Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd, Port Chalmers.
• Sunday, 3.30pm 5.30pm: High Tea and Sunday Jazz, featuring Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish. Bookings essential.
The Cellar Door, 143 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 7pm: The Jews Brothers Band.
Cromwell Town and Country Club, Melmore Tce.
• Sunday, 2pm: Cromwell Country Music Club.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow: Sergey Onishenko.
• Saturday: Machina Rex, Yung Nats, God Awful, Slitzkrieg.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Sunday, noon: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Abby Wolfe.
Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Today, 7.30pm: Jamie McDell, Ask Me Anything tour.
The Moorings Restaurant and Bar, 23 Perriam Pl.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: The Jews Brothers Band.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Rachel Kibblewhite performs original songs on guitar.
Port Chalmers Town Hall, Grey St, Port Chalmers.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club Autumn barndance, with the Music Stand Ceilidh Band.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Today, 10pm: Ulterior Motive with Gasp, Woosh, Kitson B2b Gorringe.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: The OUSA Battle of the Bands, heat one.
• Saturday, 10pm: Ruffhouse Down South II.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Saturday: Tiki Taane Acoustic Mash Up and Summer Thieves, with Oleh and Vine.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Tomorrow: Hannah In The Wars.
• Saturday: Ejets.
Family fun
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Once Upon a Sunday: Golden Days'', storytelling with Kaitrin McMullan.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Daily, 11am: Takahe feeding.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''The Best Science Show in the History of the World Ever!'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Daily 11am, also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Saturday: Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Storytime Train, featuring storytelling, costumed characters, theatre, etc. Train departs 8.45am from Dunedin Railway Station. Bookings essential.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Starting Wednesday, 4pm: Art workshops for young artists with Pamela Brown and Kerry Mackay. Five week programme. Bookings essential.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time.
Music and performance
Burnside Homestead, 527 Burnside Rd, Elderslie.
T• omorrow, 7pm: Janet Frame Eden Street Trust 10th anniversary celebration, featuring poets Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall, Sue Wootton and Roger Hall. Tickets from Oamaru i Site.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert, Molly Devine.
Musical Theatre Dunedin rooms, 1 Sullivan Ave.
• Until Saturday: ''We'll Meet Again'', theatre restaurant production.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Les Belles Vilaines perform traditional French dance.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm 1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Charles Marie Widor.
Film and theatre
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime Theatre: A Good Idea at the Time.
Clyde Memorial Hall, cnr Newcastle and Fraser Sts, Clyde.
• Tomorrow to May 8: Clyde Theatre Group presents The Vicar of Dibley. Tickets from Floorpride Carpets and Vinyl, Ennis St.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Saturday to May 16: Mamil, Mark Hadlow in one man show.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents All Quiet on the Western Front.
Talks and workshops
Coronation Hall, 1 Balmacewen Rd, Maori Hill.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Alba Otago public debate, ''Small nations in a big world: Scottish independence from a New Zealand perspective''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 6pm: Talk by celebrity psychic medium Kelvin Cruickshank, author of Taking the Journey. Bookings essential.
• Wednesday, noon: ''Early Days in the City Library'', a talk to Friends of the Library by Maurice Haywood, of the Film Heritage Trust.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 11.30am 3pm: Wildlife photography field trip to Allans Beach, with local experts Christine O'Connor and Steve Ting. Bookings essential. Meet at the museum.
• Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
• Daily, 1pm: ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts'' exhibition talk. Daily, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by various artists.
• Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
• Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until May 24: ''Drawl 3'', drawings by Max Bellamy, Pauline Bellamy, Manu Berry, Emma Chalmers, Kirsten Ferguson, Philip Madill, James Robinson.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Mummoke'', Richard Killeen.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 31: ''Their War: Our Story _ Gallipoli and Anzac''. Until June 1: ''Gallipoli: Then & Now'' school art competition showcase.
• Until June 16: Wood carvings by Murray Sheppard.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
Until tomorrow: ''Art in April 2015'', various artists.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until May 17: ''Room Temperature'', Mary McFarlane.
• Until May 31: ''Belonging'', works from the DPAG.
• Until August 9: ''Private Utopia'', contemporary art from the British Council Collection.
• Until August 16: ''Lace Collars and Calico: Textiles and Dress in the work of Frances Hodgkins''.
First Church Grounds, 415 Moray Pl.
• Until May 31: Contemporary sculpture by various artists.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until May 21: Paintings by Jackie Margaret.
• Until May 24: ''Bodytok Quartet: A Sonics From Scratch Project'', interactive video and sound installation by Phil Dadson and James Charlton; ''What is Art For #1'', works by John Mitchell, Eion Stevens, Nigel Brown, Ralph Hotere and Peter Cleverly.
• Until June 30: ''Memorial Oaks'', tribute to fallen memorial oak trees; ''Look Again'', works by Colin Wheeler, from the gallery's collection.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until May 15: ''I Am Colour'', Cristina Popovici.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Pottery by Danny Moorwood.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 15: Works by Peter Cleverley, Zuna Wright and Kirsten Ferguson.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until May 10: Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47 49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• ''As the World Turns'', Rachel Ratten.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''Facing the Mountain'' by Simon Edwards; ''Nga Kakahu Karaihe'' by Te Rongo Kirkwood; ''Men at Work'' by Teresa H.R. Lane.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 27: ''The Royal Queenstown Easter Show'', various artists. Saturday to May 27: ''Dawn Chorus'', Ray Ching.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Needle Doodle'', textile art by Desi Liversage.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Closes today: ''Let the Earth Bear Witness'', paintings by Kate Williamson; ''Fashion Drawings'', Lindsay Kennett.
• Opens Sunday 2pm, until May 30: ''Matchbox'', various artists. Fundraising exhibition for the Caselberg Trust.
• Hours: Monday Friday 10am 4.30pm; Saturday 11am 2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• ''Swimming Into Darkness'', Gretchen Albrecht.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Closes today: ''From Little Towns in a Far Land'', World War 1 centennial exhibition.
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 May 17: ''Accent on Black & White'' exhibition. Open daily 10am 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until May 10: ''Bugs: The Mega World of Minibeasts'', in the Special Exhibitions gallery.
• Until September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until Sunday: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until Saturday: ''Parade'', ceramics by Liz Fea; ''Attachments'', jewellery by various artists.
• Open Tuesday Friday noon 5.30pm, Saturday 11am 2pm.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• Until June 14: ''By the Author of Waverley'', exhibition featuring Sir Walter Scott.
St Paul's Cathedral, Octagon.
• Monday to June 30: ''A Tent for the Sun'' and ''The Dawn Watch'' by Wallace Crossman.
• Hours: 10am 4pm Monday Saturday, noon 4pm Sunday.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Closes today: ''South Coast Exhibition'', works by Lindsay Crooks, J.K. Weir and Fienze C.
• 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.
• Until May 9: Judy Ringland Stewart and Riki Julin.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
• Until Sunday: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914 1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
• Victory Medal, a sculpture by Helen Pollock.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• Until May 29: ''Aliens, Androids & Unicorns: the Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection''Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
• Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
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