A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog
Friday, from 9.30pm: Soul Deep.
Saturday, from 9.30pm: Road Block with Stevie Rice on sax.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
Sunday, 3-5pm: Father's Day jazz noir and honky tonk with Will and Karen. Main bar. Free entry.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Cromwell Town and Country Club, Melmore Tce.
Sunday, from 2pm: Cromwell Country Music Club is having blackboard and guest artists. All welcome. Contact Mike (03) 445-4070.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Saturday, doors open 7.30pm: Public gig - Cold Night for Alligators, Simple Thieves, E-Jets, Tommy Gunners, Rusty Pilot and more. Members $5, public $10.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Thursdays from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Tomorrow: Circulation Launch Party - music by DJ Joseph Clements and Tribal Diva plus Ruby Lady and Abby Smith. The FireBugs will be performing a fire routine. Tickets $10 at the door.
Saturday, 8pm. Three bands: Catherine KS, Both Sides of the Line; Tahu and the Takahes. $10 Prizes for best dressed rockabillies.
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.
Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: My Dad is Fab! Storyteller Kaitrin McMullan (and friends) spins magical tales designed to delight children of all ages to celebrate Father's Day.
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. 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
The Church, Dundas St.
Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Tomorrow, 12.30-1.30pm: Performance in Donaghys foyer by four competitors in the secondary schools Choral Competition. Free.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
Saturday, 6.30pm: The Big Sing Finale 2013 Gala Concert. Earnscleugh Hall, 207 Strode Rd, Alexandra.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Community Sing-along with Promote Dunstan, with Barry Bemrose and his ukulele students. Bring a plate and join in the community spirit. Bring along your ukulele too and join in! Gold coin entry. Contact Louise Joyce (03) 449-2119.
Ophir Hall
Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Community Sing-along with Promote Dunstan, with Barry Bemrose and his ukulele students (as above). Bring a plate and your ukulele. Contact Louise Joyce (03) 449-2119.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays the organ suite Laudate Dominum, written by Cornish composer Jonathan Stephens.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until Saturday: Altar Boyz.
Talks and films
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Upper garden car park.
Saturday 10am-noon: Workshop, Pruning Deciduous and Evergreen Plants, advice from Dylan Norfield, geographic and arboretum collection curator. Bookings essential, $10.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, noon: Friends of the Library lunch and learn with a guest speaker from the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, accompanied by guide dog, Dunningham Suite.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Monday, 7.30pm: Film New British Artists (62mins) Benjamin Cook, director of LUX, London presents recent work by Turner Prize finalists Elizabeth Price, Ed Atkins, James Richards and Laure Prouvost. 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.
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.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens the first of three recent dramas looking at the problems of the new China, Han Jie's Mr. Tree.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 1-3pm: Talk and Walk: Dunedin Revealed. See some of Dunedin's secret and not so secret special views on this two-hour walk around many of the highlights of our architectural heritage. Meet at museum's Josephine Foyer. Sturdy footwear and a water bottle recommended. Free registration required: toituosm@dcc.govt.nz or (03) 477-5052.
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.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Opens Saturday: works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
Opens Sunday until September 22: ''Bellamys at Five'' a collaborative poARTry competition.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Daily, 10am-4pm. Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
Closes tomorrow: Aroha Novak ''Fairy Tale Remix''. Open 11am-5pm.
Opens Sunday until September 8: ''Yet another side to Gordon Evans''.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
Closes tomorrow: ''Colours from a landscape''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
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.
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.
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.
September: exhibition of Scott Drummond's watercolours.
Hocken Collections, Otago University.
Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until September 29: Juliet Novena-Sorrel, New Works.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Opens Saturday until September 25: Paul Dibble ''A Walk in the Park'' and Christine Webster ''Therapies''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until September 18: Stanley Palmer's ''Paintings and Monoprints''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Until tomorrow: Angela Burns ''Elements of Time''. Images based on sea and landscape. 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 Sunday: 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.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
Until October 25: Collection of new works by Lorraine Marlow and J.K. Weir. Open 1-5pm Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
Opens Monday until September 14: Jo Howard and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until Tuesday: 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.
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