Gigs
10 Bar, the Octagon.
•Today, 8.30pm: Trinity Roots, Citizen release tour.
Ancient Briton Hotel, 16 Leven St, Naseby.
•Saturday, 11am and 3pm; Sunday, 11am: The Maniototo Bards, Ballads and Bulldust Festival concerts.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Friday, 9pm: Psychic Maps with Opposite Sex, $5.
•Saturday, 9pm: Barricuda and friends, $5.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 5.30pm: Rob Sharma, Boaz Anema, Big Sema.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Bill Martin, Andy Parsons, Re:gretabull.
•Saturday, 1pm: Darryl Baser.
•Wednesday, 5.30pm: Some Other Creature, Palace Rats Brendan, Lani Alo.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Slitzkrieg, God Awful, Suicide Bombers and Bazooka.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, noon: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Rural Delivery Bluegrass.
Filadelfio's at the Terminus, 1 Tomahawk Rd, Andersons Bay.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Both Sides of the Line.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Saturday, 7pm: Trinity Roots, Citizen release tour.
•Sunday, 7pm: Young Adults in the Music Industry SOUNZ summit showcase featuring Dave Dobbyn.
Oturehua Railway Hotel, 3352 Ida Valley Omakau Rd, Oturehua.
•Saturday, 11am and 3pm; Sunday, 11am: The Maniototo Bards, Ballads and Bulldust Festival concerts.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Today, 10pm: Low Priority Grad Week, featuring FSOD (Dunc & Nut), Woosh, Bass Intrusion, Gorringe, Kitson, Shadow, Roops, Halps, JMan MC.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: OUSA Battle of the Bands heat three.
Waipiata Country Hotel, 29 Main St, Waipiata.
•Saturday, 11am and 3pm; Sunday, 11am: The Maniototo Bards, Ballads and Bulldust Festival concerts.
Family fun
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Daily, 3.30pm-4.30pm: ''Play the Banana Piano'', New Zealand Music Month activity.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
•Daily, 11am: Takahe feeding.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''The Best Science Show in the History of the World Ever!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily 11am, also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
Music and performance
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
•Wednesday, 8pm: The Octagon Poetry Collective open mike night, with guest poets Michael Harlow and Louise Wallace. All welcome.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: ''UFOs, Glitter & Techno'', son.sine and box banter will create an interwoven sonic landscape in response to the ''Private Utopia'' exhibition.
Glenroy Auditorium, 1 Harrop St.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: The New Zealand String Quartet with Stephen De Pledge.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Sunday, 3.30pm-8pm: The Society of Women Musicians of Otago presents a ''Society Showcase'' to celebrate 90 years of music. Variety concert, dinner and two-piano recital. Tickets: Jennifer 454-3432. All welcome.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; Douglas Lilburn commemorative concert.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tomorrow, 2pm: Beverley Kay-Donner plays easy-listening piano.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday, 1pm: Amanda Goodwin and Michelle Yeo play light jazz and R'n'B on grand piano.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 7pm: Malcolm Honeychurch, classical guitarist.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
•Today, 8pm: Pink Floyd Experience.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: The Moscow Ballet presents Sleeping Beauty.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music for Ascensiontide.
Film and theatre
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
•Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime Theatre: When You Were Mine.
Athenaeum Theatre, the Octagon.
•Today to May 23: The Globe Theatre presents Roger Hall's Taking Off at 7.30pm.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: Mamil, Mark Hadlow in a one-man show.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 99 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Today to May 23: Taieri Musical presents The Sound of Music at 7.30pm.
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Until May 23: Showbiz Queenstown presents Saturday Night Fever.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents All That Heaven Allows.
Talks and workshops
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today and Monday, 1pm-2pm: ''Spice Up Your Life'', Otago Careers Festival personal branding seminar. Today, 5.30pm-7pm: `What Do We Look For When Employing Staff?'', Otago Careers Festival employers' forum. Tomorrow, noon-1.30pm: ''Making Art Work - Part 3'', Otago Careers Festival creative careers seminar.
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
•Today, 4pm-6pm: ''Empowerment Hui Volume II'', discussion and workshop on supporting survivors of rape and sexual assault.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Taking it Literally: What Science Fiction is Good For'', talk by Prof Brian McHale.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
•Saturday and Sunday: Youth and Adults in the Music Industry Sounz summit; workshops, panel discussions, talks, debates, showcases.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 2pm: Korowai weaving class with Robin Hill.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
•Daily, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.
Exhibitions
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.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Until May 24: ''Drawl 3'', drawings by Max Bellamy, Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, Emma Chalmers, Kirsten Ferguson, Philip Madill, James Robinson.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•''Mummoke'', Richard Killeen.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until May 31: ''Their War: Our Story - Gallipoli and Anzac''. Until June 1: ''Gallipoli: Then & Now'' school art competition showcase.
•Until June 16: Wood carvings by Murray Sheppard.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•Until June 9: ''Impressions'', pottery exhibition.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until Sunday: Exhibition of high country painting by Norman Sinclair.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ''Room Temperature'', Mary McFarlane.
•Until May 31: ''Belonging'', works from the DPAG.
•Until August 9: ''Private Utopia'', contemporary art from the British Council Collection.
•Until August 16: ''Lace Collars and Calico: Textiles and Dress in the work of Frances Hodgkins''.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Until June 7: ''We Are Here'', Juliet Novena Sorrel.
First Church Grounds, 415 Moray Pl.
•Until May 31: Contemporary sculpture by various artists.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until May 21: Paintings by Jackie Margaret.
•Until May 24: ''Bodytok Quartet: A Sonics From Scratch Project'', interactive video and sound installation by Phil Dadson and James Charlton; ''What is Art For #1'', works by John Mitchell, Eion Stevens, Nigel Brown, Ralph Hotere and Peter Cleverley.
•Until June 30: ''Memorial Oaks'', tribute to fallen memorial oak trees; ''Look Again'', works by Colin Wheeler, from the gallery's collection.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Tomorrow to June 10: Paintings and digital prints by Shaun Burdon.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•Until tomorrow: ''I Am Colour'', Cristina Popovici.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local artwork.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until tomorrow: Works by Peter Cleverley, Zuna Wright and Kirsten Ferguson.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Tomorrow to May 31: ''Where History Meets Nature'', Quilt Challenge exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•''As the World Turns'', Rachel Ratten.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until June 3: ''Finnis Road'' by Karl Maughan; ''Tipping Point'', by Hannah Kidd.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until May 27: ''The Royal Queenstown Easter Show'', various artists; ''Dawn Chorus'', Ray Ching.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Sunday to May 28: ''Coast'', Anna Reid.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until May 30: ''Matchbox'', various artists. Fundraising exhibition for the Caselberg Trust.
•Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm; Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Swimming Into Darkness'', Gretchen Albrecht.
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 Sunday: ''Accent on Black & White'' exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
•Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Until June 14: ''By the Author of Waverley'', exhibition featuring Sir Walter Scott.
St Paul's Cathedral, Octagon.
•Until June 30: ''A Tent for the Sun'' and ''The Dawn Watch'' by Wallace Crossman.
•Hours: 10am-4pm Monday-Saturday, noon-4pm Sunday.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until May 23: Lisa Simpson and Louise Thompson Parker.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
•Until May 29: ''Aliens, Androids & Unicorns: the Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection''
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
