Gigs
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
•Saturday: Soul Deep.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz, Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
The Commercial, 237 Main South Rd.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Rock Back Anthem.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Tomorrow: Hologram Heart, Strange Harvest and Radio Cegeste.
•Saturday: Das Skip and support.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8pm: ''The Yuletide Ride'' featuring EJets, Scurvy Dogs, The Tommy Gunners, Bulletproof Convertible, Shakes and the Swell Guys, King Weasels Army.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
•Saturday, 9pm: Quantum.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Today: Josh Rennie Hynes.
•Tomorrow: Leo LaDell album preview party.
•Saturday: Nadia Reid Listen To Formation album release tour, support from Grawlixes and The Broken Heartbreakers.
Family fun
Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, 35 Buckingham St.
•Sunday, 10am-4pm: Arrowtown boutique market day; stalls, food, children's activities, music, facepainting.
Cromwell Presbyterian Church Hall, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: ''Santa Land'', featuring Santa's grotto and Christmas tree decoration competition. Open tomorrow 5pm-7pm, Saturday 9am-2pm, Sunday 1.30pm-4.30pm.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: 15min tractor-train rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Daily from Saturday, 10am-4.30pm: Make your own Christmas cards and decorations using the materials provided.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Saturday, 11am: Christmas storytime with Kat Anna Fiddle.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Tomorrow, 3.30pm-5pm: Children's Hanukkah decorations craft workshop. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''Frozen Discoveries'' 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.
Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, Pleasant Point.
•Sunday, 12.30pm-4pm: Train rides on Steam Loco D16 (no Santa Train).
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: preschool story time.
St Johns Ambulance Rooms, Northland St, Ranfurly.
•Tomorrow, 3pm-5pm: ''Santa's grotto'', get your photo taken with Santa and receive a small gift.
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
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Today, 5.30pm: ''Poetry on the Bay'', open mic poetry evening with guest poets Peter Olds and Jenny Powell.
Cromwell Presbyterian Church, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
•Saturday, 6.30pm: ''Fun before Christmas'', concert featuring Roxburgh Pioneer Brass Band, Fine Thyme Theatre singers and others.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 1pm: Christmas music from Sunny Side Up choir.
Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Square.
•Today, 8pm: ''Carols in the Station'', Cantores choir performance.
Embers Function Centre, 2 Manor Pl.
•Tomorrow and Saturday: ''A Very Rocky Christmas'' dinner theatre show. Bookings essential.
Glenfalloch Woodland Garden Restaurant, 430 Portobello Rd.
•Tomorrow and Saturday: ''Faulty Towers 2014 Staff Christmas Crack-up'' dinner theatre show. Bookings essential.
Port Chalmers Town Hall, Grey St, Port Chalmers.
•Today, 7.30pm: ''Cabaret Jazz-A-GoGo'', music and comedy, featuring the Reuben Bradley Trio.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works based upon Marian themes.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until December 13: Ladies Night.
Roxburgh Area School, 78 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
•Today, 1pm: Junior school production of Aladdin.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Today, 5.30pm: Jazz clinic with The Reuben Bradley Trio; informal talk featuring musical demonstrations.
•Saturday, 2pm: Guided tour of chosen gallery exhibitions.
•Sunday, 3pm: Hamish Keith will discuss the work of ceramicist Barry Brickell.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Wednesday, 6pm: ''The Art of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Art'', talk by Professor Marcus du Sautoy.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour, meet at information desk.
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.
•Till December 24: ''Readiness and Sacrifice'', an exhibition of World War 1 archives.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•''Through the Eyes of the Traveller'', by Leila Ataya.
Atelier Jeux d'esprit, 2nd floor, 109 Princes St.
•Till December 21: Handmade and vintage Christmas decorations.
Open Wednesday-Friday 11am-6.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm.
•Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Till December 24: ''Blessed are the Sick'', Jason Greig.
•Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd.
•Opens Saturday: ''Icons at Carrick'', various artists.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•Closes today: ''The Jewellery Box'', works by local jewellers.
•Opens Saturday: ''Local artists mixed exhibition''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Till March 1: ''The Crystal Line'', Peter Trevelyan.
•Till March 1: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Till March 15: ''Dogwood Days'', Erica Van Zon. Till March 15: ''Visible Structures'', Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano.
•Till March 15: ''Floating Studio'', Fiona Connor and Alicia Frankovich.
•Till March 31: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
•Till April 12: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
•Ongoing: ''Mythos'', curated by Aaron Kreisler.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Opening tomorrow: ''The Wreck of Hope'', sculpture by Michele Beevors; ''Ben Ohau'', paintings by Belinda Weir; ''Look Again'' featuring works by Colin Wheeler.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•''A Circular Christmas'', various artists.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Throughout December: Work by Charles Barrington, Liz Abbott and Rudie Verhoef.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Works by John White.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
•Till February 7: ''Whakapono: faith and foundations'', exhibition celebrating the Marsden Bicentennial 1814-2014.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Till January 3: ''A Round Christmas'', various artists.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Till January 10: Christmas show featuring various artists.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Till Wednesday: New works by Michael Hight.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•''Feedback Loops'', by Becky Cameron.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Till December 24: ''Flowers'', paintings by Nicola Hansby.
•Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''In the Name of ...'', by Heather Straka.
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.
•Till January 31: ''Affordable Art''. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Till March 1: ''Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica''.
•Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
•Till February 14: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Till January 11: ''European Treasure'', letters in French and Italian from the Reed Autograph Letters Collection.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Till March 14: ''A Room of St Clairs'', by Lindsay Crooks.
•Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until January 17: Summer exhibition.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Till January 7: works by photographer Murray Crawford.
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.
•Till 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.
