GIG GUIDE

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

THIS WEEK

The Harmonic Resonators

War Memorial Theatre, April 7, 7pm.

Saturday Night Live - DKR featuring Derek and Kay Biddle

Breakers, April 8, 8pm to 11pm, free entry. Live music every fortnight.

Wrights Vineyard & Winery, Dessert & Wine Match Evening

Saturday April 8 from 7pm to 8.30pm. Four desserts, 4 wines, plus cheeses

and pink bubbles on arrival $95pp. Bookings info@wrightswines.co.nz or 027 656 8222

Gabrielle Relief Fundraiser featuring James Reid and Andy Lynch from The Feelers

Support artists Nikita Tu-Bryant, Oceanspace, Saturday April 8, The Dome, Tickets $59.95 from www.trybooking.co.nz/NCS 100 percent of profits go to Gisborne District Disaster Relief Trust. 7pm to 11pm.

Mini Simmons: Make Up Album Tour.

Auckland-based band with a theatrical show. Smash Palace, 24 Banks St, 8pm, R18. Tickets+Bfee: $20 at tinyurl.com/yv2uk9cf or undertheradar.co.nz

Harvest Festival

At Wrights Vineyard and Winery, live music, pizzas, wine, ice cream, from 11am-4.30pm. Sunday, April 9. Cost $10, families welcome, children free, bookings info@wrightswines.co.nz or 027 656 8222.

Gisborne Civic Brass Band Lawn Concert

Gisborne Botanical Gardens, 391 Aberdeen Road, Friday 7 April 12.00pm to 1.30pm. Bring a picnic to the gazebo area.

Gisborne Civic Brass 150th Anniversary - Dinner & Dance

Gisborne RSA, Cnr Childers Road & Bright Street, Saturday April 8, 6.00pm – 11.00pm.

Gisborne Civic Brass Band Celebration Concert

Salvation Army Corps, 389 Gladstone Rd, Sunday 9 April, 4.00pm – 5.30pm.

COMING UP

Blackened Metallica Tribute - Harbinger

Smash Palace Saturday April 15, 8.30pm, Tickets $15, Door $20, Under 18s free (with a guardian)

Midwave Breaks

The Dome, May 13.

The Chardonnay Affair - Rendezvous on The Chardonnay Express

Gisborne Railway Station, Grey St, Sunday 28 May, 12.30pm – 5.00pm.

THEATRE

The Wolves, by Sarah de Lappe

Unity Theatre, Ormond Road. Opening night April 21. Tickets on sale at Eventfinda, adults $27, students $24, concession for a group of 10 or more $22.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Centre Stage presents the iconic

rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Onstage April 27 to May 6. Tickets from ticketek.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.

VISUAL ARTS

Lightscapes

Exhibition opening, Tairāwhiti Museum, Friday March 31.

Ka Waiata Au

Erena Koopu’s exploration of waiata in paint. Until April 26.

Tairāwhiti Museum

Colours Deluxe — Celebrating the achievement of Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne, who in the 1880s undertook an ambitious project to describe and paint New Zealand’s flowering plants. Until June 25.

DOME CINEMA

Driving Madeleine

Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine’s life. Through the streets of Paris, her extraordinary past is revealed. Driver and passenger forge a friendship during this drive that will change their lives.

Redemption of a Rogue

Jimmy returns to the fictional town of Ballylough to seek salvation for sins of the past.

Corsage

Faced with a future of strict ceremonies and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.

ODEON MULTIPLEX

The Pope’s Exorcist

The film is based on Father Gabriele Amorth’s memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. Russell Crowe plays Amorth, an Italian Catholic priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome who claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms. Franco Nero plays the Pope.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant star in the tale of a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who undertake a heist to retrieve a lost relic.

The Portable Door

A man lands an internship at a mysterious London firm with unconventional employees, including a chief executive who incorporates modern corporate strategy into ancient magical practices. Stars Christoph Waltz and Sam Neill.

Allelujah

Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi and Judi Dench star in this adaptation of an Alan Bennett play. Proposed closure of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital prompts the community to invite a news crew to film preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse.

Argonuts

In a port city of ancient Greece, the people are threatened by the wrath of Poseidon. A young mouse and the cat who adopted her will help old Jason and his Argonauts save the city.

Super Mario Bros

Chris Pratt is the voice of Super Mario in this video-game-to-film adaptation from Illumination. Seth Rogen and Jack Black also voice characters.

Air

Ben Affleck directs Viola Davis, Matt Damon, Marlon Wayans, Jason Bateman and himself in this sports biopic about the partnership between Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division.

Red, White & Brass

A Tongan fan will do anything to get tickets to the Tonga-France Rugby World Cup game, even if it means promising to deliver a brass band for pre-match entertainment.

John Wick: Chapter 4

The seemingly indestructible Wick is in Paris and on the trail of The High Table.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with their adult superhero alter egos. When three vengeful ancient gods arrive on Earth seeking the magic stolen from them, Shazam and his allies are thrust into the battle of their lives.