WHAT’S ON
GIGS
50 Dundas, 50 Dundas St, North Dunedin. Sunday, 7.30pm: Valentines Day.
Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray St.
Tomorrow, 9pm: Guardians, Blue Cheese, PSI Division, Corpse Hand.
Saturday, 9pm: The Big Lawn, Horatio, Koputai People's Party.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
Today, 8pm: Standup comedy.
Tomorrow, 7.30pm: The Mentalist Collective.
The Galley, 36 George St, Port Chalmers. Tomorrow, 8pm: Melissa and The Dr.
The Garage, 105 Harrow St, Dunedin. Thursday, 8.30pm: Salsa Club Dunedin social nights.
Lalaland Lounge Bar, 99 Ardmore St, Wanaka. Tomorrow, 9pm: Liquid Sessions: Rinza and Friends.
Saturday, 9pm: Digital Love featuring the.trip. advisor, Bodzilla, Elliot Tierney.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Tomorrow, 7pm: UnValentine’s After Dark.
Rhyme and Reason Brewery, 17 Gordon Rd, Wanaka.
Saturday, 7pm: ‘‘Laughs and Love’’, standup comedy, MC Shane Mulvey.
Water Bar, 145 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
Saturday, 9.30am: Artificial Intelligence.
Yonder, 14 Church St, Queenstown. Tomorrow, 9pm: DJ Corysco.
Saturday, 6pm: Jack Berry.
Sunday, 3pm: Rose Garden Party.
Zanzibar, 311 George St, Dunedin.
Today, 8pm: Bo & Dean Duo.
Tomorrow, 5.30pm: Boaz Anema.
Saturday, 8pm: Julian Temple.
FAMILY FUN
Brydone Clubgrounds, Edendale.
Saturday, Sunday, 10am: Southland Steam Engine Club open day.
Buckingham Green, Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Sunday, 10am: Arrowtown Farmers’ Market. Cromwell Heritage Precinct, Melmore Tce, Cromwell.
Sunday, 9am: Cromwell Farmers’ and Craft Market.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon. Tomorrow, 4.30pm: Lion Dance, Chinese New Year celebration.
Tomorrow, until Sunday: Good Luck Dragon activity.
Wednesday, 11.15am: Tour for Tots.
Dunedin Railway Carpark, Anzac Ave. Saturday, from 8am: Otago Farmers Market.
Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Ave. Wednesday, 6.30am: Bike Breakfast, byo coffee mug.
Dunedin Public Libraries, all locations
Today, Mosgiel Library, 10.30am: Wiggle Time; 11am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
Today, Port Chalmers Library, 6.30pm: Nautical Knitters.
Tomorrow, City Library, 10.30am: Storytime. Tomorrow, Waikouaiti Library, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme; 11am: Storytime.
Tomorrow, South Dunedin Library, 3.30pm:
Lego Club.
Tomorrow, Mosgiel Library, 6pm: Lego Club. Monday, City Library, 10.30am: Babytime. Monday, Blueskin Bay Library, 6.30pm: Knitwits.
Tuesday, City Library, 10.30am: Wriggle and Rhyme.
Tuesday, Mosgiel Library, 11am: Storytime. Tuesday, Blueskin Bay Library, 2.30pm: Knitwits.
Wednesday, City Library, 9.30am: Knitwit Wednesday; 10.30am: Storytime.
Forsyth Barr Stadium,
Saturday, 10am: Moana Nui Festival.
Dunedin Chinese Garden, Queens Gardens. Friday, from 6.30pm: Chinese New Year celebrations, parade.
Mataura Rodeo, Wyndham Rd, Tuturau. Saturday, 10am.
Ocean Beach Railway, 3 John Wilson Ocean Dr, Dunedin.
Sunday, 11am: Heritage train rides.
The Octagon, Dunedin.
Saturday, 10am: Thieves Alley market.
Omakau Domain, Alton St.
Saturday, from 9am: Central Otago A&P Show.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Daily, 11am, weekends 1.30pm: ‘‘First Flight’’, butterfly release demo.
Tomorrow, Saturday, from 10am: Para Sport Popup.
Saturday, 10am: Reverse Science Fair, ages 10plus.
Weekends, 2pm: Glow with the Flow science show.
Outram Church Hall, Holyhead St, Outram. Tomorrow, 2pm: Outram Garden Club Flower Show.
Pembroke Park, Ardmore St, Wanaka. Sunday, 10am: Wanaka Art, Craft and Design Market.
Remarkables Park, Hawthorne Dr, Queenstown.
Saturday, from 9am: Remarkables Market.
Invercargill,
Daily, until Sunday: Burt Munro Challenge.
MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE
Bullock Bar, 71 Ardmore St, Wanaka.
Fridays, 9pm: Wanaka's Got XFactor '21. Community Centre Hall, Skird St, Alexandra. Wednesday, until Saturday, 7pm: Stars in their Eyes, Alexandra Musical Society.
Coronation Hall, 37 Hall Rd, Bannockburn. Sunday, 7pm: Jun BoutereyIshido.
Dog With Two Tails, 25 Moray Pl.
Wednesday, 8pm: Octagon Poetry Collective, MC Rushi Vyas.
Methodist Hall, Wickliffe St, Mosgiel.
Saturday, 8pm: Taieri Scottish Society social and dance.
Senior Citizens Hall, 5a Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday, 9.30am: Taieri Age Connect community singing group, over55s welcome. Inquiries (021) 2543232.
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TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
Antonella’s Italian Classes, Opoho.
Tuesdays: Beginners Italian. antonella. vecchiato@gmail.com
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon. Wednesday, 10.30am: ‘‘The Art of Beekeeping’’, Murray Rixon.
G309, Otago Polytechnic, 144 Union St East. Wednesday, 5.30pm: Meditation refresh, all levels.
Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Ave.
Today, 5.30pm: ‘‘The Unconventional Career of Dr Muriel Bell’’, Diana Brown, Hocken Library talk series.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Tuesday, Barclay Theatre, 12.15pm: ‘‘Medieval Beasts’’, Associate Prof Simone Marshall.
Presbyterian Community Centre, 91 Tenby St, Wanaka.
Tomorrow, 6pm: ‘‘Six Minutes Of Terror: The Challenges And Rewards Of Landing Robotic Spacecraft On Mars’’, Dr Brian Pollard.
Senior Citizens Hall, 5 Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Today, 1.30pm: Cards 500, Tony Robinson (03) 4892197, over55s welcome.
Wednesday, 10am: Taieri Age Connect Social HUB. Inquiries (021) 2543232.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Tuesday, 11am: Harakeke Weaving Workshop.
FILM AND THEATRE
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon. Sunday, 3pm: Hotere, Merata Mita.
Otago Museum Planetarium, 419 Great King St, Dunedin.
Daily: Dinosaurs Of Antarctica 3D; The Sky Tonight.
Weekends: Spacetronauts: Searching For Life; Dinosaurs of Antarctica 2D; Amazing Universe 3D. Paid admission.
Queens Park, 108 Gala St, Invercargill.
The National Theatre London screenings. Tomorrow, 5.30pm: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Saturday, 11am: The Tragedy of King Richard The Second; 1pm: Hamlet; 4.30pm: Twelfth Night. Sunday, 11am: Twelfth Night.
St Patrick’s Basilica, 32 Macandrew Rd, South Dunedin.
Monday, 7pm: The Twelve Thousand.
EXHIBITIONS
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling St. ‘‘Somewhere Between Nothing and Nowhere’’, Phoebe Hinchliff, Luke Shaw.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
‘‘We Drove Here’’.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon. ‘‘Hotere’’, Hone Tuwhare; ‘‘Atete (to resist)’’, Ralph Hotere; ‘‘In Her Image’’, various artists; ‘‘Style and Substance: A Journey Through the Collection’’; ‘‘Folly (stone carpet)’’, Andrew Barber.
Eade Gallery, 17A Holloway St, Clyde.
‘‘Natures Morte’’, Megan Huffadine.
Eastern Southland Gallery, 14 Hokonui Dr, Gore.
‘‘Long Hee Lee — A Songless Land’’, Sue Cooke.
Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames St, Oamaru.
‘‘My Slice of Heaven’’, Sharon Murcott.
Finishes Sunday: ‘‘Cellular Memory’’, Elizabeth Thomson.
Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Ave.
‘‘Colin McCahon: A Constant Flow of Light’’, McCahon from various collections.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Cromwell. ‘‘LAND: recent work’’, Eric Schusser.
Lakes District Museum and Gallery ,49 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
‘‘Foundations — Early survey maps, photographs and artwork’’.
Mercy Hospital Art Wall, 72 Newington Ave. ‘‘Deep and Meaningful’’, Raimo Kuparinen.
Milford Galleries Queenstown, 9a Earl St.
‘‘The Earl Street Journal’’, various artists.
Moray Gallery, 55 Princes St.
Today, until Wednesday: ‘‘Picnic’’, John Z Robinson.
OLGA, 32 Moray Pl.
Finishes Wednesday: ‘‘The Absurds’’, Hannah Joynt.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin. Finishes Saturday: ‘‘100 Women, 100 Words
. . . Infinite Possibilities’’.
Pea Sea Art, 6 George St, Port Chalmers. ‘‘Colour Culture and Coast’’, Terry Fitzgibbon.
RDS Gallery, 6 Castle St, Dunedin.
Tomorrow, until March 13: ‘‘Gatekeeper: New Work’’, Marie Strauss.
Stuart St Potters Coop, 14 Lower Stuart St, Dunedin.
Finishes Sunday: Jo Howard, Rosemary McQueen.
Monday, until February 28: Louise Thompson Parker, Lorna Isaac.