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, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Tomorrow, doors open 6pm: All Age Gig -The Farqvards, John George MacLeod's Platoon, Perpetual Button and Ruby Phantoms. Koha entry: soft drinks only.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Thursdays from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
Tomorrow, 9pm: The Shade, $5.
Saturday, 7pm-10pm: 8 Foot Sativa with Osmium and Lebowski.
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.
Union Hall, University of Otago.
Tonight, 7pm: Fly My Pretties.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, playground, lower garden.
Monday, 11am-noon: Primary Schools' Writing Challenge - Winning stories will be performed by Kat Anna Fiddle.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Daily during the school holidays: ''Mechanical Monsters'' - draw a robot or a machine that could take over the world.
''Retrogamers Fest'' - old-school arcade games such as Pacman, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
Today, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
Monday, 11am: Decoration Station - Get clever with your scissors, and use paper to make awesome decorations. Suitable for school-aged children. Free, bookings essential.
Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Sunday, 11am-3pm: DNA Day - Family workshop with Genetics Otago and Otago Museum.
Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Daily during the school holidays, 3.30pm: ''Arachni-mania'' Investigation Station - Sort the facts from fiction about our native spiders.
Daily during the school holidays: Heads Will Roll Trail - help Headless Harry find his head. Collect your trail from the Discovery Desk on atrium level 1.
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 Town Hall, Moray Pl.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Southern Sinfonia's Japan Tour fundraising concert.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Tonight, 7.30pm: Dunedin Youth Orchestra - ''Musical Portraits'' conducted by Anthony Ritchie.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
Sunday, 1pm: In the Mood: a Choral Jazz Recital. Door sales $15/$10. St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Sunday, 2pm: Christchurch ensemble Baroque Brilliance with soloist Martin Setchell in Handel's ''Cuckoo'' organ concerto, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.2 and music by Vivaldi and Telemann.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: Jonathan Dimmock (San Francisco) plays organ music by Felix Mendelssohn and Dan Locklair.
St Peter's Church Hall, Hillside Road, South Dunedin.
Sunday, 2.30pm: ''Friends of the Opera'' - ''Producing Opera: A View From Backstage'', Jim Jackson will discuss issues from backstage with Bruce McMillan, while the Mayfair Opera Ensemble will sing chorus items from past productions of Opera Otago.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Tonight, 6pm-7.30pm: Dancing Like the Stars 2013 - The Final Showcase.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St.
Opens Saturday until October 4: The Buddy Holly Story presented by the Alexandra Musical Society. Tickets from $15 at iTicket.co.nz or the Alexandra box office on Skird St, weekdays from noon-2pm.
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
Today 1pm and 7pm, tomorrow, 1pm: Milo's Wake written by Michael and Margery Forde, directed by Chris Manley.
Athenaeum Theatre, the Octagon.
Saturday, 3pm: Read Out Loud, Felinity of Wendel, by Paul Rothwell, and Balance of Payments, by Robert Lord.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until October 5: Gifted.
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
Until Saturday: Chicago.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Today, 5.30pm: Lecture - join the Friends of the Gallery for the 2013 W. M. Hodgkins Lecture by Rodney Hamel ''Rev Thomas Burns: His Monument. Why Isn't It There?''.
Sunday, 3pm: Documentary - Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. Quest to create a series of haunting, surreal and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life.
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.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd.
Nightly until October 6: guided tours to see the cheeky kakapo Sirocco. Bookings required.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Today, 5.30pm: Public Talk - Otago Museum Linnaeus Taxonomy Fellowship Presentation - Rebecca Cumming and Katie O'Dwyer will talk about their work. Also hear from the inaugural Fellowship recipient Felix Marx. Barclay Theatre, free.
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''. 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 Viva Maria, a freewheeling adventure-comedy starring '60s icons Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 2pm: Talk - Traditional structure and techniques are a timeless spark for contemporary artists and craftspeople - Roka Ngarimu-Cameron.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until October 13: ''Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s'' developed and presented by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Until October 13: Cindy King ''Pristine Origins''.
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
Opens today until Tuesday: Blossom Festival Art Exhibition from 10am to 4.30pm daily. Admission $2.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
New works by Anne Reid and Russ McLean
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
Work by Pauline Bellamy, open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until Monday: Hoffman Collection.
Until October 15: new works from Hullabaloo artists. Daily, 10am-4pm.
Ceres, 128 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
Until October 17: new paintings from Phillipa Jones and Michaela Robinson.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
Until October 13: Display: Primary Schools' Writing Challenge. Daily 10am-4pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin International Airport
September: Sam Foley ''Three Years On''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
From Sunday until January 26: ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
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.
Opens tomorrow until October 10: Nic Dempster's ''Across Dunedin''.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Closes tomorrow: 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 Sunday: Juliet Novena-Sorrel, new works.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
Until October 27: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Meridian Mall, George St, Dunedin.
Until Sunday 3pm: Green Island Art Group, annual exhibition. Wide variety of members' paintings, drawings and novelty art for sale.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Opens Saturday until October 23: Andy Leleisi'uao ''The Choirs of Lupotea''.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until October 16: Mike Petre ''Stories in the Landscape''.
Until November 13: Spring Catalogue.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
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 Sunday: NOTUS: works by graduates of the Otago City and Guilds international course in stitched textiles. Featuring work by Robin Aitken, Bernice Mills, Ingrid Emerson, Jeanette Trotman, Anne Enright, Lenore Whyte, Di Lightfoot and Jan Wilson.
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.
Until October 15: ''The New Masters'', Bayfield pupils.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
Until Saturday: ''Precarious Treasures'': new work by Rebecca Fargher; ''Cast Offs'': new work by Blue Black. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
Until October 6: ''Gems of the South''.
Until October 6: ''ILT Positively Pastels Art Awards''Until October 13: ''Connect''.
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.
Until November 30: Ron Esplin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
Until September: ''Spring Fever'' with guest potter Raymond Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until Tuesday: works by local artist Elizabeth Gray.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Until Sunday: 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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