Gigs
682 Poolburn Moa Creek Rd, Moa Creek.
• 7.30pm: Anthony John Clarke ''Concert on the Lawn''. BYO hamper and chair.
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
• Tonight: Patty's Pirates.
Gibbston Valley Winery, 1820 Gibbston Hwy, Queenstown.
• Saturday, 11am 6.30pm: Heart, Foreigner and Three Dog Night.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
• Saturday, 9pm: Apollo.
Long Beach Hall, cnr Drivers and Baird Sts, Long Beach.
• Saturday, 8pm: ''Long Beach Blues Ball'', fundraising gig for the hall with King Leo and Both Sides of the Line.
Speargrass Inn, 1300 Fruitlands Roxburgh Rd (SH8), Alexandra.
• Sunday, noon 2.30pm: Jo Little and Jared Smith.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
• Saturday, 8pm: Dance with music by Margaret Bates.
Family fun
Dunedin Botanic Garden, Lower Garden Information Centre.
• Daily 10am - 4pm: Duck food free from information centre.
• Tuesday to Sunday, 11.30am 3pm: tractor train rides depart near duck pond.
Hayes Engineering and Homestead, Hayes Rd (off Ida Valley Omakau Rd), Oturehua.
• Sunday, 10am 5pm: Historic Hayes Engineering Works operating day, with guided tours.
Orokonui Ecosanctuary, 600 Blueskin Rd, Waitati.
• Daily 11am: takahe feeding.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily, 11am: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
• Daily, 11.30am and 3pm: ''Jurassic Bugs'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
• Daily until Saturday: ''The Five Heroic Tasks of Otago Museum'' summer reading trail. Borrow your backpack from the Discovery Desk, atrium level 1.
• Daily until February 8: ''Dung Beetle Derby'' school holiday gallery trail. Collect your trail from the Discovery Desk, atrium level 1.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
• Monday, 3.30pm: children's after school book club. Book discussions, games, puzzles, art and nibbles.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
• Daily: Toitu Treasure Island. Collect treasure map from reception.
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 performanceOtago Museum, Cumberland St.
• Saturday, 1pm: Pascal Harris plays classical themes on the museum's grand piano. Atrium level 2.
St Andrew's Church Hall, 43 Blyth St, Cromwell.
• Friday, 7.30pm: performance by concert guitarist Christopher Hill.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
• Tuesday, 12.50pm 1.10pm: George Chittenden plays organ.
Plays
Dunedin City Library, Moray Pl.
• Today, 12.30pm: Lunchtime Bites: Outside Mullingar. Sample the Fortune Theatre's latest play.
Talks and films
Chick's Hotel, 2 Mount St, Port Chalmers.
• Friday, 8pm: Screening of No More Heroes, a documentary about New Zealand skateboarding in the 1970s.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Saturday, 3pm: Art in the Twenty First Century: Boundaries, documentary screening.
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.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Daily, 2pm: ''Highlights of the Museum'' guided tour. Meet at information desk.
• Daily, 1pm: ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts'' exhibition talk.
Exhibitions
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
• Works by various artists.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
• This month: January group show.
• Opens Saturday: works by Diana Smillie; ''Yet another touch of Whimsy'' by Crispin Korschen, Rachael Garland, Emma Butler, Fiona Tunnicliffe and others.
Bellamys Gallery, 495 Portobello Rd, Macandrew Bay.
• Until February 8: `'Look Both Ways'', Guy Garey forged iron, Beth Garey works on paper.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
• Until February 18: ''Solo Artists Wall''.
Dunedin International Airport.
• January and February: ''Silent Observations'', photography by John Caswell.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
• Until March 1: ''The Crystal Line'', Peter Trevelyan.
• Until March 1: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
• Until March 15: ''Dogwood Days'', Erica van Zon.
• Until March 15: ''Visible Structures'', Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano.
• Until March 15: ''Floating Studio'', Fiona Connor and Alicia Frankovich.
• Until March 31: ''Belonging'', works from the gallery.
• Until April 12: ''Parallel Play'', works by Frances Hodgkins and her European contemporaries.
• Ongoing: ''Mythos'', curated by Aaron Kreisler.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
• Until February 15: ''New Urban Realists'', Ruth Cleland, Gary McMillan and David Woodings.
The Fix, Frederick St.
• January: ''Yellow Ochre'', by Anna Reid.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
• Until February 8: ''Ben Ohau'', paintings by Belinda Weir.
• Until February 15: ''The Wreck of Hope'', sculpture by Michele Beevors.
• Until March 1: ''Look Again'' featuring works by Colin Wheeler.
• Until April 30: ''Memorial Oaks''.
Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
• Until February 7: ''Whakapono: faith and foundations'', exhibition celebrating the Marsden bicentennial 1814 2014.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
• Until February: Luke Anthony and Marion Vialade, graphic drawings and wood carvings. ''New Fibres'', Andi Regan. Thousands of hand tied cable ties create a new textile.
Gallery open 10am 4pm daily.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
• Until February 15: ''Summer Show''. Thursday Saturday noon 2pm and by arrangement.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
• Until February 11: ''Summer Show'': paintings, glass and ceramics, sculpture and works on paper.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
• Until March 4: ''The Earl Street Journal''.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
• Work by Murray Eskdale.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
• Until tomorrow: ''Around Mt Cargill'', paintings by Rodney Hamel.
Hours: Monday Friday, 10am 4.30pm; Saturday, 11am 2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
• Group show featuring John Pule, Shane Cotton, Russell Moses, Stephen Bambury, Gretchen Albrecht, Michael Parekowhai and Elizabeth Thomson.
Banksy print Barcode, 2004.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
• ''From Little Towns in a Far Land'', World War 1 centennial exhibition.
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.
• Until Saturday: ''Affordable Art''. Open daily 10am 4pm.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
• Until March 1: ''Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica''.
• Until May 10: ''Bugs: The Mega World of Minibeasts'', in the Special Exhibitions gallery.
• Ongoing: ''Sir Edmund Hillary: New Zealander''. Stairwell display.
Owaka Museum Community Gallery, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
• Until February 14: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
• Until March 14: ''A Room of St Clairs'', by Lindsay Crooks.
Open 1pm 5pm, Friday Sunday.
Steampunk HQ, 1 Itchen St, Oamaru.
• ''Mythos'', works by Donald Paterson and Kano.
Stuart St Potters Co operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
• Until Saturday: Dawn Palmer and Kate Springfield.
• From Monday until February 14: Peter Gregory and Lorna Isaac.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
• New works by Sarah Anderson, Lizzie Carruthers, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue, Rebecca Stewart and Jim Wheeler.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, 29 Rees St, Queenstown.
• Until Saturday: ''Summer Group Show''.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
• Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914 1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
• Until March 5: ''The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869 1938) Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist''.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
• Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
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