A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
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.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell
Saturday from 9.30pm: Saturday Night Livewire featuring Katie Mason playing classic rock 'n' pop hits.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Thursdays from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, Dundas St.
Sunday, 7.30pm: Radius.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Saturday, 10pm: The Salads Boys ''NZ Winter Tour, August 2013'' and Transistors ''Is this anything?'' album release tour with local support from Kilmog.
The Penguin Club, Oamaru.
Tomorrow, 8pm: Radius.
Plato, 2 Birch St, Dunedin.
Tomorrow: Darren Watson alongside solo sets from Adam McGrath (The Eastern) and Matt Langley (Local legend).
Portsider Tavern, Port Chalmers.
Saturday, 8pm: Live bands for Long Beach Hall - fundraiser for the hall. Malcolm Honeychurch, Both Sides of the Line, and Dan and the Not so Deviants. $15 (includes nibbles).
Ranfurly Lion Hotel, 10 Charlemont St.
Saturday, 7.30pm: New Country Music Club is opening up in the Maniototo.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
Tonight: V Flat PartySaturday: Studholme/Arana Colleges Battle of the Bands.
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
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: Preschool story and craft session. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term 3.
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: Pre-school storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots''. Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
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, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Every Saturday and Sunday until September 22, 3.30pm: ''Hot to chop!'' Investigation Station. Explore how different cultures use chopsticks, discover some fascinating facts behind the culinary creation, and then take part in our chopstick challenge. Atrium Level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
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
Alexandra Community House,14-20 Centennial Ave.
Monday, noon-1pm: Ukulele lunchtime session. Non-players are welcome to come along and sing or bring your ukulele to join in.
The Church, Dundas St.
Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Resonance Trio - a Dunedin-based jazz ensemble. Experience both original compositions and improvisations on some well-known standards. $10 or $25 includes CD. Cash bar (no eftpos).
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians August recital meeting featuring Assoc Prof Judy Bellingham and Otago University voice students. All welcome; guests $5.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Sunday, 2pm: A concert featuring Modi Deng (piano), and three choirs: Knox Church Children's, Otago Boys' High School and Otago Girls' High School; and chamber music groups from Columba College. Admission by programme at the door (from 1.15pm): $10/$5 concession, at the door or from the Knox Church office, 449 George St, weekday mornings.
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
Tomorrow, 12.15-1pm: Lunchtime recital, Waitaki Valley Singers in the foyer.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
Sunday, 1pm: Latafale Auva'a's jazzy tracks live.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
Tomorrow, 6.30-8pm: celebrate National Poetry Day with some Otago poets: Lynley Edmeades, David Goodwin, Rhian Gallagher, Emma Neale, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brian Turner. MC: Sue Wootton. Free, but bookings essential: Phone 474-3690 or email library@dcc.govt.nz
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Sunday, 2pm: 'Music for a While': Baroque music on period instruments: Pepe Becker, Douglas Mews, Tomas Hurnik, Jonathan Le Cocq, Shelley Wilkinson. Bookings www.baroquemusic.net.nz.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays extracts from Francois Couperin's Messe pour les Convents.
University of Otago, Link (east entrance).
Tomorrow, 1-2pm: One Short Poem (and a hat). Free poems and prize for the best hat (readers and listeners). Celebrate National Poetry Day (on campus) with Burns Fellow David Howard.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
Today and tomorrow: A Heart for Sale, written by Vivien Poon and Bronwyn Wallace.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until August 31: Altar Boyz
Talks and films
Blueskin Bay Library, Harvey St.
Saturday, 11.30am-1.30pm: Genealogy session - How to get started: Resources in Blueskin Bay and Dunedin by Glenys Clements. Run by The Society of Genealogists. Free. Bookings essential: p.g.clements@xtra.co.nz
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, noon: Friends of the Library lunch and learn with guest speaker Mike Collett, head of customer services. Subject: ''The successful partnership with the new Blueskin Bay Library'', in the Dunningham Suite.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sunday,1.30pm: NZ Post Book Award finalist David Craig, author of His Own Steam, will give a talk on the life and work of Barry Brickell.
Sunday, 3pm: ''Land+Identity'' Dr Janet Stephenson, director of SAFE (Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment), University of Otago, will discuss landscape and environment and how this influences our identity.
Sundays throughout August, 2pm: Free guided tours of the downstairs exhibitions.
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.
Wednesday, 12.30-2pm: Join us as we celebrate the Theomins' passion for music, entertaining, fine dining and special events at their Royal Tce home. Adults $25, Children $10, booking essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Tonight, 6pm: Public talk on the rise of contemporary indigenous art, held in the Hutton Theatre.
Daily talks at 2pm through August. 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 August, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
Daily until November 10, 2.15pm: Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex Tour - Originally the Dunedin North Post Office, the newly refurbished Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex has undergone numerous changes over the past century. Free.
Zoology Benham Building, 346 Great King St, Rm 215
Tuesday, 5.30pm: Forest and Bird Talk - Prof Steven Higgins, Department of Botany.
''So long savanna? Speculations on the origins and future of savanna ecosystems''. All welcome
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
New photographs by Russ McLean.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
Opens Sunday until August 28: ''Story boards''. Manu Berry working prints and drawings.
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: Until August 22: ''Spotlight on design'' Kathi McLean, Pottery and Art. Until August 25: ''Winter Images''. Photographs by Grahame Sydney, including rare Antarctic pieces.
Russell Henderson Gallery.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
Until August 30: ''Colours from a landscape''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Opens tomorrow until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens: Celebrating Dunedin Botanic Garden.
Dunedin International Airport.
August: Jenufa Waiti, ''A Body of Work''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until September 8: Saskia Leek, ''Desk Collection''.
Until September 22: ''Nature-study: A Floral Tribute''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.
Opens Saturday until October 6: Peter Nicholls ''As is on Earth'' and James Robinson ''Rainbow Serpent''.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until October 13: ''Connections from the Collection''.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
Phillip Edwards ''Down to the Sea'' exhibition.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until August 22: ''Polished'' featuring glass artists Claudia Borella, Emma Camden and David Murray. Also showcasing ''Central'', jewellery by Lynn Kelly.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
August: Variety month with a range of work by a variety of artists.
Hocken Collections, Otago University.
Opens Saturday until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until August 24: ''Minus nine in the morning - a wintersong'' by Gail de Jong.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
Closes tomorrow: ''Fresh Horizons''. Oamaru stone sculpture by Craig McLanachan. Margaret
Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
Until Sunday: Julian Duncan.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Until August 28: ''Parallel''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until Wednesday: ''Sculpture'', by Martin Selman.
Until Wednesday: Engaging in a Lawless Landscape, by Linda Holloway.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Closes today: ''On Building Bridges'', recent paintings by local artist Jessica Crothall, responding to the Christchurch earthquakes, and Colin McCahon.
''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Until August 30: Angela Burns ''Elements of Time''. Images based on sea and landscape. None, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
Closes tomorrow: James Bellaney, ''Pour''.
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 Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
Until September 1: Edinburgh Realty Premier Annual Art Awards. Close to 200 works from South Island artists and OAS members. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
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.
Until November 10: ''Heritage Lost And Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until October 6: ''Focal Point: An exhibition celebrating 150 years of the Otago Daily Times. 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 Saturday: Lisa Simpson and Louise Thompson Parker.
Opens Monday: Lorna Isaac and Anne McLean.
September 2-14: Jo Howard and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until September 3: Works by local artist Karen Campbell.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
Aaron Kereopa
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl. Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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.
