Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
• Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Today, 8pm: Earth (Seattle, US). R18.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Perpetuity, Pandemonic, Abftact Survival and Innominatus.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Wednesdays, 8.30pm: JBE open mike/jam night with karaoke.
Purple Rain Retro Bar & Cafe, 403 Princes St.
• Saturday, 9pm: Both Sides of the Line, with Transit 55.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Sunday, noon-2pm: Live music with Maria Afflick.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
• Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Pre-school story time.
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.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 2pm-4pm: Harakeke (flax) star-making workshop to celebrate Matariki.
• Until August 3: Build a creation in the Olafur Eliasson ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' Lego exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Pre-school story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''The Science of Fun!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Snapping Science'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Kept under wraps!'', Investigation station. Atrium Level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today and Tuesday, 10am: Pre-school story time.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 10am: ''Toddler Time'', story telling, play time and craft activity. Bookings essential.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
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 Poets Collective open mike night with guest poets Peter Olds and Jeanne Bernhardt.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
Sunday, 3pm: Central Otago Regional Orchestra presents ''Of Heroes and Empires'', Beethoven Symphony No. 3 ''Eroica'' and oboe concerto.
Dunedin Town Hall Auditorium, Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 3pm: ''Stormin' Norma Rides Again'', Kemp English plays highlights from the organ repertoire.
First Church of Otago, Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm: Performances by secondary school musicians.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians June recital meeting, organ and choir music presented by musical director Karen Knudson.
• Today, 12.15pm: ''Choral Spectacular'' Otago Girls' and Boys' High School choirs present a lunchtime concert of 20th-century choral music.
St John the Baptist Catholic Church, 1 Killarney St, Alexandra.
• Saturday, 2.30pm: Central Otago Regional Orchestra presents Beethoven Symphony No. 3 ''Eroica'' and oboe concerto.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: Neville Winskill plays organ music from the United States.
Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm and Saturday, 2pm: Lady Susan, by Jane Austen.
Maniototo Arts Centre, Ranfurly.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Promise and Promiscuity, one-woman show by Penny Ashton.
The Stadium Tavern Conference Room, Alexandra.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Promise and Promiscuity, one-woman show by Penny Ashton.
Talks and films
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''All shapes and sizes - domestic architecture in Victorian Dunedin - the Colonial Bay villa'', talk by Peter Entwisle.
Central Cinema, Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: Goodbye Pork Pie.(Central Otago's Own NZ Film Festival).
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The Piano. (Central Otago's Own NZ Film Festival).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 2.15pm: Forensic Genealogy, public lecture by Dr Colleen Fitzpatrick. Dunningham Room.
• Today, 6pm: Author Rangitoia Chase presents an evening of music and memories to promote her book The Ways of the Eagle. Dunningham Suite.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturdays, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Anzac'' WW1 commemoration exhibition.
• Sundays, 2pm: Free guided tour of the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
• Saturday, 3pm: Screening of The Testament of Orpheus, by Jean Cocteau, in association with the ''Stretching Time'' exhibition.
• Wednesday, 7pm: ''30 Years - 30 Works'', Jim Geddes talks about the Eastern Southland Gallery.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Hocken Seminar Room, 90 Anzac Ave.
• Wednesday, 6pm: ''Three wise men of the valley'', Stan Rodger on the birth of New Zealand's welfare state and its origins in the Waitaki Valley.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential. Saturday, 2pm: Housekeeper's tour. Bookings essential.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Wednesday, noon: ''Word Pictures'', talk by Dunedin heritage buildings rejuvenator Lawrie Forbes.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 10am-1pm: ''Research your house'' workshop, Theomin Balcony, H.D. Skinner annex. Bookings essential.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: The Monowai.
• Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab.
• Saturday: Woollen bathing suit.
• Sunday: Kereru.
• Monday: Matariki.
• Tuesday: Santa Cruz red feather money.
• Wednesday: Akan gold weights.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex.
• Daily, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Tuesday, 12.30pm-12.45pm: ''Staff Pick'', Rua McCallum will talk about the circular design elements in Ara-i-te-uru (Kai Tahu gallery).
University of Otago, Burns 2 lecture theatre, Albany St
• Monday, 2pm: The latest climate change assessments. IPCC lead author Dr Andy Reisinger and Judy Lawrence from the NZ Climate Change Research Institute.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Etchings by Donald Paterson.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• New works by Zuna Wright, photographs by Cally Whitham.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until June 30: Pauline Bellamy retrospective, ''Pretty dreams, hard work, survival''.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until June 28: ''Attachment Drawing: Interface'', Ali Bramwell.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Until June 26: ''Considered Standing'', Patrick Hartigan.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, until June 26: ''New Dunedin Painting'', featuring a range of local artists.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Until Sunday: ''South by South East'', photographs by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until July 4: Spotlight on Design presents Jose Hall.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information centre, lower garden.
• Until June 30: ''Birds of the Botanic Garden'', photographs by Paul Sorrell.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until July 6: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until June 23: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic.
• Until July 6: ''Liar, liar, pants on fire'', Victoria McIntosh (rear window project). Until August 3: ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'', Olafur Eliasson.
• Until August 3: ''Wild Life'', works from the collection.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
• Until Sunday: ''Kermadec - Lines in the Ocean''.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Until tomorrow: ''The bright and shining lie'', Ben Webb.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until June 27: ''Keylines'', Richard Adams.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Alistair Begg, Scott Drummond and Tania McIntosh.
• Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until June 21: ''Remembrancer'', Megan Huffadine.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until July 26: ''Works on Paper''.
• Gallery open Saturdays, noon-2pm.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: Costumes from the Autumn Festival ''Art 2 Wear'' fashion show.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Helmet men'', Travis Cameron.
• Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until July 2: ''Message Beacon'', Zena Elliott.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until June 25: ''Selected Works'', Neil Dawson.
• Until July 23: ''The Review'', various New Zealand artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Conjunctures'', Philip Madill.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''Languishing, Vexed and Reclining Nudes'' by Annie Nevin.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• From Wednesday, until July 9: ''Heavenly Creatures'', Max Gimblett.
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 Copeland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until June 30: Otago Art Society's 138th Annual Exhibition. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until July 20: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until September 21: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''.
• Until November 2: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Jo Macleary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Until August 31: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''. Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Until Sunday: ''Tales from a Long, Bright Land: Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until Sunday: Hinton art exhibition, photographers Annemarie Hope-Cross and Eric Schusser.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until June 21: Riki Julin and Lorna Isaac.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
• Until June 30: ''Place & Time - Five Women Artists'', Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
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.
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.
