Gigs
Coronation Hall, Maori Hill.
•Saturday 7pm. The Eastern, Melissa Partridge and Valley Bluegrass - charity concert. Celebrate the completion of Lydia Franklin's cycle from Cape Reinga to Bluff and the cancer charity foundation Love Hope Strength.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Tonight, 9pm: Parents (Auckland), Machina Rex, Yung Nats, Knee Splitter, Hermann Doose.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Four DJs, LVJ, Heavy, Bobandii, A2M.
•Saturday, 9pm: Tim Hampshire (Melbourne), Ted Danson and the Wolves, Whiskey and the Wench.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Tuesday, 3pm-6pm. St David's Day. Welsh people are invited to drop in to celebrate with a ‘‘panad o de'' (own cost).
Dunedin Musicians Club,12 Manse St.
•Saturday 8.30pm. Bring on the Revolution: Streetlight Riot (Auckland), Nerdlinger (Sydney), Dead Rats (Christchurch) and Bazooka (Dunedin).
Speargrass Inn,1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Sunday noon-2pm, Summertime Live Music 2016 - Vanuatu Boys.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8pm-11pm. Music by the Melody Makers.
Family Fun
Central Motor Speedway, Sandflat Road off SH6, Cromwell
•Saturday 6pm. Central Otago Championship Clyde Historic Precinct, Sunderland St, Clyde.
•Sunday, 10am-2pm: Clyde markets. Food, music, stalls.
Corner Wolter Cres and Gair Ave, Cromwell.
•Sunday 9am to 4pm. Central Otago Motorsport Club Street Sprints in the industrial area.
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 9am-1pm: Cromwell Farmers and Craft Market.
Cromwell Racecourse, Ripponvale Rd.
•Sunday, from 11am. Cromwell Cup Day.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Opoho Rd, Dunedin.
•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.
•Saturday until March 5. Children's storypit. Sea Week 2016: Be an ocean champion, try our sustainable fishing game.
Earnslaw Park, Beach St, Queenstown.
•Saturday, from 9am: Creative Queenstown arts and crafts market.
Oamaru Baptist Church, 14 Sandringham St, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 10am. Mainly Music. A fun time of music and movement for all preschoolers, their parents, grandparents and care-givers.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati
•Daily, 11am: Takahe feeding.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•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.
Pembroke Park, Wanaka.
•Sunday, from 10am: Wanaka craft market.
Pioneer Park, Kenmare St, Alexandra.
•Saturday, from 10am: Alexandra Summer Markets.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and Performance
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
•Saturday 7.30pm. Jieying Liew (piano) and Febriani Idrus (flute), two University of Otago masters of music students, will present a collection of beautiful music.
Former Hanover St Baptist Church, corner Great King and Hanover Sts.
•Saturday, 2pm to 5pm. Walk through the new home of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra before its renovations. Live music provided by a DSO string quartet.
Kazbah Studio, 22 Victoria Rd, Dunedin
•Tomorrow until Sunday. International Music and Dance Festival featuring belly dance workshops in a variety of styles - featuring Candice of Phoenix Belly Dance along with local and national teachers.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
•Tomorrow, 7pm. Postgraduate Student Recital Series 6: Julia Fruean, gender (Gamelan) MMus Recital II.
Otago Museum, Atrium level 1, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday 1pm. Hear the melodies of Abby Wolfe, a vocalist and songwriter from Dunedin.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
•Saturday 7pm. Who Rocks the Kazbah featuring bellydance, flamenco and salsa with live music.
Roxburgh Town Hall and Entertainment Centre, 132 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
•Tomorrow 7.30pm: Coming to Roxburgh from Scotland - ‘Saltire‘ with Alex Hodgson and David Vernon.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays St Peter's Church, Hillside Rd.
•Sunday, 3pm. In Mr Byrd's ChamberA celebration of the life and music of William Byrd. The Rare Byrds Consort and Chorus, with soloists Ana Good and Janet Rountree.
Film and Theatre
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
•Tonight until Sunday, March 1 to 5, 7.30pm. The Importance of Being Earnest.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents BLANCANIEVES (Snow White), Pablo Berger's acclaimed and extraordinarily stylish take on the classic fairy tale, transplanted to 1920s Seville.
Talks and Workshops
Dunedin Chinese Garden, cnr Rattray and Cumberland Sts.
•Sundays, 2pm: Chinese calligraphy classes with Chinese master calligrapher.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Tonight 6pm. Fourth floor. An Evening With Peter May. Hear the award-winning Scottish crime writer discuss his new bestseller, Coffin Road.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Damian Skinner, art historian and curator of Applied Art and Design at the Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, will talk about aspects of the exhibition ‘‘Archives Te Wahi Pounamu: Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, Hutton Theatre, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 2pm: ‘‘Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
•Sunday, 3pm. Our Big Blue Backyard. Screening and talk by Judith Curran, NHNZ executive producer.
Exhibitions
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.
•‘‘Oamaru Belles'', new works by Katherine Kovacs and Donna Demente.
Bistro Gentil, 76A Golf Course Rd, Wanaka.
•Until Monday: Prints by Shane Cotton. Open Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
•Until Saturday: Ana Iti, ‘‘Heavy to Hold''.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Tomorrow until March 17. Martin Thompson - Eight New Works.
Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
•Until Tuesday: ‘‘Sculpture at Carrick'', various artists.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until Monday: ‘‘A Muster of Artists''. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until Saturday: Quilters and Patchworkers of Otago Inc exhibition by members. 10am to 4pm daily.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, Lower Garden.
•Until Sunday: ‘‘Botanical Expressions'', by members of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild. Open daily 10pm-4pm.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ‘‘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.
•Until April 10: ‘‘Sitting for Frances'', portraits by Frances Hodgkins.
•Until December 31: ‘‘Exploded Worlds'', works from the gallery's collection.
•Ongoing: ‘‘Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: ‘‘Wicked Stitch'', mixed-media works by Val Griffith Jones.
Gallery on Blueskin, Harvey St, Waitati.
•Until March 7: ‘‘Dreamtime'', 22 new works by Pam Hill influenced by particle physicist Brian Cox.
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.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Until March 12: Annemarie Hope-Cross' ambrotype images. 10am-4pm daily.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until March 16: ‘‘Show and Tell'' features new works by Cat Auburn, Hannah Beehre, Israel Birch, Zena Elliott, Wendy Fairclough, Chris Heaphy, Karl Maughan, Jenna Packer and Reuben Paterson.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until Wednesday: ‘‘The Earl Street Journal''.
•Until Wednesday: ‘‘New Works'' features Justin Boroughs, Nigel Brown, Zena Elliott, Bridie Henderson, Michael Hight, John Parker, Emily Siddell and Katherine Smyth.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Works by Michael Springer.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Closes tomorrow: ‘‘Diorama - games with colour & light'', new works by Marion Mertens.
Mt Difficulty Winery, 73 Felton Rd, Bannockburn.
•Works by Odelle Morshuis.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•‘‘Te Raumati'' (Summer) exhibition.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until March: ‘‘Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Until March 6: ‘‘Impact Summer'' exhibition. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until May 8: ‘‘Hakui: Women Of Kai Tahu''. Ongoing: ‘‘Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Until March 31: Paintings by Lizzie Carruthers.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•‘‘Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
