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.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Sunday, 2pm: Tiny Pieces of Eight - songs by Deirdre Newall CD release. Featuring Chris Heazelwood and Grant Ramsey, aka Swampy. Special Guest: A J Sharma. $10.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tonight, 9pm: The Trembling and Needless Cane play as part of the Republic of Rock Tour 2013, $10Tomorrow, 9pm: Perpetuity, Pandenomic, Davine Perdition, Abstract Survival and Malignite, $5.
Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Mosgiel RSA Dance, music provided by 2's Company. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: AMPED music project 2013 final gig - AMPATHON 2013.
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.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Sunday, 9am-4pm: Gala Day - 9am-1pm, Rhododendron day plant sale, upper garden car park; 2-4pm: Fun times, lower botanic garden.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Arachni-mania'' Investigation Station - Sort the facts from fiction about our native spiders.
Sunday, 11am: Storytelling series - Feathers for Phoebe.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool storytime.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Athenaeum Theatre, Octagon
• Sunday, 3pm: Holding Court by Tim Hambleton, directed by Patrick Davies. Admission $8 by door sales only.
Catholic Church, Killarney St, Alexandra
• Saturday, 7.30pm: ''Notes of Spring'' - Central Otago Regional Orchestra with Cathy Irons (violin). Tickets $20 (school children free).
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Wednesday,8pm: Octagon Poetry Collective reading series.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Sunday, 3pm: ''Notes of Spring'' - Central Otago Regional Orchestra with Cathy Irons (violin). Tickets $20 (school children free).
Dunstan High School, Enterprise St, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: Variety concert fundraiser for Lauren Ross. Featuring Libby Hamilton, Dunstanza Choir, Dunstan High School Jazz Band and other surprises! $10 admission or $5 primary school pupils.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: pianist Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven reCYCLE Part Three: Pathetique.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians October Recital Meeting featuring Ladonna Loo and friends; followed by soprano Rae Sherbutt and and pianist John van Buskirk performing a programme of songs and arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Aaron Copland. All welcome; guests $5.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Tuesday, 11am: Daytime Concert Series - ''If You're Irish, come into the parlour''.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Local duo ''All at Sea'' perform a range of easy-listening music and original compositions.
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Aroha Quartet In Near and Far(R).
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
College of Education Auditorium, Union St East.
• Sunday, 6pm: Natyaloka presents maaya-An Indian classical dance recital.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 1pm: Irish Beat Dance and Music Show - Combining traditional dance and music with contemporary arrangements, the show presents a modern display of Irish step dance accompanied by fresh take on traditional Irish music. Free, no booking required
War Memorial Hall, Balclutha.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: ''Tall Tales and Tangos'' presented by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and narrated by Anton Oliver.
Plays
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Closes tomorrow: Musical Theatre Dunedin presents Hairspray.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society Inc. is showing Haute Cuisine. All welcome. Phone 445-4151 for info and to book.
Alexandra Memorial Hall, Skird St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: Kelvin Cruickshank (rescheduled!) - Brings you ''Soul Food''. Tickets are available at Alexandra i-SITE at $68.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tonight, 7-9pm: ''Treasured Up on Purpose to a Life Beyond Life'' - Celebrate the start of the 2013 'Centre for the Book' Symposium. Join Jim Traue, from the Alexander Turnbull Library, for a fascinating talk about collectors, collecting and collections. Free, bookings essential. Fourth Floor, City Library.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Professor Mark Billinghurst from HIT Lab, University of Canterbury, will talk on body wearable computing and augmented reality (such as Google Glass) and the implications of this technology.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: tours of the Theomin art collection, bookings essential.
• Sunday, 2-4pm: Dunedin's Most Elegant Street - guided walk with local historian Paul Aubin. Discover the rich histories of the 'grand homes' and eclectic community of Royal Tce c.1900 to the present day. Bookings essential, adults $25, children $10.
• Daily tours at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening - Built for the Kill: Crocodile, in the Barclay Theatre.
• 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 Nino and La Nina - dominant influences of Pacific weather. Monday: The Union Steam Ship Company - the 'Southern Octopus'. 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.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Monday, 7.30pm: launch of ''Catlins birds - a pocket guide'', speaker, Craig McKenzie.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Walking On The Wild Side.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Celtic Festival - Tomorrow, 2pm: ''Celtic Connections'', Curator, Sean Brosnahan, will take a guided tour of the museum, looking at the places in its displays we might expect to find echoes of Otago's Celtic heritage. Free, no booking required.
• Saturday, 2.30pm: Lecture ''The body on the shore: The Irish and the Dunedin Stage in 1862.''
• Professor Peter Kuch (Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies), explores this celebration of `Irishness' in the 'Edinburgh of the South'. Free, no booking required.
• Saturday, 1-2.30pm: Celtic Knot-drawing Workshop, Anna Bowen will teach beginners how to draw Celtic knots including triangles, squares, pentagons and borders. Suitable for 13yrs and over, $2, materials supplied. Bookings required toituosm@dcc.govt.nz or (03) 477-5052.
• Tuesday, 12.15pm: For Man Must Work: or the end of work This acclaimed film addresses some of the big questions facing the workforce in the 21st century. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada. Free, no booking required.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until October 27: ''Celtic Spirit'' Ron Esplin, Pauline Bellamy, Chris O'Regan. Part of the Dunedin Celtic Arts Festival, open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until October 26: ''Dual <> Jewel'', Kelly O'Shea. Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Barry Brickell, ''A Hot Retort''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until November 14: ''Spotlight on design'' with Lynne Wilson and Joan Neil.
Ceres, 128 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
• Closes today: new paintings from Phillipa Jones and Michaela Robinson.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Closes tomorrow: 2013 Artsenta exhibition. Open weekdays 10am-5pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until January 26: ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
• Until November 3: ''Among the machines''.
• Until March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Jack Hadley, Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella.
• Ongoing: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until October 25: New jewellery collection by Kate Alterio ''Beyond Time & Space''.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until October 26: Lynn Kelly and Jo Ogier, new jewellery and prints.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until October 28: ''Back On Track''. Contemporary sculpture in stone, wood and steel by Gavin Wilson.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until October 27: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: Andy Leleisi'uao ''The Choirs of Lupotea''.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday until November 13: Darryn George, ''Notes on Isaiah''.
• Until November 13: Spring Catalogue.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• October 25: ''New Identity'', by Dunedin visual artist Ross Davidson.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Nectar Cafe, 286 Princes St
• Until November 30: Paintings by Kate Williamson.
Northeast Valley Community Rooms, 248 North Road.
• Saturday, 11am-4pm and Sunday, 10am-4pm: ArtFibre textile display.
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 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.
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.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until November 5: Landscapes by local photographer Robert Evans.
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.
University Book Shop, Great King St.
• Friday-Sunday: Arthur Street School Art Exhibition 2013, open Friday, 5.30-7pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10am-2pm.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Road, Waikouaiti.
• Until November 10: Portrait exhibition - See through the eyes of a new generation, self-portraits by local children.
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.day, 11am-4pm.
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