Explore the forest after dark with these special kids night walks. Join our expert guides and witness the valley changing as sunlight fades.

A show and tell with artist Bruce Mahalski and items from his Museum of Natural Mystery.

Bring the family for a fun-filled day of gnome hunting. Set among the beautiful gardens of Glenfalloch on Otago’s stunning peninsula, this is an event for the whole family.

Join Graeme Loh of Birds New Zealand for a presentation on 30 years of research on the only mainland colony of small seabirds known as fairy prions in Aotearoa.

This presentation with Dr J Michael Palin and Associate Professor Dan Hikuroa will provide an introduction to mātauranga Māori and discuss differences and similarities with science.

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Make an amber fossil. Collect a few dead insects and bring them along to the library. We’ll choose the most intact specimen and recreate what happens when an insect gets trapped in resin.

CANCELLED Join Michelle Ritchie for an illuminating journey underground – discover soil creatures, their ‘superpowers’, how they grow healthy food and how burying your undies can help gauge the health of your garden.

A show and tell with artist Bruce Mahalski and items from his Museum of Natural Mystery.

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Slow down and escape the everyday. Open up your senses and experience the health, mood, and energy enhancing benefits of a quiet wander in the forest.

Capture the natural beauty of the Otago Peninsula during this guided tour focused on long exposure photo opportunities as you visit select locations within our private eco-reserve.

A guided bus tour with Neil Harraway to three very diverse and fascinating private gardens on the scenic Otago Peninsula. Meet and chat with the gardeners who are growing their gardens for beauty and restfulness, for food and nourishment, or to make spaces for wildlife to flourish.

Look to the vastness of the southern sky and learn about our solar system with telescopes and laser-guided tours of the night sky.

Join us to explore the forest after dark. Witness the valley changing as sunlight fades, and discover which creatures call te pō home. Moderate level of fitness is required.

Walk from Signal Hill Road to Reserve boundary then via regenerating podocarp forest to volcanic outcrop Gerry’s Rock and back during 2+ hours.

Children are invited to join a nature focused photo scavenger hunt in our lower garden. Capture all the photo points and enter to win prizes awarded onsite.

Enjoy a special 45-minute cruise for tamariki and whānau highlighting local wildlife, history, and geology of the peninsula.

This is a special opportunity to learn more about the hoiho and see the rarest penguin in the world up close in our Rehabilitation Centre. Ages 5 and up.

This is a special opportunity to learn more about the hoiho and see the rarest penguin in the world up close in our Rehabilitation Centre. Ages 5 and up.

Help save out apples. Come and see for yourself this tree library or scion bank and consider helping with this amazing project.

Enjoy a special 45-minute cruise for tamariki and whānau highlighting local wildlife, history, and geology of the peninsula.

Bring the family for a fun-filled day of gnome hunting. Set among the beautiful gardens of Glenfalloch on Otago’s stunning peninsula, this is an event for the whole family.

Join photographer Paul Sorrell at Orokonui Ecosanctuary for a photography field trip and practical hints on photographing birds.

Look to the vastness of the southern sky and learn about our solar system with telescopes and laser-guided tours of the night sky.

As twilight fades and night falls on our private eco-reserve, penguins make their way inland. This is the first ever publicly offered nighttime excursion offered at The OPERA.

Capture the natural beauty of life on the Otago Peninsula during this guided tour to select locations within our private eco-reserve.

Hear the story behind No8 and the process of making our fine gins, rums and liqueurs in this unique tasting experience.

Neil Robinson will guide you through a workshop demonstrating the techniques he uses as a successful no dig market gardener and how they can be applied to your home vegetable patch.

Create your own spirit or liqueur from foraged Wild Dunedin plants and fruits. A 2-hour hands-on workshop where we take you through the basics of making botanical spirits and liqueurs.

Walk from Signal Hill Road to Reserve boundary then via regenerating podocarp forest to volcanic outcrop Gerry’s Rock and back during 2+ hours.

We host the local primary school garden, nature and enviro clubs and have two collaborations running with masters students at Otago and Auckland Universities.