Gig Guide

The ABBA Show: ABBAsolutely fABBulous. Picture supplied

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This weekKelvin Cruickshank Live: The New Zealand medium performs at War Memorial Theatre, tonight, (7pm).

Annual Craft Fair: Amusement rides, raffles, food and craft stalls. Wainui Beach School, Saturday (1-4pm).

Gisborne Caledonian Society: Christmas Pot Luck dinner: All welcome for modern, sequence and social dancing. St Mark’s Hall, Saturday (dinner at 5.30pm, dancing from 8pm).

Coming upTerrier Racing with The Topp Twins: A family day with singing, races, food and a grand auction. Proceeds to local Breast Cancer Foundation. Showgrounds Park, November 25, (10.30am-6.30pm). Pre-sale: $30 adult, gate sale: $35 adult, $5 children, under fives are free. See: http://www.terrierfun-gisborne.co.nz

Sonic Awareness: Jazz charity concert raising funds for the Gisborne Women’s Refuge. Featuring John Mackill’s Jazz Collective. Gisborne Bowling Club, November 25, (2.30pm). $15.

The Messy Magic Adventure: Husband-and-wife duo, David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache present their family-friendly magic show. Smash Palace, November 25, (1.30pm). Adults, $15. Children under-16, $10. This is followed by a Harry Houdini-inspired magic show for adults (7.30pm). Cost is $20. R14.

30th Gisborne International Music Competition: First rounds of competition on November 26-28. The semi-final is on November 30. War Memorial Theatre (10am, 2pm and 7pm). Free entry.

James Reid with Brendan McCarthy: Reid from The Feelers playing solo and acoustic music, with special guest Brendan McCarthy from Apollo Steamtrain. Smash Palace, November 28, (8pm).Tickets $35 from Eventfinda or the venue.

Gisborne Ukulele Underground: Uke or experience not essential. Gisborne Bowling Club, November 30, (7.30pm). $5.

The Abba Show: Singing all your favourites from the 1970s Swedish pop group. War Memorial Theatre, December 2 (2pm and 7pm).

Nanogirl Live Out of this World: Science comes alive at the War Memorial Theatre, December 4 (5pm and 7pm).

TheatreKings of the Gym: A Kiwi comedy by Dave Armstrong. Unity Theatre, November 23-30. Tickets $20 from i-SITE.

Mayhem and Murder: A fun ‘whodunnit?’ murder mystery with 1970s songs. Musical Theatre Gisborne Clubrooms, November 29-30; December 1, 6-8, (7.30pm).

Visual ArtsLife drawing: Lysnar House studios October 1 - November 26 (Mondays, 7pm). $50 for Artists’ Society members, $60 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials.

Gisborne Printmakers exhibition: Lysnar House studios, November 10-11. (10am-4pm).

ExhibitionsTairawhiti Museum: Wairere — Waterfalls, digital photographic compositions by Norm Heke.

Takuahiroa collaboration: Exhibition by Kaaterina and Tai Kerekere. HB Williams Memorial Library, November 12 - January 11.

Paul Nache Gallery: Paintings by Scott Gardiner.

Toihoukura Maia Gallery: Tairawhiti Sea Walls project exhibition.

Verve Cafe: Wahine Atua, works by Deborah Hope.

Zest: Textiles by More Than Fabric.

At the moviesDome cinemas

Vermilion: The daughter of composer Darcy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is preparing to marry. Darcy sees colours when she plays musical notes, and after seeing the colour vermilion is prompted to secretly make her own plans. Also stars Theresa Healey, Goretti Chadwick and Emily Campbell.

She Shears: Catherine Mullooly, who hails from Matawai and works in Piopio and Australia, is one of five female shearers shown competing at the highest levels.

American Animals: True story of how four friends steal from the rare books collection of a university library in Lexington, Kentucky.

Yellow is Forbidden: New Zealand documentary maker Pietra Brettkelly (A Flickering Truth) chronicles designer Guo Pei’s attempt to break into the exclusive and mostly European club of elite fashion designers.

Odeon multiplex

They Shall Not Grow Old: Peter Jackson transforms audio and moving-image archive footage over a century old to tell the story of the men who experienced day-to-day life on the battlefields of World War 1.

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. Stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law and Johnny Depp.

Alien Addiction: Riko (Jimi Jackson) lives a normal life in a Waikato town until two aliens crash-land near his house. Riko befriends them. Meanwhile, an “alientologist” has tracked the aliens and plans to capture them and show them to the world.

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.

Journey’s End: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate. Stars Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge and Toby Jones.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web: Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. Based on characters in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.

Overlord: War/horror story of American soldiers behind enemy lines on D-Day. As they approach their target, they realise this Nazi-occupied village has more going on than a simple military operation.

A Star is Born: The fourth remake of a 1937 film features Lady Gaga and director, co-producer and co-star Bradley Cooper.

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween: Goosebumps author R. L. Stine (Jack Black) helps two boys out to foil plans by Slappy the Dummy to bring all his ghoulish friends back to life.

Charming: Animated comedy in which a prince must find true love to break a spell that could mean the end of love in the world.

Hunter Killer: Gerard Butler plays a US submarine commander caught up in an international incident when the Russian president is taken prisoner by rebel elements of his own government.

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