea Hotel, 1 Capel Ave, Lake Hawea.
•Saturday, 8pm: Peter Caulton plays acoustic music by Johnny Cash.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Radio One 91FM presents Onefest.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Tomorrow: Night Shelter benefit, music and poems.
•Saturday: Tourettes with Matthew Crawley.
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).
Melmore Marina boat ramp, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow, 9.25pm: Fireworks display, just before dark. Duration approximately 10 minutes.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 11am: ''Spring Storytelling Series: The Whitebait Wriggle'', hear a story and make a printed tote bag to take home.
•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.
Pembroke Park, Wanaka.
•Sunday, 10am: Wanaka Sunday Craft Market.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: preschool 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
Alexandra Memorial Hall, Skird St.
•Monday, 7pm: Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra.
Carisbrook Hotel, cnr Law St and South Rd.
•Saturday, 8pm: '80s theme night with Anthem.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''The NORMAn Conquest'', four centuries of French organ music.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
•Sunday, 7pm: ''The Armed Man'', a mass for peace by Karl Jenkins featuring St Kilda Brass and the Knox Church Choir.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Tuesday, 7pm: Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra.
Maniototo Stadium, Pery St, Ranfurly.
•Saturday: Maniototo's Got Talent. Matinee dress rehearsal 1.30pm; evening from 7pm.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''Sunshine Concert'', by music department senior performance students.
St Luke's Church, Oamaru.
•Wednesday, 7pm: David Burchell plays organ music by pre-WWI French composers.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ music for Remembrance Day.
Plays
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites, Ladies Night. Sample the Fortune Theatre's latest play. Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Today to Sunday: Gasmen, stories of former Dunedin gas workers. 7pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 2pm Saturday and Sunday.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Sunday, 2pm: ''How the Spirit Resonates'', artist talk by Liz Kempthorne.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.}
•Monday, 12.30pm: ''Finding the Best Funding for Your Needs'', free seminar presented by the Funding Information Service.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: artists' talk by Mary McFarlane and Katrina Thomson, in conjunction with the ''Sleight of Hand'' exhibition.
•Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'', free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Wednesday, 4pm: ''One Health: The added value of closer co-operation of human and veterinary medicine'', talk by Prof Dr Zinsstag-Klopfenstein.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Ancient Greek coins. Tomorrow: The Monowai. Saturday: New Zealand's native frogs. Sunday: The gold rush days. Monday: Rapa Nui. Tuesday: Mapoutahi pa. Wednesday: Japanese spider crab.
•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.
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 Sunday: 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 Wednesday: ''Swell'', by Pauline Bellamy, Max Bellamy, John Bellamy, Manu Berry, Emma Chalmers.
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.
•Closes today: ''Insight'', group exhibition by Dunedin artists.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ''Jim McMurtry'', by Michael Parekowhai.
•Until November 16: ''Sleight of Hand'', curated by Lauren Gutsell.
•Until November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
•Until November 30: ''A History of Things I Once Had'', rear window project by Ted Whitaker and Rachel H Allan.
•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.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Saturday, noon-6pm: Muka Youth Print Exhibition. Exclusively for ages 5-18.
•Until December 7: ''Close to Home'', photographs by Grahame Sydney.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until November 16: ''Koreo Ko, Koreo Au'', by Moana Tipa.
•Until November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•From Saturday to November 28: ''Points of View'', paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes today: ''Southern Light Effect'' oil paintings by Philip Beadle.
•From tomorrow to November 14: ''Crush'', by Philip James Frost.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Until 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.
•Works by John White.
Hope Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station.
•From Tuesday to November 16: ''Made'', works by Otago and Southland textile artists. Open 10am-4pm daily.
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: ''Xtreme Images'', textiles by Chris Reeve, Jean Steel and Karen Walton.
•From tomorrow to November 14: paintings and furniture by Liz Abbott and Rudie Verhoef.
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 Monday: ''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 Wednesday: ''Centre Stage'', Elizabeth Rees; ''Spring Catalogue'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Opens tomorrow, 5pm: ''Earthmovers'', by Blue Black.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
•Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•From tomorrow to November 16: ''Illustrations'', fashion drawings by Lindsay Kennett.
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 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.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Until November 30: Hinton Estate art exhibition, features works by Jan Rasmussen, Ron Esplin, Esther Dexter and Clark Esplin.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: works by Anne McLean and Jo Howard.
•From Monday to November 22: works by Judy Ringland Stewart and Rosemary McQueen.
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.
