Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
• Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Bannockburn Hotel Garden.
• Saturday, from noon-10.30pm: Banny Music Fest
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.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays 9pm: open mike night.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Road (SH8), Alexandra.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: Jo Little and Jared Smith (guitar and soulful harmonies)
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 5.30-6.30pm: Monty Bevins
Family fun
Alpha St Reserve, Cromwell
• Saturday, 11am-4pm: Southland Ford Car Festival
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Daily until January 26: art gallery quiz. Young children must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Daily until January 26: EXPLORE the Art Gallery: Follow the instructions in our fun EXPLORE foldout activities sheet. Free.
• Daily until January 26: String and things hairy monster-making using the materials on the activities tables in Playspace. Free.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Thursdays 11am-11.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children aged 0-2 and their parents.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday until January 26, 2:30pm: Ghost Rider Adventure Tour. Join the museum's own Ghost Rider on a hell-raising ride around the REVolution: 100 Years of Motorcycles exhibition.
• Thursdays and Saturdays until January 25, 2pm: Freaky Science Show - Do You Dare?. Find out how we can use science to do things that seem impossible, and then have a go at your own daring deed.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily, 3.30pm: ''Nest is Best'', investigation station, atrium level 1, free.
• Daily until January 26: ''Cirque du Quirk'', school holiday trail. Collect trail from the Discovery desk. Free.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Monday-January 26, 10-5pm: Self-portrait Gallery. Create your own self-portrait and hang it in our special gallery.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Every Friday and Saturday, 10.30am: story time in the children's room on the magic carpet.
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.
• Tuesday, 8pm: Altmusic presents avant-electronic superstars Matmos. Supported by The Ladder is Part of the Pit. R18. $20 (cash only).
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ marches, to include works by Mendelssohn, Guilmant and Sousa.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sundays in January, 2pm: Free guided tours of ''Wonderwall'' and ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Sunday, 3pm: Art documentary: Lovely Rita: A Painter's Life (DVD 70mins). Free.
Monday to January 24, 3pm: Anime films from Studio Ghibli - Monday: Ponyo (G 1hr 20min). Tuesday: My Neighbour Totoro (G 1hr 25min). Wednesday: Tales from Earthsea (M 1hr 55min). Thursday: Kiki's Delivery Service (PG 1hr 43min). Friday: The Cat Returns (G 1hr 15min).
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Today, 6pm: Graeme 'Croz' Crosby Presents - Superbike Superstories. Hear Croz spin tales of thrills and spills from his world champion grand prix days.
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.
• Today, 3pm: Graeme 'Croz' Crosby Presents - Superbike Superstories. Hear Croz spin tales of thrills and spills from his world champion grand prix days. Bookings essential. Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Falkland Islands wolf. Tomorrow: New Zealand frogs - unique and endangered amphibians. Saturday: Auckland Island teal. Sunday: Vénus de Milo - iconic goddess of love and beauty. Monday: Ta moko- Maori tattooing. Tuesday: Stephens Island wren- extinct flightless songbird. Wednesday: Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani's feathered cape. Daily, 4pm: special exhibition talk, REVolution: 100 Years of Motorcycles. Free.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until March 2: Mary Macpherson ''Old New World''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Visit our new gallery space.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until January 25: ''Wildlife'', works by Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry. Open daily, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• From Wednesday until February 22: ''[sic]'', by Zac Langdon-Pole.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''The Hors Commerce'', by Jason Greig.
Carrick Winery, 247 Caimmuir Rd.
• Until February 28: Jenny Hill exhibition.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until January 30: Christmas Showcase. Local artists with an under-$200 section.
Croydon Aviation Centre, Mandeville.
• Until February 24: ''4 Colour Lovers'' exhibition featuring Christine O'Connor, Jodie Marlow, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Liz Bristow. Open 9.30am-4.30pm weekdays and 11am-3pm weekends.
Design Withdrawals, Palmerston
• Until January 25: Joanna Tokona's new exhibition
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until March 2: ''A Distinct New Zealand Flavour: McNab's Gift to Dunedin.''
• Celebrating 100 years of the McNab Collection.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until January 26: ''Derek Ball: High-Tech Fantasy''.
• Until January 26: ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
• Until March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Until April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
• Ongoing: ''Wonderwall,'' 50 paintings from the permanent collection.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Fallen Picture with Harpoon by Nick Austin.
• Ongoing: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until February 9: ''Laurence Aberhart: South by South East''.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• January: Anna Reid ''Titled'' - prints and paintings.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until February: Drawings by Alan Pearson.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers - Artists and Iconic Landscapes''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until January 25: Rachel Hirabayashi
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until February 8: ''Variations on a Summer Day'', a selection of paintings from Kim Pieters' ''Arbitrary Knowledges'' series
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until February 23: ''Sign of the Times'', memorabilia and objects signed by famous people.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until February 12: Summer show.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until February 5: ''The Earl Street Journal'', open daily 10am-6pm, closed December 25 and 26.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Murray Eskdale exhibition.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St.
• Christmas exhibition.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until February 2: ''Affordable Art'' exhibition. Open daily 10-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until February 16: ''REVolution: 100 Years of Motorcycles''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until March 16: ''Prima Threads'', works on paper by Gordon Thompson and textiles by Janine Thompson.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore 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.
• Open 1pm-5pm Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until January 29: ''Essence of Central Otago'', photographs by Gilbert van Reenen.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until February 3: Photography on Canvas and Corrugated Iron by Murray Crawford.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• ''Rare Delights III. Recent Additions to Special Collections''.
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. Sunday, 11am-4pm.street.
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