Gigs
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: Eye, Psychic Maps, Nick Graham.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, 8pm: Scurvy Dogs, Silly Drunken Bastards, Bulletproof Convertible.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Rachel Dawick and the Boundary Riders.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Tainted, with Ignite the Helix, War Saw and Innominatus.
• Saturday, 8pm: The Violet-Ohs, Dinosaur Sanctuary, The Canals, DJ Goldstein.
Snow Farm Lodge, Cardrona.
• Saturday, 8pm: Ceilidh dance with music from Martin Curtis and guests.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
• Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Tomorrow: OWLS, Nick Knox, Fuchsia Gash, First Name John.
Union Hall, University of Otago.
• Today, 9pm: Chali 2na.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Today, 2pm: Preschool story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: Fifteen-minute tractor rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 10.30am: Preschool story time.
• Tuesday, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme session for children 0-2 and parents.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Daily from Saturday: ''Treasure jar'' playspace activity. Fill the jar with a drawing of your favourite things.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes Room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Science vs Fantasy'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday, 3.30pm: ''Nice or Nasty?'' Investigation Station. Free.
• Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Today, 10am: Preschool story time.
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
Burns Hall, First Church, Moray Pl.
• Wednesday to September 27: Dunedin Performing Arts Competitions Society Inc presents the 2014 Senior Vocal Festival.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 8pm: ''Romantic Masters'', Southern Sinfonia performance.
• Sunday, 3pm: Saturday Morning Music Classes demonstration concert.
• Tuesday, 6.30pm: Otago Secondary Schools' Music Festival, featuring massed orchestra, jazz band, choir and musical highlights from Otago secondary schools.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert; Stephen de Pledge (piano).
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Collegiate Orchestra semester 2 concert featuring Alex Vaatstra (viola).
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Knox Children's Choir.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Sunday, 7pm: ''We will remember them'', World War 1-themed performance by the Southern Youth Choir.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: Donald Cullington plays organ music by Hindemith, Mozart and Schumann.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime theatre. Athenaeum Hall, Arrowtown.
• Until Saturday, 8pm: 'Allo 'Allo.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites; sample the Fortune theatre's upcoming show The Caretaker.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tuesday, 7pm: Eden Hore fashion collection lecture by Dr Jane Malthus.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: Talk by Sulari Gentill, author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries and the Hero Trilogy for young adults. Bookings essential.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Monday, 7pm: Eden Hore fashion collection lecture by Dr Jane Malthus.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Akan gold weights.
• Tomorrow: Fin whale. Saturday: New Zealand bats.
• Sunday: The woollen bathing suit.
• Monday: Queen Lili'uokalani's feather cape.
• Tuesday: Maori cloaks.
• Wednesday: Falkland Islands wolf.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'' talk in the H. D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions Gallery talk.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by various artists.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• ''Land, Leather, Metal & Feather, Jane Crisp and Julie Greig.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 12pm-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Closes today: ''Shunga'', Japanese erotic prints.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Morphologies'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
• ''Working Men'', Jeffrey Harris, Ewan McDougall, Neil Emmerson, Philip J. Frost, Greg Lewis, Flynn Morris-Clarke.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until September 30: Spotlight on design - Debbie Malcolm.
• Until October 12: ''Their War, Our Story: A Call to Arms'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
• Opens tomorrow, until October 9: ''Sea Baskets'', woven works by Jasmie Clark.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until October 12: Photographs by Max Bellamy (Rear Window project).
• Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Until November 9: ''Jim McMurtry'', by Michael Parekowhai.
• Until November 16: ''Sleight of Hand'', curated by Lauren Gutsell.
• Until November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
• Ongoing: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
• From Saturday until November 16: ''Koreo Ko, Koreo Au'', by Moana Tipa.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Until September 25: ''Spring group show'', various artists.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until September 26: ''Kissing the obscene'', Jason Greig; ''Sculpture'', Bing Dawe.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until Saturday: ''Onederment,'' by Nicola Reeves. Open 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until October 25: ''Art Between the Covers: Artists and the Book''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until October 4: ''Print Me a Cloud of Milk'', prints by Marion Vialade.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until September 27: ''Works on Paper'', by Mate Pavic.
• Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until October 12: ''Shadows of Shoah'', multidisciplinary Holocaust exhibition.
Meridian Mall, George St, Dunedin.
• Until Sunday: Green Island Art Group annual exhibition.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''New Paintings'', Lorene Taurerewa; ''New Works'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday, until October 15: ''Abstract geology'' by Kate Woods; ''Orbit'' by John Edgar.
• Opens Saturday, until November 12: ''Spring Catalogue'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Au'', by Murray Eskdale and Tara Douglas.
• Opens tomorrow 5.30pm, until October 2: ''The world is your oyster'', by Peter Lewis.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''Into Arrowtown'', oil on canvas by Nigel Wilson.
• Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Closes today: Works by Sam Mitchell and Mary-Louise Browne.
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 September 28: Youth Art Awards, a variety of works by 5 to 13-year-olds and school art classes. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until November 23: ''Gifts and Legacies'', honours people who have contributed to the museum.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until Sunday: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''.
• Until November 2: ''Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs by Joanne McLeary.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Until September 28: ''Keepsakes - Rediscovered Souvenirs of the Great War''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until September 27: Riki Julin and Kate Springford.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
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.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
• Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
