Talks and workshops
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon.
Sunday, 3pm: William Matthew Hodgkins Memorial Lecture ‘‘MovingImage Art And The ‘Death Of Cinema’: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask’’. Guest speaker Hilary Radner, Prof Emeritus of film and media studies at University of Otago.
Wednesday, 7.30: Otago Decorative and Fine Arts Society, John Benjamin ‘‘The Life and Works of Harry Murphy’’.
First Church, Moray Place.
Saturday, 1.30pm3.30pm: Inspect the standard setting architectural masterpiece that is First Church. Free Guided tours, handcraft displays, sales tables and afternoon tea.
Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Ave. Wednesday, 11am and 2pm: ‘‘Behind the scenes’’ tours of the Hocken archives, stacks and picture storeroom. Limit 10 people per tour. Olveston, 42 Royal Tce, Dunedin.
Sundays, 3pm: Theomin art collection tours. Bookings essential.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Daily, 11am and 2pm: ‘‘Treasures of the Museum’’, guided tour. Paid admission.
Daily, 1pm and 3pm: ‘‘Stories of the South’’, guided tour. Paid admission.
Tonight, 6pm: Inaugural H.D. Skinner Memorial Lecture as part of the Museum’s 150th anniversary celebrations ‘‘Adventures In New Guinea’’, Prof Glenn Summerhayes of University of Otago’s department of anthropology and archaeology.