Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Tomorrow, 7-10pm: Terry Ebeling.
• Sunday, 3-6pm: The Accordion Criminals Celtic Roadshow.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Every Friday 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with The Bill Martin Trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Tonight and Wednesday, 7pm: Fringe - SongSale, Free Entry.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Fringe - Sonic Delusion.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, doors open 8.30pm: Scurvy Dogs with Infinite Justice, and from Germany, Machina Rex. Music 9.30pm. Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 9pm: Quantim, dynamic three-piece band.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
• Tonight, 7pm: Nick Knox ''Contrapuntal Keys''.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Every Tuesday, 10.30-11am (until April 16): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''. Every Wednesday, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): Pre-school storytime.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Margaret Mahy storytime.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Every Thursday, 11am (until April 18): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
• Tuesday, 11am: Margaret Mahy storytime.
• Every Tuesday, 11am (excludes school holidays): Pre-school storytime.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am-4pm: ''The Big Get Together''.
• Saturdays and Sundays during March, 3pm: ''Liquefy This'' Investigation Station. Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
St Francis Xavier School, 27 Benhar St, Maryhill.
• Saturday, 2-3pm: The Hispanic Group Otago (Grupo Hispano Otago) the Saturday's Hispanic (Sábados Hispanos) with Spanish language story telling, children's activities. Port Chalmers Library.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): Pre-school storytime.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Poetry readings. Featured poet: Lynley Edmeades. MC: Sarah Paterson. Open mike.
The ,Church Dundas St.
• Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 7pm: Fringe - ''What is this, woman's hour?'', comedy.
• Fridays, 9pm: Salsa music and dancing. Free.
Community Gallery, Princes St.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8pm: Fringe - ''How to make friends and still appear normal'', dance.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand.
• Sunday 1-2.30pm: Sunday Sounds jazz concert.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 6-7.30pm: ''Poetry with a Pulse: Interlude'' - Bill Manhire and Sue Wootton. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Fringe - Footnote Dance. Maatakitakihia Mai Tenei Waahi. Footnote Dance performs in the gallery spaces drawing inspiration from the artwork on display.
Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
• Wednesday, 10pm: Fringe - ''Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show''.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Port Chalmers.
• Sunday, 3.30pm: Fringe - ''Cantigas'' Aahmes Quince presents an hour-long concert of music from the 13th century on period woodwind instruments, hurdy-gurdy and voice.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30 pm: Society of Women Musicians annual meeting and recital featuring the Dunedin Star Singers conducted by Carole Randall and accompanied by Edith Martin.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 8pm: Fringe - ''Gobsmacked: Showbiz and Dating''.
Madly British, 286 Princes St.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8.30pm: Fringe - ''Whinging Pom'', comedy.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Recital of 2012 student prizewinners, vocal and instrumental works.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: Rock the '50s, '60s and '70s with Tom Sharplin and friends.
Municipal Chambers, The Octagon.
• Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 8pm: Fringe - Polson and Higgs Comedy Club. The Octagon.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8.30pm: Fringe - ''In and Out of Context'', circus.
Otago Pioneer Women's Hall, 362 Moray Pl
• Wednesday, 8pm: Fringe - ''Cantigas'' Aahmes Quince presents an hour-long concert of music from the 13th century on period woodwind instruments, hurdy-gurdy and voice.
Ombrellos, 10 Clarendon St.
• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8.30pm: Fringe - Comic Addiction Presents: Relapse.
Queens, 1 Queens Garden.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10pm: Fringe - ''Trubie and Abby are just a bit worried'', comedy.
St Francis Xavier School, 27 Benhar St, Maryhill.
• Saturday, 8-9.30pm: Grupo Hispano Otago (Hispanic Group Otago) evening of music and poetry with Mexican poet Rogelio Guedea.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays Joseph Jongen's epic Sonata Eroica.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl.
• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8pm: Fringe - Entomo urban dance.
Plays
Dunedin Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
• Wednesday, 6.30pm: Fringe - Picnic Bard.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Tuesday and Wednesday, 8pm: Fringe - There is No Person Without a World.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 6.30pm: Fringe - Faulty Towers, the Dining Experience: Dinner Show and three-course meal.
Dunedin Gasworks Museum, 2 Braemar St, South Dunedin.
• Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 6.30pm and 8.30pm: Fringe - Mr Faust and Dr Jabberwocky: A steampunk fire-fable.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until March 23: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written by Nora and Delia Ephron.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Thursday, Friday and Sunday, 9pm, Saturday 2pm and 9pm: Fringe - Privatising Parts.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 7pm, Sunday, 2pm and 7pm: Fringe - The Last Taniwha.
• Wednesday, 9pm: Fringe - A Play About Space.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Thursday and Friday, 7pm, Saturday, 3pm and 7pm: Fringe - The road that wasn't there.
Talks and films
Arts Building (Burns 7), University of Otago.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Classical Association of Otago presents Simon Perris, (Victoria University at Wellington), ''Marmite and the Chorus of Greek Tragedy''.
Community Gallery, Princes St.
• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am: Fringe - ''4:33 - Still Recording''.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
• Sunday, 2.30-3.30pm: ''Backstage with The Friends: Magical Mystery Tour'' - a glimpse behind the scenes at the garden.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, noon: Vintage Fashion Tours - Discover the weird and wonderful tricks your grandmother used to swear by for looking her best. Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 10.30am and Tuesday, 10.30pm: Prison tours, one hour. No lift access to upper floors and not suitable for small children.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Emerging Talent 2013 - Meet the designers. A selection of garments from the iD International Emerging Designers' Award will be on display. Designers will talk about their inspiration and other aspects of their work.
• Sunday, 3pm: Muster [Rushes] - experimental film by Clemens von Wedemeyer set in the former 12th-century Benedictine monastery in Breitenau, near Kassel, Germany.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursday, 4.30pm: ''Tours of the Theomin Art Collection''. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through March: Monday: El Niño and La Niña. Tuesday: Karetao - Maori puppet. Wednesday: Possum. Thursday: Venus de Milo. Friday: Southern sky. Saturday: Polynesian voyaging. Sunday: The Falkland fox. Free.
• Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''. Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 7pm: Fringe - Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show and Films.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Claire Denis' Beau Travail.
Zoology Benham Building, 346 Great King St.
• Tuesday, 5.30pm. Dr Janice Lord, Department of Botany. ''Breeding systems in NZ alpine plants''. All welcome.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Peter Beadle Watercolours.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Claire Beynon, Olav Nielsen and Kate Alterio.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• March: featuring Max Bellamy, Emma Chalmers, Max Oettli.
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Fringe - ''Today in History''.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Jeffrey Harris ''Family''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Local artist Fay Mitchell's 2012 works.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Opens tomorrow until April 5: ''Form and Function'' Photo competition entries on display.
• March-April: ''Spotlight on Design'' Jim Robbie's woodwork.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Tuesday and Wednesday, noon: Fringe - ''Fifty Shades of Braille''.
Dowling Street Project Space, 20a Dowling St.
• Fringe - ''Hurry up and wait.''
Dunedin Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
• Until March 31: ''Taoka Puoro'', traditional musical instruments of southern Maori by Alistair Fraser and ''Nga Kakahu'', cultural use of native plants by Roka Cameron. 10am-4pm daily.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Natural Disasters'' - New Zealand's natural environment is beautiful, but it can also be deadly. Discover the strength of mother nature. Ground floor.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France 1820-1900''.
• Until April 7: ''Elsewhere'', contemporary work.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato, ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the billiard room of Horton House''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Opens Tuesday until March 22: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''. Open noon-4pm.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until April 7: ''Haunts of Dickens'': Touring exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Until April 7: Kobi Bosshard ''Objectspace Masters of Craft''.
Flourish Studio Gallery, 218 Musselburgh Rise.
• Until March 24: Fringe - ''On the Rise'', group show with works of more than 30 artists including Rob McLeod, Michael Morley, John Paxie, Hamish Mulvaney, Janet de Wagt, Inge Doesburg, Pamela Brown, Pauline Bellamy.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm, Wed-Sun.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until March 22: new works by Bing Dawe, Elizabeth Moyle and Ben Reid.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St, Dunedin.
• Until March 24: ''Nymphets (Auck )at Dunedin Fashion Week - Underwater Apocalypse Adventure Vacation''. Daily 12-4pm.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 13: ''The Liquid Dossier Nick Austin''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: ''Fashion show'' with works by Inge Doesburg, Kirsten Ferguson, Lynn Kelly, Motoko Kikkawa, Kathryn Madill, Marion Mewburn, Marie Strauss. Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm or by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Opens Saturday until March 29: Tane's Lament for the Moa. Carvings by Pav Pawlowicz.
• Hours Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-3.30pm.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Opens tomorrow until April 7: 'Upstream of the Herd- Exploring Fresh New Streams' mixed media and Fibre art by the COOTS Group.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Upper Moray Pl.
• Fringe - ''Monsters Great and Small''.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Ongoing: new artists and work by Sarah Harper, John Badcock, Sarah Blackler (ceramics) and Douglas Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Opens Saturday until April 10: John Parker ''Black + White + Red'' and Shigeyuki Kihara ''Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• John Paxie, potter-in-residence at Glenfalloch Gardens, ''What I wasn't allowed to say ...''. Noon-5.30pm weekdays and noon-4pm Saturdays.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, runs until April 6: ''One out of the box'' a Caselberg Trust fundraising exhibition.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until April 3: Max Gimblett ''All that is''.
Nectar Espresso Bar + Cafe, 286 Princes St.
• Until Monday: Jacob Feenstra ''Photograms''.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Art Society, OAS Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until April 7: `City of Dunedin' national art awards.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until May 5: ''Canterbury Quakes''.
• Until May 26: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land''.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery: a continuously updated exhibition.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Monday-Sunday,10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until March 23: ''With Respect'' work by Trevor Byron, Chaim Cleavin, Nikkie Gibson, Chris Idour, David McLeod, Jade Muirhead, Kathryn Yeats and David Holmes.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Seriously Twisted, The Octagon.
• Fringe - ''Woven Luxury''.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until Sunday: Garry Freemantle ''Digging Deep''.
• Until April 7: Peter Belton ''On Being There''.
• Until April 28: Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Portrait Gallery ''The Art of Science''.
• Ongoing: ''Southland 150''.
Stuart Street Pottres Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until March 28: Judy Ringland Stewart and Suzanne Emslie.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until April 2: Paintings of Otago Hunt by Jane McLeod.
Teddyland, 22 Kerry Court, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 2-4pm: Private collection of over 900 Teddy bears open for viewing.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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