Gigs
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd, Port Chalmers.
•Saturday, 8pm: The Nukes ukulele trio.
•Sunday, 3.30pm: ''High Tea & Sunday Jazz'', featuring Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish. Bookings essential.
Coronation Hall, 99 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Wednesday, 7pm: The Nukes ukulele trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
•Friday, 9pm: Psychic Maps, Wolfskull, Cash Guitar
Earnslaw Park, Beach St, Queenstown.
•Today, 5pm: Versificator and Calico.
•Tomorrow, 5pm: DJ Alias and DJ Stubacca.
•Saturday, 5pm: The Killer Seas and Killergrams.
Loco Cantina, 48 Shotover St, Queenstown.
•Today, 10pm: Jupiter Project.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: Mikael Wills.
New Edinburgh Folk Club, 50 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: Fratelli Tarzanelli.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Shakes & The Swell Guys.
Opoho Church Hall, 59 Signal Hill Rd, Dunedin.
•Sunday, 5pm: The Nukes ukulele trio.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday, 1pm: Andrew Caulton plays contemporary pop hits on grand piano. Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8pm: Dance, with music by Two's Company.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Today, 8pm: Graeme James.
•Tomorrow, 6.30pm: ''Wine & Music Series #3'', featuring jazz music by Trevor Coleman. Tickets from Castle MacAdam Wine, Lower Stuart st. No door sales.
Upstairs Cucina, 1 Tees St, Oamaru.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: The Nukes ukulele trio.
Family fun
Coronet Peak, Queenstown.
•Today, noon: Queenstown Winter Festival Dog Derby. Saturday, noon: Queenstown Winter Festival Mountain Mayhem; includes Suitcase Race, Dash for Cash and snowman competition.
Earnslaw Park, Beach St, Queenstown.
•Today, 3pm: Queenstown Winter Festival dog barking competition.
•Tomorrow and Saturday, 9am-3pm: Creative Queenstown arts and craft market.
•Sunday, 4pm: Queenstown Winter Festival Community Carnival. Live music, entertainers, food.
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.
Remarkables Town Centre, Remarkables Park.
•Sunday, noon: Queenstown Winter Festival Kids' Big Snow Dig. Dig in the snow for ice-cream treats. Registrations from 10am-11am.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and performance
Inkbox Theatre, Oamaru Opera House.
•Tomorrow, 12.15pm-1pm: Waitaki Valley Singers lunchtime recital.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: Alan Edwards plays English organ music of the 18th century.
Winter Wonderland Ice Rink, Village Green, Queenstown.
•Today, 6pm: Queenstown Ice Skating Club presents ''Stars on Ice'', ice-dancing performances by Queenstown locals.
Film and Theatre
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: Martin Creed art documentary screening.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•From Saturday, 7.30pm: Punk Rock
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Give Me Ur Attention Volume II, art film project and social media spectacle.
Mary Hopewell Theatre, College of Education, Union St East.
•Wednesday to July 4, 7.30pm: Counterpoint Productions presents The Cape.
Maurice Joel Theatre, Otago Boys' High School, Arthur St, Dunedin.
•Today to Sunday: RUSH; Otago Boys' and Otago Girls' High Schools joint production.
•Today and tomorrow, 7.30pm; Saturday and Sunday, 4pm.
Queenstown Lakes District Council Chambers, 10 Shotover St, Queenstown.
•Until Sunday: Storming Theatre presents Ideation by Aaron Loeb.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre, 132 Scotland St, Roxburgh.
•Tomorrow, 7pm: Boychoir film screening.
Talks and workshops
Alexandra Community House,14-20 Centennial Ave.
•Sunday, 10am-4pm: Learn pastel techniques with Maggie Cross. Enquiries: Beverley 448-5336.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 6pm: ''How Do You Do ...?: Self-Publishing'', talk by lawyer, author and publisher Garth Cameron.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Sunday, 1pm: ''The Art of Pottery Making'', pottery demonstration with Elise Johnston and Peter Gregory.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
•Daily, 11.30am: ''Intersections'', Ralph Hotere exhibition gallery talk. Meet at information desk.
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Today, 8.20pm: Queenstown Winter Festival Pecha Kucha night. Short presentations by a variety of presenters on their adventures and passions.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until Sunday: ''Korero Koe, Korero Au'', Moana Tipa.
•Until August 2: ''Stations of the Cross'', John Badcock.
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 Sunday: ''Winter stories'', Manu Berry and Pauline Bellamy; ''Collage'', Emma Chalmers.
Brick Brothers Gallery, 14D Dowling St.
•Closes tomorrow: ''Third'', by Flynn Morris-Clarke.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until August 9: ''Food For Thought'', photographic exhibition.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until July 26: ''Parallel Play: Frances Hodgkins and her European Contemporaries''.
•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''.
•Until August 30: ''For Luck'', Zina Swanson.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Until July 15: ''Hokonui Heritage'', Southern Regional Embroidery exhibition.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Tuesday: ''Memorial Oaks'', tribute to fallen memorial oak trees; ''Look Again'', works by Colin Wheeler from the gallery's collection.
•Until July 11: ''What is Art For #2: War Art'', artwork made during 1914-18 from the gallery's permanent collection.
•Until July 12: ''Erewhon: the book of the machines'', by Gavin Hipkins.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Closes today: paintings by John Badcock. Dunedin scenes, botanicals, portraits and garden views.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local artwork.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Until Saturday: Puaka Matariki celebration exhibition, featuring works by local artists.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until July 19: artworks by Clyde artist Liz Kempthorne.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until Wednesday: ''Escapist'', by Neil Frazer; ''Studio 18D'', by Toss Woollaston, Pat Hanly, Ann Robinson, Chris Charteris, Chris Heaphy, Ian Scott, Dick Frizzell, Yuki Kihara and Paul Dibble.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Saturday to July 22: ''Belong Belong'', Nigel Brown. Saturday to August 19: ''The Review'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow to July 9: Painting, printmaking, photography and ceramics by Port Collective: Philip Maxwell, Robert Scott, Manu Berry, Andrew Nikkel and Dave Sharp.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Meditations on New Zealand History'', paintings by Kim Pieters.
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 July 12: 139th annual exhibition. Open 10am to 4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until September 6: ''Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere's Personal Collection''.
•Until September 27: 2015 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
St Paul's Cathedral, Octagon.
•Until Tuesday: ''A Tent for the Sun'' and ''The Dawn Watch'', by Wallace Crossman.
•Hours: 10am-3pm Monday-Saturday, noon-3pm Sunday.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until Sunday: ''One'', by James Cousins, Saskia Leek and John Ward Knox. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat, 11am-4pm.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Until July 4: Jo Howard and Rosemary McQueen.
Susan Badcock Studio, 47 Talbot St, Geraldine (back of old post office).
•Until July 18: ''Botanical Series'', hand-coloured photographs by Susan Badcock; ''Narcissistic'', works by John Badcock.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Until September 6: ''Cats 'n' Dogs: An Illustrated History''.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
