Events

A celebration of Otago Regional foods and producers who sell directly to the public in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

The Otago Farmers' Market Trust is a charitable trust which operates the Otago Farmers Market each Saturday morning, with the assistance of staff and volunteers.

Closed Christmas Day and Anzac Day if these are on a Saturday.

The Summer Show in Dunedin this year is redolent of the land and sea. The cool blues and greens of glass works from Galia Amsel, Claudia Borella and Ann Robinson are echoed in Ross Ritchie’s lush river valley and the clear skies of Michael Hight’s ‘Tararua Range’.

Neil Frazer’s sea is wild, tossed by both wind and wave while Garry Currin’s ‘Coastal Drift’ hints at the calm, forgotten edges of estuaries. Stanley Palmer and Geoffrey Notman paint scenes that evoke your own memories of past beachside summers, tinged with nostalgia.

The curves of Christine Thacker’s vessels provide a sinuous backdrop to her painted landscapes and Sue Hawker’s floral forms burst with life. Ray Ching’s beasts of the land bound across the canvas in ‘The Crowning Cockerel, the Fox and the Wallaby’. Full of contradictions – the implausibility of the subject matter and the deft realism of its depiction, rows of dense text and empty, floating speech bubbles – Ching’s painting stops you in your tracks to wonder at its mastery and puzzle at its content.

Links between the tangata whenua and their natural environs are investigated in works by Te Rongo Kirkwood, Luke Jacomb, Peata Larkin and Paratene Matchitt. Matchitt’s drawings look at the universal threat of conflict and Jacomb’s glass paddles reference the seafarers of times past. Larkin and Kirkwood examine personal aspects of their maoritanga in terms of language, pattern and visual metaphor.

Robert Ellis’ two calendar paintings are replete with symbols sourced from both Maori and European narratives. Based on the form of Maungawhau/Mt Eden, they speak of the natural turning of seasons and our own construction of time. Along from Ellis’ works hangs one of Andy Leleisi’uao’s ‘Pa’ceania’ series, in which the artist has constructed a layered world peopled by beings who work purposefully towards an end that remains just out of our ken.

Anita DeSoto’s faceless ‘War Widow’ floats, crowned with laurel, opposite Ralph Hotere’s stunning ‘Winter Solstice’ in stained glass. The gravitas of these pieces is lifted by the exuberance of Reuben Paterson’s glittering blue kowhaiwhai and the delicate steel clouds and paper planes of Neil Dawson.

Otago Volts will take on the Canterbury Wizards in this HRV Cup twenty20 match at the Univeraity Oval.

A commemoration of Dunedin's Chinese Culture and Heritage. The focal point of celebrations for Chinese New Year every year is the Dunedin Chinese Garden. Featuring a programme of events that involves the Dragon Parade and the the fireworks display. This event went off with a real bang in 2010 when a huge green tiger lit the night sky.

Dunedin's biggest annual market boasting over 250 stalls attracting thousands of customers into the inner city.

A must for residents, visitors and competitors at NZ Masters Games.

Stall registrations have now closed, with more than 300 stalls booked.

The market, in the Octagon, Bath Street, Princes, George and lower Stuart Streets, is on Saturday 11 February 2012 from 10am with an expected finishing time of 4pm.

Celebrating its 13th year, the week is an international platform for rising national and global fashion talent. Each year Dunedin city comes alive to celebrate its distinct style, fashion identity and industry, with collaboration between the local, national and international fashion sector, tertiary institutions and supporting industries which allow the fashion sector to grow and evolve.

The week includes both ticketed and free events which are targeted at the public, established and emerging designers and the media. The two major events during the week are the iD International Emerging Designer Awards, an international fashion design competition, and the iD Dunedin Fashion Show held at the iconic Dunedin Railway Station.

More announcements and ticket information to follow.

This event is suitable for children 7 years and over but younger ones are welcome with whanau/parental supervision.

Tamariki can come to one or to all four workshops where they will learn string games through storytelling. Four workshops - 16, 23 and 30 May (final workshop) Performance occurs 6 June

The Midwinter Carnival is a free public celebration of the longest night in the heart Dunedin. It is an inspiring outdoor event that acknowleges the changing of the season with the creation of beautiful lanterns. This annual community event is something everyone can be involved in and enjoy.