Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Every Friday 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with The Bill Martin Trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club.
• Wednesdays, 7.30pm: Open mike.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
• Friday, 9pm: Bikk, Nanny State, Prophet hens.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Re:Fuel, University of Otago.
• Saturday: March Massacre MC Battles featuring performances by Ridge Jaggers, iMC, Stranger, DJ Pippen. Doors open at 9pm for registration, $5 entry.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: openmike night. Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Friday and Saturday, doors open 9pm: Jeez Jorge.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturdays and Sundays during March, 3pm: ''Liquefy This'' Investigation Station. Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays, 9pm: Salsa music and dancing. Free.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand.
• Sunday, 1-2.30pm: ''Sunday Sounds: Unfortunate Repercussions''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday, 6-7pm: ''Geek-Chic Fashion Show''.
Glue Gallery Hall, 26 Stafford St.
• Wednesday, 6pm: Nymphets at Dunedin Fashion Week ''Underwater Apocalypse Adventure Vacation''.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St.
• Monday, 6.40pm: JGeeks ''Tu Meke Tour''. Oamaru Opera House foyer.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra summer tour with James Hill.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Les Belles Vilaines showcase traditional French accordion music.
Otago Boys' High School Auditorium, 2 Arthur St.
• Today and tomorrow, 6-8pm: JGeeks ''Tu Meke Tour''. Unique Maori ''tongue in cheek'' fusion of dance, music, singing, skits and pop culture.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St.
• Tonight, 7.30-10pm: The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra summer tour with James Hill.
• Sunday, 6.40pm: JGeeks ''Tu Meke Tour''.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: ''Last Night of the Proms''.
• Saturday, 7.30pm: The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra summer tour with James Hill.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Kronos Quartet, experimental chamber music.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: Friends of the Opera - Associate Prof Judy Bellingham, music department, University of Otago, along with voice students will illustrate aspects of vocal teaching and also speak about the Summer School of Singing.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until March 23: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written by Nora and Delia Ephron.
Talks and films
Auditorium, University of Otago College of Education, 145 Union St East.
• Tonight, 7.30pm: ''Alan Duff on Literacy'', by Alan Duff. Dunedin Botanic Garden, upper garden carpark by aviary.
• Sunday, 2.30-3.30pm: Backstage with The Friends: Around the World - Tour of plants from around the world in Dunedin led by Dylan Norfield, collection curator of the geographic plant collection and arboretum.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10am-8pm: Shark Nicole - see through the eyes of Nicole, a female great white shark. (Duration 1 hour). Repeat screenings. Free.
• Wednesday and Thursday, March 14, noon: Vintage Fashion Tours - Discover the weird and wonderful tricks your grandmother used to swear by for looking her best.
Dunedin Film Society, The Church Cinema, 50 Dundas St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm.
Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 10.30am and Tuesday, 5.30pm: Prison tours, one hour. No lift access to upper floors and not suitable for small children.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Summer Series #2'' - Cam McCracken. Presented by the Friends of the Gallery, guest speaker is Cam McCracken, director, Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Friends $5, public $10.
• Saturdays, 2pm during March: Tours at Two - Guided tours of the collection. Free guided tours of the collection exhibition ''The Pleasure Principle: Collecting and Collectors'', and the exhibition ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
• Saturday, 3pm: The September Issue (DVD 2009 90mins), a documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 autumn-fashion issue. In association with iD Dunedin Fashion Week.
• Sunday, 3pm: Fashion designers and talented sewers featured in the ''Home Sewn'' exhibition at the gallery discuss garments presented in the show with curator Doris de Pont from the NZ Fashion Museum. Tuesday, noon: iD Fashion special - guest judge Karen Webster, programme director of fashion at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has been invited to speak. Limited numbers. $2.
• Wednesday 11.15pm: ''Tours for Tots'', Parents and caregivers:take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursday, 4.30pm: ''Tours of the Theomin Art Collection''. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through March: Monday: El Niño and La Niña. Tuesday: Karetao - Maori puppet. Wednesday: Possum. Thursday: Venus de Milo. Friday: Southern sky. Saturday: Polynesian voyaging. Sunday: The Falkland fox. Free.
• Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''. Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society hosts the New Zealand premiere of Dunedin director Phil Davison's feature Ghost TV, shot in the ruins of the former Seacliff asylum. The director will be present for a question-and-answer session after the screening is over.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Peter Beadle Watercolours.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Claire Beynon, Olav Nielsen and Kate Alterio.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• March: featuring Max Bellamy, Emma Chalmers, Max Oettli.
Becks Memorial Hall, Manuherikia.
• From Friday-Sunday: Dunstan Creek 150 Art Exhibition, Featuring artists who were past residents, locals and people who love to paint the area.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Jeffrey Harris ''Family''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Local artist Fay Mitchell's 2012 works.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Closes today: ''Spotlight on Design'', Rachel Hirabayashi.
The Chart Room, Hotel St Clair.
• Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Works by New Zealand wildlife painter Rebecca Gilmore and New Zealand landscape photographer Greg Slui. Open 10am-6pm.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm. Dunedin Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
• Until March 31: ''Taoka Puoro'', traditional musical instruments of southern Maori by Alistair Fraser and ''Nga Kakahu'', cultural use of native plants by Roka Cameron. 10am-4pm daily.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until Sunday: Mai i Rangiatea: the portrayal of Maori myth and legend in print.
• Until March 15: ''Natural Disasters'' - New Zealand's natural environment is beautiful, but it can also be deadly. Discover the strength of mother nature. Ground floor.
Dunedin Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Until Tuesday: ''Art in March'', 18 artists painting, print making, drawing and textiles.
Dunedin International Airport.
• February: Anya Sinclair is ''Artist in the Terminal''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: Philip James Frost, ''Forkboy''.
• Until Sunday: Yvonne Todd, ''Wall of Seahorsel''.
• Until March 17: ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France 1820-1900''.
• Until April 7: ''Elsewhere'', contemporary work.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato, ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the billiard room of Horton House''. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until April 7: ''Haunts of Dickens'': Touring exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Admission free. Open Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm, weekends and public holidays 1pm-4pm.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm, Wed-Sun.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Closes today: ''A Decade On ... '' by Kerry Fenton-Johns, 10 all-new native New Zealand flora paintings (one for each year), all acrylic on canvas.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until March 22: new works by Bing Dawe, Elizabeth Moyle and Ben Reid. Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 13: ''The Liquid Dossier Nick Austin''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until Saturday: Odelle Morshuis ''Tracing Time'', drawings on glass. Open 10-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until March 16: ''Fashion show'' with works by Inge Doesburg, Kirsten Ferguson, Lynn Kelly, Motoko Kikkawa, Kathryn Madill, Marion Mewburn, Marie Strauss. Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm or by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: ''Old and New''. Paintings by Gore artist Margaret Palmer McKenzie.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Ongoing: new artists and work by Sarah Harper, John Badcock, Sarah Blackler (ceramics) and Douglas Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: Ian Scott ''Lattices'' and Ray Ching ''Aesop's Kiwi Fables''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: Daniel Anngow and Simon Todd.
• Opens Friday, 5.30pm: John Paxie, potter-in-Residence at Glenfalloch Gardens, ''What I wasn't allowed to say ...''.
• Noon-5.30pm weekdays and noon-4pm Saturdays.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Opens Tuesday: Max Gimblett ''All that is''. Artist talk, Tuesday 8pm.
Nectar Espresso Bar + Cafe, 286 Princes St.
• Until March 18: Jacob Feenstra ''Photograms''.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Art Society, OAS Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Opens Saturday until April 7: 'City of Dunedin' national art awards.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until May 5: ''Canterbury Quakes''.
• Until May 26: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land''.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until Sunday: ''Mementos of the South''.
• Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm, 1.30pm-4.30pm. Weekends: 10am-4pm.
The Picture Lounge, 48 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery: a continuously updated exhibition.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Monday-Sunday,10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Opens Monday until March 23: ''With Respect'' work by Trevor Byron, Chaim Cleavin, Nikkie Gibson, Chris Idour, David McLeod, Jade Muirhead, Kathryn Yeats and David Holmes. Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until March 17: Garry Freemantle ''Digging Deep''.
• Until April 7: Peter Belton ''On Being There''.
• Until April 28: Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Portrait Gallery ''The Art of Science''.
• Ongoing: ''Southland 150''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Open Friday-Sunday, 1-5pm, or by appointment, (03) 481-1805.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Anne McLean and Lisa Simpson.
• March 11-28: Judy Ringland Stewart and Suzanne Emslie.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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