Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays, 8.30pm-10.30pm, Bill Martin jazz trio.
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch Unplugged - Jae Bedford, easy-listening covers. 5.30pm-7pm: Gig night - Erin Morton (of Delgirl), Tom Maxwell and Sonic Ted.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays, from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays, from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Thursday, 7pm-8pm: Live music at Port with Bob Scott.
• Saturday, noon-1.30pm: Rock the Library - John George MacLeod Melon Platoon, from Kavanagh College and the FarqVards, from Logan Park High School.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Thursday, 7pm: Queens Darts Club/Dancing Queens. Free.
• Friday, 9pm: Not From Space, Sewage, The Repressed and The Suds $5.
• Saturday, 9pm: The Sunley Band and The Maine Coons $5.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Queens got Talent 4 (open mike). Free.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• New Zealand Music Month.
•Friday: OUSA Battle of the Bands Heat 3.
• Tuesday: Open mike and open deck night.
• Wednesday: Fazerface.
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.
Starfish Cafe and Bar, St Clair Esplanade.
• Friday, 7.30-9.30pm: Erin Morton (Delgirl) playing solo.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: Prophet Hens with support from GAG.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Rd.
• Tomorrow, 6.30-7.30pm: Live music night - The Bedfords, easy-listening covers band.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: active movement for early learning, term two.
• Wednesdays, 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Every Tuesday 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Every Thursday, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: active movement for early learning, term two.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday during May, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!''. Investigation Station.
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
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm. Poetry readings. The Octagon Collective presents guest poets Richard Reeve and Orchid Tierney. MC: Lynley Edmeades. Open mike. Free entry. All welcome.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians May recital meeting, featuring La Belle Alliance (Tessa Petersen, violin and John van Buskirk, piano) with guest soprano Rae Shurbutt. All welcome.
King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Saturday, 5pm and Sunday, 3pm: Southern Sinfonia ''Harp Magic'' - Handel, Ravel, Mozart, Beethoven and Gareth Farr.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital - ''Mandate'' the Otago Boys' High School Choir. Simon Mace (organ) and Karen Knudson (conductor). Gold coin admission.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Today, 3.30pm: Drummers Frank Gibson and Mike Nock.
• Wednesday, 1pm: ''A Wagner 200th Anniversary Tribute'' - Professor Terence Dennis presents original solo piano works by Wagner, and Wagner tributes of Liszt.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Rare Byrds live.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays organ works for Pentecost, to include music by Dupre, de Grigny and Bach.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 6.30-7.30pm: Phil Powers is a singer songwriter. His songs focus on Otago settlers, from the 1860s to the present day. Gold coin entry.
• Sunday, 3pm: Milonga with Dunedin Argentine Tango - Argentine tango is a lead-and-follow dance and is often described as walking with a partner and the music. Enjoy the performance and then take the opportunity to learn some of the steps yourself. Free.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago.
• Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday, all performances 7.30pm - Attempts on Her Life (Seventeen Scenarios for the Theatre). Author: Martin Crimp. Director: Stuart Young.
AMS Club Rooms, cnr Russell and Enterprise Sts
• Tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm, Sunday, 2pm: Alexandra Musical Society presents Dress up Box.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until May 25: You can always hand them back, by Roger Hall.
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St.
• Opens tonight until May 25, 7.30pm: Chicago, director, Bryan Aitken, music director, Emma Wilson, choreographer, Anna Stuart.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: The Host.
• Saturday, 7.30pm and Wednesday, 2pm: Song for Marion.
• Sunday, 2pm: Wreck-it Ralph 3-D (Disney, 108 mins).
Centre for Innovation seminar room, 87 St David St.
• Tomorrow, 12.30pm: ''If not in my backyard then where? Reframing the energy debate'' with Dr Ian Mason, of Canterbury University, will discuss how NZ could have a 100% renewable electricity generation system.
A Drop of Red, SH 6 Cromwell.
• Tonight and Monday, 7.30pm: Cromwell Film Society is showing the film Mental. Prepaid bookings essential.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Monday and Tuesday, 5.30pm-6.30pm: Workforce of the Future series: ''ICT and Creative Content''. Come and hear representatives from some of the top performing companies discuss the future of their industry in Dunedin and present and future workforce needs.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 4pm: Sign Language Week free guided tour.
• Saturdays during May, 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.''
• Sunday, 3pm: Prof Elaine Reese, of the University of Otago department of psychology, will talk about the development of children's sense of self-awareness, their growing bond with parents and others, and sense of identity. In association with the exhibition ''Someone Else''.
Dunedin School of Art, cnr Albany and Riego Sts.
• Thursday, 12.30-1.30pm: ''Is that a Bellini on your bottom? The awkwardness and delight of image appropriation'' with Prof Sarah Glover, of Art History at Bradley University in Peoria, US. Trained as a mediaevalist, her early work focused on Marian miracle tales in English visual and textual sources. Held in seminar room P152.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection. Bookings essential.
• Daily tours, at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday, 1pm-2.30pm: Beyond the Galleries collection storage tour. Bookings essential.
• Sunday, 1-2.30pm: Extraordinary Treasures basement tour. Bookings essential, free.
• Daily talks at 2pm through May. Monday: Kaka - New Zealand's rowdy parrot. Tuesday: The unsolved hoax of the Piltdown Man. Wednesday: Kereru - a New Zealand native pigeon. Thursday: Mutiny on the Bounty. Friday: The Lawrence Lions. Saturday: The Union Steam Ship Company. Sunday: Sri Lankan demon mask. Daily at 4pm during May, special exhibition talk: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu,T'chakat Henu - People of the Land''.
Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Satyajit Ray's Indian classic Days and Nights in the Forest.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 2pm: Talk on ''Restoration of the Roslyn Tram'' with Dave Carr, of the Heritage Tramways Trust talking about the processes involved in restoring the Roslyn tram. Free.
• Tuesday,12.30-12.45pm: Staff Pick - Staff will share their favourite pieces in the Museum, from the beautiful to the bizarre. 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.
• Early 20th-century New Zealand artists.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
• Until May 26: Manu Berry, woodcuts ''White Noise''.
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
• Until Saturday: Gelber LuftBallon (Dunedin Research Project).
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Patrick Hartigan ''The people will be healed''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Closes today: ''Museum Exhibition'' by photographer Eric Schusser.
• May: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jim Robbie's woodwork.
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 Botanic Garden, lower garden information centre.
• Until Tuesday: Dunedin Botanic Garden Photography Competition winners and judges' choice. Daily 10am-4pm.
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 Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
• Until May 25: Otago Girls' High School senior art exhibition ''Portfolio''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• May-June: Kylie Duncan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until May 26: Frances Hodgkins, ''Kaleidoscope''.
• Until June 3: ''Shape-Shifters''.
• Until June 16: ''Someone Else''.
• Ongoing: ''Te Po'' Works from Dunedin collections.
• Ongoing: Saskia Leek ''Desk Collection''
• Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins ''Colour and Light''.
• 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''.
• Ongoing: ''Te Po: Works from Dunedin collections''.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Riego St.
• Until May 24: ''The Material World: Dunedin School of Art Sculpture 2002-2013''.
East Otago Events Centre, Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
• Until June 9: ''A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy''.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• 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 Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until May 24: Painters, featuring work from Bing Dawe, Agneta Ekholm, Thomas Elliott and J S Parker.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until June 8: John Hart Exhibition. Selected works by this eminent New Zealand photographer and artist. Open Monday-Saturday from 11am.
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 31: Sue Rutherford, ceramic works.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Closes tomorrow: ''Surrender'', new work by Kiri Mitchell. Open Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm, or by appointment.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs at old post office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Opens Sunday, 4pm until June 16: Ewan McDougall ''It's Life Jim''.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until June 5: Hannah Kidd ''The Race''.
• Until June 5: Large Works.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 29: Neal Palmer ''Return Journeys'' and Sue Hawker ''A Singular Occasion''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until May 30: ''The City Beneath The Sea'', by Diana Smillie.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until May 24: Riki Julin.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Aberhart Pardington Campbell.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until May 26: ''The Moriori Of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land''.
• Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
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 Rds, Otago Peninsula.
• Wednesday-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 May 26: Royal Society of New Zealand ''Butterflies returning''.
• Until May 26: ''Southerly Buster''.
• Until June 23: Philip Trusttum ''Trusttum''.
• Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of the Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until May 26: ''Brighton Show''.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until May 25: Jo Howard and Louise Thompson Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until June 4: Works by local artist Noel-Ann Stroud.
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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