Bag a bargain
Heading to Central for Queen's Birthday weekend? Don't miss the Great Central Otago Art Sale at the Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St, Alexandra.
This cash & carry sale is open Saturday & Sunday 10am-4.30pm and Monday 10am-3pm.
Hotere show
An exhibition of works by acclaimed Careys Bay artist Ralph Hotere opens at the Brett McDowell Gallery in Dunedin tomorrow.
The showing of nine works includes drawings, a painting and lithographs completed between 1969 and 1995.
"Ralph Hotere" runs until June 12.
Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon. Fridays, 7pm-11pm: Mbryo, lounge jazz.
Bath St. Tonight: Alacazam Presents Abstrack, Mohanz, Haszari and and Gus.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Non Vogue presents The Upbeats, Ghost Radio Tour, with support from Undertow, Woosh and Titts MaGee.
Saturday, 9pm: Minimal tech, house and DnB featuring Premise Mune and Gus.
Tuesday, 9pm: Back To Ya Roots with Boooof and Gus.
Wednesday, 9pm: Local DnB with Syrus and Co.
The Bog, corner of George and London streets. Sundays, 7.30pm: Open mike night.
Circadian Rhythm Cafe, 72 St Andrew St. Fridays, 5.30pm: Philtre Jazz Trio.
Dunedin City Library, Moray PlTonight, 7.15pm: An evening with the Verlaines. The band will talk about the heady days of the `80s, right up to what the band are doing right now.
The evening will include an open-floor Q & A session as well as a chance to hear some live acoustic Verlaines songs. Free
Dunedin Musicians Club, 12 Manse St. Thursdays, 5pm: Open mike night.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St. Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night.
Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Pequeno, the Savoy. Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon. Tonight, 10pm: DJs Jordan Higham and Ali Romanos.
Friday, 6pm: Terry Ebeling; 10pm: DJ Dal.
Saturday, 11pm: DJs Jordan Higham and Ali Romanos.
Wednesday, 7pm: B-Shed.
Refuel, Otago University. Tonight: OUSA Battle of the Bands heat 2.
Saturday, 9pm: The Ducats Kit, CD release.
Tuesday: Jazz in the pocket jazz jam night. Doors 8pm. All welcome.
Wednesday: OUSA Battle of the Bands heat 3. Doors 9pm.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St. Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel. Thursdays, 9pm: Open mike night. Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St. Tonight, 8pm: Open mike night hosted by local drone group Products Hit Parade.
Terrace Bar, the Octagon. Friday and Saturday nights: Livewire.
Family fun
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Octagon. Saturday-Monday, 10am-5pm: Retro-Techno, design your own groovy creation using the materials provided. Free, bookings not required.
Knox Church, 449 George St. Friday, 1.30pm-2.30pm: Preschool music for children 0-5 and carers.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel. Preschool story time, every Tuesday, 11am.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Explorer backpacks for 7-to-12-year-olds (free). Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, Atrium level 1: Children's creative activities.
Weekends during May, 2.30pm: "Nature's Bounty" - learn about hunter-gathering and wild-food safety. Search centre, free.
Weekends during May, Nature Galleries, 12.30pm and 3.30pm: Interactive Trolley: Treasures of the Sea.
Friday, 8pm: Police Blue Light Disco overnight stay. Open to Year 7 and Year 8 students, bookings essential.
Daily during Queen's Birthday weekend: The Queen's Birthday Royal Quest - collect your quest from the search centre.
Port Chalmers Library Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 10.30am, free.
Visitor Information Centre, OctagonDaily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours. Meet at the Visitor Centre.
Music and performance
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl. Today, 12.30pm, ground floor: St Michael's Choir.
Friday, 12.30pm, 1st floor: Stephen Stedman.
Saturday, 1.30pm, 1st floor: Inge Andrew and Adrian Latta.
Saturday, 2.30pm, children's library: Peter Weatherall.
Sunday, 1.30pm, teen space: Steve King and John McGee.
Sunday, 2.30pm, teen space: Nadia Reid.
Dunedin Town Hall, Moray Pl. June 3, 7pm: Big Sing - NZCF Secondary Schools Choral Competition. Otago/South Canterbury Regionals.
Glenroy Auditorium, May 30, 6pm: Dinner and ceilidh with Charlie's Ceilidh Band.Tickets from The Scottish Shop.
Knox Church, 449 George St. Today, 12.30pm: Choral lunchtime recital - Logan Park, Otago Girls and Otago Boys high school choirs. Conducted by Karen Knudson, Sara Brown.
Marama Hall, Otago University. Lunchtime concert, 1pm Wednesday: Southern Youth Choir, directed by Michael Dawson.
Port Chalmers Library Saturday, 1pm: Peter Weatherall.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon, this week: Keren Oey and Kirstin Harray, Friday; Liz and Jono Conway, Saturday.
Sunday, 1.30pm, atrium level 1: Emmanuelle Gomez.
Plays
Allen Hall Theatre , corner Union and Leith streets, Today & tomorrow, 1pm: Lunchtime theatre: Voyager 3.
Allen Hall becomes a giant Monopoly board set in Dunedin, and you are invited to participate.
Fine Thyme Theatre Company, Cromwell. Until June 2: Grease
Fortune Theatre, corner Moray Pl and Stuart St. Saturday, 3pm in the studio: Good Auld Bad Auld Days by Brian Johnston, directed by Richard Huber. Come and hear about Betty's experiences in a rest home. The play explores the themes of secrets, identity and domestic violence through the generations.
Playhouse Theatre, 31 Albany St, until May 30: Dunedin Repertory Society's 75th jubilee production: "When We Are Married".
Talks and films
Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St. Wednesday 7.30pm: Egon Gunther's Her Third, a complex and engaging film that shows an East German woman's slow progress towards independence.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Saturday, 3pm: "The New Zealand Wars."
Guided tours: 12.30pm Wednesday and 1.30pm Sunday throughout May: "Frances Hodgkins: femme du monde". Free.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. Free daily talks, 2pm.
Topics in May: Mondays: "Queen Liliuokalani". Learn about the last queen of Hawaii and her cape.
Tuesdays: "Totem Pole". Wednesdays: "The Clyde Dam".
Thursdays: "The Rat King".The origins of Otago Museum's rat king.
Fridays: "The Wedding Gown". Throughout history, women have tried to make their wedding dress special to suit the occasion.
Saturdays: "Earnscleugh Cave". This archive of prehistoric Otago wildlife is in Conroy's Gully near Alexandra.
Sundays: "Haast's Eagle". The extinct Haast eagle was the largest bird of prey the world has seen.
Special exhibition gallery talks, daily during May, 4.30pm: Andris Apse.
Today, 5.30pm in the Barclay Theatre: Geologist Simon Cox presents "100 Years of Geological Mapping in Southern Victoria Land".
Part of the International Polar Year lecture series.
Exhibitions
Alexandra Community Centre, Skird St. May 30-June 1: Central Otago Art Society Exhibition.
Anchorage Gallery, 19 George St, Port Chalmers. "Connections", new works by Elizabeth Marshall and Kirsten Wenborn.
Archives New Zealand, Dunedin Regional Office, 556 George St. Until tomorrow: "City of Letters". Exhibition of personal letters and archives.
The Art Station, Dunedin Railway Station. "A Different View", works by Brian Stewart. Open daily 10am-5.30pm.
The Artist's Room, Dowling St. "Feathered Fables" by Gary Roberts and Jane Crisp. Also works from Sam Bennett, Donna Demente, Geoff Williams, Thomas Elliott, Sam Foley, Judith Lane-Ewing, Olav Nielsen and others.
Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew Bay. Open Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl. Until June 13: "Aural Hysteric", by Emma Morgan and "Onward!", by Kate Boocock.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday noon-3pm Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Ends today: Barry Cleavin, "Glenn Gould - Themes and Variations".
From tomorrow: "Ralph Hotere".
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra. Until June 8: "Toiling In Oils" by Alastair Begg.
Until June 30: "Unique Central" photographic competition.
Open 10am-4pm. Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl, Reed Gallery, 3rd floor.
Until July 26: "O for a Thousand Tongues": Hymns from the Colin Gibson Collection.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon. Until June 21: Michael Morley, "You Say You Don't Love Me". This Big Wall work is a key into Morley's long standing in the experimental noise/sound scene.
Until June 17: "Te Huringa/Turning Points", includes work by Francis Dillon Bell, Shane Cotton, Augustus Earle, Robert Ellis, Charles Goldie, Michael Hight, Robyn Kahukiwa, Colin McCahon, Selwyn Muru, Buck Nin, Peter Robinson and Gordon Walters.
Ongoing: "Hail Falls Noisily on Bamboo Leaves", Japanese Prints from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection.
Ongoing: "The Grand Tour": Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection.
Until July 19: Ben Buchanan: "Sleeping".
Until July 26: Francis Hodgkins: "femme du monde".
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru. Until June 7: "Brigid", Robin White. Works from the gallery collection.
Until June 14: "45 Minutes on the Somme", Michael Shepherd. Drawings created in 1986 relating to an attack on September 15, 1916.
Until June 7: "Been There (still here!) Done That": works from the collection selected by former and current staff to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Forrester.
Until June 7: "Only Make Believe", eight new works by Peter Cleverley.
Until June 7: "Gaza Suit", by John Mitchell.
Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart St, Dunedin. Until May 30: "Print Fair", works by various leading New Zealand artists.
Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence. Perpetual Collective: Ron Esplin, Bob Wyber (jewellery), James Stewart (chair-maker), Pamela Brown, Gay Webb (masks and torsos), Ray Ansin (glass), Ben Woollcombe, Margaret Palmer-McKenzie, Blue Hall (wood), Murray Ayson, Gilbert van Reenen, and others. Open Thursday-Monday.
Harris Smith Art, 86-88 Bond St. Paintings by Jeffrey Harris, sculptures by Nicole Page-Smith.
Open Monday-Saturday, 1pm-2pm, or by appointment.
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown. From Saturday until July 19: "Looking Down the Barrel", The Face of New Zealand Wine". Portraits of wine industry pioneers.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St. Until June 3: "New Works" by Gary Waldrom.
Milford Galleries, Queenstown, 9a Earl St. Until June 3: Rex Turnbull, "Tane O Te Whenua, Men Of The Land". North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until October: "Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-Shed".
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St. "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free. Until October 4: "Charles Brasch - A Great Good Man", People of the World Gallery, Free.
Until June 21: "Focus on a Frozen Land", photographer Andris Apse explores the Antarctic.
Until June 1: "100+ Southern Architecture: Then, now and next".
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens. Until October 11: "Paint-box Pioneers: Visions of the Past", from the Otago Settlers Museum Art Collection.
Until June: "Chinese Treasures", the history and interests of the Chinese community of Dunedin.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until May 24: "We Will Remember Them".
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka. Until August 2: "Winter Woolly Show: Eat, Drink, Knit".
Quadrant Gallery, Bracken Court, 480 Moray Pl. From Monday until June 13: "More Than One" - a celebratory exhibition.
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St. Neil Emmerson, "The Glass Closet".
Sew Hoy Gallery , 29 Stafford St. "In the Dragons' Footsteps" - Chinese artefacts.
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton. Until May 31: "Shades of Autumn". Weekends, 1pm-5pm.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin. Ends today: James Dignan, "The Unguarded Moment".
From tomorrow until June 17: "Sacred Monster", paintings by Diana Smillie.
Toi O Tahuna Fine Art Gallery, Church Lane, Queenstown. Until June 6: Sue Wademan, "Blessings on the Wind".
University of Otago, De Beer Gallery, first floor, central library. Until July 3: "Beetles, Barnacles, Orchids and the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin and his legacy". Mon-Fri, 8.30am-5pm.
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