Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with the Bill Martin Trio.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Tomorrow, 9.30pm: Kapiti-based song and spoken word cabaret troupe Waiata and the Word is performing along with its offshoot rock band Raumati Straights. $10.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Saturday, doors open 9pm: Black Rock Coffin Makers and Gravemind. Cover charge $3.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night.
• Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Northburn Station, Cromwell
• Saturday, from midday: country and blues concert - the Eastern playing upbeat country folk. Supporting artists are Gilly Darbey and Cromwell's the Junction. Tickets $30, available from Northburn or by phoning 445-1743.
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.
• Tomorrow and Saturday, doors open 9pm: Jeez Jorge. No cover charge. Free shuttle to the show; to make a booking contact Sam on 027-411-9014.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: Once Upon a Sunday: Changing Times - Join professional storyteller Kaitrin McMullan and friends, as she spins magical tales, designed to delight children of all ages. Free.
• 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 story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Every Thursday, 11am (until April 18): ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
• Saturday, noon-1pm: Bread 'n' Butter Theatre: How Frog Lost His Tail - a traditional Sukuma tale performed by lovable clowns Danny Still and Kaitrin McMullan. Featuring puppets, live music, jokes and old-fashioned buffoonery. Suitable for children aged 4-100. Downes Room, Mosgiel Library. Free. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during April: ''Dem Bones!'' - Investigation Station. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton and have a go at putting together real moa bones to make a moa's leg.
• Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Bandstand.
• Sunday, 1pm-2.30pm: ''Sunday Sounds: Easy Listening and Reggae'' - unwind with reggae, sing-along to covers and originals with Jae Bedford.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Wagner 200th Commemorative Year 1813-2013 - Great Transcriptions for two pianos: Meistersinger-Ouvertcre, arr. Reger; Siegfried-Idyll; Siegfried - Waldweben (Forest Murmurs from Siegfried); Siegfried's Trauermarsch (Gotterdammerung) ; (Siegfried's Funeral March). Terence Dennis with senior piano students.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm: enjoy beautiful melodies and music of talented young harpist Beth Garey.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: virtuosic cellist Daniel Müller-Schott visits New Zealand for the first time to perform Larry Pruden's Soliloquy for strings, Dvorak's Cello Concerto, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays the stark and impressionistic Suite Medievale, by Jean Langlais.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 7pm-8pm: Dance at Toitu with Les Belles Vilaines - amateur dancers peform traditional French and European dance with roots in the 15th century, then try some of the dances yourself. Free.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago.
• Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm: Box/Role/Dream, written by Lynda Chanwai-Earle, directed by Erica Newlands.
Otago Boys' High School Auditorium, 2 Arthur St.
• Tonight-Saturday, 7.30pm, and Sunday, 4pm: Fiddler on the Roof, OGHS and OBHS joint production. Tickets available from both school offices at $12 for adults, $8 for students and superannuitants. Door sales.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Today, 12.30pm: Writer Jo Randerson will talk about her involvement in creating a script for actors in Auckland for Artspace and at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm: In Dunedin for one day only, international artist Meiro Koizumi will discuss his art practice. Working in video and performance, Koizumi creates works that straddle the uncomfortable and indefinable line between cruelty and comedy. 2pm every Saturday during April: 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 and Sunday, 10am-4.30pm: ''Celebrating Brangwyn'' - The gallery has planned a weekend of events which include sketching, guided tours, building dream cities, games of snooker and a panel discussion about the artist.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'' - 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.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Pecha Kucha, 20 images 20 seconds - This event is film-themed. $10 or $8 concession (no Eftpos). Cash bar. Please use Moray Pl entrance. In association with the Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust.
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 April: Monday: cheeky kea - New Zealand's alpine parrot. Tuesday: Southern whaling. Wednesday: Blashka glass models - art or science? Thursday: the long and short of New Zealand's bats. Friday: Aboriginal art - the oldest continuing art tradition. Saturday: shaping history: Maori stone tools. Sunday: Sri Lankan demon mask.
• Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''. Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Toitu, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 12.15pm: lunch-time talk - a picture tells a thousand words. Archivist Jill Haley takes a closer look at 19th-century photographs in the collection and the surprises they reveal. Free.
• Sunday, 1-3pm: Talk and Walk the High Street - View some of Dunedin's amazing residential architecture and learn about our intriguing social history. Meet at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum Josephine Foyer. This walk requires moderate physical fitness, sturdy footwear and a water bottle recommended. $20
• Tuesday, 10am: Tuesday Club - This month's speaker is Fiona McLaughlan, Toitu Otago Settlers Museum conservator. She will be talking about her work at Shackleton's Hut in the Antarctic. OSA members gold coin, non-members $5.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin office, 556 George St.
• Until April 26: ''Please sign our Visitors' Book!'' An exhibition of visitors' books from Archives New Zealand Dunedin regional office holdings.
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.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Michael Harrison, ''Invasion Biology''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Local artist Fay Mitchell's 2012 works.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Form and Function'' photo competition entries on display.
• March-April: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jim Robbie's woodwork.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
Dunedin Gasworks Museum, Braemar St, South Dunedin.
• Until April 21, Sundays noon-4pm: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• Closes tomorrow: New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography, 2012 Iris Awards, touring exhibition.
• April: Artists in the Terminal - Nick Dempster and Philip Beadle.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: ''Elsewhere'', contemporary work.
• Until April 14: ''Home Sewn'' original NZ fashion.
• Until April 14: ''Gericault to Gauguin: Printmaking in France 1820-1900''.
• Until May 26: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: Marco Fusinato ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
• Ongoing: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A'' by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby.
• Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Closes tomorrow: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until Sunday: ''Haunts of Dickens'': Touring exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
• Until Sunday: Kobi Bosshard ''Objectspace Masters of Craft''.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until April 13: ''The Liquid Dossier'', by Nick Austin.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until April 21: Annemarie Hope-Cross, ''A Midsummer's Garden''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until April 20: ''On Assignment''. Matchbox toys by Mike O'Kane.
• Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm, or by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: ''Upstream of the Herd - Exploring Fresh New Streams'' mixed media and fibre art by the COOTS Group.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Opens Sunday until May 5: ''Noticing. Keeping. Preserving'', Rebecca Thomson and Stafford Allpress.
• Ongoing: new artists and work by Sarah Harper, John Badcock, Sarah Blackler (ceramics) and Douglas Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: John Parker ''Black + White + Red'' and Shigeyuki Kihara ''Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 1: The Royal Queenstown Easter Show.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm until May 1: Bruce Hunt's ''The longest Road''.
Minaret Lodge, Eely Pt Rd, Wanaka.
• Until April 17: Art in the Park - Neal Palmer, of Auckland, as artist in residence. 10am-noon and 1pm-3pm daily.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until April 18: ''Keto's Monsters'', by Anthea Ibell.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until Saturday: ''One out of the box''. A Caselberg Trust fundraising exhibition.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Art Society, OAS Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, first floor.
• Until Sunday: ''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 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.
• Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until Sunday: 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 April 13: Marion Familton and Dawn Palmer.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The Wallpapered House, 29 Lees St.
• Saturday and the first Saturday of every month: gallery and studio open.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
• Featuring works by local artists Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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