Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, cnr of London and George Sts.
• Friday and Saturday nights from 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.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Saturday, 9pm: Robin and Penelope (Prophet Hens), Fuschia Gash and Nick Knox play Chick's, $6.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm-8.30pm: live jazz with Philtre Trio.
Gin and Raspberry, 155 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
• Tonight, 8pm: Lawrence Arabia.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 9pm: Middle Earth. Mosgiel RSA, 6 Church St.
• Saturday, 8-11.30pm: Mosgiel RSA Dance, music by Margaret Bates. Members, guests and affiliates welcome.
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Thursday nights: Oxo Cubans
• Tomorrow, 5.30-7.30pm: Erin Morton - after work ''chillaxter''.
Queens, 1 Queens Gardens.
• Thursday, 8pm: Ash and the Matadors, Little Smith Band, Twin Lion Hotness, $5.
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: Phil Corfield Band - performing songs inspired by life experiences, travels, and places of abode this tight-knit trio consisting of Phil Corfield, John Sule and Jean Barkman has been playing together for two years. Gold coin entry.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''The Lesser Lawsons - His Little Known Works''. Norman Ledgerwood will be discussing some of Lawson's not so well-known buildings. Free.
• Tuesday, 10am: Tuesday Club - the Manuka Walkway - this month's speaker is archaeologist Peter Petchey, who will discuss some of the evidence found of 19th-century working-class life in the Wall St archaeological site. OSA members gold coin, non-members $5.
Family fun
Cromwell Library, 43 The Mall.
• Wednesdays, 2-3pm: preschool story and craft session.
Dunedin Botanic Garden.
• Tuesday, 10.30am: storytelling at the Botanic Garden - nature-themed interactive stories for children of all ages (caregiver required). At the information centre. Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Wednesdays (excluding school holidays), 10.30am: preschool story time.
Dunedin Prison Tours
• Tuesdays and Saturdays in November at 10.30am. Book on www.dunedinprisontrust.co.nz.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
• Tuesdays, 11am (excluding school holidays): preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Saturday and Sunday, 3.30pm: ''Arachni-mania''. Investigation Station: sort the facts from fiction about our native spiders.
• Sunday, 11am: ''Are You My Mother?'' - storytelling series - snuggle into the nest and help a flustered fledgling find his home with P.D. Eastman's story.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Tropical Forest. Free with your Discovery World Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am (excludes school holidays): preschool story time.
The Terrace School Hall, Marslin St, Alexandra.
• Saturday, 7-9.30pm: Alex Scottish Country Dance Club and the Alexandra Pipe Band invite you to join their Ceilidh. A fun-filled family evening of Scottish dancing and music - easy dances for all, no partner required. $10 per family or $5 per adult. Refreshments provided.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Waikouaiti Library, Main Road, Waikouaiti.
• Saturday, 10am-1pm: 150th Birthday Party - join us for a slice of cake and entertainment, to celebrate 150 years of Waikouaiti Library.
Whare Flat Scout Camp.
• Today-Sunday: Circulation Festival 2013 - for everyone who loves what circus can offer.
Music and performance
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: salsa music and dancing.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Sunday, from 5pm: Faure: it's amore: ''When you're singing a hymn in a French Requiem, it's by Faure ...'' - join us in singing choral favourite, Faure's Requiem, as part of the 7pm service at Knox Church. Rehearsal 5pm to 6.30pm.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Monday, 7.30pm: Stroma - new music ensemble on tour, contemporary chamber music.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesdays, 12.50pm-1.10pm: George Chittenden plays romantic organ music from Great Britain, to include works by Smart and Best.
St Peter's Church hall, Hillside Rd, South Dunedin.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: ''Friends of the Opera'' - ''Not Always Miserable'' with cast and production members from the recent Taieri Musical Society production of Les Miserables.
Plays
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St.
• Saturday, 3.30-4.30pm: A Miscellany of Medieval Puppetry - three lively puppet shows accompanied by live early music played on authentic instruments.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites - Boeing Boeing - sample the latest play from theFortune Theatre. Free.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• Today, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm and November 10, 1.30pm: Stageworks Theatre Society presents the popular play, Little Women.
Talks and films
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10am-8pm: Raising Baby Seal - on the coast of Alaska a wildlife official rescues a baby harbour seal. Watch as she grows and learns, getting ready for the day she is returned to the ocean. (Duration one hour), Teen Space.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: a wheelchair tour of the sculptural works in the Hotere Culbert exhibition. All welcome. Access, if required, by arrangement at the Moray Pl staff entrance, Tel: 474-3239.
• Sunday, 2.30pm: free screening of Mulholland Drive (R16, 2001, 147min).
• Wednesday, 11.15am: tours for tots - parents and caregivers take part in a free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the gallery followed by a c• hat and a cup of tea on the mezzanine floor.
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.
• Today, 4-5pm: Otago International Health Research Network (OIHRN) public lectures - the McAuley Oration being presented by Prof Kim Mulholland - ''New vaccines for the developing world - who is responsible?'' at the Hutton Theatre.
• Tomorrow, 12.45pm: Otago International Health Research Network (OIHRN) public lectures - Dr Satupaitea Viali - ''Rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and research in Samoa and the wider Pacific''. Hutton Theatre.Daily talks November: Today: the mutiny on the Bounty. Tomorrow: Tuhawaiki Kai Tahu chief. Saturday: Sri Lankan demon mask. Sunday: the upland moa - extinct bird of the South. Monday: the Piopio - extinct New Zealand songbird. Tuesday: Blaschka models - the lost art of glass specimens. Wednesday: the Shag Point plesiosaur - New Zealand's largest fossil.
• Daily during November, 4pm: special exhibition talk - ''China's Cultural Minorities: Silk to Silver: Collections from the Shanghai Museum''. Meet at the information desk. Free.
• Daily until Sunday, 2.15pm: Otago Museum H.D. Skinner annex tour. Free.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Sunday, 3-4pm: talk and tour - ''Antarctic Dreaming'' Irene Schroder and Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Today, 12.15-1pm: talk and walk - Toitu architectural tour - join Danny Still for a tour focusing on the architectural history of the museum's diverse buildings. Free.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• From Saturday: Diana Adams and Deidre Copeland, new works.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Basement, 24b Moray Pl.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Rob McHaffie ''Farang Mak''.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
• Until November 14: ''Spotlight on design'' with Lynne Wilson and Joan Neil.
• Until December 5: ''CODAT Art Gold Awards'' exhibition. Corner SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Opens today: Deidre Copland ''At the nose'' recent works.
Creative Arts Centre, Balclutha.
• Until Sunday: Art South Otago annual exhibition and TrustPower Awards 2013. Open daily 10am-4.30pm.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Until November 17: Meet You at the Gardens.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• From Saturday until January 26: ''Derek Ball High-Tech Fantasy''
• 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
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
• Saturday, 12-6pm: Muka Youth Print Exhibition.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until November 17: North Otago Art Society 16th Biennial Art Awards Exhibition - featuring entries from across the South Island.
• Until January 5: Parallel Threads - Oamaru textile artist Sue McLean collaborates with her husband, weaver Rod McLean.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
• Opens tomorrow until November 21: Janet de Wagt ''(t)here and everywhere'' - a year of miniature paintings from around Otago, Fiordland and Southland.
• Until Sunday: book launch and retrospective exhibition ''Moments in Time, Ralph Miller - Artist'' by Brian Miller.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until November 25: ''Flight'' featuring Michel Tuffery, Peter Miller, Lukeke, Annie Smits Sandano and Simon Lewis Wards.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Until Tuesday: ''Yet Another Side to Gordon Evans''. Local artists also have a display of work. Open Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until February 7, 2014: ''Place Makers'' - artistic and iconic landscapes.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until November 16: new work ''nine oil paintings of pots with flowers'' by Marie Strauss.
Koru Gallery, 4 Castle St.
• Closes today: Rudie Verhoef's unique hand-crafted outdoor furniture made from locally milled redwood.
• Opens tomorrow until November 15: ''Emerging From The Rubble''.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until February 23: ''Sign of the Times'', memorabilia and objects signed by famous people. Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• 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 Wednesday: Darryn George, ''Notes on Isaiah''.
• Until Wednesday: spring catalogue.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• ''New Identity'', by Dunedin visual artist Ross Davidson.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''JZR+AN+RW= Very nice art'' with John Z Robinson, Annie Nevin and Robert West.
Nectar Cafe, 286 Princes St
• Until November 30: paintings by Kate Williamson.
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.
• Opens Saturday until December 1: International Exhibition at Otago Art Society - OAS members who have made NZ home have submitted paintings, etc representing their homeland or heritage. All works for sale. Open daily 10am-4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander. Stairwell display.
• Until Sunday: ''Heritage Lost And Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', Otago Museum H.D. Skinner annex, Museum Reserve.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until December 8: ''Cannibal Bay Kitchenalia'' ceramics by Esther Sinclair.
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.
• 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.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
• Until November 24: ''Antarctic Dreaming'', Irene Schroder and Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until December 3: works by the Taieri Art Group.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• Aaron Kereopa. 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 Sunday: 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. Sunday, 11am-4pm.
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