Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd, Port Chalmers.
•Today, 7pm: The Frank Burkitt Band.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Bespin and Bad Sav.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Left Or Right.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Slitzkrieg, Yung Nats, Vamps, Turbulent Juice, Humanoid Shell.
•Saturday, 9pm: Pieces of Eight, Opposite Sex.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: ‘‘The Yuletide Ride 2'' featuring The Tommy Gunners, E-Jets, Doll Drums, Shakes and the Swell Guys, Matthew Robertson and Brian Doig, and Justin van der Water.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
•Saturday, 9pm: No Broadcast, The Blueprint album release tour.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Today, 8pm: 'Koile.
Family Fun
Alexandra Community House, Centennial Ave.
•Tomorrow and Saturday: ‘‘Santa's grotto''; gifts, treats, meet Santa. $5 per family. BYO camera. Open tomorrow 2pm-4pm; Saturday 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm.
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 9am-1pm: Cromwell Farmers and Craft Market.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
•Tuesday-Thursday, 10.30am-3.30pm; weekends 10.30am-4pm: Ten-minute tractor-train rides around the lower botanic garden. Weather dependent.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Sunday, 2pm: ‘‘Flossy and Bossy's Birthday Buffoonery'', clown show with puppets, slapstick, dance and sign language.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday to December 24: ‘‘Holiday Hunt'' gallery trail. Collect activity sheet any time from 10am-4.30pm.
•Until December 24, 10am-4.30pm: Make your own Christmas decorations, cards and gift tags using materials provided.
Earnslaw Park, Beach St, Queenstown.
•Saturday, from 9am: Creative Queenstown arts and crafts market.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tuesday, 11am: ‘‘Flossy and Bossy's Birthday Buffoonery'', clown show with puppets, slapstick, dance and sign language.
North East Valley School hall, 248 North Rd.
•Saturday, 1.30pm: Clown show.
Olivers Restaurant front lawn, 34 Sunderland St, Clyde.
•Today, from 8.30pm: ‘‘Christmas in Clyde'', meet Santa, musical performance, carol singing, lighting of Christmas lights at 10pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday to December 24, 11am-3pm: ‘‘Elves' workshop and makerspace'', children's Christmas decoration-making activity.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ‘‘The Greatest Science Show In The History Of The World Ever!'', free with Discovery World admission. Daily 11am, also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ‘‘Butterflies' first flight'', tropical forest demonstration. Free with forest admission.
•Daily: The Perpetual Guardian Planetarium, several shows throughout the day. Bookings essential.
•Ongoing: ‘‘Einstein: 100 years of the theory of general relativity'', interactive exhibition.
Pembroke Park, Wanaka.
•Sunday, from 10am: Wanaka Sunday craft market.
Pioneer Park, Kenmare St, Alexandra.
•Saturday, from 10am: Alexandra Summer Markets.
St Clair Community Kindergarten, 53 Albert St.
•Saturday, 11am: Clown show.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and Performance
Cromwell Presbyterian Church auditorium, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
•Saturday, 5pm: Cromwell combined churches community carols.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 7pm: ‘‘Comedy plus Christmas extravaganza'' with comics Ian Loughran, Feather Unsure, Elsa May and Lou Goldman, poets Prof Goff and David Eggleton, and music from Robert Scott and Mr Glad.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Friday, 12.15pm: ‘‘What child is this?'', Knox Church Children's choir performance.
•Sunday, 1pm: The Melrose Singers.
Dunedin Railway Station foyer, Anzac Square.
•Sunday, 4.30pm: Christmas carols performed by the OUSA Cantores Choir.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
•Sunday, 7pm: ‘‘No Small Wonder'', music and poetry for Christmas.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday, 1pm: OUSA Cantores Choir.
•Saturday and Sunday, 2pm: Jonny Dyas.
•Sunday, 1pm: Dunedin Harmony Chorus.
Roxburgh Town Hall and Entertainment Centre, 132 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
•Sunday, 3pm: Christmas variety concert. Contact: Rosemary (03) 446-8729.
St Paul's Cathedral, The Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays French organ music for Christmas.
Talks and Workshops
Dunedin Chinese Garden, cnr Rattray and Cumberland Sts.
•Sundays, 2pm: Chinese calligraphy classes with Chinese master calligrapher.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 1pm: ‘‘Who Cared? Otago Nurses In WWI'' exhibition talk.
•Daily, 2pm: ‘‘Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet information desk.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-Iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until February 21: ‘‘I Am/We Are'', Nigel Brown.
Allbell Chambers, Level 2, 127 Stuart St.
•Until December 24: ‘‘Ten-Day Boutique'', pop-up gallery group show.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until December 24: ‘‘Land and Ngai Tahu: Otakou Native Reserves - Rakiura Purchase''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Art Bay Gallery, 13 Marine Pde, Queenstown.
•‘‘Selected Works'', Craig S. Primrose, Rachael Errington and Grant Hanna.
Artica, 26b George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: Decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•‘‘Gathering'', Jane Crisp and Tessa Barringer.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Until December 24: ‘‘Acqua Daemonia'', Jason Greig.
Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd.
•Until March 1: ‘‘Sculpture at Carrick'', various artists.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, Lower Garden.
•Until January 16: ‘‘Valley Artists: Out And About'', various artists.
Dunedin Airport.
•Until January 15: J.K. Weir.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Until January 31: ‘‘The Sargood Gift: A Tribute to the Sargood Family''.
•Until February 21: ‘‘Stranger In Strange Land'', by Jae Hoon Lee.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Archives: Te Wahi Pounamu'', Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams.
•Until March 20: ‘‘Renaissance Days'', Jeffrey Harris.
•Until April 3: ‘‘The Future is a Do-Over'', curated by Ane Tonga.
•Ongoing: ‘‘Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until February 7: Paintings by Euan Macleod.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Wicked Stitch'', mixed media works by Val Griffith Jones.
Gallery On Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Until December 24: Christmas group show, various artists.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•‘‘New Works'', by Thomas Elliott.
Green Island Gallery, Cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local art.
Hocken Library, 90 Anzac Ave.
•Until February 13: ‘‘We Drove Here'', Hocken and Otago Motor Club Trust Exhibition.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until January 1: Christmas exhibition.
Inge Doesburg Studio And Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until January 2: Christmas show.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Lakes District Museum And Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until Sunday: ‘‘Drawing Life'', works by the Arrowtown Life Drawing Group.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until February 10: ‘‘Small & Key'' and ‘‘Aurora: Part One'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until February 3: ‘‘The Earl Street Journal'', group show.
•Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.‘‘Photosynthesis'', Becky Cameron.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until December 24: ‘‘Bloom'', flowers on paper by Anna Reid.
Mt Difficulty Winery, 73 Felton Rd, Bannockburn.
•Works by Odelle Morshuis.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•‘‘Vivid 2015'', Kelcy Taratoa.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until March: ‘‘Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until January 31: ‘‘Who Cared? Otago Nurses In WWI'', in the 1877 Gallery.
•Until May 8: ‘‘Hakui: Women Of Kai Tahu''. Ongoing: ‘‘Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•‘‘Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
Stuart St Potters Co-Operative, 14 lower Stuart St.
•‘‘Christmas at the Co-Op''.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Until February 28: ‘‘Life On The Edge: Otago Harbour Communities''.
Tony Williams Goldsmith Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
•Until December 24: Christmas show.
Warbirds And Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ‘‘Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
