Upcoming events in Dunedin

Please see below for events in the community. If you have an upcoming event to share in the Pānui please email community@dcc.govt.nz

You can also find events at Events calendar - Dunedin City Council and add your own events.

Please also visit Community facilities/venues in Dunedin - Dunedin City Council if you are looking for a community venue, or if you want to add a venue to our Community Facilities / Venues Register.

Dine Dunedin

Celebrating the food and drink that gives Dunedin it's special flavour.

• Date: Friday, 5 August - Sunday, 21 August
• Time: Varies
• Venue: Varies
• Cost: Varies

Dine Dunedin is collaborating with Dunedin’s hottest venues to create a thirst-quenching and delicious programme for 2022. Discover great new Dunedin Ōtepoti food and drink from Friday, 5 August to Sunday, 21 August . There are four ways you can get a taste of Dine Dunedin – Dine Dunedin Experiences, Lunch, Burgers and Drinks! Lookout for these exciting experiences and support the city’s vibrant local food culture.

For more information, please go to the Dine Dunedin website.

Tami Neilson - Kingmaker

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as a “Fire Breathing R&B Belter on her own terms”, award-winning country artist Tami Neilson brings to the stage both her incredible voice and a keen understanding of the history of the genre.
Premiering brand new songs written especially for New Zealand audiences, with stunning string arrangements by Victoria Kelly, Kingmaker is a high octane mix of Tami’s own original songs and tributes to iconic women in country music.
This night promises to be a driving, toe tapping musical tour de force.

• Date: Thursday, 18 August
• Time: 7.30pm
• Venue: The Regent Theatre
• Cost: $20 - $54

For more information and to book your ticket, please visit the Regent Theatre website.

Dry Spell - Presented by Footnote NZ Dance

Fantasy and reality collude with one another in this spiralling ascension of desire and disgrace.

Dry Spell delves into a shuddering moment in time, blending nostalgia and futurism to create scenes of excitement, fear and pleasure. A mind can be very misleading, especially when we are in close proximity to it. Performed by Footnote New Zealand Dance’s team of electrifying dance artists, with choreography by trailblazing choreographer Rose Philpott and sound design by acclaimed composer Eden Mulholland, Dry Spell is a performance for thrill-seekers. Teetering on an edge of hallucination and reality, this full-length show taps into the collective and individual needs of the soul.

• Date: Saturday, 20 August
• Time: 7.30pm
• Venue: The Regent Theatre
• Cost: $34 - $47.50

For more information and to book tickets, please visit the Regent Theatre website.

International Migration to Small and Mid-Sized Cities

• Date: Tuesday, 23 August
• Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
• Venue: Zoom 

The Centre for Global Migrations is hosting several talks during the next few weeks. The first is from Dr Melissa Kelly, Senior Researcher, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Canada, who will speak about international migration to small and mid-sized cities. Dr Kelly is working with member Dr Ash Alam on this international project. 

For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Dunedin BA5: Craigs Investment Partners

• Date: Thursday, 25 August
• Time: 5pm - 7pm
• Venue: To be confirmed

Craigs is one of of NZ's leading investment advisory firms and investing. Come along and find out how the advice they offer through their network of investment advisers is your biggest advantage in achieving your investment goals.

For more information and to register, please visit the Business South website.

The Keys are in the Margarine

The Keys are in the Margarine is an award winning unique form of verbatim, or documentary theatre, ‘real, mesmerizing, and an almost alarmingly truthful form of theatre’.

The play is created from interviews with people who have direct experience of these conditions – caregivers, family members, doctors and the people themselves. Their stories communicate the all-encompassing effect dementia has on their lives and everyone around them. The staff of Alzheimers Otago were interviewed at the time and their interviews are what is being used for this re-run of the play.

• Date: Sunday, 28 August
• Time: 4pm and 7.30pm
• Venue: Te Whare O Rukutia (Community Gallery on Princes Street)
• Cost: $20

For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section and to book tickets please go to the Trybooking website.

Ōtepoti Youth Vision 

You are invited to the next Ōtepoti Youth Vision hui. The topic is Youth Spaces in the city and will involve a research presentation on Youth Friendly spaces, as well as an overview and reflections on the recent youth pop up space by the Ōtepoti Youth Collective.  Kai available from 2pm.

• Date: Tuesday 30 August
• Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
• Venue: Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library

For more information, please see the attachments at the end of this section or contact  Becks New, Community Development at becks.new@dunedin.govt.nz.

Titiro Whakamuri, Kōkiri Whakamuri Looking Back to Move Forward

We must look back on the past to move forward in the future.

We need to look after, be guardians of what is most important.

A group of school children listen to their grandfather tell important stories about the past, and they form some ideas about their future.

• Date: Wednesday, 31 August
• Time: 7pm
• Venue: The Regent Theatre
• Cost: $9 - $15

For more information and to book your tickets, please go to the Regent Theatre Website.

Kia Rite Hoea Workshops

Join Recreation Aotearoa online to learn how you can create successful and accessible recreation opportunities for everyone in your community with Kia Rite Hoea.

In this workshop you will:

• Discover the A to Z of running safe and successful programmes and events
• Learn how to design programmes and events communities will flock to
• Receive and workshop with the latest research, information and hot tips
• Receive tools and templates that work (plus save you tonnes of research and uncertainty)
• Find out how other projects like yours have been successful

Following the workshop you will receive one-on-one coaching to finalise your programme/event plan.

• Date: Tuesday, 13 September
• Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm
• Venue: Online
• Cost: $109.25 - $212.75

Your registration fee includes the workshop and the access to the Kia Rite Hoea publication.

For more information, please visit the Recreation Aotearoa website and to register please go to the Eventbrite website.

Dunedin BA5: Otago Polytechnic

• Date: Thursday, 29 September
• Time: 5.15pm - 7pm
• Venue: The Hub, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street

Come along to this BA5 to find out more about why Otago Polytechnic are proud to be a leader in high-quality, career-focused tertiary education - and why employers love their graduates because they are work-ready, capable and confident, and why their learners are at the heart of everything they do.

For more information and to register, please go to the Business South website.

Business South

For a list of all the events, please go to the Business South website.

Regent Theatre

For a list of all the events, please go to the Regent Theatre website.