Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Tonight, 7pm: Paul Ubana Jones and Bryce Wastney - tales from the road and iconic songs from these two well-travelled songwriters - phone (03) 472-8022 to reserve tickets, $30.
• Saturday, 8pm: Seafood Festival after-party with Terry Ebeling, free.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Saturday, from 4pm: Port Chalmers Seafood Festival after-party - Matt Langley and guests. $10 entry.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, from 9pm: Scurvy Dogs and The Scruffs.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
• Thursdays from 8.30pm: jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Manny's Bar, St Andrew St, Dunedin.
• Tomorrow, 6-7pm: Both Sides of the Line, retro-pop and rockabilly, free.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5.30-7.30pm: Erin Morton - Dunedin singer-songwriter - solo ambience.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Nick Knox, Fuchsia Gash and Kahu. From the heart, three Dunedin singer-songwriters draw from deep places, $5.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Song Sale Dunedin, free entry but you can commission a song about anything you want for only $5.
Purple Rain Retro Bar and Cafe, 403 Princes St, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 7pm: Paul Ubana Jones and Bryce Wastney's ''Songbook and Six String'' tour, with special guest Georgie Daniell.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
• Tonight, 9pm: Raiza Biza, DPTRCLB, Jay Knight, High Hoops and Deux Enfants.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Heads Up hip-hop show, free.
• Saturday, 9pm: Nannystate with The Prophet Hens and Hana Fahey, free.
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.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
• Thursdays, until September 26, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
• Every Saturday and Sunday until September 22, 3.30pm: ''Hot to chop!'' Investigation Station. Atrium level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Magical Delights'' - be amazed by Juggler Jay performing magic and trickery, juggle ducks and contort himself through a tennis racquet. Suitable for children of all ages. Free.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Broad Bay Community Centre, Clearwater St.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Salsa dance, adults $10 and children $5.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
• Saturday, 8pm: Southern Sinfonia ''Journey to Central Europe: Mozart and Dvorak''.
• Sunday, 3pm: Saturday Morning Music Classes Demonstration Concert, adults $10, children $5.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Chamber Music New Zealand 2013 ''Kaleidoscopes'' Season: Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane.
Otago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, sessions starting 9.30am and 1.30pm and Sunday, Sunday, September 22, sessions starting 10am and 1.30pm: Dunedin Performing Arts Competitions Society Senior Instrumental Festival. Adjudicator: Richard Mapp. Admission: $4 adult, $2 child. In the Hutton Theatre.
• Sunday, 1pm: melodies from the accordion duo Ratafia.
Pioneer Women's Hall, Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Today, 10-11am: Operatunity presents ''I Remember It Well''. Selections from shows, music hall and concerts. Enjoy refreshments and meet the cast after the show. $25.
St Clair Women's Club Hall, Albert St, St Clair.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: free variety concerts, Dunedin Entertainers/Orphans Club, various artists, public welcome to attend.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays Bach's chorale partita, Sei gegrusset, Jesu gutig (BWV 768).
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Garden.
• Today, 5.30-6.30pm: The Prophet Hens produce crafted melodies and chiming jangle-pop. Gold coin entry.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today, 1pm and 7pm, and tomorrow, 1pm: Tooth of Crime (Second Dance), written by Sam Shepard and directed by Baz Macdonald.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• Until October 5: Gifted.
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames St.
• Opens tomorrow until September 28: Chicago.
Talks and films
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Saturday, 10-11am: workshop: cultivation of camellias. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: screenings: excerpts from Romantic New Zealand - the Land of The Long White Cloud (1934) and Caravan Companions (1969). Courtesy of the Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua.
• Sunday, 3pm: Dr Janice Lord, department of botany, University of Otago, will talk about floral biology and her interest in aspects of plant symbolism. In association with the exhibition ''Nature-study: a floral tribute''.
Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce.
• Monday, 7.30pm: The Dunedin Photographic Society presents NZ photographer/conservationist and Galapagos Islands champion Tui de Roy, presenting an illustrated talk on her new book Penguins: Their World, Their Ways and about life as one of the world's top 10 wildlife photographers. Open to the public. $5 entry.
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.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd.
• Nightly until October 6: guided tours to see the cheeky kakapo Sirocco. Bookings required.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Today, 6pm: Otago by Design - celebrating the ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'' exhibition. Join design historian Michael Smythe as he presents an illustrated talk. Bookings essential.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Built For The Kill: Polar Bear, NHNZ film screening - witness the three-year transformation in which a polar bear, built for the kill, learns to be lethal in battle.
• Daily talks at 2pm through September - today: the Wahine disaster. Tomorrow: Japanese spider crab. Saturday: Kotare - New Zealand's kingfisher. Sunday: a history of glass. Monday: Mapoutahi Pa. Tuesday: Lapita pottery. Wednesday: New Zealand's sea lion.
• Daily during September, 4pm: special exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
• Daily until November 10, 2.15pm: Otago Museum H.D. Skinner annex tour. Free.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens Nostalgia for the light, Patricio Guzman's documentary about Chile's distant and more recent past.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Tuesday, 12.15pm: The Nineties - In 1893 New Zealand women were the first in the world to gain the right to vote. Looks back at the lives of seven New Zealand women who have lived through many of the changes of the past century. Courtesy of Top Shelf Productions Ltd. Free.
Exhibitions
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until October 13: ''Speed and Colour: British linocuts from the 1930s'' developed and presented by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
• Until October 13: Cindy King ''Pristine Origins''.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Anne Reid and Russ McLean
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until Sunday: ''Bellamys at Five'', a collaborative poARTry exhibition.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until September 30: Hoffman Collection.
• Until October 15: new works from Hallabaloo artists. Daily, 10am-4pm.
Ceres, 128 Cairnmuir Rd, Bannockburn.
• Until October 17: new paintings from Phillipa Jones and Michaela Robinson.
DUD Comics, 17 George St, Port Chalmers.
• Opens today, 5.30pm until Sunday: ''Fiendish Comix''. Comic-style collages by Peter Lewis. Open 10am-5pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin International Airport
• September: Sam Foley ''Three Years On''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: ''Nature-study: A Floral Tribute''.
• Until Sunday: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
• Until Sunday: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
• Until November 3: ''Among the machines''.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Jack Hadley, Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Until October 6: Peter Nicholls ''As is on Earth'' and James Robinson ''Rainbow Serpent''.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until October 13: ''Connections from the Collection''.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until September 27: Louise Greig, ''The Cassandra Complex''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• September: Scott Drummond's watercolours.
Hocken Collections, Otago University.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until September 29: Juliet Novena-Sorrel, new works.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until October 27: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Meridian Mall, George St, Dunedin.
• Opens today until Sunday 3pm: Green Island Art Group, annual exhibition. Wide variety of members' paintings, drawings and novelty art for sale.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
• Until Wednesday: Paul Dibble ''A Walk in the Park'' and Christine Webster ''Therapies''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens Saturday until October 16: Mike Petre ''Stories in the Landscape''.
• Opens Saturday until November 13: Spring Catalogue.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
• Until October 3: Caravaggio Gang annual group exhibition '13.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
OCTA Gallery and Workshop, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Ongoing: ''Habit'', an exhibition of street art and graffiti by Francis Lind.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• Until Sunday: Youth Art Awards. Opens Tuesday until September 29: NOTUS: works by graduates of the Otago City and Guilds international course in stitched textiles. Featuring work by: Robin Aitken, Bernice Mills, Ingrid Emerson, Jeanette Trotman, Anne Enright, Lenore Whyte, Di Lightfoot and Jan Wilson.
• Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
• Until October 28: ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver, Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Special Exhibitions Gallery. Free.
• Until November 10: ''Heritage Lost And Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Otago Museum H.D. Skinner annex, Museum Reserve.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until October 6: ''Focal Point: An exhibition celebrating 150 years of the Otago Daily Times. 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.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. Various artists.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Until September 28: ''Precarious Treasures'': new work by Rebecca Fargher; ''Cast Offs'': new work by Blue Black. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until October 6: ''Gems of the South''.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until October 25: collection of new works by Lorraine Marlow and J.K. Weir. Open 1pm-5pm Friday-Sunday or by appointment.
Speargrass Inn Gallery, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (State Highway 8), Alexandra.
• Until November 30: Ron Esplin.
St Patrick's Hall, 40-42 Macandrew Rd, Dunedin.
• Saturday, 10am-3pm: The Dunedin Miniaturists Club open day, entry $2.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
• Until September 28: ''Spring Fever'' with guest potter Raymond Parker.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until October 1: works by local artist Elizabeth Gray.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Until September 29: Photo Exhibition ''Shanghai's Yu Yuan Garden''. Free entry.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Union Hall, University of Otago.
• Closes tomorrow: OUSA student art exhibition and sale.
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.
The Wallpaper House Gallery, Studio. 29 Lees St.
• Open Saturday, 11am-4pm.
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