Gigs
Alexandra Memorial Theatre, Skird St, Alexandra.
•Tomorrow, 7.30pm: Jonathon Harper, acoustic folk guitar.
The Bog Irish Bar, George St.
•Tomorrow and Saturday, 9pm: Livewire featuring Katie Mason.
Carey's Bay Historic Hotel, 17 Macandrew Rd.
•Today, 8pm: Rachel Darwick.
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
•Today, 9pm: Pint Night featuring Saucefest with Astro Children, Bad Sav, Rot, and Oceania. Circadian Rhythm, St Andrew St.
Fridays, 5.30pm: Duo jazz: Phil Lyons and Trevor Coleman.
•Crown Hotel, Rattray St.
Friday, 9pm: Pieces of Eight, $5 on the door.
•Saturday, 9pm: Dance Aftmatics and Opposite Sex, $5 on the door.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Saturday, 8pm: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods My Vaseline Diaries album release, with Dust, Abstract Survival and Bow Messiah.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Bridget Ellis and Lynley Caldwell. The Find, 53 Shotover St, Queenstown.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: The Pretty Things Peepshow.
•Sports Central Brewhouse, Oamaru.
Thursdays, 7.30pm: JBE Karaoke.
•Sundays, 2pm: JBE open mike/jam session.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Saturday: Donna Dean with Bill Morris and the Hinterland Band.
•Wednesday: The Pretty Things Peepshow.
Family fun
Cromwell Racecourse, Ord Rd, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: ''Cromwell's Gold `N' Notes Hoedown'', country music festival.
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
•Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-2.45pm: 15min tractor rides around the lower Botanic Garden (weather dependent).
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave.
•Tuesday, 11am: Preschool story time.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11am and 3pm: ''Frozen Discoveries'' Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
Saturday and Sunday, 1pm: ''Cracking Chaos'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
•Daily: Discovery backpacks. Pick up from Discovery desk. Daily, 10.30am: ''First-flight butterfly release''. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
Pioneer Park, Alexandra.
•Sunday, 10am-3pm: Thyme Festival Sunday in the Park; markets, music, food swap, competitions.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Today, 10am: preschool story time.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Sunday, 10am-noon: ''Town and Country kids' day'', meet cute farm animals. 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
All Saints' Anglican Church, 786 Cumberland St.
•Today, 7.30pm: a concert of music and poetry for peace.
Bannockburn Hall, 18 Hall Rd, Bannockburn.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: The New Zealand Guitar Quartet.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St.
•Wednesday, 8pm: Octagon Poets Collective open mike poetry evening, with guest poet Rogelio Guedea. Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl.
•Tuesday, 7.30pm: ''Summertime'', Dunedin RSA choir concert.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Monday, 7.30pm: Society of Women Musicians recital meeting featuring Saturday Morning Music Classes recorder ensemble and the Dunedin Fiddle Orchestra.
Kavanagh College auditorium, Tennyson St.
•Saturday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Night Shelter fundraising variety concert featuring Sunny Side Up Choir, Bright-on Vibes and the Dunedin Children's Choir.
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin.
•Tuesday, 12.50pm: George Chittenden plays organ works by Diderik Buxtehude.
Plays
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•From Saturday, until December 13: Ladies Night.
Talks and films
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Saturday, 3pm: Bag It, recycling week film screening.
Blueskin Bay Library, 26 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Tuesday, 7pm: Gardening With Soul film screening, courtesy of St Barnabas' Church, followed by shared supper.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Saturday, 4pm: Show Me Shorts film festival.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Today, 10.30am and 5.30pm: Eco Arc, NHNZ film screening (from the ''Megastructures'' series).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 2.30pm: Cultural Icons: Conversations with Iconic People: Barry Brickell film screening.
•Saturday, 3pm: Wheel-work pottery demonstration by Peter Gregory.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''How is pottery relevant to mainstream art in 21st Century New Zealand?'', panel discussion.
Fletcher House, 727 Portobello Rd, Broad Bay.
•Open daily 11am-4pm: guided tours.
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Wednesday, 6pm: ''Tyrannosaurus: King of the Dinosaurs'', talk by Dr Thomas Holtz.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''Edwardian Cuisine'' kitchen tour, making and tasting. Bookings essential.
Thursdays, 4.30pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
•Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Saturday, 2pm: ''Sustainable Stylings'', recycling week presentation by Senorita AweSUMO.
•Daily talks, 2pm: Today: Ancient Greek coins. Tomorrow: The Monowai. Saturday: New Zealand's native frogs. Sunday: The gold rush days. Monday: Rapa Nui. Tuesday: Mapoutahi pa. Wednesday: Japanese spider crab.
•Daily, 2.30pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'' talk in the H.D. Skinner Annex, Museum Reserve.
•Daily, 4pm: ''Gifts and Legacies'', Special Exhibitions Gallery talk.
•Daily, 1pm: ''Otago Museum H.D. Skinner Annex Tour'', guided historical tour H.D. Skinner Annex.
Exhibitions
Acorn Gallery, 72 Albany St.
•Ongoing: Angela Burns paintings. Open weekdays 8am-5pm or weekends by appointment.
Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St.
•Until December 24: ''Readiness and Sacrifice'', an exhibition of World War 1 archives.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Works by various artists.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•''Important and Unseen'', by Colin Wheeler.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
•Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
•Till Tuesday: Spotlight on Design - Lee Sinclair, mixed media artist.
•Till November 30: artworks by Elizabeth Kempthorne.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Till Sunday: ''Sleight of Hand'', curated by Lauren Gutsell.
•Till November 30: ''One Pot Wonder'', Paul Maseyk.
•Till November 30: ''A History of Things I Once Had'', rear window project by Ted Whitaker and Rachel H. Allan.
•Ongoing: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Ongoing: ''Wild Life'', various artists.
•Ongoing: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
•Ongoing: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
•Ongoing: Visiting artist projects by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano and Erica van Zon.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
•Till December 7: ''Close to Home'', photographs by Grahame Sydney.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Till Sunday: ''Koreo Ko, Koreo Au'', by Moana Tipa.
•Till November 30: ''Titokowaru's Dilemma'', by Marian Maguire.
Fresh n Fruity Gallery, Level 3, 140 George St.
•Tomorrow, 6pm: ''Menage a trois'', performance works by Taylor Wagstaff, Hana Aoake and Piupiu-Maya Turei.
Front Room Gallery, 10 Memorial St, Queenstown.
•Till November 28: ''Points of View'', paintings by Jillian Porteous.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin.
•Till tomorrow: ''Crush'', by Philip James Frost.
•From tomorrow to November 27: ''Colour Sounds'' by Annie Smits Sandano.
Gallery on Blueskin, 1 Harvey St, Waitati.
•Till November 30: ''I Can Hear Her Breathing'', featuring Helen Carter, Emma Farry, Liz Wootton and Rowan Holt.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•Until November 28: paintings by Jasmine Middlebrook.
Green Island Gallery, 194 Main South Rd, Green Island.
•Works by John White.
Hope Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station.
•Till Sunday: ''Made'', works by Otago and Southland textile artists. Open 10am-4pm daily.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•Till Saturday: ''Creation'', photography by Annemarie Hope-Cross.
•From Sunday to December 6: ''Dream City'' by Liz Rowe.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
•Closes today: ''Selected Works''.
•From tomorrow to December 5: ''From Bamiyan to Puketapu'' by Peter Cleverley.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by appointment.
Koru Gallery, 2 Castle St.
•Till tomorrow: paintings and furniture by Liz Abbott and Rudie Verhoef.
•From Saturday to November 22: ''Fabric Fantasy'' by Jeanette Hawker.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Until November 30: ''The Three Wise Men of Kurow'', by Bob Kerr.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Till Wednesday: ''Earth & Sky'', glass by Ann Robinson; ''Round-up'', paintings by Mervyn Williams.
•From Saturday to December 10: ''Parison Pacific'' by Luke Jacomb; ''New Works'' by Mike Petre.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•''Earthmovers'', by Blue Black.
•Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Till November 28: ''John Z Robinson + Annie Niven + Robert West = 15''.
•Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Edwards + Johann fundraising exhibition.
Old Creamery Gallery, 230 Harington Point Rd, Lower Portobello.
•Oil and acrylic landscapes by Douglas Williams, Henry Lowen-Smith and Geoff Williams.
Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
•Till Sunday: ''Illustrations'', fashion drawings by Lindsay Kennett.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Till November 23: ''Gifts and Legacies'', honours people who have contributed to the museum.
•Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
•Till February 15, 2015: contemporary jewellery by Bob Wyber.
Reed Gallery, Dunedin City Library.
•Till January 11: ''European Treasure'', letters in French and Italian from the Reed Autograph Letters Collection.
Salisbury House, 104 Bond St, Dunedin.
•Tomorrow to Sunday: Jewellery and textiles by Dunedin School of Art second-year students.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands-Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
•Till November 30: Hinton Estate art exhibition, features works by Jan Rasmussen, Ron Esplin, Esther Dexter and Clark Esplin.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
•''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
•Till November 22: works by Judy Ringland Stewart and Rosemary McQueen.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
•Till January 7: works by photographer Murray Crawford.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
•''The Remarkables'', by Simon Lardelli and Drew Hill.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens.
•Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
Tony Williams Goldsmith Workshop and Gallery, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Pl.
•Till December 24: spring exhibition.
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.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
