Gigs
New Edinburgh Folk Club, 50 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: Rebecca Wright and Donald McKay.
Opoho Church Hall, 59 Signal Hill Rd, Dunedin.
•Saturday, 7pm: ''Our Songs of the South'', featuring Delgirl, Into The East and Jake Cropley.
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St.
•Saturday, 9pm: Gay Ski Week ''Once upon a time'' dance party featuring DJ Kate Monroe and DJ Adam Love.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Livi and Joseph van der Hurk, Southern Excursion tour, with Lara Rose, Jarni Blair and guest MC Feather Unsure.
Family fun
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 2pm: ''Once Upon a Sunday: Daffodilly Silliness'', storytime with Kaitrin McMullan.
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.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
•Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
•Today, 1pm and 7pm and tomorrow, 1pm: I think you'll like this ..., cabaret performance by music and theatre studies master's student Jason Henderson.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Monday, 6.30pm: The 46th annual Otago Secondary Schools Music Festival.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; Ian Chapman presents Mr Glad.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
•Today, 11am: Operatunity presents Legendary Vocal Groups.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music upon Marian themes.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd.
•Sunday, 2.30pm: ''Young Singers'', concert featuring placegetters from the recent Newzats singing competitions.
Film and theatre
Athenaeum Theatre, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: Farley's Arcade: The Wildest Place in Town, guided, interactive theatre experience. (Dunedin Heritage Festival).
Athenaeum Hall, 33 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Wednesday to September 12: Remarkable Theatre presents Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced, 7.30pm and 2pm Saturday.
Dunstan High School, Enterprise St, Alexandra.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Fortune Theatre presents Hound of the Baskervilles. Tickets from i-Sites.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: The Hound of the Baskervilles, comedy caper.
Ranfurly Town Hall, 1 Northland St, Ranfurly.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: Fortune Theatre presents Hound of the Baskervilles. Tickets from i-Sites.
Talks and workshops
Cromwell Presbyterian Church Hall, Elspeth St.
•Saturday, 9am: Breakfast with Sir Ray Avery. Tickets from all Central Otago visitor centres.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Monday, noon: ''Work Hard Play Hard: Employment Rights'', talk presented by Community Law Otago.
•Wednesday, noon: ''Rambles From the Book Trade'', talk by Warwick Jordan to Friends of the Library.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''Sex, Death and Dancing: Guidoccio Coazzarelli's Dance of Salome'', William Mathew Hodgkins Memorial Lecture 2015 presented by Dr Judith Collard.
•Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'', baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Today, 6pm: ''Flowers in the Fridge'', Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture presented by Dr Janice Lord.
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.
•Daily until Sunday, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until October 11: ''Tonga `i Onopooni'', Tongan contemporary art; works by Hamish Mio.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until October 16: ''Dunedin 1865: Public Works and Buildings''. Open open 9.30am-5pm daily.
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.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Cohort'', Patrick Hartigan.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until Tuesday: Spotlight on Design - Matt McCutcheon.
•Until October 4: ''Reflections'', commemorative exhibition for Alexandra artist Doug Ayson.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Saturday to September 12: Otago Potters' Group annual exhibition and sale.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until September 20: ''Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours'', Gabrielle Amodeo.
•Until September 27: ''Parallel Play: Frances Hodgkins and her European Contemporaries''.
•Until September 27: ''Dunedin 1865: A City Rises'', Dunedin Heritage Festival exhibition.
•Until November 1: ''Wanderings'', works from the collection on the theme of travel.
•Until November 8: ''The Sargood Gift: A Tribute to the Sargood Family''.
•Until November 15: ''History in the Taking: 40 Years of Photoforum''.
•Until November 29: ''36 Views of Mt Fuji'', Katsushika Hokusai.
•Until February 21: ''Stranger in Strange Land'', by Jae Hoon Lee.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: ''The Bridge'', by Burns Pollock; ''Forged'', by Johanna Zellmer; works by Motoko Watanabe.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes today: ''Surfaces'', paintings by Angela Burns.
•Tomorrow to September 17: ''Street Appeal'', new works by Nic Dempster.
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 September 12: ''The Monkey in the Machine'', drawings by Philip Madill.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until September 23: ''Atmosphere: People of Moana'' by Andy Leleisi'uao; ''A Study of a Samoan Savage'' by Yuki Kihara.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until September 16: ''Signal'' by Graham Bennett; ''The Catchments'' by Wayne Barrar.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Closes today: ''Black Mirror'', paintings by Brendan Jon Philip.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until September 24: ''People and Places'', acrylic paintings by Judy Smith.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Earthrise'', paintings by Russell Moses.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Until Sunday: ''Spring'', various artists. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until Sunday: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
•Until September 27: 2015 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
•Ongoing: ''Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Until October 11: ''Dunedin City of Literature: The First 100 Years''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Until October 25: 15th birthday exhibition, ''Artist at Work'', by J.K. Weir. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until September 27: ''Concrete Dirt Parfait'', Zina Swanson.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until September 12: Lorna Isaac and Riki Julin.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Until Sunday: ''Cats 'n' Dogs: An Illustrated History''.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
