Queen Bee: Singing classic hits and Xmas singalong. The White House, Sunday (1pm). Free entry.
Teia Kennedy, Stranger Tides, Second Wave tour: Wright’s Vineyard and Winery, Sunday (1pm). Free entry.
Tiromoana Summer Concert Series: Pianist Lorelle McNaughton. Based in Barcelona, the Auckland-born pianist specialises in Spanish repertoire. Sunday, 41 Winifred Street (2.30pm). Adults $25, student/child free.
Tattletale Saints: Acoustic duo performs Appalachia style music with a splash of country. On tour in support of two new singles. EastEnd Cafe, Wairoa, Tuesday, 7.30pm. Tickets $25. Book at 06 838 6070.
Carols in the Vines: A community Christmas carol sing-along led by the Gisborne Choral Society and Gisborne Civic Orchestra. Bushmere Estate, 166 Main Road, Makaraka. Wednesday. Gate opens 5.30pm. Singing at 6.30pm. $5; children free.
Coming upWalter Walsh: With Gisborne Country Music Club RSA, December 21 (7pm). Free.
Tiromoana Summer Concert Series: Pianist Lixin Zhang, clarinettist Oliver Schermacher and bassoonist Long Nguyen perform as solo artists or in a trio. December 23, 41 Winifred Street (2.30pm). Adults $25, student/child free.
The Wave — Chapter 10: Hosted by Ritchie Jenkins and featuring Rell the DJ, Robba, and Dizfunk. The Dome, December 22, (9pm until 2am). $10 on the door.
One One One: Smash Palace December 22, (9pm), $10 on the door.
TheatreEvolution Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: December 7-22, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7.30pm, Sundays at 2pm. Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street. Tickets available from i-SITE or http://www.evolutiontheatre.org.nz. Adults $32, seniors $29, youth 17 and under $24.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Ambitious Women, Gisborne suffragette movement, Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro. He Tirohanga ki Tai: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Hawaiiki Hou (New Horizons), works by Toihoukura students opens tomorrow.
Takuahiroa collaboration: Exhibition by Kaaterina and Tai Kerekere, HB Williams Memorial Library, November 12 - January 11.
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Paintings by Scott Gardiner.
Verve Cafe: Works by Maiko Lewis-Whaanga and Blair Hindmarsh.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Krystle Kelly.
Zest Cafe: Works by Janine McDiarmid.
At the moviesDome cinema
Rose: Widowed ex-cop Rose (Cybill Shepherd), on finding she might have a life-threatening illness, sets out in a motorised wheelchair on a solo road trip in the American south-west. She meets and falls in love with old cowboy Max (James Brolin), himself at a crossroads.
Shoplifters: Japanese drama about a family who rely on shoplifting to cope with a life of poverty. Won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
The Dawn Wall: American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson lived for weeks on the sheer vertical face of the Dawn Wall, a 3000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park, California.
Pick of the Litter: Documentary that follows five Labrador Retriever puppies — from birth through months of intensive training with volunteers under the Guide Dogs for the Blind programme in California to the time for selection.
Odeon multiplex
Once Upon a Deadpool: Lightly sanitised and repackaged version of Deadpool 2 that gets an M rating. Scenes are re-edited to remove the most violent bits and add a subplot that pays homage to The Princess Bride — Deadpool kidnaps Fred Savage (the actor who played the boy whose grandfather read him the story in the film) to listen to this story.
Mortal Engines: American-New Zealand co-production based on Philip Reeve’s book and with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh among the producers and writers. In a post-apocalyptic steampunk world, entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and prey on one another.
Second Act: Jennifer Lopez stars as a mother with a second chance at a corporate career, thanks to a fake résumé.
The Children Act: Adapted by Ian McEwan from his own novel. Emma Thompson is the judge in a case in which a teenage boy and his parents, all Jehovah’s Witnesses, won’t allow a blood transfusion needed for leukaemia treatment.
Creed II: Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), guided by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), meets the son of Ivan Drago, the boxer who killed Adonis’s father, Apollo, in the ring.
Robin Hood: Latest version of the legend stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson and Tim Minchin.
The Grinch: Animated comedy based on Dr Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: Big-name cast in a film about a girl who, given a locked egg from her dead mother, sets out to retrieve the key.
Widows: A group of women attempt a heist to pay back a crime boss after their criminal husbands are killed on a botched job.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Albus Dumbledore enlists former student Newt Scamander to help thwart Grindelwald’s plans to raise pure-blood wizards to rule over non-magical beings.
Bohemian Rhapsody: Film tells the story of British rock band Queen, focusing on lead singer Freddie Mercury, up to the Live Aid performance at Wembley in 1985.
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