Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: Rachel Dawick with special guest Jon Sanders.
• ''The Boundary Riders'', stories in song of New Zealand women's lives from the 1800s. $15 cover at the door.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays, 8.30pm-10.30pm, Bill Martin jazz trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Thursday, 7.30pm: The Boundary Riders Tour ''The Stories of NZ Women's lives from the 1800s''.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club featuring Nadia Reid and Luckless.
Commercial Hotel, Green Island.
• Saturday: Sidewalk Sally.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 5.30-7pm: Gig Night - Bow to the Fiddle, featuring: Alan Star Rat, Catgut and Steel, Julian Temple and Alex Vaatstra, Humboldt County.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
New Zealand Music Month -
• Tomorrow: OUSA Battle of the Bands heat 2.
• Tuesday: Open mike and open deck night. 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.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Tomorrow: Drum Like a Legend competition - young Dunedin drummers will bang out a four-minute drum solo. Followed by Jam like a Legend, a showcase of promising Dunedin talent.
• Saturday, doors open 8pm: Battle of the Bands National Championship 2013 - Dunedin heat 1 featuring: Growler, Europa Kid, Hunting Bears, MSC, Toy Destruction, Creamery, Russian Blue.
• Sunday, doors open 6.30pm: Battle of the Bands - Dunedin heat 2 featuring: The Last String Band, A Distant City, War Saw, Ink Mathematics, The Fu King, Kezia, Sonic Ted, TieDye. Family funBlueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays, 10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning, term two.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Every Tuesday 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Every Thursday, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning, term two.
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.
• Saturday and Sunday during May, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!''. Investigation Station.
• Sunday, 1pm: Mother's Day Event - make your mum something special this Mother's Day with a hand-finished, lavender-filled heart-shaped cushion.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 10am: Toddler Time - Join our storyteller in discovering a museum full of stories and songs. This month we will be visiting Josephine.
• Saturday, 11am: Story Time - Diane Miller will be reading her book Josephine off the Rails.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St.
• Sunday, 2pm: Central Singers, a selection of music composed by Gwen Walles. Tickets $10.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• New Zealand Music Month - Today, 12.30-1.30pm: George Ren, self-taught classical pianist.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital - Organ Music for Ascension, Karen Knudson and others.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Wagner/Verdi 200th anniversary year - virtuoso showpieces from the operas. Luca Manghi, flute, Terence Dennis, piano.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
• Sunday, 3pm: Otago Symphonic Band.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tomorrow, 2pm: Music Month at Mosgiel - Beverley Kay, easy-listening piano keyboard.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Wind of the Andes live at Otago Museum.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 7pm: St Kilda Brass and St Paul's Cathedral Choir present ''From Venice to Vaughan Williams''.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays French organ works by Theodore Dubois and Henri Mulet.
Tarras Hall, Tarras-Cromwell Rd.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: The Cromwell Community Arts in association with Arts on Tour NZ presents Haggis Sandwich.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 25: You can always hand them back, by Roger Hall.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Hell on Wheels.
Talks and films
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St.
• Saturday, 11am: China Revealed: Zhangjiajie (duration 1 hour).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• 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.''
• Saturday, 2-4pm: Magic Masks Workshop: Juliet Novena Sorrel instructs on making your dream mask. Materials provided. For ages 6 years and over. Limited numbers. $5 cash only (no eft-pos). Bookings phone 474-3249.
• Sunday, 3pm: In My Father's Den (R16 128 mins).
Wednesday, 10.30am: Dunedin Public Art Gallery Friends' monthly coffee morning featuring Glen Hazelton on ''Dunedin's heritage buildings - here today, better tomorrow''. Friends and members of the public warmly welcome. No charge.
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Today, 9.30am-4.30pm: Sculpture symposium in conjunction with an alumni exhibition ''The Material World : Sculpture at Dunedin School of Art 2002-2013''. Open to the public.
Hoyts Cinema, Octagon
• Sunday, 6pm: Green Screen: The Last Ocean. Tickets $15-$12 (students/unwaged); $10 (children).
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Tonight, 6pm: Prof Margaret Brimble, the winner of last year's Rutherford Medal, gives a talk.
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. S
• aturday: 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, Richardson 6N4.
• Tomorrow, 4-5pm: ''Information at Your Fingertips: Rethinking the Filing Cabinet as Information Technology.''
- Craig Robertson, director of the media and screen studies programme at Northeastern University, Boston.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Eraserhead, by David Lynch.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre, Scotland St.
• Sunday, 5pm: Silver Lining Playbook (M) comedy.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 6-8pm: Craft Collective - Bring whatever you're working on, share techniques, ask questions or just be inspired.
• Saturday, 2pm: NZ Sign Language Week - Highlights Tour in Sign.
• Sunday, 1-4pm: Printmaking workshop - Create a small portfolio of postcard-sized prints which respond to some of the transport items in the museum collection. Bring an apron. Cost $35.
• Tuesday, 10am: Tuesday Club - speaker is Dr Dorothy Page on issues affecting New Zealand women through the 20th century.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Early 20th century New Zealand artists.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• 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.
• Opens tomorrow: Patrick Hartigan ''The people will be healed''.
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.
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.
• 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.
• Closes tomorrow: Artsenta presents ''Up An Octave'', community display of art and musical paraphernalia and art exchange.
• Opens Monday until May 25: Otago Girls' High School senior art exhibition ''Portfolio''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Opens Saturday: ''Te Po: Works from Dunedin collections''.
• 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.
• Until 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.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Opens tomorrow until June 8: John Hart Exhibition. Selected works by this eminent New Zealand photographer and artist.
• Open Monday-Saturday from 11am.
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 Sunday: New paintings by Jillian Porteous.
• From Sunday until June 2: Sue Rutherford, ceramic works.
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.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition..
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Saturday until June 5: Hannah Kidd ''The Race''.
• Saturday until June 5: Large Works.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 29: Neal Palmer ''Return Journeys'' and Sue Hawker ''A Singular Occasion''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm, until May 30: ''The City Beneath The Sea'', by Diana Smillie.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Opens Monday until May 24: Riki Julin.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• 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.
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 May 26: Royal Society of New Zealand ''Butterflies returning''.
• Unitl May 26: ''Southerly Buster''.
• Until June 23: Philip Trusttum ''Trusttum''.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of the Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until May 26: ''Brighton Show''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Paddy Carr and Riki Julin.
• Opens Monday until May 25: Jo Howard and Louise Thompson Parker.
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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