Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, George St, Dunedin.
• Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Today, 9.30pm: Monty Bevins and SOdiva (Fringe Festival).
• Tomorrow, 9.30pm: Spinster and Bill Martin Jazz Trio (Fringe Festival).
• Saturday, 9.30pm: Nick Knox and Strange Harvest (Fringe Festival).
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Saturday, 9pm: Clap Clap Riot, Nobody Everybody album release tour.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Osmium, Iron Tusk, Abstract Survival, Marylands.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, from 8.30pm: Scurvy Dogs, Infinite Justice and Iron Mammoth. Members $2, public $5.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5.30-7.30pm: Erin Morton with Terry Ebeling and Steve Hudson; Richard Dingle.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Today, 8.30-11.30pm: Mbryo. Tomorrow, 9pm: The Whirling Eddys.
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-3pm: Brain Awareness family day. Atrium level 1.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 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.
Queenstown gardens, Park St, Queenstown.
• Saturday, 10am-5pm: Gibbston Wine and Food Festival. 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
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
• Until Saturday, 7.30pm: Stars in their Eyes, Alexandra Musical Society production.
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Complete Reality, play by Hamish Annan.
• Tuesday and Wednesday, 7pm: ''Cut. Paste. Collaborate.'' GASP! dance collective performance (Fringe Festival).
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 5.30-7pm: ''Poetry on the Bay'', poetry evening.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music, dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Octagon Poets Collective open mike poetry evening with guest poets Anny Trolove and Majella Cullinane.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Today until March 23, 9am-5pm daily: ''Fringe Fishbowl'', Fringe Festival window display performances.
• Today-Saturday, 8.30pm: Demigod/half human, Shani Dickins dance performance (Fringe Festival).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10am-4pm: Tracing Time, Odelle Morshuis. (Fringe Festival). Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Today, 1pm: organ concert by Hans Hielscher.
• Today, 8pm: Polson Higgs comedy club (Fringe Festival).
First Church, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-March 20, 9pm and 10.15pm: ''Streets and Lures'', interactive sonic event (Fringe Festival).
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
• Tomorrow, 10.30pm: Improsaurus, improvisational theatre.
• Tomorrow and Saturday, 9pm: Heart Goes Boom, Jamie Bowen comedy show (Fringe Festival).
• Today-Saturday, 7pm: The `I' Test, Muted Crane Productions dance-theatre performance (Fringe Festival).
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians annual general meeting followed by Vivienne McLean (piano) and Nathaniel Otley (violin), performing the music of Franz Schubert.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
• Today-Saturday, 7pm, 8.30pm, 10pm; Sunday, 5pm: Puppet Fiction, Pulp Fiction puppet show (Fringe Festival).
Lake Wanaka Centre, Wanaka.
• Tuesday, 8pm: In Flagrante cabaret production (Fringe Festival).
Luggate Hall, Luggate.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: The Bitches' Box and Mel Parsons, a night of music, theatre and comedy.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Jozef Luptak, solo cello recital.
Meridian Mall, George St.
• Tomorrow, 6pm amd Saturday, 1pm: Fringe picks, Fringe Festival event previews.
Moana Pool, Littlebourne Rd.
• Monday-March 21, 10.30am and 1.30pm daily; Tuesday, 6pm: Rain, interactive dance theatre performance (Fringe Festival).
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
• Saturday, 8pm: In Flagrante cabaret production.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today and tomorrow, 8.30pm: Time of My Life, Tarun Mohanbhai comedy show (Fringe Festival).
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Wednesday-March 23, 9.30pm: The Ruby Lady's Harem, male burlesque performance (Fringe Festival).
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, noon: organ concert by Hans Hielscher.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays Central European organ music, to include works by Hindemith and Eben.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd, South Dunedin.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera - Honouring Honor, an afternoon of memories and music with Honor McKellar.
Southern Sinfonia Rehearsal Rooms, 110 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 7pm: The Exploding Saxophone, performance by Phil Davison (Fringe Festival).
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Saturday and Sunday, 7.30pm: Elephants in the Garden, play by Jay Williams (Fringe Festival).
Chisholm House, 45 Ross St.
• Today-Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 8pm; Sunday, 6pm: This Is My Real Job (Fringe Festival).
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Today-Sunday, 6pm: The Bookbinder, Trick of the Light Theatre (Fringe Festival).
• Today-Sunday, 7.45pm: Rageface, Leaving Party Theatre (Fringe Festival).
• Tuesday-March 22, 6pm: Velcro City, live-action cartoon (Fringe Festival). Wednesday-March 22, 7.45pm: Melody Moore, Richard Hanna (Fringe Festival).
St Paul's Cathedral Crypt, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow-Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 2.30pm: MilkMilkLemonade, Hurdy Dur Productions (Fringe Festival).
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Today, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society screens The Best Offer.
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers
• Saturday, 2pm and 7pm: Refining Light, multi-media ''expanded cinema'' show (Fringe Festival).
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Saturday: Endangered Species of China film screenings - 11am, Amphioxus; 2pm, audience choice.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesday, 6pm: Above the city: a history of Otago Boys' High School 1863-2013, author talk by Dr Rory Sweetman. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Korean language tour of the Seung Yul Oh exhibition ''Moamoa''.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: Tour for Tots, free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition.
Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Square.
• Saturday, 9am-noon: ''Reels on Wheels'', caravan showing short films (Fringe Festival).
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Today, 7pm: ''My brain made me do it!'', two teams debate whether neuroscience can explain antisocial behaviour.
• Saturday, 10am-3pm: A series of short seminars organised by the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand.
Museum Reserve, 419 Great King St.
• Today, 11am-5pm: ''Reels on Wheels'', caravan showing short films (Fringe Festival).
Octagon, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow and Wednesday, 11am-7pm: ''Reels on Wheels'', caravan showing short films (Fringe Festival).
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Compendium for a dream'', talk on the modern scientific description and power of dreams. Atrium level 1.
• Daily talks, 2pm:
• Today: Operation Pedestal. Tomorrow: Kiwi - bird and icon. Saturday: Akan gold weights.
• Sunday: The southern sky. Monday: Te Paranihi - Otago Museum's waka taua. Tuesday: Flamboyant flamingos.
• Wednesday: Lifestyles of Southern Maori.
• Daily until July 20, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the world'', exhibition talk.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Lou Reed's Berlin, documentary by Julian Schnabel.
Southern Sinfonia Rehearsal Rooms, 110 Moray Pl.
• Today, 8.30pm: Nosferatu, film screening (Fringe Festival).
Stadium Market, Forsyth Barr Stadium.
• Sunday, 10am-noon: ''Reels on Wheels'', caravan showing short films (Fringe Festival).
University of Otago, Burns 4 lecture theatre, Albany St.
• Monday, 5.30pm: Emeritus Prof Andrew Carpenter gives inaugural St Patrick's Day lecture: ''Fighting for Readers: Swift's Dublin publishers in the 1750s''.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New photographs by Russ McLean.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Opens today 5.30pm, until March 30: ''Drawl 2'', exhibition featuring Manu Berry, Pauline Bellamy, Emma Chalmers, Kirsten Ferguson, Phillip Madill, James Robinson (Fringe Festival). Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until March 22: ''When Your Neighbours' Problems Become Your Own,'' by Cat Auburn.
• Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St. Until March 27: ''Random Reproductions'', Richard Killeen.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm, until March 21: ''Colour Moves'', paintings by John Z Robinson, Kirsten Ferguson, Peter Cleverley, Nicola Hansby (Fringe Festival). Gallery hours: 11am-5pm daily.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Closes today: ''Form & Fantasy''.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm, until March 23: ''Never and Forever'', paintings and perfume by Anya and Isaac Sinclair (Fringe Festival). Gallery hours: 10am-6pm daily.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until June 15: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''. Until March 30: ''Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s''. Until March 30: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins. Until March 30: ''Gifted'', recent acquisitions. Until April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• Until March 28: ''Mountain, moon and volcano strip'', Louis Graham.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Daily 10.30am-4pm.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• March: Display of Oamaru stone work.
• Open Wednesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
Hillview, 1177 Goodwood Rd, Palmerston.
• Saturday until March 23: ''Puketapu Dreams'', Helen Brook. Open 10am-4pm daily.
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 29: ''To the Wasteland'', Gail de Jong. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Saturday until April 12: `Schmincke Yellow'', Zuna Wright.
• Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Opens tomorrow until March 30: ''Reanimate'', Pav Pawlowicz, Kendall Allum and Ian Bretherton.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until April 11: ''From City to Central'', works by Jenny Longstaff and friends from the Otago Art Society.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Saturday until April 9: ''Home Truths'', Joanna Braithwaite.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until April 2: ''Together in a Sudden Strangeness'', Marc Blake.
• Until April 30: ''The Royal Queenstown Easter Show''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Ongoing: ''Texture of the Soul'', by Zivka Petrovic.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• New works by Angel Burns.
• 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''. Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Until Sunday: ''Olveston Inside-Out'', woodcuts and etchings by Manu Berry.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the world''. Special Exhibitions gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until Sunday: ''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.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
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.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until April 1: Oils by Dave Johnston.
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.
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