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.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
• Saturday, 8-11.30pm, music provided by the Melody Makers. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Northburn Station, 45 Northburn Station Rd, Northburn.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Soul diva Bella Kalolo and band ''Time and Space'' tour. Tickets $35 including supper.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans
Queenstown Memorial Hall, 1 Memorial St.
• Tuesday, 7.30pm: Soul diva Bella Kalolo and band ''Time and Space'' tour.
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.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 5.30-6.30pm: Alexey Medvedev, acoustic guitar.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
North East Valley School, 248 North Rd.
• Monday, 10am-3pm: Festival of Tricks - Learn circus skills, including juggling, hula hoop, poi, devil stick, diabolo, staff, magic, skateboard tricks and more. No prior experience required; equipment provided.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Arachni-mania''. Investigation Station: Sort the facts from fiction about our native spiders.
• Monday, 11am: Beetle Mania: See live dung beetles, make a disgustingly delectable dung ball and put together your own stag beetle model.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, Pleasant Point.
• Sunday and Monday, 10.30am-4pm: Steaming Day - Steam and Craft - train and rail car runinning. Adults $10 and child $5.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool storytime.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Sunday, 10am-4pm: Josephine's 141st Birthday Party - A fun-filled day of activities for all the family including face painting, balloon animal twisting, bouncy castle, activity trail, crafty kids and train rides on the Community Express. Join in for birthday cake at 11am and hear Diane Miller reading Josephine off the Rails at 11.30am and 2.30pm.
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.
• Sunday, 5.30pm: City Choir Dunedin celebrates its 150th anniversary this year with a massive choir and orchestra concert ''Choral Masterpieces''.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Trashion Show - individuals and businesses show off their fashion flare and creativity by turning previously used materials into stunning outfits. $35.
Oamaru Opera House foyer, 90 Thames St.
• Tomorrow, 12.15-1pm: Lunchtime recital - Erik Badcock, Wendy Eckhardt, Richard Bowering and Neil Johnston. June Cameron accompanist.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays Charles Tournemire's Toussaint, from L'Orgue Mystique.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today, tomorrow and Friday, 7.30pm: This Is Our Youth, by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Alex Wilson.
Talks and films
Dunedin Prison, Castle St.
• Tuesdays and Saturdays during October, 10.30am: Dunedin prison tours. Book on www.dunedinprisontrust.co.nz
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 1-4pm: Make-it Workshop - A found object/sculpture workshop with sculptor Mike O'Kane for 10plus age group. Be inspired by the works in the collaborative exhibition by Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert and create your own sculpture. $10 cash (no eftpos). Bookings essential, numbers limited.
• Saturday, 3pm: Insightful tour, for the blind and visually impaired, of sculptural collaborative works in the Hotere Culbert exhibition. Guide dogs welcome.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: David Lynch Season: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (R16, 1992, 135mins) A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.
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.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily during October, 4pm: special exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Meet at the information desk. Free.
• Daily until November 10, 2.15pm: Otago Museum H.D. Skinner annex tour. Free.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Monday, 2pm: For Man Must Work: or the end of work - This film addresses some of the big questions facing the workforce in the 21st century. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada. Free, no booking required.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
• Until November 3: South Canterbury Art Society 61st annual exhibition.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Works by Inge Doesburg, Llew Summers and Zuna Wright.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until Sunday: ''Celtic Spirit'' Ron Esplin, Pauline Bellamy, Chris O'Regan. Part of the Dunedin Celtic Arts Festival, open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Until Saturday: ''Dual <> Jewel'', Kelly O'Shea. Saturday, 8pm: closing event - ''Hoodyz Up'' an evening of sounds in the darkness with belfry bats, laser cooling, astronaut club, sweet subject line, invisible landscape and others.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Rob McHaffie ''Farang Mak''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Opens tomorrow until December 5: ''CODAT Art Gold Awards'' exhibition.
• Until November 14: ''Spotlight on design'' with Lynne Wilson and Joan Neil.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until November 3: ''Among the Machines''.
• Until January 26: ''Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place''.
• Until March 9: ''Hotere Culbert''.
• Ongoing: ''Rear Window'' Jack Hadley, Frances Hodgkins' Umbrella.
• Ongoing: ''Specular Reflection'', paintings by Frances Hodgkins
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Closes tomorrow: New jewellery collection by Kate Alterio ''Beyond Time & Space''.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until November 12: ''Yet Another Side to Gordon Evans''. Local Artists also have a display of work. Open Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Hocken Collections,University of Otago.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - Artistic and iconic landscapes.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• October: Liz Rowe with her exhibition entitled ''30 pounds of clay''.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: Lynn Kelly and Jo Ogier, new jewellery and prints.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Until Monday: ''Back On Track''. Contemporary sculpture in stone, wood and steel by Gavin Wilson.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until Sunday: ''Close to Home'', Grahame Sydney.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Opens Saturday until November 20: Neil Dawson ''Silver Linings'' and Mervyn Williams ''Coloured-In''. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until November 13: Darryn George, ''Notes on Isaiah''.
• Until November 13: Spring Catalogue.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Opens tomorrow: ''New Identity'', by Dunedin visual artist Ross Davidson.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Nectar Cafe, 286 Princes St
• Until November 30: Paintings by Kate Williamson.
Northeast Valley Community Rooms, 248 North Rd.
• Saturday, 11am-4pm and Sunday, 10am-4pm: ArtFibre textile display.
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: ''Spring Exhibition'', all works for sale. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
• Until Monday: ''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.
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.
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, noon-5.30pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Closes tomorrow: 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 (SH8), Alexandra.
• Until November 30: Ron Esplin.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until November 5: Landscapes by local photographer Robert Evans.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown. Aaron Kereopa.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: Rongomaiaia Te Whaiti ''Te Whare Wananga - The House of Learning and Knowledge''.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Road, Waikouaiti.
• Until November 10: Portrait exhibition - See through the eyes of a new generation, self-portraits by local children.
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.day, 11am-4pm.
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