Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede. Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: Irish sing-along.
• Thursdays, 7pm: Singer/songwriter night; Fridays, 7pm: Irish session with Tatterjack.
Carey's Bay Hotel, 7 Macandrew Rd, Careys Bay.
• Tonight, 8pm: "Rusty String Sessions" featuring: Hana Fahy and the Low Tones, Robert Scott, John White and Inge Andrew.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesdays, from 8pm: open-mike night.
• Thursdays: live bands and jazz music, from 7.30pm.
• Fridays: Viernes Latin music fiesta from 8.30pm. Free beginners' lesson from 7.30pm.
• Sundays: ukulele class. 6pm-7pm. Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Cromwell College Auditorium
• Friday, 7pm: Cromwell Battle of the Bands.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Conniption, Foe, Deviated Septum, Scabies, Helter Skelter, Infinite Justice and Bazooka.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Mondays, 8.30pm: open-mike night.
• Tuesdays, 8pm: Jazz in the Pocket.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open-mike night. Gear provided.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: live jazz featuring Trevor Coleman, Ben Stegmann and Nick Cornish.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: storytime, free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme, active movement for early learning.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: storytime.
• Saturday, 2pm: Matariki storytime with professional storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Wednesday, June 8 at 11:15am: Tours for Tots, free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea. Nappy-changing facilities available.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays, 11am: storytime.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7 to 12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm.
Meet at the information desk.
• Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, Tangata Whenua Gallery: Southern Constellations - Go stargazing in full daylight in the Otago Museum's planetarium "Starlab".
• Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend: all-day Tamariki activities - create a planisphere in Te Reo to help you recognise stars and constellations and learn the Te Reo translations of the major southern constellations.
• Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend, 3.30pm: interactive trolley - "Starry Nights". Find out how celestial bodies and stars are used to read the night sky and learn some tips and tricks to expand your understanding of travelling using the stars.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: storytime.
Various venues.
• Lantern-making workshops this weekend and June 11-12 and 18-19. Information and registration at www.midwintercarnival.co.nz.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 11am: Matariki Celebration featuring Balmacewen Intermediate School Kapa Haka Roopu.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital by Otago Girls', Otago Boys' and St Hilda's Collegiate schools.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend, 2pm: Waiariki Parata-Taiapa performing contemporary waiata and reggae music. Plays Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until June 4, 7.30pm: Carluccio and the Queen of Hearts, by George Rosie, directed by Nigel Ensor.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• June 3-25: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, by Alan Ball, directed by Lara Macgregor.
King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Tomorrow until Sunday: The Gruffalo. Tomorrow: 12pm and 1.30pm; Saturday: 10am and 12pm; Sunday: 12pm and 2pm.
Talks and films
• Dunedin City Library , 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: NHNZ film screening: New Zealand Journeys: People Paradise.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Regency hairstyle and cutting demonstration, and discussion on hair fashions, with hairdresser Heidi McGill.
• Sundays, 1.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets
• Today, 12.15pm, Seminars: Marion Wassenaar, "A Cultivation of Waste" and John Paxie, "Ceramic Gravity and Levity".
NHNZ Building, 5 Melville St, Dunedin.
• Wednesday, 6pm: an evening with ChildFund Ambassador Alison Quigan: "Real lives in Sri Lanka".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks for June, 2pm: Thursdays, "Black Stilt"; Fridays, "Hooker's Sea Lions", Saturdays, "The Three Bears of the Otago Museum"; Sundays, "Yellow-eyed Penguin"; Mondays, "Capybara"; Tuesdays, "The Moa"; Wednesdays, "Extinct Birds of the South Island".
Museum Icon Talk, daily 4pm: Autahi, the Leopard Seal.
• Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend, 1pm: gallery talk: the constellation Puaka Matariki.
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 1pm-3pm: "Rogues and Gentlemen", walking tour of 19th century Dunedin.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• "VS, the art of going over", by DWT.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until June 6: "Range", by Susanna Izard, and "Capriccios", by Nigel Buxton.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin, 556 George St.
• Until June 10: "Feeding A Nation: Our Provincial Pantry".
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• "Paperworks 7", featuring work by Jenny Dolezel, Inge Doesburg, Jane Crisp, Steev Peyroux, Robyn Kahukiwa, Nico Madill, Crispin Korschen, Michel Tuffery and more.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Winter hours: Wed-Sun, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• "Please God, let my children grow and live happily ever after", by Ro Bradshaw; "Storage Systems", by Margaret Feeney; "Castleland", by Justin Spiers; all until July 9.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Frances Hodgkins.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 17: "Forging A Magical Landscape: The Works of Robert Graves, Poet".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 12, Reed Gallery, third floor: "Guts, God & Gold: Dunedin in the 1860s".
Dunedin International Airport.
• Until June 14: Maria Kemp, "Recent Works".
• Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
• Until June 5: "The First City in History", by Fiona Amundsen.
• Until July 10: "A la Mode: Early 19th-century fashion plates from the collection".
• Until July 10: "Te Putahitanga o Rehua", by Reuben Paterson.
• Until July 17: "Seat Assignment", by Nina Katchadourian.
• Until April 15, 2012: "The French Connection", Frances Hodgkins and Impressionism.
• Until October 30: "Jeena Shin: Fractus".
• Until August 28: "Radiant Matter Part II", by Dane Mitchell.
• Until August 21: "Nollywood", by Pieter Hugo.
Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh.
• Until June 30: "Kokako", works by Rebecca Gilmore.
Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-3pm.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until June 12: "An Exploration of the 45th Parallel", by Anthony McKee.
• Until June 12: "Plateaux forming", by William Grenfell.
• Until June 12: "Fresh off the Wall", by Jesse Geary.
• Until June 12: "Wallpaper", an exhibition of printed artworks from the permanent collection of the gallery.
• Until June 12: "The Ladies of the Forrester", an exhibition of artworks by many of the women artists whose work is retained in the permanent collection.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 18: "Between The Tides", work by Darren Tautari.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 25: "Ore Struck: The use of gold in contemporary art and photography".
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until June 4: "Threads", by Lynne Wilson.
McAtamney Gallery, Upstairs, Old Post Office Building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Featuring work by John Badcock, mixed media by James Robinson, portraits by Susan Wilson, spitbite prints by Helen Badcock and photography by Susan Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until June 22: "Encoded Whare (2011)", by Peata Larkin.
• Until June 22: "The World of Erodipolis", by Andy Leleisiuao.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• From Saturday: "Dream Swimmers", by Paul Martinson.
• From Saturday: "Florescentia", by Sue Hawker.
Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
• Until June 10: "Fabrication", by Sandra Thomson.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Ends tomorrow: Autumn group show, featuring Stephen Bambury, Shane Cotton, Richard Killeen, Michael Parekowhai and Kelcy Taratoa.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: "Waitaki Landscapes".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• "Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander": mementos given by Lady Hillary.
• "Finely Furnished". "Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition". Special Exhibitions Gallery, Level 1: "Your Face Here". Merge your face into famous portraits and even become part of the exhibition.
• "Otago's Ocean". Explore the stories of Otago's ocean life from tidal zones to the deep sea.
Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
• Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until June 19: "It's All About Me", by Sharon Gilchrist.
• Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm.
Weekends: 10am-4pm.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin.
• "Pate Canape", work by Zhonghau Chen, Oscar Enberg, Gaby Montejo and Sebastian Warne.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until June 24: works by Lindsay Crooks, Ollie Crooks, Janet Weir, Peter Keane and Lorraine Marlow. Open Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until June 4: Louise Thompson Parker and Judy Ringland Stewart.
• From Monday until June 18: Rosemary McQueen and Peter Gregory.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until July 4: a selection of works by artists from the Taieri Art Group.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Until June 28: "Nightgarden", by Michaela Cox.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown.
• Until June 17: "Tipitipi Haere", by Kim Lowe and Jennifer Rendall.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Works by Ivan Clarke, Geoff Williams, Ben Ho, John Crump, Nigel Wilson and Peter Hackett.