Behind the Red Curtain: A night of burlesque at the Dome Room, June 15-16. Tickets from the Dome or Aviary: $35 VIP seating, or $30 general.
Ladi6 Outta Time tour: Ladi6, Parks and BaseFM DJ DylanC, Smash Palace, June 16. Tickets $30 from Smash Palace or aaaticketing.co.nz.
More Hot Jazz On a Winter’s Day: Jazz charity concert, featuring John Mackill’s Jazz Collective, for Hospice Tairawhiti. Gisborne Bowling Club, Wainui Rd, June 17 (2:30 pm).
St Andrew’s concert series: Confetti: Emily Cargill, flute, Dana Parkhill, flute, Paula Sugden, cello. St Andrew’s Church, June 30 (4pm).Admission free. Optional koha for performers.
Hail To The Thieves: The Dome Room, June 30 (8.30pm) $20 on door.
Brass Band & Orchestra: Gisborne Civic Brass Band and Gisborne Civic Orchestra present a programme that includes Grease, My Fair Lady, Mahler Symphony 1, Mars and Jupiter from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. St Andrew’s Church, July 1 (2.30pm). Door: $10 adults, $5 children.
Ice Block: Beleza Events presents a winter arts showcase and multimedia party. Music by DJs Dick Johnson (Akl), MC Woody and Dizfunk. Art installations by Simon Lardelli. War Memorial Theatre foyer, July 7 (7pm). Entry $20 general, VIP $25. Fundraiser for Gizzy School Lunches.
Strangely Arousing: Dome Room, July 7 (8.30pm) presales $15 undertheradar, $20 door.
The Bootleg Beach Boys: War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, August 9, (8pm).
THEATRE
He Kura E Huna Ana: Taki Rua Productions presents He Kura E Huna Ana. War Memorial Theatre, Friday, June 22. (7pm).
Evolution Theatre Company: Auditions for Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town. Parts for males and females 12-70 years old. For more information go to www.evolutiontheatre.org.nz/audition. 75 Disraeli St. June 23 (10am-3pm).
Footrot Flats - The Musical: Musical Theatre Gisborne production. War Memorial Theatre. July 18-21 (7.30pm) Saturday matinee (2pm).
Visual ArtsEXHIBITIONS
Tairawhiti Museum: Tao Nga Pare-mata, Mangatu taonga from the Campbell collection. Hikoi, works by Toni Rangi, Yvonne Tana and Jeannette McDonnell-Rata. He o Mo Apanui, paintings by Erena Koopu. Annual Gisborne Artists’ Society and Gisborne Potters’ exhibition.
Te Kurahuna: Traditional Maori arts exhibition at Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street.
Verve Cafe: Works by Leah McCann
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Kath McLaughlin.
Zest Cafe: Cushions, hand-painted fabric with original designs and vintage fabric cushions by Teri Wilkinson
At the moviesODEON MULTIPLEX
Oceans 8: Debbie, estranged sister of Danny Ocean, puts together a team to pull off the heist of the century. Stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter.
Hereditary: When the matriarch of a family dies, her daughter’s family learn terrifying secrets about their ancestry. Stars Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne.
Tea with the Dames: Dames Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright talk about their acting experiences.
Kodachrome: Matt (Jason Sudeikis) drives his estranged and dying father (Ed Harris) across country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab that can develop them, as they navigate a world changing from analogue to digital.
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Ron Howard directs a “space Western” about Han Solo. A stand-alone instalment set before the events of A New Hope, it features the adventures of a young Solo and Chewbacca. Alden Ehrenreich stars as Solo.
The Bookshop: Film based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel of the same name, and starring Emily Mortimer as Florence Green, a widow who opens a bookshop in an abandoned house in a small Suffolk coastal town in the late 1950s. While she has her supporters, she also meets opposition as she stocks groundbreaking literature.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: While touring to promote her book of humorous columns about wartime life, Juliet Ashton (Lily James) receives a letter from a Guernsey pig farmer who has come into possession of her copy of Essays of Elia. Intrigued by the name of the book club to which he belongs, Juliet makes a visit that changes her life.
Deadpool 2: Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) forms a team of mutants called the X-Force to protect young mutant Russell (New Zealand actor Julian Dennison, of Hunt for the Wilderpeople) from the time-travelling soldier Cable (Josh Brolin).
Avengers: Infinity War: The Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to stop Thanos from amassing the Infinity Stones.
DOME CINEMA
Mr Stein Goes Online: Elderly widower Pierre joins an online dating site using a picture of the young man who teaches him computer basics. Asked to go on a date, Pierre asks the computer expert to go in his place.
The Breaker Upperers: Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek are the co-writers, co-directors and co-stars of a film about an agency that will break up relationships, for a fee.
Swagger of Thieves: All-access portrait of hard-charging New Zealand band Head Like a Hole, directed by Julian Boshier, who worked for a decade on the film. Nigel “Booga” Beazley and Nigel Regan feature in unvarnished documentary.
Going for Gold: Australian movie in which 17-year-old Emma (Kelli Berglund), after moving to Australia, introduces cheerleading to a group of misfits.
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts: Documentary film focusing on two exhibitions — one in 2012, the other in 2016 — at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Features in-depth interviews with English artist David Hockney, 80 and showing no sign of slowing down.
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