Gisborne Pub Choir
Smash Palace, every Tuesday from 7pm to 9pm. Group sings popular songs. Singing tuition provided — no prior experience needed. Learn a new song each week and sing about a dozen pop classics. All welcome. Free entry, but koha appreciated.
BUILD-A-BAND
Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam ! Free entry.
COMING UP
Jersey Boys
Gisborne Centre Stage Theatre Group, War Memorial Theatre, September 8-16.
The Journey NZ Tour 23
Oldskool Hip Hop, RnB and Reggae coming to you featuring Ronmakofficial, Remorse (Morse Gang) and DJ Tipz on decks. Smash Palace, Friday, September 8. Tickets are $17 (including fees).
Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Show — Born on the Bayou
Friday September 15. Performing all Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hits from this timeless era including Suzie Q, Proud Mary, Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising, Born on the Bayou, Down on the Corner and many more. Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, 8pm. Members $25, non-members $30m.
Te Kuia me te Pūngāwerewere - Tairāwhiti
Inspired by the beloved children’s story The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace. The original Te Reo Māori Season play has been shortened into a 25-minute show with pre-school-aged tamariki in mind. Taki Rua is excited to present a highly engaging, piece of theatre in te reo Māori. It is suitable for children and whānau of all backgrounds. Monday, September 18, 1pm – 1.30pm. Patutahi Hall, 20 Biggs Street, Patutahi, Gisborne.
Motel California Eagles Experience
Dome Cinema, Childers Road and Customhouse Street. Saturday, September 23, 8pm –11.30pm. General admission: tickets are $35.30 each ($32.00 + $3.30 fees).
The Elton John Experience
Dome Cinema, Childers Road and Customhouse Street. Friday, October 20, 8.00pm–11pm.
General Admission: tickets are $39.18 each ($35.00 + $4.18 fees)
School of Rock
Musical Theatre Gisborne production, at War Memorial Theatre, November 10-18.
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VISUAL ARTS
Dreamers - Louise Walsh and Jolene Douglas
Walsh’s work stems from her first piece, The Beginning, its simple lines and colours creating an overall pattern and base for other works. The exhibition finishes on October 1.
Wearable Art by Susan Holmes
The exhibition of Wearable Art by Susan Holmes is currently on at Tairāwhiti Museum. The exhibition finishes on November 5.
He Kākahu Rerehua — The Uplifting Wind
Weaving together an exhibition, a collection care project and wānanga in one space, He Kākahu Rerehua — The Uplifting Wind opens on October 1. Each strand of this kaupapa will honour the different dimensions of a kākahu: the materials; the process of its creation; the life it has led; and the people it is connected to.
What They Didn’t Teach Us At School
Clayton Gibson exhibition at
Tairāwhiti Museum until
September 17.
DOME CINEMA
New Zealand Mountain Film Festival
Adventure short films from around the world. Night 1: Close to Home (NZ); Janwaar (USA); 10 in a Weekend (Scotland); Momentum (Australia); The Old School Coast to Coast (NZ); Changabang: Return to the Shining Mountain (NZ). Night 2: Mitre Peak (NZ); Turn the Corner (NZ); Flow State (NZ); Mountain Turks (NZ); New Way Up (UK).
A Great Friend
A famous entrepreneur is driving on a mountain road when his car breaks down. A nature-loving recluse comes to his aid and offers his hospitality, and the two polar opposites become friends. In French, with subtitles.
Last Film Show
A nine-year-old boy in a remote Indian village is smitten with films. He and his friends, determined to make a movie, find a way to make their own film projection apparatus. With subtitles.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
The Equalizer 3
Since giving up life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) finds solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Now living in southern Italy, McCall discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses, so he becomes his friends’ protector.
Haunted Mansion
A supernatural horror comedy film in which would-be ghostbusters are compelled to stay in the haunted house they are trying to exorcise. Stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Past Lives
A boy and girl are deeply connected childhood friends, wrest apart when the girl emigrates from South Korea with her family. Decades later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
After years of being sheltered, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers. Their new friend, April O’Neil, helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
Retribution
Liam Neeson stars in a film about a man who, while driving with his two children, is told by phone a bomb is in his car. He must not leave the vehicle but must follow instructions while working out how to survive.
Sound of Freedom
Jim Caviezel plays Tim Ballard, a former US government agent on a mission to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia. A sleeper hit that has grossed $US177 million against a budget of less than $15m. Crowdfunding was used to market and distribute the film.
Strays
Abandoned by his lowlife owner Doug, a naive but lovable dog named Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier and his gang of strays. With the voice talents of Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Will Forte, Isla Fisher and Dennis Quaid.
Meg 2: The Trench
Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) leads a research team diving deep into the ocean and forced to fight for survival against environmental plunderers and colossal sharks.
Gran Turismo
Drama based on a video game and inspired by the true story of a teenage player aspiring to be a racecar driver.
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this film based on the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”. Stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt.
Barbie
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colourful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. But when they get a chance to go to the real world, they discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Film festival movies
May December; Afire; Of an Age; Beyond Utopia; Fallen Leaves; Saint Omer; Tiki Taane in Session with CSO; Ms Information; Robot Dreams; The New Boy; Last Summer; Close to Vermeer; Perfect Days; Kidnapped.
