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.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, from 9pm: Bowmessiah, Descendants of Darwin, Lebowski, Visceral Impalement. $5.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Tomorrow, doors open 7.30pm: I Hate the Mall Tour 2013 - PCP Eagles, Gravemind, Two Wolves & Foe. $10.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 9pm: Quantum three-piece band.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Manny's Bar, St Andrew St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow 6-7pm. Both Sides of the Line, rockabilly and retro-pop, free.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Laurel Halo (US) with Murderbike and DJ Aaron Hawkins.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Thursday, 9pm: Ignite The Helix/ Freaky Meat.
• Friday, 9pm: Black Friday feat. Two Cartoons, Males, Ernesto Anenome, Tremewan and Astro Children.
• Saturday, 8pm: The Datsuns.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
vThursdays 9pm: open mike night.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, until September 26, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 11am: Time to Sleep - Storytelling Series. Free. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Every Saturday and Sunday until September 22, 3.30pm: ''Hot to chop!'' Investigation Station. Atrium level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 10-11am: Toddler Time. Free, no booking required.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Anteroom, 29 Wickliffe Tce, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Hana Aoake will perform.
Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 2pm: Southern Sinfonia's ''Play with the Orchestra 2013'' with conductor Simon Over.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Poetry, featuring Emma Neale and Peter Olds.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information Centre, lower garden.
• Saturday, 11am-1pm: Deadheaders' Picnic. Pack a picnic and come to the garden for a fun session deadheading the camellias.
Dunstan High School, Enterprise St, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Music in Central''. Demonstration concert by Dunedin Community Orchestra and Central Otago Regional Orchestra. Gold coin admission.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Today-Sunday: DPACS Senior Vocal Festival.
• Sunday: the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Aria Contest.
Golden Gate Conference Centre, Cromwell.
• Saturday, from 7.30pm: Lazarus String Quartet. Tickets on sale at Cromwell i-Site. Adults $25; Gold Card holders $20; students $5.
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
• Tomorrow, 12.15-1pm: Oamaru Opera House foyer - Allen Hogan, flautist and June Cameron, accompanist.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Making classical contemporary - NZTrio. Adults $48, seniors/students $35, groups 8+ $43 each.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians September recital meeting featuring Prof Terence Dennis and performance students from Otago University Music Department. All welcome, guests $5.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm: Traces - Montreal-based Urban Cirque Show. Tickets from The Regent.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music of the Spanish and Portuguese baroque.
• Wednesday, 7pm: Homage to John Dowland (1563-1626), 450th anniversary recital, Christopher John Clifford, countertenor and John Griffiths, lute.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today 1pm and 7pm and tomorrow 1pm: The Hansard Show.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites: Gifted.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Opens Saturday until October 5: Gifted.
Talks and films
Blueskin Bay Library, Harvey St.
• Saturday, 11am: Primeval Paradise - The Story of Ulva Island. Two thousand years ago New Zealand looked very different from the rest of the world. (Duration 1 hour). Free.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 10-11.30am: Meet the Artist - Megan Huffadine from Hullabaloo Art Space.
• Sunday, 1.30-3pm: Meet the Artist - Nigel Wilson from Hullabaloo Art Space.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Saturday, 10-11am: Workshop: Cultivation of Camellias. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: ''At Your Leisure''. Gallery curators Robyn Notman, Lauren Gutsell and Henry Davidson discuss a selection of works from the gallery's collection. Sunday, 3pm: ''The Magic Lantern and Medicine on Stage'', Prof Barbara Brookes, history department, University of Otago, will talk about a machine that allowed New Zealanders to see things differently - the stereopticon - and its ability, in 1893, to attract people to lectures on health.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Join the Friends of the Gallery for a coffee and talk with guest speaker Marie Strauss, of Dada. All welcome. No charge.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Sunday, 2-4pm: Fabrics and Furnishings tour - View textile treasures not normally on view to the public. Adults $25, children $10, bookings essential.
• 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.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd.
• Nightly until October 6: Guided tours to see the cheeky kakapo Sirocco. Bookings required.
Otago Motor Cycle Club rooms, 3 Clark St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: ''Twisting Throttle'' aka Mike Hyde will be talking about his journeys exploring our beautiful country and researching for Twisting Throttle New Zealand: A Kiwi's guide to the top 50 motorcycle rides in the Land of the Long White Cloud.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through September - today: the Wahine disaster. Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab. Saturday: Kotare - New Zealand's kingfisher. Sunday: a history of glass. Monday: Mapoutahi Pa. Tuesday: Lapita pottery. Wednesday: New Zealand's sea lion.
• Daily during September, 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. Free.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Zhang Meng's gripping drama The Piano in the Factory.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 2pm: Talk - Where have all the Playschool toys gone? Free, no booking required.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Anna Reid.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until September 22: ''Bellamys at Five'', a collaborative poARTry exhibition.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Opens Monday until September 30: Hoffman Collection.
• Until October 15: new works from Hallabaloo artists. Daily, 10am-4pm.
Ceres, 128 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
• Opens Friday until October 17: New paintings from Phillipa Jones and Michaela Robinson.
DUD Comics, 17 George St, Port Chalmers.
• Opens today, 5.30pm until Sunday: ''Fiendish Comix'' Comic-style collages by Peter Lewis. Open 10am-5pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• 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''.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Jack Hadley, Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella.
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.
• Until Sunday: Shane Hansen, ''Riangatoi Wairua''.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until September 27: Louise Greig, ''The Cassandra Complex''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• September: 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.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until October 27: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
• Until September 25: Paul Dibble ''A Walk in the Park'' and Christine Webster ''Therapies''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until Wednesday: Stanley Palmer's ''Paintings and Monoprints''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
• Opens tomorrow until October 3: Caravaggio Gang annual group exhibition '13'.
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 22: Youth Art Awards. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
• 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.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until October 6: ''Gems of the South''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until October 25: Collection of new works by Lorraine Marlow and J.K. Weir. Open 1pm-5pm Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (State Highway 8), Alexandra.
• Opens tomorrow until November 30: Ron Esplin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
• Until Saturday: Jo Howard and Judy Ringland Stewart.
• Opens Monday until September 28: Spring Fever with guest potter Raymond Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until October 1: works by local artist Elizabeth Gray.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Opens tomorrow until September 29: Photo Exhibition ''Shanghai's Yu Yuan Garden''.
Free entry.
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.
The Wallpaper House Gallery, Studio. 29 Lees St.
• Open Saturday, 11am-4pm.
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