Gigs
52Dundas, 52 Dundas St.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Valley Bluegrass Birthday Bash.
•Athenaeum Hall, Arrowtown. Saturday, 7.30pm: Miho's Jazz Orchestra.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
•Saturday: Soul Deep (funk, R&B, nine-piece band).
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd, Port Chalmers.
•Today, 8pm: Praguematique.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Saturday, 8pm: Andrew Fagan And The People.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
•Tomorrow: Agent Ewok, Yung Nats and Robbie Motion.
Cucina 1871, 1 Tees St, Oamaru.
•Tomorrow: Praguematique.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow, 9pm: The River Jesters.
•Saturday, 9pm: Michael Morris.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Wednesday, 8pm: Miho's Jazz Orchestra.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Miho's Jazz Orchestra.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
•Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Shakes and The Swell Guys.
Owaka Community Centre, Ovenden St, Owaka.
•Sunday, 8pm: Miho's Jazz Orchestra.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
•Saturday: Odyssey, 42nd anniversary tour.
Family fun
Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
•Sunday, 9am-1pm: Cromwell Farmers and Craft Market.
Cromwell Racecourse, Ripponvale Rd.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: ''Gold *N* Notes Hoedown'' country music festival.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
•Tuesday-Thursday 10.30am-3.30pm; weekends 10.30am-4pm: Ten-minute tractor-train rides around the lower Botanic Garden. Weather dependent.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Saturday, 11am-4pm: International Games Day. Tabletop gaming demonstrations by the Otago Miniature Tacticians Society, with epic movie battle screenings. Saturday, 11am-3pm: ''Tamariki Day: Hui-a-Iwi 2015'', Ngai Tahu children's celebration, with storytellers, musicians, theatre, arts and crafts, facepainting, sausage sizzle, etc.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Tomorrow-Sunday, 9am-5pm: ''Ngai Tahu Hui-a-Iwi 2015'', Ngai Tahu festival. Entertainment, market stalls, food, workshops, etc.
The Edgar Centre, Portsmouth Dr.
•Saturday and Sunday: Christmas craft show.
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.
•Ongoing: ''Einstein: 100 Years of the Theory of General Relativity'', interactive exhibition.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
•Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: Story time.
Music and performance
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 5pm: ''Ghost in the Ear'', performance by poet and multimedia artist Jonathan Stalling.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Tuesday, 7pm: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performs The Rite of Spring.
Glenroy Auditorium, 1 Harrop St.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Sophie Morris On Stage, with Alexandra Wiltshire.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
•Tomorrow, 11am: Operatunity daytime concert series presents Snow White and the 3 and 1/2 Dwarfs.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works from the French city of Rouen.
Film and theatre
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until December 12: Flagons & Foxtrots.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
•Tomorrow to November 28: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Bookings: 477-6544.
Talks and workshops
Dorothy Browns Cinema, Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Today, 7pm: Talk by artist Kelcy Taratoa, in conjunction with her ''Vivid 2015'' exhibition opening at Nadine Milne Gallery.
Dunedin Chinese Garden, cnr Rattray and Cumberland Sts.
•Sundays, 2pm: Chinese calligraphy classes with a Chinese master calligrapher.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
•Sunday, 3pm: Artists Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams talk about their exhibition, ''Archives: Te Wahi Pounamu''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Monday, 6pm: First in a five-week course of drawing classes for adults. Bookings essential: 477-3320.
•Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WW1'' exhibition talk.
•Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 6.30pm: Author Czesia Panek talks about her book Chmielow: Our Paradise Lost. Includes a screening of short documentary Polish Children of Pahiatua - 70th Reunion.
Rialto Cinemas, Moray Pl
•Today, 6.30pm: Screening of climate change documentary Thin Ice followed by panel discussion involving Alan Mark, John Cocks, Maureen Howard, Finn Campbell and Lloyd McGinty.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
•Until Sunday: ''Polychrome'', Aoraki Polytechnic exhibition.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until December 24: ''Land and Ngai Tahu: Otakou Native Reserves - Rakiura Purchase''.
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.
•Works by Steev Peyroux.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Until December 3: ''Busts'', Rob McHaffie.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Until November 29: Art Gold Awards 2015 exhibition.
Dunedin Botanic Garden Information Centre, lower garden.
•Until January 16: ''Valley Artists: Out and About'', various artists.
Dunedin Airport.
•Until January 15: J.K. Weir.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•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.
•Until February 28: ''Archives: Te Wahi Pounamu'', Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery's collection.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
•Saturday and Monday-November 26: ''SITE 15'', graduating students' exhibition.
Flagstaff Community Church Hall, Centennial Ave, Wakari.
•Today to Saturday: Wakari Art Group annual exhibition and sale. Open 6.30pm-7.30pm today; 10am-4pm tomorrow and Saturday.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until December 6: ''The Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition'', presented by the Botanical Art Society of New Zealand.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Until December 9: ''Sacred Geometry & the Magic of Luck'', Laura Shallcrass.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Until December 5: ''In and around the village - Waitati'', paintings by Jacob Feenstra.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•''New Works'', by Thomas Elliott.
Green Island Gallery, cnr Church St and Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Displaying a variety of local art.
Hocken Library, 90 Anzac Ave.
•Until February 13: ''We Drove Here'', Hocken and Otago Motor Club Trust exhibition.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Opens tomorrow, 5pm: ''Rain'', new paintings by Peter Cleverley.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Kiki Beware, 344 George St.
•Until November 27: ''...And Other Fables'', prints and art by Emma Francesca.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Until Saturday: ''Touch stone'', Oamaru stone sculpture by Craig McLanachan. Monday to November 30: Oil paintings by Kaori Jackson.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
•Until December 6: ''Out on a Limb'', fibre art by the COOTS collective.
Lot 3 cafe and art space, 2 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
•Until November 29: ''Southern Light'', Jeremy Town.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Saturday to December 16: ''Small & Key'' and ''Aurora: Part One'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until December 9: ''Conversations'', Layla Walter; ''Dreams from Mirror World'', Charlotte Handy.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•''This Changes Everything'', James Robinson.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until November 26: ''Pick Up Six'', multimedia exhibition by Annie Nevin, John Z Robinson and Robert P. West.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Opens today, 8pm: ''Vivid 2015'', Kelcy Taratoa.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: ''Movable Type'', collection of printers and printing-related objects.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Tomorrow to May 8: ''Hakui: Women of Kai Tahu''. Until January 31: ''Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WW1'', in the 1877 gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Surviving Chunuk Bair: H.D. Skinner at Gallipoli''.
State of Princes, 393 Princes St, Dunedin.
•Until December 11: ''Dromos'', Cobi Taylor. 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.
•Until Sunday: Riki Julin and Jo Howard.
•Monday to November 29: Rosemary McQueen and Marion Familton.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Until February 28: ''Life on the Edge: Otago Harbour Communities''.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
