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.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
Tomorrow, doors open 9pm: metal bands - Depths, Blindfolded, Advocate, Dust. Cover charge $5.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Saturday, doors open 7.30pm: ''Reverberation'' - The Tommy Gunners, Shakes and the Swell Guys, Threads, Simple Thieves, E-Jets, John George McLeod's Melon Platoon. Members $5, public $10.
The Grain Store, 9 Tyne St, Oamaru.
Sunday: ''Grand Ole Hayride NZ Tour'', Tami Neilson, Delaney Davidson and Marlon Williams.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St.
Saturday: Freddy Fudd Pucker ''Straight Lines''.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night.
Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
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: open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
Tonight, doors open 8pm: jam night. Free entry, $5 beers.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Every Tuesday, 10.30am-11am (until April 16): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
Every Wednesday, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): preschool storytime.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Every Thursday, 11am (until April 18): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
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.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 2-4pm: ''A One Night Stand: The Art of Theatre Millinery'' - create your own fascinator with Samuel Keen in a hands-on seminar on theatrical-based millinery. Bookings required. Limited numbers.
Monday, 2pm: ''1848: remember the date! Live story-theatre'' - a show that tells the stories behind the portraits of Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.
Port Chalmers Library.
Today, 11am: Margaret Mahy storytime.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool storytime.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Waikouaiti Library.
Friday, 6.30pm: Shark Nicole, documentary.
Music and performance
33 Jetty St, cnr Crawford St.
Today and tomorrow, 7.30pm: Fringe - Ad Hoc Productions presents Break In, an original comedy. $18 full/$12 conc cash door sales.
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago.
Tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm: Fringe - Breathing cold air.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand.
Sunday, 1-2.30pm: Otago Symphonic Band - eclectic performance of wind instruments.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Tonight, 7.30pm: Fringe - ''Lines of Flight''experimental music, including free jazz saxophonist Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson on prepared piano. $10. Cash only, no eftpos.
Fortune Theatre Studio, 231 Stuart St.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10pm, Sunday, 2pm: Fringe - ''Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show''.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Saturday, 7.30pm: City Choir Dunedin performs 150th anniversary concert.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
Wednesday, 1pm: The NZ Chamber Players perform John Psathas and Rachmaninov.
Municipal Chambers, The Octagon.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 8pm: Fringe - Polson and Higgs Comedy Club. The Octagon.
Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 8.30pm: Fringe - ''In and Out of Context'', circus.
Ombrellos, 10 Clarendon St.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 7pm: Fringe - ''The funniest joke in the world''.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 8.30pm: Fringe - ''The adventures of Jimi Samoa''.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 10pm: Fringe - ''The Almanac Experiment''.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 10pm: Fringe - ''Trubie and Abby are just a bit worried'', comedy.
Tonight, 7pm: Fringe - ''Ngatahi - know the links''.
St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St, Northeast Valley.
Tomorrow and Saturday, 6pm and 9pm: Fringe - ''Valley Tales''.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesday, 12.50-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ works for Holy Week.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl.
Today, 8pm: Fringe - Entomo urban dance.
Plays
Dunedin Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
Today, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, 6.30pm: Fringe - Picnic Bard.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
Tonight and Friday, 8pm, Saturday, 2pm and 8pm: Fringe - For your future guidance.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
Tomorrow until March 28, 7.30pm: Clyde Theatre Group present Darling Mr London.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 7pm: Fringe - ''A night at the Theatre''. The Lounge.
Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: Fringe - Faulty Towers, the Dining Experience.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until Saturday: Love, Loss, and What I Wore.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 9pm: Fringe - A Play About Space.
Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 7pm: Fringe - In Absentia.
Otago Boys' High School Auditorium, 2 Arthur St.
Tonight and Saturday, 7pm: Fringe - Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Talks and films
Centre for Sustainability, seminar room, 547 Castle St.
Today, 4pm: Transformational Media: A New Approach for Sustainability.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, 6-7pm: ''MOA'' - writer, documentary film-maker and photographer Quinn Berentson takes you on a voyage of rediscovery. Bookings essential. Free.
Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
Saturday, 10.30am and Tuesday, 10.30pm: prison tours, 1hr. No lift access to upper floors and not suitable for small children.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Summer Series 2013 No.3 - guest speaker is Dr Donald Kerr, special collections librarian at the university, to speak about Sir George Grey. Saturday, 10am-4pm: pattern draughting workshop - tutor is Annette Cadogan, from the Dunedin Fashion Incubator. Booking is essential. Saturday-Sunday: ''Dunedin Film and TV Weekend'' - guest speakers and panel sessions.
First Church, 415 Moray Pl.
Saturday and Monday, 10am-3pm: Anniversary Day weekend guided tours of the church. Every half-hour. Free.
Geography Department, 4S3, Richardson Building, University of Otago.
Monday, 4pm: Massey professor Marjan van den Belt asks: What is the value of ecosystems and the services/benefits derived from these ecosystems?
Maude Wines, 9 Connell Tce, Wanaka.
Sunday, 10am-noon: The Bacchus Sessions presents Glenn Colquhoun: poetry workshop. $35.
Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce.
Monday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society. Speaker Hiltrun Ratz, Auckland Islands.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
Thursday, 4.30pm: ''Tours of the Theomin Art Collection''. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Tonight, 5.30pm: ''Earthquake-proof your home - expert talk with Win Clark''. Monday, 11am: ''Celebrate Otago: Ota-grow!'' - tips on gardening in Otago from Neville Stewart.
Daily talks at 2pm through March: Monday: El Nino and La Nina. 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, Monte Hellman's 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop.
Toitu, Queens Gardens.
Sunday, 2pm: The Scottish Story - using images from the collection, Charles Barkla tells the story of the founding of the Free Presbyterian Church Settlement of Dunedin.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
Works by Sandra McElrea.
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.
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Fringe - ''Today in History''.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
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.
Until April 5: ''Form and Function'' photo competition entries on display.
March-April: ''Spotlight on Design'' Jim Robbie's woodwork.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
Sunday, 9.30am-4pm: Cromwell Model Railway exhibition. Family $10, adults $4, children $2.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
Today, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday: Fringe - ''Reduction of the Deity'', by James Bellaney. Performances from 2pm to 6pm.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University Library.
Until tomorrow: ''From Pigskin to Paper: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding''.
Dowling Street Project Space, 20a Dowling St.
Fringe - ''Hurry up and wait.''
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 Gasworks Museum, Braemar St, South Dunedin.
Opens Sunday until April 21: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
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''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
Until tomorrow: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''. Open noon-4pm.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
Until April 7: ''Haunts of Dickens'': Touring exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Until April 7: Kobi Bosshard ''Objectspace Masters of Craft''.
Flourish Studio Gallery, 218 Musselburgh Rise.
Until Sunday: Fringe - ''On the Rise'', group show with works of more than 30 artists including Rob McLeod, Michael Morley, John Paxie, Hamish Mulvaney, Janet de Wagt, Inge Doesburg, Pamela Brown, Pauline Bellamy.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm, Wednesday-Sunday.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
Opens Saturday until April 3: MintSix boutique homewares with a selection of original New Zealand art, reproduction prints and large mixture of beautiful imported homewares.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until March 22: new works by Bing Dawe, Elizabeth Moyle and Ben Reid.
Glue Gallery, 26 Stafford St, Dunedin.
Until Sunday: ''Nymphets (Auck) at Dunedin Fashion Week - Underwater Apocalypse Adventure Vacation''. Daily 12-4pm.
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 March 30: Rachel Hirabayashi ''Lighthouse''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Opens tonight, 5.30pm Until April 20: ''On Assignment''. Matchbox toys by Mike O'Kane.
Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm or by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
Until March 29: Tane's Lament for the Moa. Carvings by Pav Pawlowicz. Hours Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-3.30pm.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until April 7: ''Upstream of the Herd - Exploring Fresh New Streams'' mixed media and fibre art by the COOTS Group.
Macandrew Bay Hall.
Opens tomorrow until April 2: Otago Peninsula Artists (OpenArts) ''Almost an Island'' exhibition.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Upper Moray Pl.
Fringe - ''Monsters Great and Small''.
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 April 10: John Parker ''Black + White + Red'' and Shigeyuki Kihara ''Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
John Paxie, potter-in-residence at Glenfalloch Gardens, ''What I wasn't allowed to say ...''. Noon-5.30pm weekdays and noon-4pm Saturdays.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Until April 6: ''One out of the box'' A Caselberg Trust fundraising exhibition.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Until April 3: Max Gimblett, ''All that is''.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Art Society, OAS Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
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''.
Otago Museum Reserve, 419 Great King St, Dunedin.
Until Sunday: Fringe - ''A Poetry Art Installation hanging from the trees''.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
Until August 4: ''Paint the Town'', by Unn West.
Ongoing: ''Mementos of the South''. Art South Otago.
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.
Until Saturday: ''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.
Seriously Twisted, The Octagon.
Fringe - ''Woven Luxury''.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
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''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until March 28: Judy Ringland Stewart and Suzanne Emslie.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until April 2: paintings of Otago Hunt, by Jane McLeod.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd
Opens Saturday: Featuring works by local artists, Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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