Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
• Saturday from 10pm: Soul Deep.
Careys Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Sunday, 3pm: Karin Reid and Bill Martin.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin Jazz Trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Thursday, from 9pm: Monica and the Explosion, Moisty Atsushi, Scurvy Dogs.
• Saturday, from 9pm: Feral Hunks (CD release), support from The Vamps, Birdation, Fuschia Gash.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Tomorrow from 9pm: Metal night; Pandemonic, Innominatus, Perpetuity, Black Sky Hustler, Waystone.
Gin and Raspberry, 155 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
• Tomorrow, 6pm: Les Richardson on piano.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturdays from 9pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Saturday, 8pm: The Broken Heartbreakers.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Preschool storytime.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents. 4th floor.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school storytime.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Treasures of the Deep - Ka Taoka A Takaroa''. Professional storyteller Kaitrin McMullan spins tales to delight children of all ages.
MoreFM Arena, Edgar Centre.
• Saturday and Sunday: Armageddon Expo Dunedin - animation, gaming, comics, collectables.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Thursdays, 11am-11.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: Friday Flicks: free family movie screening. Downes room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Preschool storytime. Children's area.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily, 3.30pm: ''Nest is Best'', investigation station, atrium level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: Preschool storytime, children's area.
• Today, 6pm: ''Poetry at the Port: Riemke Ensing''.
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.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Today, 7pm: ''Mary Celeste: Ghost Ship''. Period-costumed interactive whodunnit mystery. Bookings essential. Ages 18+.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Monday, 11am: Operatunity daytime concert series, ''Three Tenors and a Soprano''.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 7pm: ''The Tudors: Piety and Pleasure'', New Zealand International Early Music Festival opening concert.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: Organ recital by George Chittenden.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until March 8: Book Ends, Roger Hall play. Tuesday 6pm, Wednesday-Saturday 7.30pm, Sunday 4pm.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until Saturday, 7.30pm: Journey's End - life in the trenches during World War 1.
Talks and films
A Drop of Red, SH6 Cromwell.
• Today and Monday, 7.30pm: Beyond the Hills, film screening.
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 5.30pm: ''Argula von Grumbach - A Woman Before Her Time'', author talk by Peter Matheson.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Daily at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Rabbits - scourge of the land? Tomorrow: Otago Museum's Egyptian mummy. Saturday: Akan gold weights. Sunday: The southern sky. Monday: Rat king. Tuesday: Contemporary carved gateway. Wednesday: Moa - extinct flightless birds. Daily until March 7, 4pm: Tangata Whenua Gallery talk.
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.
• Till Sunday: Mary Macpherson ''Old New World''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Peter Beadle, large paintings.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Transforma N8VLAB'', Michel Tuffery and Tracey Tawhiao with Wi Taepa and Kereama Taepa.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Open daily, Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until March 22: ''When your neighbours' problems become your own,'' by Cat Auburn.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Ongoing: ''New Works & Old Works'', by Martin Thompson.
Carrick Winery, 247 Caimmuir Rd.
• Closes tomorrow: Jenny Hill exhibition.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Till March 13: ''Form & Fantasy'' clay sculpture and pottery exhibition.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Saturday until March 8, 10am-4pm daily: Quilters and Patchworkers of Otago Inc exhibition.
Dowling Street Studios, 20a Dowling St.
• Closes today: ''Between Ourselves'', new paintings by Claire Peters. 10am-2pm daily.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Closes Sunday: ''A Distinct New Zealand Flavour: McNab's Gift to Dunedin''. Celebrating 100 years of the McNab Collection.
• Till March 10: ''Plainsong to Pergolesi: A Timeline of Early Music'' - exhibition paying homage to music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods. 1st and ground floors.
Dunedin International Airport.
• February: Photographer Derek Morrison.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Till March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Till March 30: ''Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s''.
• Till March 30: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins.
• Till March 30: ''Gifted'', recent acquisitions.
• Till April 20: Seung Yul Oh, ''Moamoa: A Decade''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Free Beauties'', by MFA candidate Kristin O'Sullivan Peren.
Front Room, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
• Until March 7: ''absence and presence'', by Odelle Morshuis.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Closes today: ''Pearler'', paintings by Ewan McDougall and poetry by Sarah McDougall.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until April 5: ''No Need for Water'', Zina Swanson.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until March 8: ''Willow on Clutha'', new work by Nigel Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until March 9: A selection of works on paper.
• Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Saturday until April 11: ''From City to Central'', works by Jenny Longstaff and friends from the Otago Art Society.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until March 12: ''States of Emergency'', by Jenna Packer; ''New Works'' group show.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Girl and the Garden'', by Charlotte Handy; ''The Earl Street Journal'', group exhibition.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Flux'', photographs by Murray Eskdale.
• From Saturday: ''Texture of the Soul'', by Zivka Petrovic.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes Street.
• New works by Danny Moorwood.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Open daily 10am-5pm.
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 March 9: Summer Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• 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, 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.
• Closes tomorrow: John Mayne, copper sculpture.
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.
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.
• ''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.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open Saturday, Sunday 11am-4pm.
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