Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Sunday, 4pm: Erin Morton (Delgirl) and Lisa Tui Jonathon, Dunedin songwriters, autumn acoustic show. Door sales $10.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays, 8.30pm-10.30pm, Bill Martin jazz trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Friday, 7.30pm: Luke Thompson and Lydia Cole NZ Music Tour.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club, with Richard Gilewitz.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, doors open 9pm: Tahu and the Takahes, Prophet Hens, Bikk.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, doors open 8pm: Black Rock Coffin Makers, Cry Wolf, Ramshackle.
Dunedin Public Library, Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 5.30-7pm: NZ Music Month gig night - Jo Little and Jared Smith, Shakes and the Swell Guys, Bill Morris.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Ombrellos, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5-7pm: Erin Morton (Delgirl).
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Tomorrow: OUSA Battle of the Bands, heat 1.
• Saturday: Summer Thieves.
• Tuesday: Open mike and open deck night.
• Wednesday: A Distant City.
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 Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
• Weekdays during the school holidays, 11am-12.30pm: Workshop for children, collect and create a collage. Bookings essential.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Trading Tales - storyteller Kaitrin McMullan and friends. Celebrating Fair Trade Fortnight.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: Fuji Fun school holiday programme - children's drawing competition. Adult supervision required for children under 6. Until Sunday: ''Brangwyn by Numbers'' school holiday programme. Adult supervision required for children under 6.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Today, 11am-noon: ''Crafty Kids: Felt Daffodils'' learn how to make felt flowers. Bookings essential.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Sunday, 1-4pm: Happy Bird Day to you. Find out how different birds care for their babies. Parents must accompany children under 6. Until Sunday: ''Nest Treasure Trail''. Cost included in entry fee to ecosanctuary.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 2,30pm: ''Magnificent Magnets'' Freaky Science Show.
• Today-Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!''. Investigation Station. Sunday, 11am: ''Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?''. Animal Attic, free.
• Today, 2.30pm: ''Radical Reactions'' Freaky Science Show. Saturday, 2.30pm: ''Phenomenal Abominable: Yeti Hunters''. Daily during school holidays: Wacky Words: School Holiday Trail. Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Dunedin Heritage Festival, children's craft workshops at Toitu - Today, all day: ''My guide to Dunedin'', create a guide that shows off your favourite Dunedin buildings.
• Today, 10-11.30am: ''Stained Glass Window''. create your own.
• Today: 1pm-2.30pm: ''Building in a Box'', design and decorate your own diorama house.
• Every Saturday and Sunday10am-4pm: ''Crafty Kids'', do some colouring in or create your own picture.
• Monday-Wednesday: School holiday programme - ''Come dance with us!''.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
All Saints Church, 786 Cumberland St, Dunedin.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: Rare Byrds early music consort, featuring Wellington recorder virtuoso Bernard Wells.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Poinsett Piano Trio Concert.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Central Otago 2013 Chamber Music Series - Poinsett Piano Trio.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• New Zealand Music Month - Today, 12.30-1.30pm: Phil Corfield Band.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 10am-midday: Masterclass with the NZ Trio.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: NZ Trio ''Old World: New World'' - Justin Cormack, violin, Ashley Brown, cello, Sarah Watkins, piano.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12:15: French organ music, Classical and Romantic, organists Simon Mace and Peter Stockwell.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: NZ Music Month Concert II - featuring Corwin Newall's Piano Trio with Tessa Petersen, violin, Heleen DuPlessis, cello Corwin Newall, piano.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: Music Month at Mosgiel - Both Sides of the Line - folk four-piece.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Beth Garey plays classical and Celtic scores on the lever harp.
Roxburgh Town Hall, Scotland St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Haggis Sandwich Gourmet offering from Andrew London and Steve McDonald.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays Nordic organ music.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Today, 6.30-7.30pm: ''Live at Toitu'' - Alan Gray.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 25: You can always hand them back, by Roger Hall.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Thursday-Saturday, 11am and 2pm: Peter Pan.
Talks and films
Alexandra Public Library, 43 Tarbert St.
• Monday, 1pm, Tuesday, 10am: Children's author Elizabeth Pulford.
Alexandra Memorial Hall, Skird St.
• Saturday, doors open 6.30pm, 7pm start: Kelvin Cruickshank ''Soul Food'' live.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today 10am-8pm: China Revealed: Zhangjiajie - Discover a fairyland that inspired James Cameron's Avatar.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 10.30am-midday: Art clinic offering free advice about conservation treatments, media, maker etc.
• Saturdays during May, 2pm: ''Tours@two''. Free guided tours of the collection exhibition ''The Pleasure Principle: Collecting and Collectors'', and the exhibition ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House.''
• Wednesday, May 8, 11.15am: Tour for tots.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through May. Monday: Kaka - New Zealand's rowdy parrot. Tuesday: The unsolved hoax of the Piltdown Man. Wednesday: Kereru - a New Zealand native pigeon. Thursday: Mutiny on the Bounty. Friday: The Lawrence Lions. Saturday: The Union Steam Ship Company. Sunday: Sri Lankan demon mask.
• Daily at 4pm during May: Special Exhibition Talk: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu,T'chakat Henu - People of the Land''.
Otago University, Commerce Room 2.03, Dunedin.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''What Covers (and Protects) our Past''. Public lecture by Dr Fenella G . France, chief, preservation research and testing division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Otago University, Seminar Room C1, 530 Castle St , Dunedin.
• Today, 4pm: Janet Stephenson and Rebecca Ford, from the Centre for Sustainability, on the Energy Cultures project.
A Drop of Red cafe, SH6 Cromwell.
• Today and Monday: Cromwell Film Society Beasts of the Southern Wild. No door sales.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Terence Malick's feature Badlands. No casual admissions.
Toitu, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunch time talk ''The Palmerston Poles'' by members of the Polish Heritage of Otago and Southland Charitable Trust.
• Sunday, 1-3pm: Talk and walk, ''Theatres of Dunedin: From Dens of Iniquity to Picture Palaces'', by Ann Barsby of the Southern Heritage Trust. Meet at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum Josephine Foyer.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Russ McLean Photographs.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Opens Sunday until May 26: Manu Berry, woodcuts ''White Noise''
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until May 18: Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project)
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Gary Blackman ''Late Entry''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 16: ''Museum Exhibition'' by photographer Eric Schusser.
• May: ''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 Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
• From Saturday until May 21: Dunedin Botanic Garden Photography Competition winners and judges' choice. Daily 10am-4pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: ''Caxton Press: The Art of Ordered Plainness''. Meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry.
Dunedin Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Monday-May 10: Artsenta presents ''Up An Octave'', community display of art and musical paraphernalia and art exchange.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until May 26: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: Saskia Leek ''Desk Collection''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins ''Colour and Light''.
• 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''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Monday, May 6-May 24: ''The Material World: Dunedin School of Art Sculpture 2002-2013''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Until June 9: ''A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy''.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Fifteen paintings and 15 poems celebrating the pearl wedding anniversary of Ewan and Sarah McDougall.
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 Wednesday: Ben Webb ''pavement exhibition'', all new works on paper.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Closes today: Richard Adams, Priscilla Cowie, Flox and Tai Kerekere.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 8: Shigeyuki Kihara ''Undressing the Pacific''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until May 12: New paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 17: ''Surrender'', new work by Kiri Mitchell. Open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm, or by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until Sunday: Quilt Art Exhibition, Una Landreth and Jeanette Hawker.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until May 12: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until Sunday: 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.
• Until Wednesday: Robert Ellis ''Paintings'' and new works featuring Dick Frizzell, Neil Dawson, Bridie Henderson, Andy Leleisi'uao and others.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday until May 29: Neal Palmers ''Return Journeys'' and Sue Hawker ''A Singular Occasion''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until Wednesday: ''Dreamscapes and Realities'' by artist Emilie Truscott.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until Sunday: ''Canterbury Quakes''.
• Until May 26: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land''.
• Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
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.
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 June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of the Southland Times''Ongoing: ''Southland 150''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until May 26: ''Brighton Show''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until May 11: Paddy Carr and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until June 4: Works by local artist Noel-Ann Stroud.
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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