Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
• Fridays from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
• Sunday, 3pm: Karin Reid and Bill Martin.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
• Tomorrow, 9pm: Divalmol Romantic Nililists and Ozark.
• Saturday, 9pm: Aneonme, Bottle and David Lynch Society.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch Unplugged - Kylie Price. (NZ Music Month).
• Today, 5.30pm-7pm: Gig Night - Hana Fahy, Bill Morris, Mongoose Eternity. (NZ Music Month).
• Tomorrow, 4.30pm-6.40pm: Teenage Kicks Gig Night. TeenSpace. (NZ Music Month).
• Wednesday, 5.30pm: Gig Night - Martin Phillipps, OWL, Iron Mammoth. (NZ Music Month).
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 6pm: Both Sides of the Line. (NZ Music Month).
The Nose, 1 Sandflat Rd, Cromwell
• Friday, 4.30pm: Erin
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon St, Dunedin.
• Today, 5.30pm: Erin Morton, Terry Ebeling and Steve Hudson.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
• Thursday, 8pm-11pm: Mbryo, jazz, Latin and contemporary fusion. Trevor Coleman, Nick Cornish, Nathan Berg and Rob Craigie.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
Family fun
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Today and Saturday, 2.30pm: ''Astonishing Advertising!'' science show.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Marvellous Mums'', storytelling by Kaitrin McMullan, accompanied by sign language.
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11am: Wriggle and Rhyme sessions for children 0-2 and parents.
• Wednesday, 10.30am: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Daily until Monday: ''Design a CD Cover'' competition. Saturday, 3pm: Lego architect Centuri Chan will take part in adding to Olafur Eliasson's ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project''.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Today, 11am: Make your own gift tags. Bookings essential.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
• Tuesday, 11am: Pre-school story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily: Discovery Backpacks. Walk around the museum with an Explorer backpack or rummage around the jungle with a Tropical Forest backpack.
• Saturday and Sunday, 2pm: ''No Rain, No Rainbows!''. Explore the truth about rainbows. With Tropical Forest admission.=
• Daily until Sunday, 3.30pm: Kept under wraps! Investigation Station. Atrium level 1. Free.
• Tomorrow and Sunday, 2.30pm: ''Shapeshifting Trickster'', Tangata Whenua Gallery tour. Free. Meet at information desk.
• Daily until Sunday: ''Chalice in Wonderland''. Complete the trail to help Alice find the missing Bucchero chalice. Collect your trail from the Discovery Desk, Atrium Level 1. Free.
• Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tuesday, 10am: Pre-school story time.
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: story time, children's room.
Visitor Information Centre, 26 Princes St.
• Daily, 10am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at visitor centre.
Music and performance
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Sunday, 3pm: Tottle Trio.
The Church, Dundas St.
• Fridays 9pm: salsa music, dancing.
Knox Church, 449 George St.
• Today, 12.15pm: ''Music for Easter'', organ recital. Gold coin donation.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Lunchtime concert, ''Byron Newton: New music for Euphonium''.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 97 Gordon Rd.
• Tuesday, 11am: Operatunity daytime concert, ''100 Glorious Years of Song''.
Oamaru Opera House foyer, 90 Thames St.
• Tomorrow, 12.15pm: Lunchtime recital - Erik Badcock (bass/baritone), Colin Hayes (euphonium), June Cameron (accompanist).
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Today and tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime Theatre: The Final Hour of Barrington Brown.
Mosgiel Coronation Hall, 99 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Daily until May 3, 7.30pm; May 3 and 4, 2pm: Taieri Dramatic Society presents Dad's Army.
Talks and films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Sunday, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
• Sunday, 3pm: Dr Christoph Bartneck, whose specialist area is Lego minifigures, will talk about Lego.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
• Daily tours at 9.30am, 10.45am, noon, 1.30pm, 2.45pm and 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Watom Island.
• Tomorrow: Life on the Endeavour.
• Saturday: Karetao - Maori Puppets.
• Sunday: Yellow-eyed Penguins.
• Monday: Southern Whaling.
• Tuesday: New Zealand Falcon.
• Wednesday: Nisga'a Totem Pole Segment.
• Daily, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
• Daily, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape'', talk to complement exhibition in the Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H. D. Skinner Annex.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Tomorrow, 6.30pm: ''Shape Your Style'', fashion tips and style inspiration from Fiona Jenkin. Bookings essential. Tickets $10.
Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
• Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society screens The Connection, by Shirley Clarke.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• New works by Rachel Hirabayashi.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until May 30: ''Portraits of a mother's day 1991-2013'', Pauline Bellamy.
• Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St.
• Until Saturday: ''Who Opens The Door'', by Annie Mackenzie and Dave Marshall.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Until May 15: ''For Whom the Wind Blows'', Barry Cleavin.
Central Stories Russell Henderson Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Until Sunday: ''Wool Away''.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• May 3-August 3: Olafur Eliasson, ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project''.
• Until May 25: ''Not all White'', wedding dresses by Tanya Carlson.
• Until June 15: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until June 23: ''Campaign Furniture'', Juliet Carpenter, Sorawit Songsataya and Biljana Popovic.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Francis Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• Until tomorrow: ''Mountain, Moon and Volcano Strip'', Louis Graham.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until May 11: ''Broken Idols'', by Tom Simpson.
• Until May 18: ''Xistence'', by Richard Mountain.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
• Until May 15: ''Watershed'', by Martin Hill, in collaboration with Philippa Jones.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Scott Drummond.
• Open Wednesday-Friday, 11am-6pm, Saturday, 11am-4.30pm.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until July 12: ''Peeps of Life'', photographs by John Halliday Scott.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until May 10: ''FORM'', photography by Eric Schusser. Gallery hours: 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until May 10: ''Choice'', a selection of work. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Until Monday: ''Ignis Fatuus'', drawings, paintings and pottery by Peter, Tui and Emil Johnson.
• Tuesday May 6-16: Annemieke K.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown.
• Until May 25: ''30th Locations Autumn Festival Art Exhibition''.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
• Until May 25: ''A Series of Mistakes'', by Susanna Izard.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until Wednesday: ''In the Company of Animals'', Reuben Paterson.
• Until Wednesday: ''Echo'', Merilyn Wiseman.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Opens tomorrow, until May 28: ''Zoomorphic'', Katherine Smyth; ''A Few Thoughts'', Sally Smith.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• From tomorrow until May 15: ''Geothermal'', by Eliot Coates.
• Gallery open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• New crystalline-glazed pots by Peter Gregory.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• ''The Works: Pukeuri 1914-2014'', an exhibition about the Pukeuri meatworks in Oamaru.
Nose Restaurant, cnr SH6 and Sandflat Rd, Cromwell.
• Deidre Copland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Pt Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Until May 11, 9.30pm-5pm: 2014 sculpture exhibition, by the Otago Sculpture Trust.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Ongoing: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until May 18: ''Sheep, Shearing and Scenery'', photography by Joanne McLeary.
The Picture Lounge, 31 Dunmore St, Wanaka.
• New Zealand's Photographers' Gallery.
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
• Ongoing: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• • Until June 15: ''Tales from a Long, Bright Land: Books for New Zealand Children Before 1960''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Terrace, Bannockburn.
• Until Monday: ''Place & Time'', works by Sarah Anderson, Alice Blackley, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue and Rebecca Stewart.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
• Until Tuesday: Works by artist Margaret Calder.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5.30pm, Saturday, 11am-2pm.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• Until May 23: ''Make It New! Modernism and the Medieval Presence''.
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.
Wakatipu High School, Queenstown.
• From Monday until May 9: ''Top Art Exhibition'', NCEA level 3 art portfolios that achieved excellence in 2013.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
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