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.
Crofters Arms, Mosgiel.
Saturday: Sidewalk Sally.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
Saturday, 9pm: Infinite Justice, God Awful, Foe and Scum Hammer. Cover charge.
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.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
Thursdays 9pm: Open mike night.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin.
June 29, 9pm: The Nudge with Alizarin Lizard and Geysers. Presales ($10) available from Cosmic Corner instore and online, $15 on the door.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
Tomorrow, 5.30pm-7pm: Jazz Duos (Karin Reid and Bill Martin), free.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
Fridays,10.30am: story time. Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall. Wednesdays, 2-3pm: Preschool story and craft session. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Until June 30: Wish Upon a Star. Make a wish for Matariki, the Maori New Year. Write it on a star and hang it in your local library to share with others. Free.
Tuesdays, 10.30-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two. Fourth floor, free.
Wednesdays, 10.30am (excludes school holidays): Preschool story time, story pit.
Dunedin North Intermediate School, North Rd, North East Valley.
Saturday, June 22 from 3pm: Matariki Hunga Nui brings many people together to recognise the strengths within the community. Come along to North East Valley for shared kai, conversation and celebration. Free (pre-ordered) hangi tickets required, contact Paia Taani, 473-1655.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Thursdays, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term two, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Sunday, 10am-5pm: World Butterfly Day Theme Day: Witness butterflies taking their first flight, take part in the Tropical Forest trail, have your face painted and decorate your own butterfly cookie. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Daily, 10.30am: ''First flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Daily during June: ''Karetao Creations'' children's workshop. Make your own paper karetao puppet to tell stories and put on shows. Atrium level 1, free. Thursdays until July 4, 3.30pm: ''Mega Matter'', Discovery Club. $12 per child per session, ages 8-12. Bookings essential. Phone 474-7474.
Weekends during June, 11am and 3pm: ''Absolute Zero'', Discovery World Science Show. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Weekends during June, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones'' Investigation Station. Atrium level 1, free. Discover some freaky facts about your super skeleton.
Guided museum tours. Daily, 11.30am: Highlights of the Museum: $12 per person or free for Otago residents bringing non-Otago visitors.
Daily, 3.30pm: Southern Land, Southern People. Cost as above.
Daily, 1.30pm: Tropical Forest. $26 per person (includes Tropical Forest admission).
For bookings, phone 474-7474 or book online at www.otagomuseum.govt.nz.
Port Chalmers Library.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Today, 6.30pm-8pm: A Good Read: Toitu Book Club meets monthly to discuss books. Registration required, discussion handouts will be available directly before the meeting and from the website.
Tomorrow, 7pm-8pm: Freaky Friday: Join Danny on an exciting adventure after dark in the museum. Suitable for ages 7-12, $10 per person or $25 family pass. Booking required.
Weekends during June, 10am-4pm: Crafty kids: Make your own starry night sky to celebrate Puaka Matariki.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Arai te Uru Marae, 24 Shetland St, Wakari.
Today, 6pm-10pm: A highlight of the Puaka Matariki calendar and now in its 11th year, Marae Idol acknowledges Matariki moving into the night skies through celebration and waiata. This year, national kapa haka champion Te Waka Huia will attend. Phone Ranui Maxwell, 477-4681.
Concord Kindergarten, 93 Mulford St, Concord.
Today, 9.30am-11.30am: Whanau from the local area and schools are all welcome to come and share waiata me kanikani and other activities to celebrate Puaka Matariki. Produce from the gardens will be cooked and shared. Phone 487-6704.
Coronation Hall, Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
June 20-29: Taieri Musical Society presents Les Miserables. Tickets $45 (adults), $42 (seniors/students), $35 (children). Available from TicketDirect and the Regent.
Dunedin Midwinter Carnival, The Octagon.
Saturday, June 22, 5.30pm: A celebration of the shortest day and longest night of the year, featuring kapa haka, stilt walkers, drummers and dancers combined with stunning giant lanterns and fireworks to create a beautiful procession in the city centre.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
Saturday, June 22, 8pm: Nga Mihiz features three 20-minute performances inspired by Puaka Matariki, pregnancy, death and the digital age by Auckland-based dance artist Cat Ruka, Dunedin-based musician Dudley Benson and Auckland/Dunedin-based performance artist Piupiu-Maya Turei. McMillan Gallery. $10 or $5 unwaged/student. Tickets at the door.
Dunedin Town Hall.
Thursday, June 27, 6.30pm: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents Verdi's Requiem, featuring NZSO music director Pietari Inkinen (conductor), Lisa Harper-Brown, Margaret Medlyn, Rosario La Spina, Jud Arthur and City Choir Dunedin.
Elmgrove School, 74 Argyle St, Mosgiel.
Today, 5.30pm-7.30pm: Join the Elmgrove School community for a midwinter evening of performance, kapa haka, a lantern parade and homemade hot soup and potato bread to celebrate Matariki. Phone Denise Hannagan, 489-6252.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Today, 12.15pm: Lunchtime concert featuring organ music played by Nicholas Haslam and Simon Mace. Gold coin donation.
Opoho School and Opoho Church hall, 96 Signal Hill Rd.
Tomorrow, 5.30pm-7.30pm: Opoho School community celebrates Matariki with storytelling, puppetry and lantern making. Celebrations wrap up with a parade and hangi evening. Cost: Free (hangi $4 adult, $2 child). Phone Tania Scarf, 473-8019, for more details.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Tomorrow, 7pm: Toi Ora: Celebrating our bounty and knowledge.
Join Kai Tahu performers Katrina and Louise Potiki Bryant to celebrate Puaka Matariki. Atrium level 1. Free (koha optional).
Saturday, 1pm: Jonny Dyas showcases his composition and improvisational skills performing jazz originals on the piano. Atrium level 1. Free.
Regent Theatre, the Octagon.
June 28, 29, 8pm: K Rd Strip - A Place to Stand, by the Okareka Dance Company (R18). A whirlwind of drag, haka, dance, waiata, pole, poi, theatre and Kiwi music. Book at the Regent or online via TicketDirect.
Roxburgh Entertainment Centre, Scotland St.
Today, 7.30pm: Roxburgh Area School presents Rockin Robin. Tickets $5.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: Margaret Murphy (St Paul's Cathedral) plays organ works by Dunedin composers. Free entry/donations welcome.
The Church, Dundas St.
Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Saturday June 22, 2pm: Kapa Haka at Toitu with Te Waka Huia.
Join members of Te Waka Huia, national kapa haka champion, at the museum to celebrate Matariki/Puaka with a live performance. Free.
Plays
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
Saturday, June 22, noon and 2pm: Medieval Midwinter Puppetry: Ballad of Sir Mannelig and the Troll Maiden, The Pardoner's Tale and Bottom's Midsummer Nightmare. Live music by Rare Byrds. Free.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Saturday until July 13: Tribes, by Nina Raine. About a young deaf man's place in his family.
Talks and films
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
Tomorrow, 10am-1pm: Independent living seminars for the elderly. Speakers discussing topics about keeping well and safe in your home.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Daily until June 30: Spotlight on design. Jane Whittaker, from Naseby, showcases her landscapes.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
July 5, noon: ''Making History - and looking to the future'', by Alan Matchett, team leader/curator of Dunedin Botanic Garden. Botanic Garden Centre, upper Lovelock Ave.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, June 26, 5.30pm-6.30pm: ''Can the indigenous wisdom of Aotearoa guide us today?'' Join Te Tumu lecturer Suzanne Duncan and discover how Maori myths and legends provide wisdom and insight in a modern world. Fourth floor. Free.
Thursday, July 4, 10am-8pm: America's National Parks: Yellowstone. Duration: 1 hour, screenings on the hour. Teen space. Free.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sundays throughout June, 2pm: Free guided tours of the downstairs exhibitions, including Frances Hodgkins' ''Colour and Light'', ''The Pleasure Principle'' and ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
Sunday, 3pm: Care of Watercolours. Gallery conservator Jenny Sherman will talk about and demonstrate how to preserve watercolours in order that the pigments remain vibrant and alive. In association with ''Colour and Light'', the exhibition of Frances Hodgkins watercolours.
Saturday, June 29, 2pm-4pm: Watercolour Workshop II.
Join tutor Pauline Ballamy to learn the basics or build on skills you already have. $25 (no eftpos) includes materials. Bookings phone 474-3249. Maximum 15.
Sunday, June 30, 3pm: Maori Language Week. Karyn Paringatai, who is a Lecturer in Te Tumu at the University of Otago expands on the theme for this year's Maori Language Week, Nga Ingoa Maori (Maori names). All welcome. Free.
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.
Tours can be arranged at any time to suit your group. Please phone 477-3320 or email olveston@xtra.co.nz for more details.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Daily talks at 2pm through June. Today: Plesiosaur - New Zealand's largest fossil. Tomorrow: The Egyptian mummy. Saturday: Southern whaling - a lost industry. Sunday: Te Paranihi - a waka of three parts. Monday: The three bears of the Otago Museum. Tuesday: The fin whale skeleton. Wednesday: Tuatara - ancient reptile.
Daily during June, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat henu - People of the Land. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Tuesday, June 25, 12.15pm: A Train For Christmas follows the Kingston Flyer as it journeys through the farmland of Southland. Free.
Exhibitions
Anneloes Douglas Studio+Gallery, 91 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
New works by Ping Wang.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
''The Muses'', Donna Demente.
Bellamy's Gallery, Macandrew Bay.
Until Sunday: ''Winter'', Pauline Bellamy.
Blue Oyster Gallery, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Until July 13: ''Put Up Your Dukes!'', by Jill Sorensen and Gabrielle Amodeo.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
''Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
June: ''Spotlight on Design'', Jane Whittaker.
Daily, 10am-4pm: ''Behind The Name''. An exhibition exploring the lives and stories of our namesakes (William Bodkin, Russell Henderson, John McCraw and Elizabeth Heafey). Gold coin entry.
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, Information centre.
Until June 30, 10am-4pm: ''Botanical Artists Acclaimed in New Zealand and Abroad''. Showcasing the work of Pat Brooke, Audrey Eagle, Sue Wickison and John Noakes.
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.
May-June: Kylie Duncan.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: Saskia Leek, ''Desk Collection''.
Ongoing: ''Dayes and Weeks'': Works selected by Saskia Leek.
Ongoing: Frances Hodgkins, ''Colour and Light''.
Ongoing: Marco Fusinato, ''Reproduction of Double Infinitive 2''.
Ongoing: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
Ongoing: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
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 De Novo, 101 Stuart St.
''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', by Ivan Hill.
''Winter Group Show'', featuring paintings from Nic Dempster, Suzy Platt, Philip James Frost, Flynn Morris-Clarke, Simon Kaan, Philip Maxwell, John Badcock, Maria Kemp, Brad Novak, Philip Beadle, Shane Hansen and Phillip Beadle.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery 33, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until June 28: Louise McRae, ''Top of the Lake'' and Jane Mitchell, ''Postscapes''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
Until July 14: ''In The Steps Of My Father'', by Ron Esplin. Gallery open Monday-Friday 11am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until Sunday: Solo exhibition ''Chicks and Chooks'', by French-born Marion Vialade.
June 23-July 12: ''Sea Change'', oil paintings by Nigel Wilson.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until July 6: Various artists.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery Arrowtown.
Until July 14: Embroidered art by members of the Queenstown Embroiderers' Guild.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday 11am-3pm.
Until July 3: Lorene Taurerewa, ''Tafelspiele''.
Until July 3: ''Small Works''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until July 24: ''The Review''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Until July 2: ''Violet Dusk'', by Gretchen Albrecht.
None Gallery, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
Ends tomorrow: ''Hung'', work by Otago Polytechnic Dunedin School of Art third-year electronic arts and photography students.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
Otago Art Society. Dunedin Railway Station gallery, open 10am-4pm daily.
Until June 30: ''2013 Annual Exhibition'' including paintings, ceramics and jewellery. All works for sale.
OCTA Gallery and Workshop, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until July 30: ''Habit'', an exhibition of street art and graffiti by Francis Lind.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until July 28: 2013 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition.
Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
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 Sunday: Philip Trusttum, ''Trusttum''.
Until June 30: ''Built Small: Miniature Models''. A look at the history of model-making.
Until June 30: ''Times of our lives, 150 years of The Southland Times''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
Until June 30, 1pm-5pm: ''The Body Worked Art Exhibition''. Pay 'n' go art by artists including Jemima Pedro, Lindsay Crooks and Janet Weir.
St Martin's Hall, Northumberland St, North East Valley.
June 29, 11am-4pm: The Arts Bazaar (run by Northern Artery).
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until July 2: Works by Kaori Jackson.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
Until June 28, 8am-4pm: ''Welcome to the Jungle'', paintings by Craig Freeborn.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
The Wallpaper House, Downstairs at 29 Lees St.
Saturday: 11am-4pm. Pamela Brown: Open studio and gallery.
The Winehouse Gallery, 5592 Ettrick-Raes Junction Rd.
Featuring works by Johanne Flanagan, James Russell, Sally Jory, Gail Kemp. Open 11am-8pm.
Underground market, George St (opposite Farmers).
June 23-28: ''And now the news'', by Daniel Roberts.
Waikouaiti Old Post Office Gallery, 152 Main Rd, Waikouaiti.
Open 1pm-5pm, Wednesday-Friday and Sunday. Paintings by Laura Gregory. Pottery and paintings by Peter Gregory.
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