Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
• Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin Jazz Trio.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: The Whirling Eddys.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays 9pm: Open mike night.
Taieri Bowling Club, 12 Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
• Saturday, 8pm: Dance with music by Breakthru. $5 admission.
Waitiri Creek Winery, Gibbston.
• Tomorrow, 5pm: Classic Hits Winery Tour.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Preschool storytime.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents. 4th floor.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school storytime.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Thursdays, 11am-11.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: Friday Flicks: free family movie screening. Downes room.
Tuesday, 11am: Preschool storytime. Children's Area.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am: The Japanese Way of Tea and Calligraphy - Japanese culture presentation and tea ceremony. People of the World gallery.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily, 3.30pm: ''Nest is Best'', investigation station, atrium level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: Preschool storytime, children's area.
Ranfurly main street.
• Saturday, from 9am: Art Deco Festival Street Fair - markets, food stalls, art exhibition, fashion parade, music. Cavalcade parade at noon.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time, children's room.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
10 Mission Cove, Company Bay.
• Sunday, 6pm: Recital: Sydney Manowitz (violin) and Donald Cullington (piano). Caselberg Trust, limited tickets.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music, dancing.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Monday, 6pm: Plainsong to Pergolesi: Southern Consort of Voices performs. Ground floor.
Ranfurly Hotel, 10 Charlemont St, Ranfurly.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Dinner and Cocktails with Jazz music - Art Deco Festival.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: Organ recital by George Chittenden.
Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until March 1, 7.30pm; Sunday 2pm: Journey's End- life in the trenches during World War 1.
Talks and films
Blueskin Bay Library, Harvey St.
• Tomorrow, 5pm: Odd Couples, NHNZ film screening.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 1pm: ''Plainchant to Pergolesi: Rameau - a French baroque genius!'' Talk by Christopher John Clifford. Ground Floor.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Bright Young Things film screening.
• Sundays, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Wonderwall'' and ''Hotere Culbert'' exhibitions.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Daily at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday February 22 and 23, 3pm: Dragons of Komodo NHNZ Film Screening. Barclay Theatre.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Rabbits - scourge of the land?
• Tomorrow: Otago Museum's Egyptian mummy.
• Saturday: Karetao - Maori puppet.
• Sunday: Fin whale skeleton.
• Monday: Rat king.
• Tuesday: Contemporary carved gateway.
• Wednesday: Moa - extinct flightless birds.
• Daily until March 7, 4pm: Tangata Whenua Gallery talk.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Till March 2: Mary Macpherson ''Old New World''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Peter Beadle, large paintings.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Ongoing: ''Transforma N8VLAB'', Michel Tuffery and Tracey Tawhiao with Wi Taepa and Kereama Taepa.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Open daily, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Till Saturday: ''[sic]'', by Zac Langdon-Pole.
• From Wednesday until March 22: ''When your neighbours' problems become your own,'' by Cat Auburn.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• From Saturday: ''New Works & Old Works'', by Martin Thompson.
Carrick Winery, 247 Caimmuir Rd.
• Till February 28: Jenny Hill exhibition.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Till March 13: ''Form & Fantasy'' clay sculpture and pottery exhibition.
Creative Arts Centre, 142 Clyde St, Balclutha.
• Today until Sunday: South Otago Patchwork Group exhibition. 10am-4pm daily.
Croydon Aviation Centre, Mandeville.
• Till Monday: ''4 Colour Lovers'' exhibition featuring Christine O'Connor, Jodie Marlow, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Liz Bristow. 9.30am-4.30pm weekdays, 11am-3pm weekends.
Dowling Street Studios, 20a Dowling St.
• Saturday until Februrary 27: ''Between Ourselves'', new paintings by Claire Peters. 10am-2pm daily.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Till March 2: ''A Distinct New Zealand Flavour: McNab's Gift to Dunedin''. Celebrating 100 years of the McNab Collection.
• Till March 10: ''Plainsong to Pergolesi: A Timeline of Early Music'' - exhibition paying homage to music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods. 1st and ground floors.
Dunedin International Airport.
• February: Photographer Derek Morrison.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Till Sunday: ''Wonderwall'', 50 paintings from the permanent collection.
• Till Sunday: ''Rear Window'', Babyhood Moodboard by Dawn Marble and Luka Mues.
• Till March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Till March 30: ''Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s''.
• Till March 30: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins.
• Till March 30: ''Gifted'', recent acquisitions.
• Till April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Until February 28: ''Free Beauties'', by MFA candidate Kristin O'Sullivan Peren
Front Room, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
• Until March 7: ''absence and presence'', by Odelle Morshuis.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Until February 27: ''Pearler'', paintings by Ewan McDougall and poetry by Sarah McDougall.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Glorious'', Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until April 5: ''No Need for Water'', Zina Swanson.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until March 8: ''Willow on Clutha'', new work by Nigel Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until March 9: A selection of works on paper.
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: ''Sign of the Times''.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until March 12: ''States of Emergency'' Jenna Packer; ''New Works'' group show.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until March 5: ''Girl and the Garden'', by Charlotte Handy; ''The Earl Street Journal'', group exhibition.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until February 27: ''Flux'', photographs by Murray Eskdale.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes Street.
• New works by Danny Moorwood.
Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Open daily 10am-5pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until March 9: Summer Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until March 16: ''Prima Threads'', works on paper by Gordon Thompson, textiles by Janine Thompson.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Ranfurly Town Hall.
• Saturday, from 10am: Maniototo Art Exhibition.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until February 28: John Mayne, copper sculpture.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• ''Rare Delights III. Recent Additions to Special Collections''.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday. Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open Saturday, Sunday 11am-4pm.
