He takunetaka | What's On
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Babyface
July 22nd — 25th, 2026 7:00 PM - 7:55 PM
‘And he's coming in with the steel chair!’ From award-winning writer and performer Nick Tipa (Kāi Tahu) comes Babyface, a…Te Whare o Rukutia
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Live Music Performance: Wildcards Aotearoa in collaboration with ŌPAC
Sunday, 26th July 2026 2:00 PM
Riffing on ŌPAC’s project within the exhibition Staying Power, enjoy a performance by local artists Wildcards Aotearoa.Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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History of medicine talk: The history of leprosy in New Zealand
Tuesday, 28th July 2026 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Presenter: Emeritus Professor Jean-Claude Theis, ONZM Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine – Dunedin, University of Otago Zoom link and…Barnett Lecture Theatre, First Floor Dunedin Hospital and via Zoom
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Exhibition Opening: Spiral Collectives - celebrating Spiral's 50th anniversary
Thursday, 30th July 2026 5:30 PM
The exhibition features 19 cherished artists and writers associated with Spiral, who lived sometime between 1929 and 2024 and whose…Reed Gallery I Third Floor I City Library
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Writing for Wellness
Thursday, 30th July 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Free group to explore creative writing skills for wellbeing.Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library
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'Adapting the bone people' a Special Event
Friday, 31st July 2026 5:30 PM
With the gracious support of Keri Hulme's whanau, Spiral is privileged to develop the bone people into a graphic novel,…Dunningham Suite I Fourth Floor I City Library
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Ōtepoti Dunedin Poetry Circle
Friday, 31st July 2026 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Get together with fellow poetry lovers to sit and share poems and chat about them.2nd Floor | Dunedin City Library, Moray Place
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Reece King’s exhibition, The Ogee & Manaia
14th Mar — 1st August, 2026
Hocken Collections is pleased to present a new exhibition of work by Reece King, 2025 Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago Free Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm.…Hocken Gallery, first floor, Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Avenue, Ōtepoti Dunedin
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Tūhura Birthday Party
Saturday, 1st August 2026 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Celebrate Tūhura Otago Museum's 149th Birthday with a special community fundraiser to help save one of Dunedin's most loved spaces.Tūhura Otago Museum
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Silent Book Club Dunedin
Tuesday, 4th August 2026 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Happy hour for introverts! No assigned books, just a quiet nook to sit quietly and read in the company of…Steamer Basin, Tucked down No Name Alley
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BWB Talk to celebrate the publication of 'Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire'
Wednesday, 5th August 2026 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Bridget Williams Books invites you to a BWB Talk to celebrate the publication of Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives…Hutton Theatre, Tuhura Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
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Book Launch: 'The Baby Sleeps' by Lisa Dick, Illustrated by Laura Bee
Thursday, 6th August 2026 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Port Chalmers Library, Cnr Beach and Grey Street, Port Chalmers