Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Today, 9pm: Pint Night with OPC, Dinosaur Sanctuary, Agent Ewok. Free entry.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Friday, 9pm: Needless Cane, Ghost Daddy.
• Saturday, 9pm: Warsaw, Innominatus, Perpetuity, Abstract Survival.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Punk Night - Black Forest, Conniption, Scum Hammer, Slitzkrieg. Members $3, public $5.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5.30pm: Karin Reid and Bill Martin.
Queenstown Events Centre, Joe O'Connell Dr, Frankton.
• Saturday, 11am-9pm: Queenstown Blues and Roots Festival. Featuring: Doobie Brothers, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Fly My Pretties, The Black Seeds, The Johnnys, King Leo.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Tonight, 8pm-11pm: Mbryo, with Trevor Coleman, Nick Cornish, Nathan Berg and Rob Craigie.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
• Saturday, 8pm: Dance with music by the Melody Makers. $5 admission. The Shed, Northburn Station.
• Saturday, 2.30pm-5.30pm: Manny Fresh plays acoustic soulful classics. $15.
Family fun
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Saturdays and Thursdays until May 3, 2.30pm: ''Astonishing Advertising!'' science show. Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tomorrow, 10am-4.30pm: Poppy-making - using the materials provided.
• Daily until May 5: ''Design a CD Cover'' competition. Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Make your own jigsaw puzzle. Bookings essential.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: Friday Flicks, free family movie screening.
• Monday, 11am: Make your own pinwheel flowers. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily: Discovery Backpacks. Walk around the museum with an Explorer backpack or rummage around the jungle with a Tropical Forest backpack.
• Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays until May 4, 2pm: ''No Rain, No Rainbows!''. Explore the truth about rainbows. With Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily until May 4, 3.30pm: Kept under wraps! Investigation Station. Atrium level 1. Free.
• Sundays, Mondays and Fridays until May 4, 2.30pm: ''Shapeshifting Trickster'', Tangata Whenua Gallery tour. Free. Meet at information desk.
• Daily until May 4: ''Chalice in Wonderland''. Complete the trail to help Alice find the missing Bucchero chalice. Collect your trail from the Discovery Desk, Atrium Level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time, children's room.
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, dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: The Octagon Poetry Collective presents guest poets Alison Denham and Kay McKenzie Cooke. Open mike.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: Anzac Day Revue 2014, by the Dunedin RSA Choir.
Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Friday and Saturday, 7.30pm: Paper Sky, production by Red Leap Theatre.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Anzac recital. Organ music from New Zealand and Australia by Tecwyn Evans, Thalban Ball, Vernon Griffiths, C.S. Lang. Karen Knudson (NZ) and John Conran (Aus) organists. Gold coin donation.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Jeffrey Grice, Paris-based New Zealand pianist, plays Chopin: The 24 Preludes, op.28 and works of Gounod-Liszt: Hymne 0 Sainte Cecile, Lucien Johnson: To the Sea, McLeod: Vive Messaien.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays Easter organ music, to include works by Dandrieu, Langlais and Mulet.
Plays
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
• Tomorrow, 10.30pm: Horrornation Street, improv show by Improsaurus.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until Saturday: That's Bewitched!, 2pm daily and 6.30pm Saturday.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 99 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Wednesday-May 3, 7.30pm; May 3-4, 2pm: Taieri Dramatic Society presents Dad's Army.
• Opens Wednesday April 30, 7.30pm and runs until Sunday May 4 (matinees Saturday and Sunday 2pm).
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Tomorrow and Sunday, 2pm; Saturday, 11am and 2pm: The Amazing Adventures of Captain Telepathic.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tomorrow, noon: ''Anzac + Poetry''. David Eggleton will read poetry associated with World War 1 in the Laurence Aberhart exhibition ''Anzac''. Sign language interpreter will attend. Sunday, 2pm: Free guided tour of ''Belonging'' exhibition on the ground floor. All welcome.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Today, 5pm: ''Watershed'' exhibition opening and artist talk.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Daily tours at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Watom Island. Tomorrow: Life on the Endeavour. Saturday: Karetao - Maori Puppets. Sunday: Yellow-eyed Penguins. Monday: Southern Whaling. Tuesday: New Zealand Falcon. Wednesday: Nisga'a Totem Pole Segment.
• Daily, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', talk to complement exhibition in the Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society will screen Toomelah, directed by Ivan Sen.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Rachel Hirabayashi.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Expressions of War ... portraits of veterans'', Hon Captain Matt Gauldie.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until Wednesday: Pauline Bellamy watercolours. Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until May 3: ''Who Opens The Door'', by Annie Mackenzie and Dave Marshall.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• ''Paper Works - 1978 & 1980'', Gary Blackman.
• Central Stories Russell Henderson Gallery, Centennial Ave, AlexandraUntil May 4: ''Wool Away''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until May 25: ''Not all White'', wedding dresses by Tanya Carlson.
• Until June 15: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until June 23: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Francis Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• Until May 2: ''Mountain, Moon and Volcano Strip'', Louis Graham.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until May 11: ''Broken Idols'', by Tom Simpson.
• Until May 18: ''Xistence'', by Richard Mountain.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Closes today: ''Reflections on a Coastline'', new paintings by Angela Burns.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Opens today until May 15: ''Watershed'', by Martin Hill, in collaboration with Philippa Jones.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Scott Drummond. Open Wednesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday, 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 10: ''Choice'', a selection of work. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Until May 5: ''Ignis Fatuus'', drawings, paintings and pottery by Peter, Tui and Emil Johnson.
• McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• From Sunday until May 25: ''A Series of Mistakes'', by Susanna Izard.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until May 7: ''In the Company of Animals'', Reuben Paterson.
• Until May 7: ''Echo'', Merilyn Wiseman.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Woodland'', by Karl Maughan.
• Until Wednesday: ''The Royal Queenstown Easter Show''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Colour is Vision's Amphetamine.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• New crystalline-glazed pots by Peter Gregory.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until May 2: ''Studio Mix '', selected works by Russell Moses. Gallery open daily 10am-5pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• ''The Works: Pukeuri 1914-2014'', an exhibition about the Pukeuri meatworks in Oamaru.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Pt Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Until May 11, 9.30pm-5pm: 2014 sculpture exhibition, by the Otago Sculpture Trust.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until May 18: ''Sheep, Shearing and Scenery'', photography by Joanne McLeary.
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.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Ongoing: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''. Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Until June 15: ''Tales from a Long, Bright Land: Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open 1pm-5pm, Friday-Sunday.
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.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Terrace, Bannockburn.
• Until May 5: ''Place & Time'', works by Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until May 6: Works by artist Margaret Calder.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• Until May 23: ''Make It New! Modernism and the Medieval Presence''.
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.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
