Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Carey's Bay Hotel Bar.
• Sunday, 3-5pm: Karin Reid and Bill Martin: Jazz Noir and Honky Tonk
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Tommy Gunners, Simple Thieves, E-Jets, Rusty Pilot.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays 9pm: Open mike night.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: ''Freddo's Family Story Time''. Hop to the library with your family for a story session. Meet Freddo Frog and enjoy a chocolate treat. Free.
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: Preschool story and craft session. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
• Today and tomorrow, 11am-12.30pm: Workshops for children: Collect and create a collage. Head into the garden, collect bits and pieces, and make a collage. Meet at the Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre. Bookings essential.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 10.30am: Freddo's Family Story Time.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm: ''Lunchtime Bites: Altar Boyz''. 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.
• Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 3Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30pm: Pre-school Storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Wednesday, 10am-4.30pm: ''Pioneer Paradise''. Using the materials provided, take part in creating a fantasy city tucked away in the hills of the South Island where time has no meaning.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 2pm: Crafty Kids: Balloon Car Races. Make your car, blow up your balloon, get set, GO! Suitable for school-aged children. Free, bookings essential.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, until September 26, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term three, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily during the school holidays: Choc-quistador Quest. Search the galleries to discover the ultimate hot chocolate recipe and receive a chocolate prize. • Collect your trail pack from the Search Centre Desk, atrium level 1. Free. Final weekend, 3.30pm: Hot to Chop! Explore how different cultures use chopsticks, then take part in a chopsticks challenge. Atrium level 1. Free.
• Daily during the school holidays, 11am and 3pm: ''Explosive science''. From ferocious fireballs of hydrogen and oxygen to the colours of fireworks, discover how explosions take place and witness some booming good science. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Today, 2.30pm: The Glow Show.
• Explore all things luminous. Barclay Theatre. Free.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: Flavour Savour.
• Experiment with your sense of taste, and learn how to fool your taste buds. Atrium level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Tomorrow and Sunday, 2pm: ''Tropic Exotic''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• 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, 20 Beach St.
• Today, 10am: ''Freddo's Family Story Time''. Hop to the library with your family for a story session. Meet Freddo Frog and enjoy a chocolate treat. Free.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin Town Hall, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 12.15pm: Finnish organist Tuomas Pyrhönen plays music by Bach, Vasks, Vierne and Schumann.
Knox Church, George St.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: The Christchurch Youth Choir ''Awakenings'' South Island Tour. Adults $15, child/student/senior $10, family $35.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Catgut and Steel, swinging rhythms and soaring vocal harmonies.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays famous French carillons for organ, to include works by Vierne and Nibelle.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today, 1pm and 7pm, and tomorrow, 1pm: Dr Glam's Spooky Show hosted by Dr Glam's dark alter ego and mortal enemy Thaddius Grime. Directed by Martin Roberts.
Cromwell College Auditorium.
• Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 7.30pm: Fine Thyme Theatre Company presents the hilarious comedy Death and Taxes. Tickets for sale at Cromwell i-Site. $25 per person.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Daily until Sunday, 11am and 1pm: Why Are My Parents So Boring?, by Dan Bain. Fortune Theatre Studio. All tickets $8. Bookings, phone 4778323.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
• Sunday lunchtime performance: Highland Fling, Taieri Dramatic Society production. Phone 489-7677 to book.
Talks and films
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Monday, 5.30pm: ''I See a Sea Lion'' Join Dr Louise Chilvers from Doc and discover the animals that inspired her to write a children's book. Enjoy a coffee with the Sea Lion Trust and listen to their AGM.
• Wednesday, 6pm: Poetry with a Pulse II: Curtain Up. Celebrate the first of three unique live readings. Enjoy the wit and wisdom of Lisa Samuels and David Howard. 4th floor, free, bookings essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays throughout July at 2pm: Sundays@2. Free guided tours of the downstairs exhibitions, including ''Frances Hodgkins: Colour and Lights'', ''The Pleasure Principle'' and ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
• Saturday, 2pm-4pm: Small collage workshop with Saskia Leek. Create a small collage with Saskia Leek. Some materials will be supplied, but you may have special items you wish to include. $15 (no eftpos). Bookings 474-3249.
• Saturday, 3pm: Iwi connections in a digital age. Prof Paul Tapsell will speak on maintaining kin-identity from a distance via social networking sites, and how such innovations have flourished in our world of digital machines. Free.
• Sunday, 3pm: ''Among The Machines'' guided tour. A wheelchair tour of the ''Among the Machines'' exhibition. All welcome. Access by arrangement. Free.
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.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Built for the Kill: Great White Shark. NHNZ Film Screening, life and death struggles and follow the migration of a pregnant female from Australia to South Africa.
• Daily talks at 2pm through July. Today: Woollen bathing suit. Tomorrow: Whio - New Zealand blue duck. Saturday: Stephen Island wren. Sunday: Operation Pedestal. Monday: Akan gold weights. Tuesday: Queen Liliuokalani's feathered cape. Wednesday: Ta moko - Maori tattooing.
• Daily during July, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until Wednesday: ''Thirty Three''. Las Vegas-based artist Matt Couper presents a glimpse of each year of his life through updated 16th-century Spanish retablo paintings.
• Until August 4: ''Towards the Stranding of the Faerie Queen''. Aoraki Polytechnic tutor Michael Armstrong presents recent drawings, paintings and a sculpture on the theme of disasters.
Anneloes Douglas Studio+Gallery, 91 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• 1930s hand-coloured fishing prints by Sir William Jardine Bart.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• ''The Muses'', Donna Demente.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Daily, 10am-4pm: ''Behind The Name''. An exhibition exploring the lives and stories of our namesakes (William Bodkin, Russell Henderson, John McCraw and Elizabeth Heafey). Gold coin entry.
• Until August 25: ''Winter Images''. Photographs by Grahame Sydney, including rare Antarctic pieces. Russell Henderson Gallery.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
• Until Tuesday, 10am-4pm: ''Delight In Detail'', Jenny Longstaff.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today: Cadbury Recyclia Trash to Art Exhibition. Have your say and vote for the people's choice award. Proudly run by Keep Dunedin Beautiful. Registrations essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until September 8: Saskia Leek, ''Desk Collection''.
• Until September 22: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
• Until September 22: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
• Until November 3: ''Among the machines''.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until August 11: ''A la mode: Early 19th-Century Fashion Plates''. Open Mon-Fri 10am-4.30pm, weekends and public holidays 1pm-4pm.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• Until August 2: Graham Geary, Anna Reid, Sue Hatherley, Jane Hamilton and Jacob Feenstra.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Fifteen paintings and 15 poems celebrating the pearl wedding anniversary of Ewan and Sarah McDougall.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Captured Light'', Richard Adams.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Closes today: ''Ordinary Icons'', Frank Gordon.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: ''Winter show'', various artists. Guest exhibitor: Glyn Davies.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until August 1: ''Kurawaka''. New works by James York and Amber Bridgman.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
• Until Wednesday: ''Arcadia'', Karl Maughan.
• Until Wednesday: ''Theme'', Merilyn Wiseman.
• Until Wednesday: ''Editions'', Dick Frizzell, Stanley Palmer, Reuben Paterson, Karl Maughan, Richard Orjis and Christine Webster.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday until August 21: ''Sculpture'', by Martin Selman.
• Opens Saturday until August 21: Engaging in a Lawless Landscape, by Linda Holloway.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
• ''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
• Closes today: ''Roam Around the World'', Lauren Bremner.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St.
• Until August 6: ''Elizabeth Thomson and The Crystal Chain Gang''.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
• Closes tomorrow: New drawing-oriented works by Dunedin-based artists: Ali Bramwell, Angela Lyon, Charlotte Parallel, Richard Scowen, Sharon Singer.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
OCTA Gallery and Workshop, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Ongoing: ''Habit'', an exhibition of street art and graffiti by Francis Lind.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until Sunday: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
• Until September 15: The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat Henu - People of the Land. People of the World Gallery, free.
• Until October 28: ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver, Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Special Exhibitions Gallery. Free.
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.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
• Until August 3: Rosemary McQueen and Riki Julin.
• August 5-17: Lisa Simpson and Louise Thompson Parker.
• August 19-31: Lorna Isaac and Anne McLean.
• September 2-14: Jo Howard and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until August 5: Works by the Green Island Art Group.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Open 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.
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.
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