Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St, Dunedin
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire, featuring Katie Mason, plays classic rock and pop hits.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Saturday, 8pm: Wonky Boosh - a ''Mighty Boosh''-themed 2-zone party featuring Manthyng, Cult Disney, The Fu King, The Maine Coons, Mr. Green, Ecophonik, Stevolicious, Sonic Smith, Hazsari, Tanner and a dance performance by Cydonia (Red Mars dance project). Very limited $10 presale tickets available from Queens. Doors open from 9pm.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm-7.30pm: Erin Morton.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturday, 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.
Cromwell Bowling Club, Alpha St.
• Thursdays, 1.30pm: Euchre. All welcome, warm venue, friendly atmosphere and afternoon tea provided. inquiries to Keith, 445-0554.
Cromwell College, Barry Ave.
• Sunday: A three-hour workshop on the basics of chalk paint. Cost $180 (includes all supplies and refreshments), 10% discount on paint and waxes purchased on the day. Come dressed to paint (an apron will be provided). Spaces limited. For more details telephone Lisa, 445-1554 or 021 104-9243.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Monday-June 30: Wish Upon a Star. Make a wish for Matariki, the Maori New Year. Write it on a star and hang it in your local library to share with others. Free.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two. Fourth floor, free.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am (excludes school holidays): Preschool story time, story pit.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesdays 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily during June: ''Karetao Creations'' Children's Workshop. Make your own paper karetao puppet to tell stories and put on shows. Atrium level 1, free. Thursdays until July 4, 3.30pm: ''Mega Matter'', Discovery Club. $12 per child per session, ages 8-12. Bookings essential. Phone 474-7474.
• Weekends during June, 11am and 3pm: ''Absolute Zero'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Weekends during June 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones'' Investigation Station. Atrium level 1, free. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton.
• Guided museum tours. Daily, 11.30am: Highlights of the Museum: $12 per person or free for Otago residents bringing non-Otago visitors.
• Daily, 3.30pm: Southern Land, Southern People. Cost as above.
• Daily, 1.30pm: Tropical Forest. $26 per person (includes Tropical Forest admission).
For bookings, phone 474-7474 or book online at www.otagomuseum.govt.nz
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
The Moorings, Perriam Pl, Pisa Moorings.
• Tuesdays: Quiz evening (minimum 2 per team). Bookings essential. Phone 445-4211.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Alexandra Scottish Country Dancing Club, St Gerards School hall, 2 Station St, Alexandra.
• Tonight, 7pm: Line dancing, Ceilidh dancing and Scottish country dancing, partner not necessary. Adults $3, children $1, families $6. Inquiries to Marion, 448-7597.
Central Otago Wastebusters, Boundary Rd, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow from 10am: See Alexandra artist Nigel Wilson create one of his masterpieces before your eyes (weather permitting).
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Coronation Hall, Mosgiel, Gordon Rd.
• Monday, 11am: Music for Romantics, Operatunity Daytime Concert Series featuring Cameron Barclay and married couple Sue Boland and John Cameron.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Pacific Underground performs Island Summer, by Pos Mavaega.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Enjoy the melodies from accordion duo Ratafia as they play a range of musical tunes. Atrium level 1. Free.
• Sunday, 1pm: Brighten up your day with Latafale Auvaa as she plays jazz. Atrium level 1. Free.
St Paul's Cathedral, Octagon.
• Monday, 12.50pm: Wintermusic: the rare byrds - harpsichord/spinet. Free entry/donations.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden (director of music at St Paul's Cathedral) plays organ works by Maurice Durufle and Louis Vierne. Free entry/donations.
• Wednesday 12.50pm: Wintermusic: Michelle Jackson, soprano. Free entry/donations.
Plays
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm,: Lunchtime Bites: Tribes. Sample the latest play from the Fortune Theatre over a hot cuppa, and go into the draw to win tickets to the show! Ground floor. Free.
Playhouse Theatre, Albany St, Dunedin.
• Ends Saturday, 7.30pm: Neil Simon's comedy, The Sunshine Boys. Bookings 477-6544.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Today, 12.15pm to 1pm: Lunchtime documentary Our Green Roadie (part 2).
• Tonight, 7.30pm: World Environment Day feature Do The Math, with Bill McKibben and 350.org.
Colquhoun Lecture Theatre, Dunedin Hospital, University of Otago, Gt King St.
• Wednesday, 7pm: ''Do The Maths'', Bill McKibben.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 10am-8pm: Power of an Ocean: Discover the climatic and evolutionary powerhouse of the world. Duration: 1 hour. Teen Space, (repeat screenings). Free.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Tomorrow, noon: Botanist Dr Peter Johnson presents ''How it Was - plants and vegetation of Dunedin 150 years ago''. Free. Botanic Garden Centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
• Daily tours, at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through June.
Today: Plesiosaur - New Zealand's largest fossil.
Tomorrow: The Egyptian mummy.
Saturday: Southern whaling - a lost industry.
Sunday: Te Paranihi - a waka of three parts.
Monday: The three bears of the Otago Museum.
Tuesday: The fin whale skeleton.
Wednesday: Tuatara - ancient reptile.
• Daily during June, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat henu People of the Land. Please meet at the Information Desk, free.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Ping WangArtbay Gallery, level 1, 32 Rees St, Queenstown.
• Until June 19: ''Days Gone By, Pieces of Kiwiana History'', by Rachael Errington and David Lee.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Until June 12: ''The Fountain of Youth''.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until June 23: ''Winter'', Pauline Bellamy.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''Beauty and desire in Edo Period Japan''
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• June: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jane Whittaker.
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, Information centre.
• Until June 30, 10am-4pm: ''Botanical Artists Acclaimed in New Zealand and Abroad''. Showcasing the work of Pat Brooke, Audrey Eagle, Sue Wickison and John Noakes.
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 International Airport.
• May-June: Kylie Duncan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: ''Te Po: works from Dunedin collections''.
• 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''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Ends Sunday: ''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 De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', by Ivan Hill.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery 33, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until June 28: Louise McRae ''Top of the Lake'' and Jane Mitchell ''Postscapes''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Ends Saturday: John V. Hart exhibition. Selected works by this eminent New Zealand photographer and artist. Open from 11am.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Ends Saturday: Shigeyuki Kihara, ''Undressing the Pacific''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Ends Saturday: Kathryn Madill, Selected Works.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery Arrowtown.
• Until June 16: ''Art to Wear'' Costumes from the 2013 Autumn Festival.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until June 16: Ewan McDougall ''It's Life Jim''. Gallery open 11am-3pm Thurs to Mon, other times by appointment.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday 11am-3pm.
• Opening, Saturday until July 3: Lorene Taurerewa ''Tafelspiele''.
• Opening Saturday until July 3: Small Works.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until July 24: ''The Review''.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Aberhart Pardington Campbell.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
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.
• Wednesday-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 23: Philip Trusttum, ''Trusttum''.
• Until June 30: ''Built Small: Miniature Models''. A look at the history of model-making.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of The Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Saturday until June 30, 1pm-5pm: ''The Body Worked Art Exhibition''.
• Pay 'n' go art by artists including Jemima Pedro, Lindsay Crooks and Janet Weir.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Ends Saturday: Lisa Simpson and Anne McLean.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until until July 2: Works by Kaori Jackson.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Until June 28, 8am-4pm: ''Welcome to the Jungle'', paintings by Craig Freeborn.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The wallpaper house, Downstairs at 29 Lees St.
• Saturday: 11am-4pm. Pamela Brown: Open Studio and Gallery.
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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