Gigs
The Bog, cnr London and George Sts.
•Tonight: Dan Shea.
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: ''The Road to Rack and Ruin'' tour featuring Scurvy Dogs, Silly Drunken Bastards and Sharkbait.
•Saturday, 8pm: Slitzkrieg, Scum Hammer, God Awful, Rattface and Cry Wolf.
Embers, 2 Manor Pl.
•Sunday, 7.30pm: New Edinburgh Folk Club presents Ezza Rose Band.
Golden Gate Lodge, Cromwell.
•Saturday, 9pm: Apollo.
Re:Fuel Bar, 640 Cumberland St.
•Today, 10pm: SBK presents A Sides with Woosh, Nut, Gorringe and Kitson.
•Saturday, 9pm: Sloth Vegas, Jay Kill Rolling, Agent Ewok and guests.
Taieri Bowling Club, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
•Saturday, 8pm: Dance, with music by Breakthru.
Taste Merchants, 36 Stuart St.
•Tomorrow, 8pm: Holly Arrowsmith.
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.
Gimmerburn Domain, Ranfurly.
•Sunday, noon: ''Picnic and Gala Day''; memorabilia, bouncy castle, duck race, water sports, displays.
Hayes Engineering and Homestead, Hayes Rd (off Ida Valley-Omakau Rd), Oturehua.
•Sunday: 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; also 1.30pm Saturday and Sunday: ''Butterflies' first flight'', Tropical Forest demonstration. Free with Tropical Forest admission.
•Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am and 3pm: ''Jurassic Bugs'', Discovery World science show. Free with Discovery World admission.
Port Chalmers Library, 20 Beach St.
•Monday, 3.30pm: ''Fun, Fiction and Food!'' after-school book club.
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' Church, 786 Cumberland St North.
•Tuesday, 7pm: ''A Baroque Musical Feast'' (New Zealand International Early Music Festival).
Cromwell Memorial Hall, Melmore Tce.
•Today, 7.30pm: Piano recital by Nicola Melville (Central Otago Chamber Music Series).
Cromwell Presbyterian Church, 10 Elspeth St, Cromwell.
•Tomorrow, 7pm: Eduard and Christine Klassen perform Christian harp music. Knox Church, 449 George St.
•Tomorrow, 7pm: ''Italy - The Flowering of the Renaissance'', New Zealand International Early Music Festival opening gala concert.
St Luke's Church, 2 Tees St, Oamaru.
•Saturday, 7pm: ''Jewels of Baroque Music - Trio Sonatas''.
St Paul's Cathedral, the Octagon.
•Saturday, 7pm: ''Battles and Balls'' organ concert by Christopher Hainsworth (New Zealand International Early Music Festival).
•Tuesday, 12.50pm-1.10pm: Peter Stockwell plays German baroque organ works.
•Wednesday, 5.30pm: ''Baroque Trio Sonatas'' (New Zealand International Early Music Festival).
St Peter's Church, 57 Baker St, Caversham.
•Sunday, 3pm: ''Queen Catherine's Masque'', performance of French and Italian early music followed by an original masque on the life of Catherine de Medici (New Zealand International Early Music Festival).
St Peter's Church, 2 Church St, Queenstown.
•Today, 7pm: ''Jewels of Baroque Music - Trio Sonatas''.
Plays
Athenaeum Theatre, Octagon.
•Monday, 7pm: ''Shakespeare - rediscovering the beautiful, the bold and the bawdy'' (New Zealand International Early Music Festival).
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
•Until Saturday: Outside Mullingar.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St.
•Saturday to March 7: Verdict, by Agatha Christie.
Talks and films
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum.
•Sunday, 2pm: Screening of Hard Hat Harry and the Pearls of Wisdom, followed by a public forum on marine conservation. Forum starts 3pm (Seaweek event).
University of Otago Central Library, 65 Albany St.
•Today, 5.15pm: ''Imperfect Impressions - Clues to Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices'', talk by Dr Claire Bolton.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Monday to March 6: Our Big Blue Backyard, NHNZ film showcase for Seaweek. New episode shown each day at 10.30am and 5.30pm, with a double screening (two episodes) on March 6. Monday: Northland. Tuesday: Goat Island. Wednesday: Poor Knight Islands. Thursday: Kaikoura. Friday: Open Bay Islands, Stewart Island.
•Tuesday, 5.30pm: ''The NZ Sea Lion: An Iconic Species to Treasure'', Seaweek talk by New Zealand Sea Lion Trust chairman Steve Broni.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Today, 7.30pm: Joel Schiff will discuss the life and work of Grace Joel.
•Saturday, 3pm: Senior classics lecturer Dr John Garthwaite will talk about the myths associated with the imagery in the ''Mythos'' exhibition.
Fletcher Houseb, 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. Red Lecture Theatre, University of Otago's Scott Building, 260 Great King St.
•Wednesday, 7.30pm: Dunedin Film Society presents Tabu. Memberships or three-film passes can be purchased on the night. No casual admission this week.
Exhibitions
A Gallery, 393 Princes St.
•Tomorrow, 6pm: ''Nowhere'', one night only pop-up exhibition. New work by Justin Spiers, L$D Fundraiser and Jay Hutchinson.
Arrowtown Gallery, 8 Berkshire St.
•Bronze native bird sculptures by Mike Norris.
Artica, 26B George St, Port Chalmers.
•Ongoing: decorative artworks by Kirsten Andreae, paintings by James Cordery.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
•Works by Diana Smillie; ''Yet another touch of Whimsy'' by Crispin Korschen, Rachael Garland, Emma Butler, Fiona Tunnicliffe and others.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
•Opens tomorrow, 5.30pm: ''Rigid Absolutes'', by Martin Thompson.
Cloakroom Gallery, cnr Ballarat and Stanley Sts, Queenstown.
•Until March 18: ''Mountain Moods'', contemporary landscapes by Clare Riddington.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
•Until March 8: ''Marvels of the Renaissance: The Renaissance in Context'', first floor exhibition space; ''Heritage Early Music Exhibition'', third floor heritage room. In conjunction with the New Zealand International Early Music Festival.
Dunedin International Airport.
•February: ''Silent Observations'', photography by John Caswell.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
•Until Sunday: ''The Crystal Line'', Peter Trevelyan.
•Until Sunday: ''His Own Steam'', ceramics by Barry Brickell.
•Until March 8: ''Shield'', Tara Douglas (a rear window project).
•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 15: ''The town wrist watch'', Nick Austin.
•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.
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until Sunday: ''Look Again'' featuring works by Colin Wheeler.
•Until April 30: ''Memorial Oaks''.
Gallery Thirty Three, 33 Helwick St, Wanaka.
•Until tomorrow: ''Coffee Break'' paintings by Alice Toomer.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell Historic Precinct.
•''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 March 20: Works on paper.
•Gallery open Thursday-Saturday noon-2pm and by arrangement.
McAtamney Gallery, upstairs, Old Post Office building, 47-49 Talbot St, Geraldine.
•Until March 12: ''Layers of Her, 3 x 3'', by Susan Hurrell Fieldes.
Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
•Until March 11: ''Land'' by Robert Ellis; ''Show and Tell'', various artists.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
•Until Wednesday: ''The Earl Street Journal'', various artists; new works by John Walsh, Mark Mitchell, Reuben Paterson, Neil Dawson, Garry Currin, Layla Walter and Karl Maughan.
Mint Gallery, 32 Moray Pl.
•''NUUT'' by Marie Strauss.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
•Until tomorrow: ''Shadows of the Sea'', paintings by Angela Burns.
•From Monday to March 27: ''From Karitane to Ngapara'', paintings by Joanna Tokona.
•Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4.30pm; Saturday, 11am-2pm.
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
•Until March 13: ''Whakaata, Lake Hayes'', Stephen Bambury.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
•Until April 30: ''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 Museum, 419 Great King St.
•Until Sunday: ''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 May 3: ''The Summer Show'', works by Bob Wyber, Jane Downes and Bob Steiner.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho O Te Taniwha, Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
•Until March 22: ''Under the Cracks, Behind the Shadows'', Helen Back.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
•Sunday to April 30: ''South Coast Exhibition'', works by Lindsay Crooks, J.K. Weir and Fienze C.
•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: Louise Thompson Parker and Anne McLean.
•Monday to March 12: Loris Ives and Lisa Simpson.
Studio Red Gallery, 12 Miners Tce, Bannockburn.
•New works by Sarah Anderson, Lizzie Carruthers, Megan Huffadine, Kim Logue, Rebecca Stewart and Jim Wheeler. Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Queen's Gardens.
•Ongoing: ''Dunedin's Great War 1914-1918'', World War 1 commemorative exhibition.
•Victory Medal, a sculpture by Helen Pollock.
University of Otago de Beer Gallery, first floor, central library.
•Until March 5: ''The World of Joseph W Mellor (1869-1938) Chemist, Ceramicist and Cartoonist''.
Wallpaper House Gallery, 29 Lees St.
•Tomorrow and Saturday: ''Summer Pop-Up Exhibition'', art and collectibles. Open 4pm-7pm tomorrow, 10am-3pm Saturday.
Warbirds and Wheels, Wanaka Airport.
•Ongoing: ''Come Up and See My Etchings'', Grahame Sydney.
