Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr of London and George Sts.
• Friday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason playing classic rock and pop hits.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
• Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm, live jazz with the Bill Martin Trio.
The Church, 50 Dundas St.
• Sunday, 7.30pm: The New Edinburgh Folk Club.
Duncan Inn, Ranfurly.
• Sunday, 3-7pm: Easy Club playing. Fundraiser for the Maniototo Area School music programme.
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.
• Saturdays, 4pm: afternoon jazz sessions.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel, 137 St Andrew St.
• Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Waitati Community Hall, Waitati.
• Friday, 7pm: Ariana Tikao and Ben Lemi Wood. $10 entry.
Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Fridays,10.30am: story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, North Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 1-3pm: Botanic Garden's Birds - Find out what' s happening at Orokonui these holidays and do a bird survey of the botanic garden forest. Suitable all ages. No cost. Education Centre, Lovelock Ave.
• Weekdays during the school holidays, 11am-12.30pm: Workshop for children: Collect and create a collage. Meet at Information Centre. Bookings essential.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Every Wednesday, 10.30am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Daily from Saturday until May 5: Fuji Fun school holiday programme - Children's drawing competition. Using the materials provided on the activities table create your own drawing of Mount Fuji. Adult supervision required for children under 6. Daily from Saturday until May 5: ''Brangwyn by Numbers'' school holiday programme - Use the crayons provided to colour in the numbered areas in the Brangwyn mural on the wall in the foyer. Adult supervision required for children under 6.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
• Thursday, 11am: ''Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning Term 1''.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Saturday until May 5: Nest Treasure Trail - Journey through the forest finding the hidden nests. Choose your best nest to receive a yummy prize. Suitable all ages. Cost included in entry fee to ecosanctuary.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Every Saturday and Sunday during April, 3.30pm: ''Dem Bones!'' - Investigation Station. Discover facts about your skeleton and put together real moa bones.
• Daily during school holidays: Wacky Words: School Holiday Trail - search the galleries high and low for literary looniness! Explorer backpacks for children aged 7-12, free. Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at information desk.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Friday, 10-11am: Bread 'n' Butter Theatre: How Frog Lost His Tail - a traditional Sukuma tale performed by clowns Danny Still and Kaitrin McMullan. 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
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: Salsa music and dancing. All welcome, Free.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: ''Choral Workshop'' The Otago Boys' and Otago Girls' High School choirs. Madrigals, spirituals, works by NZ composers. Karen Knudson/ director. Admission gold coin.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Today, 5.30pm: ''Young Britten'', a concert featuring the Southern Children's Choir, directed by Daniel Kelly, performing Friday Afternoons and Psalm 150. Also Britten Festival String Orchestra conducted by Peter Adams performing Simple Symphony and Arvo Pärt's Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten.
• Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Illustrated lecture by Professor of Scottish Studies Liam McIlvanney, together with students performing Britten's Scottish folk song arrangements followed by Scottish food and drink.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Benjamin Britten Commemorative Year II - Phantasy Quartet op.2 for oboe, violin, viola & cello, Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe, Suite op.6 for Violin and Piano. Nick Cornish, oboe , Tessa Petersen, violin, Andrew Filmer, viola; Heleen Du Plessis, cello; John Van Buskirk, piano.
Methodist Church, Mornington, cnr Galloway and Whitby St.
• Sunday, 3pm: Cellists of Otago, first concert of the 2013 series.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Tomorrow, 11am: Daytime concert series Forbidden Broadway.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sunday, 1pm: Les Belles Vilaines, traditional French dance.
Port Chalmers Library.
• Tonight, 6.30-8pm: Poetry with a Pulse presents an evening with David Eggleton and Michelle Leggott. Bookings essential. Ring or email the library library@dcc.govt.nz
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Monday, 7.30pm, St Paul's Cathedral: Choral Celebration featuring the Southern Youth Choir, the Southern Consort of Voices and the St Paul's Cathedral Choir.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: 1021 - George Chittenden plays late-romantic organ works from Germany, to include music by Brahms and Reger.
Toitu, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Tonight, 6.30-7.30pm: Live at Toitu with Anthonie Tonnon.
• Sunday, 2pm: Talk - ''Into the Maelstrom: New Zealand Soldiers; Experience of Gallipoli and the Western Front, 1915-18'' by Prof Tom Brooking. Free.
• Tuesday, 12.15pm: Talk - ''Give Sorrow Words; the Crisis of Grief on the Battlefield and at Home 1915-1930'' - Historian Keith Scott takes a fresh look at the way war impacted on people at home. Free.
Plays
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St.
• Closes tomorrow, 7.30pm: Dunstan High School presents Disco Inferno, a musical with more than 25 classic '70s hits.
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
• Saturday, 7pm: A comedy/drama, Beautiful Losers. Tickets are $40 and available from Cromwell i-Site.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites - You Can Always Hand Them Back. Sample the latest play from the Fortune Theatre.
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
• Today-April 27, Tuesday-Saturday, 7.30pm and Sunday 2pm: ''Brief encounter'' aka ''Still Life'' by Noel Coward.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Sunday, 3pm: A rehearsed play reading of The Habit of Art, by Alan Bennett. Lisa Warrington, director. Featuring Simon O'Connor, Ross Johnston, Hilary Norris, Harry Love, Danny Still, Ben Blakely and John Drummond. English high tea served. (The Habit of Art contains strong language and sexual references.)
Mayfair Theatre, King Edward St.
• Saturday-April 26, 11am and 2pm daily, Sunday, 2pm show only: Hansel and Gretel's Amazing Race, Anita Cumming Productions.
Talks and films
Centre for Sustainability, seminar room, 547 Castle St.
• Today, 4pm. Behind the fence: a look at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary Biodiversity Project. General manager Chris Baillie discusses the technology used at the ecosanctuary as well as the creation of the award-winning, sustainably designed visitors' centre.
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: Art talk - ''Broken Homes and Haunted Houses: The House in Contemporary Art.''
• Prof Gill Perry, chair of the Open Arts Archive and head of research in art history at the Open University, Britain, will talk about aspects of her forthcoming book Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art. Sunday, 3pm: Exhibition talk - Dr Vijay Devadas, department of film, media and communication at the University of Otago will discuss post-colonial identity and diaspora in association with the exhibition ''Someone Else''.
• Tuesday, 11am: Insightful tour - Works in the collection exhibition ''Shape-Shifters'' and other works that are on display in the gallery. Free.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 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.
St Enoch's Church, Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Today, 1.30pm: ''Ladies' Afternoon Fellowship'' featuring CC Collections' colourful 2013 winter collection. Admission $5. Proceeds to Dunstan Hospital scanner appeal.
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.
• New collection of oil paintings by Peter Beadle.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Michael Harrison ''Invasion Biology''.
Cafe Rue , 368 Moray Pl.
• Artist Fay Mitchell's 2012 works.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Opens today until May 16: ''Museum Exhibition'' by photographer Eric Schusser.
• April: ''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'' - From 8 to 80 years, meet the creative risk-takers of New Zealand's printing industry. Discover how their passion for print brought James K. Baxter, Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson into the limelight.
Dunedin Gasworks Museum, Braemar St, South Dunedin.
• Until Sunday, Sundays noon-4pm: Marion Wassenaar, ''Carbon Black''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• April: Artists in the Terminal - Nick Dempster and Philip Beadle.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until April 28: ''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''.
The Fix, 15 Frederick St.
• April: ''Rain in the Hills & Other Weather,'' ceramics by Madeleine Child.
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 2: Richard Adams, Priscilla Cowie, Flox and Tai Kerekere.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
• Opens Saturday until June 8: Shigeyuki Kihara ''Undressing the Pacific'' a mid-career survey exhibition.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
• Until Sunday: Annemarie Hope-Cross, ''A Midsummer's Garden''.
• Opens Sunday until May 12: New paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: ''On Assignment''. Matchbox toys by Mike O'Kane.
• Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm, or by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
• Until May 12: Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition - painting and applied art from throughout New Zealand.
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, Karl Maughan, Jenna Packer, Bruce Hunt and Linda Holloway.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until May 1: The Royal Queenstown Easter Show.
• Until May 1: Bruce Hunt's ''The Longest Road''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Closes today: ''Keto's Monsters'', by Anthea Ibell.
• Opening tomorrow, 5.30pm until May 8: ''Dreamscapes and Realities'' by artist Emilie Truscott.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''.
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 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 27: Peter Gregory and Rosemary McQueen.
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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