Home again
Former Dunedin singing sisters Marissa and Marla Craig return home for a performance today at 4pm in the Glenroy Auditorium along with tenor Daniel Rodriguez.
"Legendary Lanza", a tribute to Mario Lanza, will feature songs and arias including Be My Love, I'll Walk With God, Nessun Dorma, Granada, With a Song In My Heart, Vesti la giubba and more.
Jazz it up
Auckland jazz singer Briar Ross pops into Careys Bay tomorrow night for a one-off gig, accompanied by Calder "Mr Jazz" Prescott on keyboards and Scott Campbell on bass guitar.
Briar Ross performs from 8pm till 11pm at the Carey's Bay Hotel.
The Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet returns to Careys Bay from 11am to 2pm on Sunday.
Different space
An exhibition at King Edward Court, Stuart St, this week will display work from a new vocational day service run by Idea Services (IHC).
The show, "Art Space", of painting, papier-maché and fabric dying is on the second floor, room 208, from 1pm-3pm and 7pm-9pm today, and from 10am-2pm tomorrow.
Gigs
10Bar, the Octagon. Tomorrow, 8pm: dDub.
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St, Dunedin. Today: The Junior & O. D Show. Electro, dubstep, turbo, crunk, d'n'b. Free.
Tomorrow: Animal Battle in Space.
Saturday: Organikismness. Support from Loki and ODC
Tuesday: Back to ya roots with Gus and Booooooof. Dubstep
Wednesday: Telemetrik (USA) support from Titts MaGee, Syrus, FSOD and Camo MC
Carey's Bay Hotel Friday, 8pm: Briar Ross & the Calder Prescott Jazz Duet. Saturday, 3pm: Philtre; Sunday, 11am: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Cellars Bar, Stafford St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 9pm: Open mike night.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St, Dunedin. Thursdays, 5pm: Open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans, jam night, 8.30pm. Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday, 7pm: Terry Ebeling.
Refuel, Otago University. Tomorrow, 9pm: Little Bushman.
Robbie Burns Pub , 374 George St, Dunedin. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin. Tomorrow, 10pm: RSD (UK) aka Rob Smith (Smith & Mighty).
Terrace Bar, the Octagon, Dunedin. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am. Free.
Today, noon: fashion tour.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon, Saturday, 2pm: Flax craft workshop. Bookings essential. Phone 474-3249.
Memorial Hall, Cromwell. Saturday and Sunday 10am: Model Railway Exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, preschool story time: every Tuesday, 11am, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds (free).
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium Level 1: children's creative activities.
Weekends during March, 11.30am, weather permitting: Bring Back the Butterflies - learn how to plant your own butterfly garden.
Weekends, noon and 3.30pm: interactive trolley - The art of calligraphy. Atrium Level 1, free.
Sunday, 2.30pm, Atrium Level 1: Chinese Calligraphy demonstration.
Port Chalmers Library, preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, free.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon. Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, March 25, 7.30pm: "Tutus on Tour", Royal NZ Ballet. Glenroy Auditorium, tomorrow, 8pm: Eroica Trio.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Place. Saturday, 8pm: Southern Sinfonia presents Southern Stars, celebrating the life and times of Frances Hodgkins. Featuring Rima Te Wiata and Deborah Wai Kapohe.
Marama Hall, Otago University. Wednesday, 1pm: Otago University Department of Music lunchtime concert.
This week, 2009 Centenary Composers I: Handel, Haydn & Mendelssohn.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Lunchtime music, Fridays and Saturdays.
This week: Tom Kelly and Gail Quayle & Kevin McLoughlin.
March 22, noon: "Sounds Like Summer Fun", free concert on the Museum Reserve. St Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Saturday, 3pm: "Heritage Handel". With Christchurch Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir and Orchestra and Cantores Choir, Dunedin.
Featuring: Handel, Messiah part II; Haydn, The Heavens Are Telling; Mozart, Coronation Mass.
Soloists: Judy Bellingham, Ruth Reid, Wally Enright, Howard Harvey.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre , Corner of Union and Leith Sts. Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Club Six.
Fortune Theatre, corner Moray Pl and Stuart St. Until March 22: Hot Pink Bits.
Memorial Hall, Cromwell. Tonight, 8pm: Duets.
Talks and films
Hocken Gallery, Otago University. Today, 1pm: Exhibition curator Dr Noel Waite talks about the exhibition "Dunedin design art and industry".
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Tomorrow, 1.30pm: "Art from the Heart". Learn the stories behind library artworks. Free.
Tomorrow, 3.45pm: "Sign of the times", Alex Gilks, graphic designer and teacher, discusses signs found around Dunedin. Free.
Tomorrow, 5pm: Writers' Workshop with Sandy Mackay. Free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Free daily talks, 2pm.
This month: Mondays, The Lawrence Lions; Tuesdays, Owls of the World; Wednesdays, Maori Tattooing; Thursdays, Early Otago Museum History; Fridays, Rapa Nui; Saturdays, The Three Bears of the Otago Museum; Sundays, Aphrodite: The Venus de Milo.
Daily during March, 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin". This English natural scientist formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection; a concept that shook the scientific world.
Weekends at 2.30pm in the Search Centre: "What's That You're Eating?"
Until March 22: French Documentary Film Festival.
Monday, 10am, noon and 2pm: "The Full Picture, Upfront and behind the scenes", Guided tours of the museum's collections in storage and on display. Bookings essential.
Otago University: March 20 and 23, Meet at the University clocktower. Guided art tours on campus, 11.30am: Michael Findlay, architecture. 1pm: Ashley Day, pictorial artworks. 2pm: Ali Bramwell and Stuart Griffiths, sculpture.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru. Until April 26: 6 New Zealand Fashion Designers - National Creative Fibre Festival.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St, Dunedin. Saturday until April 4: "Double Vision" by Steev Peyroux and Olav Nielsen.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station. Until March 29: "Heritage Exhibition".
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay, March 20-April 7: "Watercolour years", selected watercolours spanning four decades by Pauline Bellamy.
Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St, Dunedin. Opens tomorrow: Works by Joanna Margaret Paul.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin. First Floor, until April 19: "A Man's A Man For A' That".
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until May 24: "Catharine Hodson: Touching the Unthinkable".
Until April 13: "John James Audubon: A very special gift". Works from Audubon's collection.
Until May 17: "Di ffrench: Activating Ideas".
Until June 17: "Te Huringa/Turning Points": includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson, and Gordon Walters.
Until April 12: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves: Japanese Prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection"Ongoing: "The Grand Tour: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection".
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru. Until April 13: "It's our History - Don't Knock It!" Jacqui Foley and Burns Pollock.
Until April 19: "By the Sea". Lyndsay Crooks and Janet Weir-Crooks.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka. Until March 27: "Gliding Light", Wanganui Contemporary Glass.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin. From tomorrow until March 27: Marilynn Webb and Michael Smither Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Saturday until April 5: "Topography of Genesis" by Sudhir Duppati.
Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St, Dunedin. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith. Open Mon-Sat, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Hocken Gallery, corner Anzac Ave and Parry St. Until March 28: "Dunedin Design, Art and Industry".
Until March 28: "Fellowship", works by Ralph Hotere.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until March 29: "Out of the Past". Photography by Kay Todd.
Inge Doesburg Studio & Gallery, 6 Castle St, Dunedin, Opens Saturday: "Nova Botanica", works by Lynn Kelly (jeweller) and Tim Galloway (artist). Open Thu-Sat, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. Until April 5: "Our Piece of Paradise, Cribbies in the Wakatipu, 1940s to 1980s".
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until April 15: "Glass Invitational NZ", featuring works by NZ's leading glass artists.
Curator talk on Saturday from 2pm.
Gallery open Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until March 27: "Southern Landscape", featuring Callum Arnold, Tony Bishop, Nigel Brown, Simon Edwards, Neil Frazer, Michael Hight, Bruce Hunt, Bob Kerr, Geoffrey Notman, Jenna Packer, Stanley Palmer, Elizabeth Rees, Peter James Smith.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St, Dunedin, From Saturday until March 27: Karen Lloyd, "Recent Paintings".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown. Gretchen Albrecht: "Between Paint & Nature, 5 Decades, 1968-2009".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Until April 1: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, Level 3, free.
Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until April 26: "Art in the Attic", works by painter Clive Humphreys in the Animal Attic.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin. Tomorrow until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past from the Otago Settlers Museum Art Collection" More than 70 works from more than a century of collecting.
Until June: "Chinese Treasures". The history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until March 25: "Shop Keeping". Celebrates the independent retailer in Dunedin.
Until March 23: "On Your Bike: Cycling Then, Cycling Now". A ride down cycling's memory lane.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka, until March 29: "Artland - Painting the Picturesque". Works by Marianne Verdoner and Terry Low.
Rippon Vineyard, Wanaka. Until May 3: "Sculpture in Central Otago".
Rocda Gallery, 233 Stuart St (next to the Fortune Theatre), Dunedin. New works by Linda-H.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin. Until April 2: Peter Gregory and Rosemary McQueen.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel. Until March 31: Works in acrylic by Hayley Bryant.
Tony Williams Gallery, 30 Moray Place. Until March 21: "Enamelled Jewellery - Past and Present". Includes works from private collections spanning more than 20 years.
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