A look at what's happening around Dunedin.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr of London and George Sts.
Tomorrow and Saturday, 10pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason playing classic rock n pop hits.
Carousel Bar, 141 Stuart St.
Fridays 8.30pm-10.30pm: Bill Martin jazz trio.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
Saturday, doors open 5.30pm: Public gig - Onslaught 9 featuring Gutrot (Wgtn), Awkward Death (Wgtn), Gripper (Nelson), Sawdust (Chch), The Hommmos (Chch), Silly Drunken Bastards (Inv), Gravemind (Dun), Whiskey And The Wench (Dun), Feral Hunks (Dun), Infinite Justice (Dun) and Bazooka (Pt Ch). Music at 6pm. $10.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell
Saturday, 9pm: Serpent.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Thursdays from 8.30pm: Jam night. Fridays from 9pm: Oxo Cubans.
Mint Bar, 73 Brownston St, Wanaka.
Saturday, 8.30pm: Katchafire. Support band is Summer Thieves and DJ Matix.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: Song Sale, featuring Frédéric Dogfood. Free admission, and for $5 commission a song.
Refuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
Friday, 10pm: Concord Dawn with Ernesto Anenome, D-Range & Wally. Pre-sales $20, limited door sales $25 on the night.
Saturday, 8pm: Sam Allen with Joseph and Maia and Jed and Hera. $10.
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.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
Saturday, 7pm: Amped Music Project 2013 - gig No 2.
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.
Tuesdays, until September 24, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme: Active movement for early learning, term 3.
Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: Pre-school storytime.
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.
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, Moray Pl.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin RSA Choir with Jonathan Lemalu.
King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
Saturday, 7.30pm: St Kilda Brass Band with conductor Karen Knudson present ''Brassed Off, Brassed Onwards''. Tickets $25. Telephone 477-8597.
Sunday, 3pm: The Otago Symphonic Band presents Byrds of Spring, featuring conductor Peter Adams and soloist William Henderson.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
Saturday, 3pm: Cellists of Otago, Victorian classics.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
Wednesday, 11am: Daytime concert series ''The Greatest Song Ever Written''.
Purple Rain, 411 Princes St.
Tonight: Soup Club V, $10 for soup, coffee and $1.80 worth of comedy. Soup served at 6.30pm, show at 7pm.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Edward Elgar, to include Nimrod and Imperial March.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
Today and tomorrow: Ocean Between My Feet, choreographed by Leah Carrell.
Athenaeum Hall, Arrowtown.
Saturday, 7.30pm: Playing Miss Havisham written by Helen Moulder and Sue Rider, directed by Sue and acted by Helen.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until August 31: Altar Boyz.
Twizel Events Centre, 61 McKenzie Dr.
Tonight, 7.30pm: Playing Miss Havisham written by Helen Moulder and Sue Rider, directed by Sue and acted by Helen.
Talks and films
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre, Burns Building, Albany St, Dunedin
Wednesday, 5.30-7pm: An Evening with Doug Johnstone - meet the acclaimed Scottish author of Hit and Run, Smokeheads and The Ossians.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, noon: Friends of the Library lunch and learn with guest speaker Philippa Harris, general manager, Southern Sinfonia, Subject: ''Behind the scenes at the Sinfonia'', Dunningham Suite.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Saturday, 3pm: Canterbury Utopias: past, present and future. Dr James Smithies, Department of English, University of Canterbury, discusses the concept of utopia in relation to the Christchurch rebuild.
Sunday, 3pm: Robotics: A demonstration and talk by Dr Christoph Bartneck, HIT Lab, University of Canterbury on robot/human relations. Take part in a fascinating look at how robots are becoming a part of our lives.
Sundays throughout August, 2pm: Free guided tours of the downstairs exhibitions.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
Thursdays, 4.30pm: Tours of the Theomin Art Collection, bookings essential.
Saturday, noon-2pm: Take a closer look at the rich fabrics and furnishings at Olveston. Learn more about the exquisite items on display and view other textile treasures not normally on view to the public. Bookings essential.
Daily tours at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: Built for the Kill: Lion NHNZ film screening. Follow the transformation of a helpless cub into an accomplished killer, exposing real life-and-death struggles as it hones its hunting skills. Barclay Theatre, entry by gold coin donation.
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.
Daily until November 10, 2.15pm: Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex Tour - Originally the Dunedin North Post Office, the newly refurbished Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex has undergone numerous changes over the past century. Free.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: the Dunedin Film Society will screen Pip Chodorov's Free Radicals, a fascinating documentary about the history of avant-garde film.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Road, South Dunedin.
Sunday, 2.30pm: 'Friends of the Opera' - Michael Andrewes, prime instigator of the recent series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, presents a free-ranging afternoon about the whys, wherefores, highs and lows of the series.
The afternoon will include video and singing to illustrate the project.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
New photographs by Russ McLean.
Art-cut Gallery, 71 Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Contemporary art and design, open 10am-4pm.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
Until Wednesday: ''Story boards''. Manu Berry working prints and drawings.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St. Opens Saturday: Joe L'Estrange.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Daily, 10am-4pm: Closes today: ''Spotlight on design'' Kathi McLean, Pottery and Art. Until Sunday: ''Winter Images''. Photographs by Grahame Sydney, including rare Antarctic pieces. Russell Henderson Gallery.
Community Gallery, 20 Princes St.
Opens Saturday until August 30: Aroha Novak ''Fairy Tale Remix''. Open 11am-5pm.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Information centre.
Until August 30: ''Colours from a landscape''.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens: Celebrating Dunedin Botanic Garden.
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 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 De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
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.
Closes today: ''Polished'' featuring glass artists Claudia Borella, Emma Camden and David Murray. Also showcasing ''Central'', jewellery by Lynn Kelly.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
August: Variety month with a range of work by a variety of artists.
Hocken Collections, Otago University.
Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
Until Saturday: ''Minus nine in the morning - a wintersong'' by Gail de Jong.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Opens tomorrow until September 29: Juliet Novena-Sorrel, New Works.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Until Wednesday: ''Parallel''.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
Opens Saturday until September 18: Stanley Palmer's ''Paintings and Monoprints''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
''Project Ridebo'', by Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Until August 30: Angela Burns ''Elements of Time''. Images based on sea and landscape.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Permanent exhibition: ''Waitaki Landscapes''. O
CTA 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
