A look at what's happening in Dunedin this week.
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 Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Tomorrow, doors open 7pm: All Age Gig Amped Music Project - Divine Perdition, Perpetuity, Agent Ewok and Days Gone By. Soft drinks only, in association with Dunedin Fringe, IMNZ and HPA.
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St Sunday, 8pm: Nick Knox, Contrapuntal Keys and Dark Vox. Free.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Thursdays from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Boss Christ Monsterbilly LP Release Tour with Tahu and the Takahes, free.
Saturday, 9pm: ENT Sweet Dreams LP Release Tour with The Fu King, free.
Wednesday, 8pm: Tahu presents TALENT, 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.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St, Dunedin
Saturday, doors open 9pm: East and Young (Ministry of Sound/ Europe/ Progressive House) with support from Anton Cash & Rusty. Door sales onlly, doors from 9pm. First 100 $10, $15 after that.
Starfish Café and Bar, St Clair Esplanade.
Tomorrow, 7-9pm: Dunedin singer songwriter Erin Morton with bass player Dave James.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall. Wednesdays, 2pm-3pm: Preschool story and craft session. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a caregiver or adult.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Saturday: 11am-4pm: Family Day - Storylines Festival 2013 - for a fantastic day full of entertainers, storytellers, illustrators, activities and competitions.
Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning
Term 3
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30pm: Pre-school Storytime.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'' Parents and caregivers: take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the Gallery followed by a chat and a cup of tea.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Thursdays, until September 26, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term three, free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Sunday, 11am-2pm: ''Doctor Dolittle's Circus'' Animal Attic Birthday Celebrations. Enter the world of Doctor Dolittle, where crocodiles talk and elephants sing, and lions do almost any old thing! Free.
Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Witness the first flight of a butterfly. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Every Saturday and Sunday until September 22, 3.30pm: ''Hot to chop!'' Investigation Station. Explore how different cultures use chopsticks, discover some fascinating facts behind the culinary creation, and then take part in our chopstick challenge. Atrium Level 1, free.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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.
Dunedin Town Hall.
Saturday, 8pm: Southern Sinfonia's ''From Russia with Love''. Demidenko plays Rachmaninov.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ transcriptions from Holst's The Planets.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
Today and tomorrow, 7pm: Extracts from Lashings of Whipped Cream, written by Fiona Samuel and directed by Luke Agnew.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until August 31: Altar Boyz
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm: Where once our voices led: a nostalgic comedy.
Talks and films
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Sunday, 1pm: Floor talk - Grahame Sydney Photographs
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Monday, 10am-3pm: Family Search - Are you interested in your family history? Spend a day with us and discover Family Search with guest speaker Diane Loosle from Salt Lake City. Bookings essential.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Saturday, 2pm: Seasonal floral arrangements demonstrated by Jolene from Estelle Flowers. Free.
Sunday, 3pm: Jon Bywater, senior lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts who writes on art, music and theory will talk about music associations within the art of Saskia Leek.
Mornington Community Centre 16 Maryhill Terrace, Mornington.
Monday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Photographic Society: Interactive evening led by Jane Trotter and Sue Humphreys - bring your cameras. Print of the Month. All welcome.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
Wednesday, 10am-noon: ''Explore the Theomin art collection'', bookings essential.
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. Daily talks at 2pm through August. Today: Woollen bathing suit. Tomorrow: Whio - New Zealand blue duck. Saturday: Stephen Island wren. Sunday: Operation Pedestal. Monday: Akan gold weights. Tuesday: Queen Liliuokalani's feathered cape. Wednesday: Ta moko - Maori tattooing.
Daily during August, 4pm: Special Exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Please meet at the information desk. Free.
Port Chalmers Library.
Today, 6.30pm: Bite Me with Dr Mike Leahy: India From intestinal hitchhikers to a beetle with an arsenal of chemical weaponry, Mike sees and experiences more than he plans to! (Duration 1 hour).
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.1930s hand-coloured fishing prints by Sir William Jardine Bart.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
''Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Daily, 10am-4pm: Until August 22: ''Spotlight on design'' Kathi McLean, Pottery and Art Until August 25: ''Winter Images''. Photographs by Grahame Sydney, including rare Antarctic pieces.
Russell Henderson Gallery.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
Until August 30: ''Colours from a landscape''.
Dunedin International Airport.
August: Jenufa Waiti, ''A Body of Work''
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until September 8: Saskia Leek, ''Desk Collection''.
Until September 22: ''Nature-study: A Floral Tribute''Until September 22: ''The Pleasure Principle - Collecting and Collectors''.
Until September 22: ''Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House''.
Until November 3: ''Among the machines''.
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
Until Sunday: ''A la mode: Early 19th-Century Fashion Plates''. Open Mon-Fri 10am-4.30pm, weekends and public holidays 1pm-4pm.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until Sunday: ''Old New World'' photographs by Mary Macpherson.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
Opens Saturday: Phillip Edwards ''Down to the Sea'' exhibition.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
Until August 22: ''Polished'' featuring glass artists Claudia Borella, Emma Camden and David Murray. Also showcasing ''Central'', jewellery by Lynn Kelly.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
Until August 16: ''Fresh Horizons''. Oamaru stone sculpture by Craig McLanachan. Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray PlaceUntil August 18: Julian Duncan
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Until August 28: ''Parallel''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Until August 21: ''Sculpture'', by Martin Selman.
Until August 21: Engaging in a Lawless Landscape, by Linda Holloway.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Until August 15: ''On Building Bridges'', recent paintings by local artist Jessica Crothall, responding to the Christchurch earthquakes and Colin McCahon. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
None, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
Opens tomorrow until August 16: James Bellaney ''Pour''.
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 September 1: Edinburgh Realty Premier Annual Art Awards. Close to 200 works from South Island artists and OAS members. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Opens today: ''Heritage Lost And Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
Until September 15: The Moriori of Rekohu, T'chakat Henu - People of the Land. People of the World Gallery, free.
Until October 28: ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver, Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Special Exhibitions Gallery. Free.
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.
Monday-Friday noon-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
Until August 17: Lisa Simpson and Louise Thompson Parker.
August 19-31: Lorna Isaac and Anne McLean.
September 2-14: Jo Howard and Judy Ringland Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until September 3: Works by local artist Karen Campbell.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
Aaron Kereopa
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl. Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
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.
