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.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Today, 9pm: Pint night with Solo Ono and Ostrander Aardvark.
Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
• Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo Jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
Cromwell Presbyterian Church Hall, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
• Tomorrow, 7pm: Samstock music festival featuring Albion Place, Talia, DJ Vine, Krystle Mikaere.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
• Sunday, 7.30: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents The Chaps.
Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
• Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
• Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Family fun
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, cnr Union and Leith Sts.
• Sunday, 11am and 2pm: ''Different BANGS'' science show. Suitable for ages 11-16. Bookings essential. (International Science Festival).
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
• From Saturday until July 12: ''Super Inventions Discovery Trail'', pick up a trail guide and follow the clues.
• Today, 2pm: Pre-school story time.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower garden information centre.
• Saturday, 6pm: ''Creatures of the Night'', night-time wander to glimpse nocturnal wildlife. Bookings essential. (International Science Festival).
• Tuesdays, 10.30am-11.15am: Storytelling with Ann Rennie.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• From Saturday, until July 12: ''Super Inventions Discovery Trail'', pick up a trail guide and follow the clues.
• Sunday, 2pm: ''Once Upon a Sunday: Super Science'' storytelling with Kaitrin McMullan. (International Science Festival).
• Tuesday, 12.15pm-12.45pm: ''A Trip around the Universe'', lunchtime science demo presented by the Dunedin Astronomical Society. Suitable for ages 8+. • Wednesday, 9.30am-12.30pm and 1pm-4.30pm: ''Retro Lab'', try out some retro gadgets and learn about the development of modern technology. (International Science Festival).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 1pm: Pinhole camera and simple cyanotype photographic workshop with Rachel Allan. Suitable for ages 9 and over. Limited numbers.
• From Saturday until July 11, 10am-4.30pm daily: ''Animasks'', draw yourself as your favourite animal, or make an animal mask using the materials provided.
• Until August 3: Build a creation in the Olafur Eliasson ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'' Lego exhibition.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
• Tomorrow, 4pm: ''Friday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
• From Saturday, until July 12: ''Super Inventions Discovery Trail'', pick up a trail guide and follow the clues.
• Wednesday, 11am: ''Holiday Flicks'', free family movie screening. Downes room.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Tuesday, 2.30pm: ''Astronomical Enigmas'', Freaky Science Show.
• Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery Desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• From Saturday, until July 12: ''Super Inventions Discovery Trail'', pick up a trail guide and follow the clues.
• Today, 10am: Pre-school story time.
St David Lecture Theatre Complex, cnr St David and Cumberland Sts.
• Saturday noon-6pm and Sunday 10am-3pm: University of Otago Science Expo (International Science Festival).
University Book Shop, 378 Great King St.
• Fridays, Saturdays, 10.30am: 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, dancing.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
• Wednesday, 8pm: Octagon Poets Collective poetry reading, Carla Harryman and Barrett Watten.
Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop St.
• Tomorrow, 8pm: ''The GREAT Dunedin Comedy Night'', featuring Ben Hurley and Urzila Carlson.
Lake Hawea Hotel, Hawea.
• Today, 8pm: Gish ''Stink Bro'' tour, stand-up comedy show.
Marama Hall, University of Otago.
• Wednesday, 1pm: Music department lunchtime concert, The Puspawarna Gamelan Group.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Alain and Messiaen.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
• From Saturday until August 2: Jumpy, play by April De Angelis.
Kings and Queens Performing Arts Centre, 270 Bay View Rd.
• Saturday 5pm and Sunday 3pm: Southern Sinfonia presents Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
• From Saturday until July 13: The Dunedin Repertory Society presents The Frog Prince. 11am and 2pm daily, Sundays 2pm only.
Talks and films
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Tomorrow, noon: ''The challenge: Every Otago Polytechnic graduate is a sustainable practitioner'', talk by Samuel Mann, associatee professor in information technology, Otago Polytechnic.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
• Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: Power Tool Drag Racing, NHNZ film screening.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturdays, 2pm: Free guided tours of the ''Anzac'' WW1 commemoration exhibition.
• Saturday, 3pm: Status Anxiety, documentary by Alain de Botton.
• Sundays, 2pm: Free guided tour of the ''Belonging'' exhibition.
• Wednesday, 11.15am: ''Tour for Tots'', free baby-friendly half-hour tour of an exhibition at the Gallery.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
• Open daily 11am-4pm: Guided tours.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
• Today, 5.30pm: ''Villa to bungalow - Dunedin houses 1900 to 1918'', talk by photographer Gary Blackman.
Lake Wanaka Centre, 89 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
• From tomorrow to Tuesday: 2014 NZ Mountain Film Festival.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
• Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Woollen bathing suit. Tomorrow: Whio - New Zealand's blue duck. Saturday: Stephen Island wren. Sunday: Operation Pedestal. Monday: Akan gold weights. Tuesday: Queen Liliuokalani's red feathered cape. Wednesday: Ta Moko - Maori tattooing.
• Daily until August 31, 2.30pm: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''
Postmaster Gallery, Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex.
• Daily until July 20, 4pm: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World'', exhibition talk.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
• Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by Peter Beadle.
Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• Ongoing: ''Mad Dogs by an Englishman'', watercolours by Nick Eggleston.
• Ongoing: ''SEVEN'', joint show featuring work by Alex Lovell-Smith, Gillian Buckley, Hannah Joynt, Tom Field, Emily Hlavac-Green, Tama Taita and Anna Priluka.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until Sunday: Pauline Bellamy retrospective, ''Pretty Dreams, Hard Work, Survival''.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
• Until July 16: ''Anu'', Suji Park.
Bruce, Level 2, Allbell Chambers, 127 Lower Stuart St.
• Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Crash'' by Rachel H. Allan. Viewings July 5-20 by appointment.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra
• Until tomorrow: Spotlight on Design presents Jose Hall.
• Until July 21: ''Found'', photographic exhibition in the Russell Henderson gallery, 10am-4pm daily.
Community Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin.
• Until July 11: ''Puaka Matariki'', contemporary Maori art exhibition.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until Sunday: Steve Carr, ''Stretching Time''.
• Until Sunday: ''Liar, liar, pants on fire'', Victoria McIntosh.
• Until August 3: ''The Cubic Structural Evolution Project'', Olafur Eliasson.
• Until August 3: ''Wild Life'', works from the collection.
• Until August 31: ''Anzac'', by Laurence Aberhart.
• Until October 12: ''Frances Hodgkins in 1913''.
• Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
• Until July 13: Eastern Southland Embroiderers' Guild biennial exhibition.
The Gallery, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens.
• Open daily 10.30am-4pm.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
• Recent work by Alistair Begg, Scott Drummond and Tania McIntosh. Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am-6pm and 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.
• Ongoing: ''Winter Wonderland'', Ro Bradshaw.
• Gallery open 10am-4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until July 26: ''Works on Paper''.
• Gallery open Saturdays, noon-2pm.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
• Until Saturday: Korowai weaving exhibition by Ocean View weaving group.
Margaret Freeman Gallery, 83 Moray Pl.
• Until July 11: ''It's a wonderful day, it's a wonderful night'' Matariki art exhibition.
• Gallery open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am-4pm.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• From Saturday, until July 30: ''Significant works'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until July 23: ''The Review'', various New Zealand artists.
• Until July 23: ''Waking up to the Oculus People'', Andy Leleisi'uao.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Until July 10: ''Coppertone'', Brian Alexander.
• Open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• ''Dunedin overlooking the harbour'' and ''Town Hall, Dunedin'', David Corballis.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm, and Saturday 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Until Wednesday: ''Heavenly Creatures'', Max Gimblett.
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 Copeland ''Recent Works''.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
• Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Otago Art Society, Dunedin Railway Station.
• From Saturday until July 25: Exhibition of abstract works. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until July 20: ''Brian Brake: Lens on the World''. Special exhibitions gallery.
• Until September 14: 2014 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition entries.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until September 21: ''Face to Face with Catlins Folk, Part 3''.
• Until November 2: '' Sheep Shearing and Scenery'', photographs 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.
• Until August 31: ''Heritage Lost and Found: Our Changing Cityscape''.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
• From tomorrow, until September 28: ''Keepsakes - Rediscovered Souvenirs of the Great War''.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until tomorrow: Kate Springford and Loris Ives.
• From Saturday until July 19: ''Midwinter blues'' exhibition.
• Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays, 9am-3pm.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• ''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
• Until July 13: ''DUNedinburgh'', artefacts with a Caledonian connection.
Tony Williams Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, Moray Pl.
• 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.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
• Open first Saturday of every month 11am-4pm.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
• Ongoing: ''Come up and see my etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
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