Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr of London and George Sts.
• Saturday, from 10pm: The Foxy Tones.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Bill Morris.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm, the Bill Martin jazz trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, doors open 8pm: Toy Distruction, Astro Children and Not from Space. $5 cover charge.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
• Saturday, doors open 8pm: warm up for the Battle of the Bands 2013. Members gold coin, public $3.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night.
• Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Wednesday: Sonic Ted and Guests.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Roaring Meg Bar, Cromwell.
• Saturday, from 10pm: Katie Mason.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
• Saturday,8.30pm: Tahuna Breaks, Shadow Light Album Release Tour.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
• Weekdays during the school holidays, 11am-12.30pm: Workshop for children, collect and create a collage. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until May 5: Fuji Fun school holiday programme - children's drawing competition. Adult supervision required for children under 6. Until May 5: ''Brangwyn by Numbers'' school holiday programme. Adult supervision required for children under 6.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Tuesday, 2-3pm: Crafty Kids, button necklaces. Bookings essential.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Saturday, 1-4pm: ''Become a Bird''. Suitable all ages. Parents must accompany children under 6. Cost $7.
• Monday, 9-5pm: ''Kiwi Ranger Programme''. Suitable for children 7-12. Cost $45 includes refreshments. BYO lunch.
• Until May 5: ''Nest Treasure Trail''. Suitable all ages. Cost included in entry fee to ecosanctuary.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Today and Tuesday, 2,30pm: ''Magnificent Magnets'' Freaky Science Show. Every Saturday and Sunday during April, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!''. Investigation Station. Sunday, 11am: ''Animal Incredible: The Heritage Story of Animal Attic''. Children's workshop. Animal Attic, free.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: ''Radical Reactions'' Freaky Science Show. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday during the school holidays, 2.30pm: ''Phenomenal Abominable: Yeti Hunters''. Tuesday, 11.30am and 1pm: ''Colour Chameleons''. $2 per child, bookings esential.
• Daily during school holidays: Wacky Words: School Holiday Trail. 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.
• Dunedin Heritage Festival, children's craft workshops at Toitu - Today, all day: ''My guide to Dunedin'', use a map, pictures and words to create a guide that shows off your favourite Dunedin buildings.
• Today, 10-11.30am: ''Stained Glass Window''. Children, create your own ''stained glass window'' with tissue paper and card. Free, registration required.
• Today: 1pm-2.30pm: ''Building in a Box''. Children, design and decorate your own diorama house. Free, registration required.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during April10am-4pm: ''Crafty Kids'', do some colouring in or create your own picture.
• Monday-Wednesday: Toitu Otago Settlers Museum School Holiday Programme - ''Come dance with us!''. Bookings essential.
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. All welcome, Free.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Today, 6.30pm: RSA Choir presents the Anzac Day Revue.
• Sunday, 3pm: Norma Awakes, organ concert given by David Burchell. Admission $10, door sales only: no eftpos.
Dunstan High School, Enterprise St, Alexandra.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: The Armed Man, a mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins. Tickets available Budges Pharmacy and Bookshop or Paper Plus Cromwell. Adults $20. • School pupils free. Door sales available.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Saturday, 7.30: Quadrivium: four talented young New Zealanders play string quartets by Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann.
• Sunday, 7pm: Messe Basse by Gabriel Fauré. David Burchell/organ, Mimi Blackwell/soprano. Admission free/sung as part of a service.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: NZ Music Month Concert 1 - John Ritchie (Sonata for Clarinet and Piano), Anthony Ritchie ( Sonata for Euphonium and Piano), Stephen Cranefield (clarinet), Errol Moore (euphonium), Tom McGrath and John Van Buskirk (piano).
Oamaru Opera House foyer.
• Friday, 12.15pm-1pm: Lunchtime recital, Wendy Eckhardt, soprano and Richard Bowering, bass. June Cameron, accompanist.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays French organ works of the 1900s.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 1.30-3.30pm: Come Dance with Us - International Dance Day in association with DANZ Dunedin, Josephine Foyer. Free.
Plays
A. H. Reed building, 33 Jetty St, cnr Crawford St.
• Until Saturday, 7.30pm and 2pm matinee Saturday: Break In, tickets $18 from dashtickets.co.nz, 0800 327 484. $20 cash door.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Opens Saturday until May 25: You can always hand them back, by Roger Hall.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Until Saturday, 7.30pm: ''Brief encounter'' aka ''Still Life'' by Noel Coward.
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Until tomorrow, 11am and 2pm daily: Hansel and Gretel's Amazing Race.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Until Sunday: The Snow Queen. Tuesday and Sunday, 2pm, Friday and Saturday, 11am and 2pm.
Talks and films
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tomorrow, 6-7.30pm and Saturday, noon-1.30pm: Limited Edition: Rare Book Tour. Rare books librarian Anthony Tedeschi guides you through the Reed Gallery's latest exhibition, and behind the scenes to the ''Strong Room''. Booking essential. Sunday, 11am-noon: Stack Trek: Browse the ''staff only'' storage in the bowels of Dunedin Public Libraries. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Prison, Castle St, Dunedin.
• Tuesday and Saturday during April, 10.30am: Prison tours $10 per head.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturdays during April, 2pm: ''Tours@two''. 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: Artist and curator - Saskia Leek exhibition talk - a walk through the exhibition ''Desk Collection.''
• Sunday, 3pm: Frances Hodgkins talk - ''The French Connection''. Mary Kisler, senior curator, MacKelvie Collection, International Art, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discusses the 20 works uncovered by a Parisian dealer in 2007 that make up the ''Frances Hodgkins: Colour and Light exhibition''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Today, Saturday and Sunday, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
• Tomorrow, 4.30pm: Housekeeper's Tour. Bookings essential. Saturday and Sunday, 1-3pm: Dunedin's Most Elegant Street - Olveston guide Paul Aubin guides a walk along Royal Tce and a private tour of Olveston. Bookings essential.
• Sunday, 2-3pm: Public Talk: Heritage Past and Future. Dr Glen Hazelton, heritage policy planner, Dunedin City Council talks about the City of Dunedin's vision for the heritage precincts, earthquake strengthening and protecting the city's assets. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks at 2pm through April: 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''. Monday: ''Cheeky Kea - New Zealand's alpine parrot''. Tuesday: ''Southern Whaling''. Daily, 4pm: special exhibitions talk ''Canterbury Quakes''. Meet at the information desk. Free with exhibition admission.
Toitu, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 3pm: ''Where now for Warehouses; making new spaces in old Dunedin''. Design historian Michael Findlay looks at adaptive reuse and light-touch urban design as ways of changing attitudes to spaces in the Dunedin warehouse precinct. Free.
• Today, 6.30pm: Film Screening - Gallipoli - The Front Line Experience (2005) directed by Tolga Ornek.
Sunday, 2pm: ''More than a pretty face''. Hear the stories behind some of the portraits in the Smith Gallery. Free.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until May 26: ''SteamPunk'd'' and Peter Gibson Smith, ''Wasteland''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Russ McLean Photographs.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until May 18: Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project)
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Gary Blackman ''Late Entry''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until May 16: ''Museum Exhibition'' by photographer Eric Schusser.
• April/May: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jim Robbie's woodwork.
Clyde Station Museum, Fraser St, Clyde.
• Sunday: open day 10am-4pm.
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, first floor, Central University Library.
• Until June 25: ''From Apprentice to Graduate - 50 Years of Pharmacy Education at the University of Otago, 1963-2013''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until June 30: ''Caxton Press: The Art of Ordered Plainness''. Meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry. Dunedin International Airport.
• April: Artists in the Terminal - Nick Dempster and Philip Beadle.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Opens Saturday: Saskia Leek ''Desk Collection''.
• Opens Saturday: Frances Hodgkins ''Colour and Light''.
• Until Sunday: ''Goldin + Senneby: M&A''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''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Until June 9: ''A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy''.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• April: ''Rain in the Hills & Other Weather,'' ceramics by Madeleine Child.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Opens Saturday: ''Pearler''. Fifteen paintings and 15 poems celebrating the pearl wedding anniversary of Ewan and Sarah McDougall.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
• Opens Monday until May 8: Ben Webb ''pavement exhibition'', all new works on paper.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until May 2: Richard Adams, Priscilla Cowie, Flox and Tai Kerekere.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Until June 8: Shigeyuki Kihara ''Undressing the Pacific''.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until May 12: New paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 17: ''Surrender'', new work by Kiri Mitchell. Open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm, or by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until May 5: Quilt Art Exhibition, Una Landreth and Jeanette Hawker.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until May 12: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until May 5: Rebecca Thomson and Stafford Allpress ''Noticing. Keeping. Preserving''. New works by John Badcock, Nicolas Dillon. Resale work: ''The Dreamer AA Deans'' by John Badcock.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until May 8: Robert Ellis ''Paintings'' and new works featuring Dick Frizzell, Neil Dawson, Bridie Henderson, Andy Leleisi'uao and others.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until Wednesday: Bruce Hunt's ''The Longest Road''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until May 8: ''Dreamscapes and Realities'' by artist Emilie Truscott.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Saturday and Sunday: Photography exhibition - work by second-year Dunedin Art School photography students.
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.
Portobello Gallery, cnr Highcliff and Portobello roads, 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: Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Portrait Gallery, ''The Art of Science''.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of the Southland Times''Ongoing: ''Southland 150''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Opens Sunday until May 26: ''Brighton Show''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Peter Gregory and Rosemary McQueen.
• Monday until May 11: Paddy Carr and Riki Julin.
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.
• Featuring works by Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
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