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.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club, Three Feet in the Blues.
Coronation Hall, Maori Hill.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Acoustic Blues Roots show with Watermelon Slim, from Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Steve ''Guitar'' Gilles. $25 tickets at No 7 Balmac, Marbecks, Twang Town, Disk Den and Eventfinda. Door sales, if any, $30.
Frontier Bar, Ranfurly
• Saturday, 8pm: Rock Back Billy. Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, door open 9.30pm: Kilmog with Trick Mammoth and Sea Fog. Entry $10.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, Memorial St.
• Tuesday, 8pm: ''Fabulous Arabia'' - Tom Watson (Head Like A Hole), Toby Laing (Fat Freddy's Drop), Riki Gooch (Trinity Roots), Hayden East (Panther and the Zoo), and Fabulous (The Black Seeds) and Arabia.
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: Connect Four.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Saturday, 10pm: Ramshackle, free entry.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2-3pm: Bread 'n' Butter Theatre: How Frog Lost His Tail - a traditional Sukuma tale performed by clowns Danny Still and Kaitrin McMullan. Featuring puppets, live music, jokes and old-fashioned buffoonery. Suitable for children aged 4-100. Free.
• Tuesday, 10.30am-11am: ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''. Every Wednesday, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Thursday, 11am: ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am: ''The Rainbow Fish'' Storytelling Series - Hear The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, catch some fishy facts and make your own shiny fish kite.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during April, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!'' - Investigation Station. Discover facts about your super skeleton and put together real moa bones to make a moa's leg.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tonight, 6.30pm: ''Life Force: Australia'' - Discover more than 200 species of marsupials. (Duration 1 hour).
• Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Friday, 10-11am: Toddler Time - Join our storyteller in discovering a museum full of stories and songs. Play and craft activity. Free.
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 presented by Octagon Collective: Guest poets: Caroline Lark, Cy Mathews; MC: Martha Morseth. Open mike. Free entry, all welcome.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing. All welcome, Free.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand.
• Sunday, 1-2pm: Sunday Sounds: Blues Concert - Enjoy the final concert of the season.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians April recital meeting featuring pianist Sandra Crawshaw presenting a programme on ''Wild Women Composers''. All welcome.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Tomorrow 5pm: Launch of Britten100 Festival with Irish food, and illustrated lecture by Professor of Irish Studies Peter Kuch, with students performing Britten's Irish folk-song arrangements. Tuesday, 5.30pm: ''From The Borough to Venice: Benjamin Britten as an opera composer.''
• Lecture by Blair Professor of Music John Drummond, followed by operatic refreshments.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Lunchtime concert featuring chamber music by Britten, performed by university performance staff and guests.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Saturday, 8pm: Rock 'n' Roll Club is holding a public dance. Band is Impakt, of Invercargill. Tickets $18,no door sales.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
• Saturday, 7.30 and Sunday, 2.30pm: ''A Night at the Opera'' - concerts to raise funds for Opera Otago and the refurbishment of two grand pianos. The programme includes choruses from The Gypsy Baron, Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Die Fledermaus, Merry Widow and Madam Butterfly.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Jonny Dyas performs jazz originals on piano. St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Sunday, 10pm: Choral matins featuring the Cathedral Choir with George Chittenden, director/organist.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ works for Easter, to include music by Messiaen and Arthur Wills.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St.
• Wednesday-Friday April 19, 7.30pm: Dunstan High School presents Disco Inferno, a musical with more than 25 classic '70s hits including Celebration, Crocodile Rock, Hot Stuff, I Will Survive and YMCA.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Today, 5.30pm, 6.30pm and 7.30pm: Live Drama - Kavanagh College senior drama students present three 30-minute dramas, one based on the shipboard life of early settlers, another on challenges faced by early immigrants and the third on difficulties during wartime. Free. Sunday, 1-4pm: Bookbinding Workshop - Come to our beginner's class and make a hand-sewn soft-covered notebook. Tutor Jane Armour, all materials supplied. $25.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: The Otago Daily Times Theatre poet Brian Turner This World of Ours and Mine. $10.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Gangster Squad.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Samsara.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The Otago Daily Times Theatre Miss EM. $10.
Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
• Tuesday and Saturday during April, 10.30am: Prison tours $10 per head.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 5.30pm: Debate - ''The Tyranny of Money: Are We Slaves to Money?'' Senior debating teams from Columba College and Logan Park High School.
Winner to be decided by audience acclaim. Event in association with the Goldin+Senneby exhibition M&A.
• Saturday, 3pm: Someone Else's Country, by Alister Barry (DVD 1hr 49min) The story of the New Right revolution in New Zealand. During the early 1980s, a group of right-wing economists came to dominate policy development in the New Zealand Treasury. In association with the Goldin+Senneby exhibition M&A.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society Friends Coffee Morning, guest speaker John Z Robinson, to speak on Patricia France. Friends and members of the public warmly welcome.
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 April: Monday: ''Cheeky Kea - New Zealand's alpine parrot''. Tuesday: ''Southern Whaling''. Wednesday: ''Blashka Glass Models - Art or Science?''. Thursday: The Long and Short of New Zealand's Bats. Friday: ''Aboriginal Art - the oldest continuing art tradition''. Saturday: ''Shaping History: Maori stone tools''. Sunday: ''Sri Lankan Demon Mask''.
• 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 Germaine Dulac's 1928 work The Seashell and the Clergyman and Jean Cocteau's 1932 contribution The Blood of a Poet. Free to film society members. Three-movie passes $25. No casual admission. See website www.dunedinfilmsociety.arts.net.nz
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.
• New collection of oil paintings by Peter Beadle.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Michael Harrison ''Invasion Biology''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Artist Fay Mitchell's 2012 works.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• April: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jim Robbie's woodwork.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 25: ''From Apprentice to Graduate'' 50 Years of Pharmacy Education at the University of Otago, 1963-2013.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: ''Caxton Press: The Art of Ordered Plainness'' - From 8 to 80 years, meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry. Discover how their passion for print brought James K. Baxter, Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson into the limelight.
Dunedin Gasworks Museum, Braemar St, South Dunedin.
• Until April 21, Sundays noon-4pm: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• April: Artists in the Terminal - Nick Dempster and Philip Beadle.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: ''Home Sewn'' original NZ fashion.
• Until Sunday: ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France 1820-1900''.
• Until May 26: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A'' by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• April: ''Rain in the Hills & Other Weather,'' ceramics by Madeleine Child.
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 Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Opens tomorrow 5pm until May 2: In association with the Festival of Colour Billboard Project.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until Saturday: ''The Liquid Dossier'', by Nick Austin.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• 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.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Opens tomorrow until May 12: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition - painting and applied art from throughout New Zealand.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until May 5: Rebecca Thomson and Stafford Allpress ''Noticing. Keeping. Preserving''. New works by John Badcock, Nicolas Dillon. Resale work: ''The Dreamer AA Deans'' by John Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, until May 8: Robert Ellis 'Paintings' and New Works featuring Dick Frizzell, Neil Dawson, Bridie Henderson, Andy Leleisi'uao, Karl Maughan, Jenna Packer, Bruce Hunt and Linda Holloway.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 1: The Royal Queenstown Easter Show.
•Until May 1: Bruce Hunt's ''The Longest Road''.
Minaret Lodge, Eely Pt Rd, Wanaka.
• Until Wednesday: Art in the Park - Neal Palmer, of Auckland, as artist in residence. 10am-noon and 1pm-3pm daily.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until April 18: ''Keto's Monsters'', by Anthea Ibell.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
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 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 Saturday: Marion Familton and Dawn Palmer.
• Opens Monday until April 27: Peter Gregory and Rosemary McQueen.
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 Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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