Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with the Bill Martin Trio.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Tonight: Freddy Fudd Pucker tour of NZ.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Wayne Mason and Clint Brown.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club.
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.
Roaring Meg Bar, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 9pm: Tie Dye is playing.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mic night.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Every Tuesday, 10.30am-11am (until April 16): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''. Every Wednesday, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): preschool storytime.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Every Thursday, 11am (until April 18): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Tomorrow and Monday, 11.30am: ''Marvellous Moa Piñata'' - Egg-cellent Easter Workshop. Tomorrow-Tuesday, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones'' - Investigation Station. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton and have a go at putting together real moa bones to make a moa's leg!Discover how marvellous moa eggs are, see real moa eggs up close, and then make your own moa-egg piñata. Atrium Level 1. $2 per child. Bookings essential.
• 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.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool storytime.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ music of the Soviet Union, to include music by Arro, Mushel and Shaverzashvili.
Plays
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Closes tonight, 7.30pm: Clyde Theatre Group presents Darling Mr London.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Django Unchained.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Flight.
• Sunday, 2pm: Life of Pi 3D.
• Wednesday, 2pm: Quartet.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
• Saturday, 10am-noon: Workshop: Propagation of Native Plants - Presented by Alice Lloyd-Fitt, Propagation Services Officer. Meet at upper garden car park by aviary entrance. $10. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 10.30am: prison tours, 1hr. No lift access to upper floors and not suitable for small children.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursday, 4.30pm: ''Tours of the Theomin Art Collection''. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Hunting the Ice Whales - NHNZ film screening. This shared venture between the Australian Antarctic Division and New Zealand's key marine and Antarctic research agencies aims to prove it's possible to conduct research on whales without killing them. Barclay Theatre. Entry by gold coin donation. Daily talks at 2pm through March: Thursday: Venus de Milo. Friday: Southern sky. Saturday: Polynesian voyaging. Sunday: The Falkland fox. Monday: Cheeky kea, New Zealand's alpine parrot. Free.
• Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''. Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society will screen the second of three classic road movies: John O'Shea's black-and-white film Runaway.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre, Scotland St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Les Miserables (PG13, 134mins).
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Until April 26: ''Please sign our Visitors' Book!'' An exhibition of visitors' books from Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office holdings.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by Sandra McElrea.
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.
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.
• 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.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
• Until Sunday: ''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 Gasworks Museum, Braemar St, South Dunedin.
• Until April 21, Sundays midday-4pm: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 7: ''Elsewhere'', contemporary work.
• Until April 14: ''Géricault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France 1820-1900''.
• Until May 26: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A'' by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Opens Monday until April 5: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
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''.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Until April 3: MintSix boutique homewares with a selection of original New Zealand art, reproduction prints and large mixture of beautiful imported homewares.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 13: ''The Liquid Dossier'', by Nick Austin.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until Saturday: Rachel Hirabayashi, ''Lighthouse''. Opens Sunday until April 21: Annemarie Hope-Cross, ''A Midsummer's Garden''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until April 20: ''On Assignment''. Matchbox toys by Mike O'Kane.
• Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm or by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Closes tomorrow: 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.
• Until April 7: ''Upstream of the Herd - Exploring Fresh New Streams'' mixed media and fibre art by the COOTS Group.
Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell.
• Tomorrow-Monday: The Cromwell Arts and Crafts Easter Exhibition. Guest artists: Joan Neil (stained glass and multimedia works), Marion Mewburn (potter), Joyce Watt (embroiderer), Bev Muir (felter). Entry is by gold coin donation. 10am-4pm.
Macandrew Bay Hall.
• Until Tuesday: Otago Peninsula Artists (OpenArts) ''Almost an Island'' exhibition.
Masonic Lodge, Clyde.
• Tomorrow-Sunday: Easter Cash and Carry Exhibition held by the Central Otago Art Society.
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.
• Until April 10: John Parker ''Black + White + Red'' and Shigeyuki Kihara ''Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 1: The Royal Queenstown Easter Show.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until April 18: ''Keto's Monsters'' by Anthea Ibell.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until April 6: ''One out of the box''. A Caselberg Trust fundraising exhibition.
Mt Iron Function Centre, Albert Town Tavern, Albert Town.
• Tomorrow-Monday: Wanaka Art Society is holding its annual Easter exhibition. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-6pm, Monday, 10am-3.30pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until Wednesday: Max Gimblett, ''All that is''.
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.
• Until August 4: ''Paint the Town'', by Unn West. Ongoing: ''Mementos of the South''.
Art South Otago.
• 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.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• 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 Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Closes today: Judy Ringland Stewart and Suzanne Emslie.
• April 2-13: Marion Familton and Dawn Palmer.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until Tuesday: paintings of Otago Hunt, by Jane McLeod.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
• Featuring works by local artists Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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