Gigs
The Bog Irish Bar, George St
•Tonight: Dan O'Shae.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: Sharon Van Etten with Robert Scott.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Saturday, 9pm: Spermaids, Space Bats Attack.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Friday, 8.30pm: Waystone, Innominatus, Goats Az, Ronnie Stash, Fota.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Richard Leschen.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 9pm: Lipstick.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
•Saturday: LAFIDKI with The F*** Chairs and Chemical.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Saturday, 9pm: Spook the Horses, No Broadcast.
Starfish, St Clair Esplanade.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Shakes, Ewan and Dooley.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Friday, 8pm: Paul Ubana Jones.
Family fun
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Daily 10am-4pm: Duck food free from information centre.
•Tuesday to Sunday, 11.30am-3pm: tractor-train rides depart near duck pond.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Sunday, 10am-3pm: ''Edwardian garden party'' (rescheduled from March 8); live music, authentic Edwardian garden games. Formal dress optional, BYO picnic.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
•Daily, 11am: takahe feeding.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 11am-3pm: ''Brain Awareness Family Day''; brain-related games and activities, talks and information from neuroscientists.
•Daily, 11am; also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''Jurassic Bugs'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
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
Catholic Church Hall, Sligo St, Cromwell.
•Tuesday 7pm: Paddy's Night Celebration, light-hearted entertainment. BYO food and beverage.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
•Wednesday 8pm: The Octagon Poets Collective open mike night with guest poets Diane Brown and Martha Morseth.
Dog With Two Tails Cafe and Bar, 25 Moray Pl.
•Today-Saturday, 9pm: Dunedin Fringe Festival Club late night shows.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 12.30pm: Suitcase Theatre presents Poetry for the people (Fringe Festival).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Today, 12.30pm: Footnote Dance presents ''Watch this Space - Maatakitakihia Mai Tenei Waahi''. Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Sunday, 2.30pm: Music for the Brain; world premiere of University of Otago Mozart Fellow Jeremy Mayall's composition Musica in cerebro (Brain Awareness Week event).
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert, Student Prizewinners in Recital.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tomorrow, 12.30pm: Suitcase Theatre presents Poetry for the people (Fringe Festival).
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Fresh-Up Comedy Tour featuring Ben Hurley, Dai Henwood and Vaughan King.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Tomorrow, 8.30pm: Ruby Ruin's Nillionaires Club presents The Freakshow Peepshow, burlesque and bass (Fringe Festival).
St Andrew's Church Hall, 43 Blyth St, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 4pm: Seeds of Faith ecumenical concert. Mark Wilson performs hymns of his own composition in various musical styles.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music for St Patrick's Day. Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday, 7.30pm and Sunday, 6.30pm: All Good Poems Wear Travelling Shoes, poetry, drama and music event (Fringe Festival).
Plays
Dunedin Gasworks Museum, 20 Braemar St.
•Saturday, 6pm and Sunday, noon, 1.30pm and 3pm: Dunedin Medieval Society presents SteamPunch: the Astonishing Adventures of a Steampunk Puppet.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: Tour of the ''Dogwood Days'' and ''Visible Structures'' exhibitions led by curators Lauren Gutsell and Aaron Kreisler.
•Tuesday, 7pm: Pecha Kucha night, 10 short presentations by local and visiting artists, designers and creative thinkers (Fringe Festival).
•Wednesday, 10.30am: DPAG Society monthly coffee morning with speaker Jean Marie Carey on ''`Selbstdarstellung - The practice of collecting and self-promotion''. All welcome.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Morning Magpie, 46 Lower Stuart St.
•Monday-Thursday, 6pm: Marginalia, literary discussion evenings (Fringe Festival).
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
•Today and tomorrow, 10.30am and 5.30pm: Our Big Blue Backyard, NHNZ film showcase. New episode each day, with a double screening (two episodes) tomorrow. Today: Kaikoura. Tomorrow: Open Bay Islands, Stewart Island.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Tomorrow to March 20: Brain Awareness Week. Full schedule of talks on Otago Museum website.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts'' exhibition talk.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents Sunday, preceded by short Otago film Inc'd. Memberships or three-film passes can be purchased on the night. No casual admission this week.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Bronze native bird sculptures by Mike Norris.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•Works by Diana Smillie; ''Yet another touch of Whimsy'' by Crispin Korschen, Rachael Garland, Emma Butler, Fiona Tunnicliffe and others.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Works by Pauline Bellamy. Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•''Rigid Absolutes'', by Martin Thompson.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until April 24: Native bird sculptures by Luke Anthony.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•Until Wednesday: ''Mountain Moods'', contemporary landscapes by Clare Riddington.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ''Dogwood Days'', Erica van Zon. Until Sunday: ''Visible Structures'', Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano.
•Until Sunday: ''Floating Studio'', Fiona Connor and Alicia Frankovich.
•Until Sunday: ''The town wrist watch'', Nick Austin.
•Until March 31: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
•Until April 12: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
•Until May 17: ''Room Temperature'', Mary McFarlane.
•Ongoing: ''Mythos'', curated by Aaron Kreisler.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Until April 19: ''Selected Works from the Bosshard Browne Collection'' and ''Four Decades: Selected Drawings 1970-2003'', both by Jeffrey Harris.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until April 6: ''Tonga `I Onopooni'', contemporary Tongan artists.
•Until April 30: ''Memorial Oaks''.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Carved and painted surfboards by Aaron Kereopa, curated by Toi o Tahuna gallery.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until March 29: ''A road less travelled'', photographs by Eric Schusser.
•Gallery open 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until March 20: Works on paper.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by arrangement.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Saturday to April 8: ''Still'' by Eliot Coates, John Parker and Christine Webster; ''The Social Fabric'' by Michael Shepherd.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until April 1: ''Queens Down'', Emily Valentine; ''Dog & Pony Show'', Joanna Braithwaite.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Until March 19: ''Shadow Self'', Salon des Femmes artists (Fringe Festival).
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until March 27: ''From Karitane to Ngapara'', paintings by Joanna Tokona.
•Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Until tomorrow: ''Whakaata, Lake Hayes'', Stephen Bambury.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until April 30: ''From Little Towns in a Far Land'', World War 1 centennial exhibition.
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.
•Saturday to April 12: Otago Art Society Summer exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until May 10: ''Bugs: The Mega World of Minibeasts'', in the Special Exhibitions gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
•Until May 3: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
•Until March 22: ''Under the Cracks, Behind the Shadows'', Helen Back.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Until April 30: ''South Coast Exhibition'', works by Lindsay Crooks, J.K. Weir and Fienze C.
•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.
•Closes today: Loris Ives and Lisa Simpson.
•Tomorrow to March 22: ''The Unbeautiful, the Unloved, the Hated and Despised'', various artists (Environmental Fringe Festival).
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
•New works by Sarah Anderson, Lizzie Carruthers, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue, Rebecca Stewart and Jim Wheeler.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
•Victory Medal, a sculpture by Helen Pollock.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
