Gigs
Bannockburn Hall, Hall Rd, Bannockburn.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: Adam McGrath solo show.
The Cellar Door, 143 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Today, 7.30pm: Adam McGrath solo show.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Saturday: Skelter, Smoke and Voodoo.
•Sunday: Terror of the Deep, World Theory.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Today, 7.30pm: The Coleman, Cornish, Craigie trio featuring Karin Reid.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8pm: ''October Obliteration'' featuring Ronnie Stash, Deathcall and Scizerac.
The Sherwood, 554/558 Frankton Rd, Queenstown.
•Tomorrow, 9.30pm: Adam McGrath solo show.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Saturday, 2pm: The Scurvy Dogs, Perfect Timing and Arcee.
Family fun
Clyde Historic Precinct, Sunderland St, Clyde.
•Monday, 10am-2pm: Clyde market. Local food and wares.
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 9am-1pm: Cromwell Sunday Farmers and Craft Market.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''The Greatest Science Show in the History of the World Ever!'', free with Discovery World admission.
• Daily 11am, also 1.30pm
•Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with forest admission.
Ranfurly i-Site Village Green, Charlemont St, Ranfurly.
•Saturday, 10am-1pm: Maniototo Markets.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
•Today, 10am-11am: ''Toddler Time'', storytime, play and crafts. Booking essential: (03) 477-5052.
•Monday, 10am-noon: ''Josephine's 143rd Birthday'', celebration of Josephine the locomotive, with face painting, activities, dress-ups and birthday cake.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and performance
Gibbston Valley Winery Restaurant, 1820 Gibbston Highway.
•Saturday, noon: Live jazz lunch featuring Adams & Gavin and The Tin Flowers.
•Monday, noon: ''The 20th Anniversary of the Wine Cave'' featuring Hetty Kate and James Sherlock, with additional jazz trio.
Oamaru Opera House, 190 Thames St.
•Tomorrow, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital; Wendy Eckhardt (soprano), Richard Bowering (bass), Eden Bradfield (violin) and Erik Badcock (baritone).
Queenstown Memorial Centre, 1 Memorial St.
•Tomorrow, 8.30pm: David Friesen jazz concert.
•Saturday, 8.30pm: Hollie Smith soul, jazz and blues concert.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: Hetty Kate and the Queenstown Jazz Orchestra, jazz and swing concert.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden improvises upon the Lutheran chorale Sei gegrusset on organ.
Film and theatre
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
•Today, 12.30pm: ''Lunchtime Bites'', preview of the upcoming Talking House production The Keys are in the Margarine.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: Pleasures and Dangers, art documentary screening.
Fire Station Theatre, 3 Cargill St, Mosgiel.
•Tomorrow, Saturay and Monday, 7.30pm: Anastasia, a play about the Russian royal family.
Fortune Theatre Studio, Stuart St.
•Until October 29: The Keys are in the Margarine, a verbatim play about dementia.
Talks and workshops
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Saturday, 2pm-4pm: Landscape drawing/painting workshop with Inge Doesberg. Bookings essential: 474-3249.
•Saturday, 2.30pm-4.30pm: Dance performance and workshop with Hahna Briggs and Jenny Newstead. Bookings essential: 474-3249.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Today, 5.30pm: ''Rulers of light: Ten by Ten Luminaries'', Royal Society of New Zealand public talk by Dr Miro Erkintalo. Bookings essential: (04) 470-5781 or lectures@royalsociety.org.nz
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
•Sunday, 2pm: Garden tour with Sarah Goldsmith. Meet 1.50pm at reception.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WWI'' exhibition talk.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Monday, 2pm: ''Passchendaele and AB608'', talk by Grant Craig of Dunedin Railways about the history of the Passchendaele memorial locomotive, AB608.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until November 1: South Canterbury Art Show.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
Art Bay Gallery, 13 Marine Pde, Queenstown.
•''Selected Works'', Craig S. Primrose, Rachael Errington and Grant Hanna.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•''Seven'', Hannah Joynt, Sam Foley, Alex Lovell-Smith, Marion Vialade, Kereama Taepa, Penny Howard and Helen Back.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
•Until October 31: ''The False Demographic'', various artists.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Muaupoko''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until November 29: Art Gold Awards 2015 exhibition.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Closes tomorrow: Artsenta exhibition 2015.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, lower garden.
•Until January 16: ''Valley Artists: Out and About'', various artists.
Dunedin Airport.
•Until October 31: Exhibition at the Terminal, Lindsay Crooks.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until November 1: ''Big Shop: Uncollectables'', rear window installation by Artsenta.
•Until November 1: ''Wanderings'', works from the collection on the theme of travel.
•Until November 8: ''The Sargood Gift: A Tribute to the Sargood Family''.
•Until November 15: ''History in the Taking: 40 Years of Photoforum''.
•Until November 29: ''36 Views of Mt Fuji'', Katsushika Hokusai.
•Until November 29: ''Sublime Worlds'', Martin Thompson.|
•Until February 21: ''Stranger in Strange Land'', by Jae Hoon Lee.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
•Until October 30: ''The News Network'', works by a community of transtasman artists.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until December 6: ''The Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition'', presented by the Botanical Art Society of New Zealand.
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
•Opens today, 6pm: ''Did You Ask?'', Ruby Harris. Open noon-4pm tomorrow and Saturday.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Until October 29: ''New Works'', oil paintings by Robert Ireland.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•''New Works'', by Thomas Elliott.
•Until tomorrow: ''Fourfold'', by Anna Priluka, Ellie Gray, Jasmine Middlebrook and Annie Smits-Sandano.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local artwork.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Sunday to November 15: ''Cross Culture'', Lynne Wilson and Rachel Hirabayashi.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Until November 7: ''New Drawings'', Kim Pieters.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until November 1: ''Sounds Like Us: 100 years of Radio New Zealand'', interactive exhibition.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Saturday to November 18: ''The Geometric Figure'', Paul Dibble; ''Ardour'', Lorraine Rastorfer.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until November 11: ''New Paintings'', Michael Hight; ''Spring Catalogue'', various artists.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•''Concrete Jungle'', photographs by Murray Eskdale.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until October 29: ''Sitting in Dunedin'', portraits by Bill Graham.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•''Mokosoi'' and ''The Heart Derelict'', Fiona Pardington.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until November 22: ''Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Doug and Geoff Williams exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until January 31: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WWI'', in the 1877 gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Coses Sunday: 15th birthday exhibition, ''Artist at Work'', by J.K. Weir. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Opens tomorrow 6pm, until November 7: ''Sportsmeat'', Justin Spiers and Craig Freeborn.
•Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, 11am-4pm.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Recycled Relics'', sculpture by Chris Meder.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Closes Saturday: Anneke Borren and Dawn Palmer.
•Monday to November 1: Louise Thompson Parker and Peter Gregory.
Susan Badcock Studio, 47 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Closes Saturday: ''Memoirs'', portraits by John Badcock; ''Road Kill'', photos by Susan Badcock.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Until February 28: ''Life on the Edge: Otago Harbour Communities''.
Vortex Gallery, 104 Bond St, Dunedin.
•Until November 1: ''New Light'', Robert Piggott.
Wanaka Primary School, 7 Ironside Dr.
•Tomorrow to Monday: Wanaka Arts Society exhibition. Opens tomorrow 7pm, then Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm, Monday 10am-3pm.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
