A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Bannockburn Hotel Garden.
Sunday, 1pm-3.30pm: Live music with Katrina Bristow.
The Bog, George St, Dunedin.
Friday and Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason playing classic rock 'n' pop hits.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
Sunday, 3pm-5pm: Sultry swing and jazz noir. Free.
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.
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.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Tonight, 5.30pm-6.30pm: Live with Swampy - two Dunedin musicians who have a talent for composing well-crafted bluesy alternative folk and garage jazz. Gold coin entry.
Sunday, 2pm-3pm: Live with the Klezmer Rebs - an eight-piece Wellington band playing klezmer music, an engaging style of world/folk music born out of the Yiddish/Jewish culture of Eastern Europe in the 1800s and 1900s. Free.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand, lower garden.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday (October 7, 9 and 11), 11am-noon: Clown Show for Kids - Kaitrin McMullan and Danny Still.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Jungle Hunt - Kaitrin McMullan and friends spin magical tales. Celebrating World Animal and World Habitat Day. Storypit.
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.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Today and Saturday, 2pm: Nifty Neurons, Freaky Science Show - find out some freaky facts and discover just how brilliant our brains are. Atrium level 1, free.
Tomorrow, 2.15pm: Bristle Bot Bonanza Science Show - Join the scientists who have turned toothbrushes into robots, and experience the amazing things they can do. Atrium Level 1, free.
Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, 2.30pm: Brain Dead Adventure Tour - Join a dead-funny guide on the hunt for fresh brains and learn some cranium-crunching facts along the way. Meet at information desk, free.
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.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Monday, 10.30-11.30am: Juggling workshop - Juggler Jay teaches you how to make your own juggling balls and takes you through the different stages of learning how to juggle.
Tuesday, 10.30am-11.30am: Balloon Animal-Twisting workshop - learn how to twist like a pro and make a balloon dog.
Wednesday, 10.30am-11.30am: Circus Skills workshop - Hone your juggling skills and have fun with a variety of circus equipment.
Workshops run over the school holidays are in the NZR Lounge. Suitable for children 7 and above. $10 per child per workshop or $25 per child for three workshops. Bookings required. Contact Amelia Lindsay: alindsay@dcc.govt.nz; 474-2184.
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.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ music for weddings, to include famous works by Mendelssohn and Jeremiah Clarke.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St.
Closes tomorrow: 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: THEA 253/353: Bicultural theatre.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until Saturday: Gifted.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
Until October 6: Not Quite The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Talks and films
Bannockburn Hotel.
Sunday, 4pm: ''Across the Bridge in Bannockburn'' - Book reading with Owen Marshall. Tickets, $12.
Carrick Winery, 247 Cairnmuir Rd.
Saturday, 4.30pm: ''Across the Bridge in Bannockburn'' - Play reading with Dave Armstrong. Tickets, $10.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Today, 10am-8pm: Buggin' with Ruud: Madagascar - Out of this World (Duration 1 hour), repeat screening.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Saturday, 3pm: Professor Paul Tapsell, Te Tumu (School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies) will speak on maintaining kin-identity from a distance via social networking sites, like MMaps and how such innovations have flourished in our world of digital machines.
Sunday, 3pm: Dr Martin Patrick, senior lecturer in the Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University, will discuss aspects of the exhibition ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
Dunedin School of Art, Riego St, lecture theatre 152.
Monday, 5.30pm: Master potter Barry Brickell will talk and demonstrate at ''Fired Up''.
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 Sunday: guided tours to see cheeky kakapo Sirocco. Bookings required.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Daily talks during October, 2pm: Today: Gold rush - the discovery that shaped Dunedin. Tomorrow: Red feather money - the currency of Santa Cruz. Saturday: Maui-Potiki - legends of a Maori demigod. Sunday: El Niño and La Niña - dominant influences of Pacific weather. Tuesday: Kaka - New Zealand's rowdy parrot. Wednesday: The Guatemalan quetzal - revered bird of the ancient Mayans.
Daily during October, 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.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 1pm-3pm: Walk - Rogues and Gentlemen - Take a stroll with our expert guide around 19th-century Dunedin to meet some of the colourful characters from our city's past. Meet at Josephine Foyer. Free, bookings required.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Road, Waikouaiti.
Tuesday, 7.30pm-8.30pm: Author Talk: MOA. Quinn Berentson - Discover the link between Waikouaiti and New Zealand's giant bird.
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''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
New works by Anne Reid and Russ McLeanArtist'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. Opens tomorrow: Barry Brickell ''A Hot Retort''.
Cairnmuir Station Woolshed, 328 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
Saturday and Sunday, 10.30am-4pm: Artists of Bannockburn.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
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.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
Opens Tuesday until October 18: 2013 Artsenta exhibition. Open weekdays 10am-5pm.
Downes Room, Mosgiel Library.
Opens today until Saturday: Taieri Art Group, open 9am-5pm. Admission free.
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 Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until Sunday: Jack Hadley ''Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella'' (a Rear Window project).
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 Sunday: 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 October 10: Nic Dempster's ''Across Dunedin''.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Opens tomorrow until October 26: Lynn Kelly and Jo Ogier, new jewellery and prints.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
Until October 27: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
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.
Closes today: 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.
Opens Saturday until October 27: ''Spring Exhibition'', all works for sale. 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 Sunday: ''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.
Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
Until Sunday: ''Gems of the South''.
Until Sunday: ''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 (SH8), Alexandra.
Until November 30: Ron Esplin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
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.
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.
