Gigs
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Saturday, 9pm: Tahu and the Takahes.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
•Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Coronation Hall, Balmacewen Rd.
•Sunday, 5pm: Breabach.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Matt Langley.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
•Saturday, 9pm: Apollo.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St.
•Saturday, 9.30pm: ''Postlove'' exhibition closing gig; Radio Cegeste, Chemical, L$d Fundraiser, Grvdggr.
Queenstown Botanical Gardens, Queenstown.
•Saturday, 2.30pm: Holly Arrowsmith and Ciaran McMeeken free community concert.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
•Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Family fun
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: 15min tractor-train rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Frozen Discoveries'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Cracking Chaos'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• 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.
• Monday, 3.30pm: ''Fun, Fiction and Food!'', after-school book club for independent readers.
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 performanceDunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Today, 7pm: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents ''In the Hall of the Mountain King''.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Royal Dunedin Male Choir Christmas concert.
Glenfalloch Woodland Garden Restaurant, 430 Portobello Rd.
• Tomorrow: ''Faulty Towers 2014 Staff Christmas Crack-up'' dinner theatre show. Bookings essential.
Highlands Motorsport Park, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 4pm: Free Christmas Concert featuring all Cromwell schools and daycares. Spot prizes.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Sunday, 7pm: ''Are we there yet?'', music and poetry for Christmas, featuring Knox Church Choir and Kaikorai Metropolitan Brass.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Sunday, 3pm: ''In Black and White'', WW1 commemorative programme II; piano concert by Terence Dennis and Tom McGrath.
Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: ''The Great Gatsby Christmas Party Revue'', bookings essential.
Musical Theatre Dunedin rooms, 1 Sullivan Ave.
• From tomorrow to December 6: ''We Need A Little Christmas'' theatre restaurant. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 8pm and 8.30pm: ''Flutter'', music composed by Otago University Mozart fellow Jeremy Mayall, performed in the Tropical Forest. Bookings essential.
St John the Baptist Catholic Church, 1 Killarney St, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: ''SING'', Central Otago Regional Choir 10th anniversary celebration.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ music for Advent, to include works by Reger et al.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until December 13: Ladies Night.
Talks and films
Arai Te Uru Marae, 24 Shetland St, Kaikorai.
• Monday, 6pm: Te Waipounamu Marae film tour; a programme of films celebrating Ngai Tahu history.
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Up Close and Dangerous, NHNZ film screening.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Edinburgh - The city that created Dunedin'', talk by author Neville Peat.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Artist's talk by Erica van Zon.
• Sunday, 3pm: Artists' talk by Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: ''Wana Laugh'' comedy night.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm:
• Today: Ancient Greek coins.
• Tomorrow: The Monowai.
• Saturday: New Zealand's native frogs.
• Sunday: The gold rush days.
• Monday: Rapa Nui.
• Tuesday: Mapoutahi pa.
• Wednesday: Japanese spider crab.
• Daily, 1pm: ''Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex Tour'', guided historical tour H.D. Skinner Annex.
Puketeraki Marae, 5 Apes Rd, Karitane.
• Tomorrow, 6pm: Te Waipounamu Marae film tour; a programme of films celebrating Ngai Tahu history.
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St, Queenstown.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: ''Santa's Sack'', an unconventional comedy Christmas gala.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: Eco Arc, NHNZ film screening (part of the ''Megastructures'' series).
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
• Till December 24: ''Readiness and Sacrifice'', an exhibition of World War 1 archives.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by various artists.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• ''Harbour'', by Sam Foley.
• ''Through the Eyes of the Traveller'', by Leila Ataya.
Atelier Jeux d'esprit, 2nd floor, 109 Princes St.
• Till December 21: Handmade and vintage Christmas decorations.
• Open Wednesday-Friday 11am-6.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Till December 7: ''Tempest'', by Max Bellamy and James Robinson.
• Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Till Sunday: artworks by Elizabeth Kempthorne.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
• Till December 11: ''The Jewellery Box'', works by local jewellers.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
• Till December 5: 2014 Artsenta exhibition, various artists.
Dowling Street Studios, 20a Dowling St.
• Till Saturday: ''The Heroes' Tea-Party'', paintings by Lynda Bell.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• From Saturday: ''Dogwood Days'', Erica Van Zon. From Saturday: Visiting artists' project by Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano.
• Till Sunday: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
• Till Sunday: ''A History of Things I Once Had'', rear window project by Ted Whitaker and Rachel H. Allan.
• Ongoing: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
• Ongoing: ''Wild Life'', various artists.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
• Ongoing: Visiting artist projects by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano and Erica van Zon.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Closes today: ''Site'', senior art students' exhibition. Open 10am-4pm Saturday, noon-4pm Monday-Thursday.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
• Till December 7: ''Close to Home'', photographs by Grahame Sydney.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Till Sunday: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
• Today, 5.30pm: Opening reception for ''AGITPROP'', interactive work by Robyn Jordaan and Dan Sanders.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Points of View'', paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Closes today: ''Colour Sounds'' by Annie Smits Sandano.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Till Sunday: ''I Can Hear Her Breathing'', featuring Helen Carter, Emma Farry, Liz Wootton and Rowan Holt.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Closes tomorrow: paintings by Jasmine Middlebrook.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Works by John White.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Till December 6: ''Dream City'' by Liz Rowe.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Till December 5: ''From Bamiyan to Puketapu'' by Peter Cleverley.
• Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Till December 7: ''Eco Artists''.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Till Sunday: ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow'', by Bob Kerr.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Till December 17: New works by Michael Hight.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Till December 10: ''Parison Pacific'' by Luke Jacomb; new works by Mike Petre.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Till December 4: New work by Odelle Morshuis.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Closes tomorrow: ''John Z Robinson + Annie Niven + Robert West = 15''.
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Works by Denis O'Connor.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
• Today until Saturday: ''Postlove'', various artists.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Till Saturday: ''The Adventurers'', photographs of Dunedin by Howard Scott.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• From December 1 to January 31: ''Affordable Art''. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Till February 15, 2015: contemporary jewellery by Bob Wyber.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Till January 11: ''European Treasure'', letters in French and Italian from the Reed Autograph Letters Collection.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until Sunday: Hinton Estate art exhibition, features works by Jan Rasmussen, Ron Esplin, Esther Dexter and Clark Esplin.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Till December 6: works by Lisa Simpson and Riki Julin.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Till January 7: works by photographer Murray Crawford.
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.
Tony Williams Goldsmith Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
• Till December 24: spring 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.
