Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Blarney Bar, Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.
• Tuesdays, 7pm: Irish Sing-along.
• Wednesdays, 7pm: Folk Night.
• Thursday, 7pm: Singer/songwriter Vebka.
• Fridays, 6pm: Open Irish session.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Amanda Goodwin.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Every Friday: Viernes Latin music fiesta from 8.30pm. Free beginners' lesson from 7.30pm.
• Every Sunday: Ukulele class. 6pm-7pm.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Every Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Cromwell Memorial Hall
• Saturday: Solid Gold, from 8pm.
For tickets phone (03) 445-3014. No door sales.
Crystal Palace, Wanaka
• Tuesday, 8.30pm: Micheline Van Hautem.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Every Thursday: open-mike night.
• Friday, 7.30pm: Bluestone.
Historic Cardrona Hall
• Tomorrow, 8pm: Andy Irvine and Rens van der Zalm.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8.30pm.
• Every Friday, 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel, Otago University.
• Friday, 8pm: Quakefest '11 featuring Permanence, Hayne, Anthesiac, Killshot Medics and Lupus Lunar.
• 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.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Friday, 8pm: Quakefest '11 featuring Dialtones, Undercurrents, Valdera, Piha Rescue, T 54 and Gorgeous Disorders.
Saturday, 10pm: Rocky Horror-themed dance party featuring Mr Nick Knox, The Peachy Keen Burlesque, The R.A.W Wenches, Disco Lizard, Night Owl, TRASH, Haszari, Sonic Smith and Khamzim Tribe.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
• Every Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman, Nick Cornish and Ben Stegmann.
Tonic, 138 Princes St.
• Saturday, 9pm: The Titts with Loui.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
• Fridays,10.30am: Storytime, free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 10.30am: Wriggle & Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning.
Wednesdays, 10.30am: Storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 15, 10am-5pm: "Pacific Panoramas" - Using materials provided, map an aerial view or patterns of roads, rivers, birds, fish, lizards, city views. In association with the exhibition "John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals)".
Wednesday, April 13, 11:15am: Tours for Tots. Free baby-friendly half-hour tour followed by a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
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.
• Mountaineer's Montage - Every Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Discover the technologies which have helped climbers conquer Earth's extreme peaks. Free.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Wednesdays, 11am: Storytime.
Roxburgh Baptist Church
• Every Tuesday: Music and Movement coffee and playgroup, 10am-11.30am. Contact Gemma on 446-8221.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
• Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the visitor centre.
Music and performance
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Lunchtime concert, Wednesday, 1pm: Music for flute, cello and piano.
Mayfair Theatre.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Otago Symphonic Band performs "Around the World in a Rugby Cup". Conductors Kathy Thompson and Robert Craigie.
Maurice Joel Theatre, Otago Boy's High School.
• April 7-9, 7.30pm, April 10, 4pm: Footloose, a joint production by OGHS and OBHS. Tickets from both school offices and at the door.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre
• Weekend April 9 and 10: Otago/Southland Brass Bands Association Contest. Six bands.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Lunchtime music, Saturday, 1pm in the atrium: Kathryn Galel. Sunday, 1pm: Linda Munro.
Plays
Fortune Studio, Stuart St.
• Until April 17, Tuesday-Saturday, 7.30pm; Sunday, 4pm: The Second Test, written and performed by Jonathan Brugh.
Talks and films
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 1pm: Talk: "The Catwalk as Creative Front Line".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am & 5.30pm, Teen Space, City Library: NHNZ Film Screening: The Most Extreme: Fashion Disasters. Success in the natural world means standing out in the crowd. Free.
Dunedin Film Society, The Church Cinema, Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Tom Peosay's documentary Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion.
Dunedin School of Art, corner Albany and Riego streets.
• Today, 12.15pm, Art Seminar with Peter Stupples and David Green: "Paradesia, A Project on the Art of the Pacific".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays, 1.30pm, and Wednesdays, 12.30pm: free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Tomorrow, 11am: ID Fashion Week special: Charlotte Smith, curator of the Darnell Collection of vintage clothes and accessories, will give a public lecture.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Free daily talks, 2pm. Today, "Mammalian aliens".
• For April: Fridays: "Otago's giant skinks".
• Saturdays: "Cook Island staff gods".
• Sundays: "Kakapo: An unusual bird".
• Mondays, "Legend of Osiris".
• Tuesdays, "New Zealand bats".
• Wednesdays, "Rakiriri - The Dunedin volcano".
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
• Until April 9: Phillip James Frost, "Paper Work".
Open Saturdays.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until April 10: Rachael Polson, "Now & Always".
• Until April 10: Marian Maguire, "The Labours of Herakles".
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
• From tomorrow: "The Wreath Series - Like Autumn Leaves we're in for a change", by Anet Neutze.
Archives New Zealand , Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Until April 15: "Refer to Gold Fields Secretary: Administration of the Otago Gold Fields", featuring original letters by Gabriel Read. Open Monday to Friday 9.30am-5pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• From Saturday: New works by Susan Webb, Brian Strong and J.K. Reed.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until April 11: "Deeply Bitten Ground", by Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, Max Bellamy, Jodie Austin. Open daily noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Project Art Space, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: "Arytipidal", by Andy Leleisi'uao.
• Until April 16: "The Fullness of Empty Pockets", by Colleen Altagracia, and "At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)", by Clare Fleming.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Downing St.
• "An Alternative History", by Ben Cauchi.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 8: "Drift" by Anna Smythe.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 17: "Forging A Magical Landscape: The Works of Robert Graves, Poet".
Dowling St Project, 20a Dowling St.
• Until April 10: April Fool's Day Exhibition by Sam Foley, Alan Ibell, Sacha Lauchlan, Desi Liversage, Daniel Roberts, Jo Robertson, Liz Rowe, Sally Shephard, Anya Sinclair and Jampa Stewart
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 12, Reed Gallery, third floor: "Guts, God & Gold: Dunedin in the 1860s".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 17: Simon Morris, "Black Watercolour".
• Ongoing: "Beloved".
• Until May 8: "Hauaga (Arrivals)" featuring works by Niuean artist John Pule.
• 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. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until April 10: "Bohemians of the Brush", Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists.
• Until April 10: "2010 Adam Portraiture Award".
Endemic Gallery, Old Post Office, Roxburgh
• Until April 30: New works by Rebecca Gilmore. Detailed studies of New Zealand native birds.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until April 10: "8 Years, 8 Works", by Marcus Wainwright.
• Until April 10: "Still Lives", by Sue Marshall.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
• Contemporary works by Otago Peninsula artists.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until April 10: "Stylised: Paintings, Jewellery, Photography and Printmaking", various artists. Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Until April 17: "Containment" by Joanna Tokona. Green Island Gallery, 94a Main South Rd, Green Island.
• April 9-30: "Southern Scenes" by Ron Esplin.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 30: "Honey in the Rock", by Joanna Langford.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until April 23: paintings by Odelle Morshuis.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Selected works. Open Thurs-Sat noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until April 18: Lindsay Kennett, Master Milliner: "A Life in Art and Fashion".
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until April 27: "Material Motives", group show featuring work by painters Peata Larkin, Reuben Paterson and Lorraine Rastorfer, photographer Richard Orjis and ceramist John Parker.
• Until April 27: "Shades of Blue and Clear" by Galia Amsel.
• Until April 27: "The Backlands", by Bruce Hunt.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9A Earl St.
• From Saturday: "Gems", works by painters Nigel Brown, Garry Currin, Robert Ellis, Ralph Hotere, Karl Maughan and Gary Waldrom, glass artist Ann Robinson and sculptor Neil Dawson.
• From Saturday: "The Royal Queenstown Easter Show". Monumental, 7 Anzac Ave.
Until April 10: "Doppelganger", by Nicola Jackson.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until April 18: "Essence" by Leanne Trbuhovic.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• April 8-29: "Breathe", by Tony Lane.
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".
• "Mo Tatou", presenting the journey of Ngai Tahu Whanui.
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.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until June 19: "It's All About Me": colourful, playful works by Sharon Gilchrist.
• Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: "Focus on the Fellas", jewellery for blokes and ceramic sculptures by Robert Rapson.
Port Chalmers Museum, 19 Beach St, Port Chalmers.
• "Layers of Gold" exhibition, gold dredge display.
Rice and Beans, Level 2, 127 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin
• Laura Shepard and Tao Wells "6% Forced Unemployment, Stops Wages Rising. Fakes Job Competition".
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
• Until Saturday: "Surface" by Kathryn Gordon & Catherine Robson.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• April 8-June 24: Works by Lindsay Crooks, Ollie Crooks, Janet Weir, Peter Keane and Lorane Marlow. Open Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until April 10: Peter Gregory and Jo Howard.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until May 12: Landscape photography by Murray Crawford.
Tangente Cafe, Moray Pl.
• Until April 24: "From the Mountains to the Sea", by Cheryl and Deano Shirriffs.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• "As it is on Earth", by Peter Nicholls.
Tony Williams Gallery, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until April 16: An exhibition of large jewellery by goldsmith Tony Williams.
The Tussock Room, Oakridge Resort, Wanaka.
Cnr Cardrona and Studholme roads.
• April 12-17: "A Common Thread", By Coots Fibreart Group. Wanaka Arts Centre, 21 Brownston St.
April 12-17: Work by the Wanaka Painters Group.
Wanaka Fine Art Gallery, 4 Helwick St.
• Work by John Crump, Ben Ho, Nigel Wilson and Ivan Clarke.