Gizzy Gig Guide This Week

Gisborne rockers Manphibian will be playing all your favourite 70s hits on Friday night at Smash Palace. Picture by John Flatt, Lightseeker Photography

■    Friday Night Karaoke

Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm.

■    Manphibian

Smash Palace, Friday, 8pm. Classic Rock gurus Manphibian appear at Smash Palace with their inimitable take on the good stuff from the 70s. Door sales $10.

■    Ice Block

Smash Palace, Saturday, 8pm. BrazilBeat, DJosé and Geeez playing a combination of house music, drum and bass, Afrobeats, baile funk and bass music. Door sales $10.

■    Sugar Night Club: Two Rooms

Room 1 Main room, Morgz, house hip-hop, 10pm; Room 2 Rave Cave, Peggy P, Amputate, P4radise DNB\bass 10.30pm. Extra bar.

■    Bowie: Absolute Bowie Tribute

Saturday, August 12. A seven-piece band supported by Lazy Fifty. Dome Cinema PBC, 38 Childers Road, 8pm, $30 Eventfinder or $35 at the door. Tickets from cancelled February show valid.

■    Gisborne Ballet Group Dancing Competition

Ballet, tap, modern. Come and watch local dancers perform. War Memorial Theatre, Saturday sessions 9am, 1.30pm, 6.45pm; Sunday session 8.45am, $5 adult and $2 children/session or $15 adult and $5 children concession, cash only, $5 programmes.

■    Te Aka Rangatahi: The Teen Vine

Anime Club for 14 to 18 year olds. Watch and discuss anime with other aficionados. Light refreshments supplied. HB Williams Memorial Library, 3.30pm, Friday, free.

■    Gisborne Pub Choir

Smash Palace, every Tuesday 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.

COMING UP

■    Machete + Uni-Fi

Two top local bands, heavy rock band Uni-Fi performing their amazing originals and three-piece power trio Machete will follow with a set list of classic 70s, 80s and 90s plus current rock numbers by such artists as The Cult, Led Zep, Sabbath, ACDC, Sex Pistols, GnR. Door charge $15.

THEATRE

■    Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

Evolution Theatre August 10-20. Set against the backdrop of late 1940s to early 1950s the fiery Kate has been enjoying her independence while the boys have been away at war. Now they are home is she meant to give it all up. Her stubborn father won’t let her little sister marry until Kate marries. Then that rebel, Petruchio, comes to town. Is this love at first sight? Well, she’s not giving in — not without a fight!

■    Michael James Manaia

Gisborne Unity Theatre, Ormond Road, August 11-19. A gripping, at times hilarious, yet intensely moving one-man drama, written by James Broughton, directed by Norman Maclean. General admission $28, students $25, tickets from i-site and Eventfinda.

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 opening will be held at 5.30pm on Friday, August 25, at Tairāwhiti Museum. The exhibition finishes on November 5.

Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition

Join the Gisborne Artists’ Society, Pottery Group and Camera Club for their annual showcase at Tairāwhiti Museum. Open until August 20.

■    What They Didn’t Teach Us At School

Clayton Gibson exhibition at Tairāwhiti  Museum until September 17.

■    Matariki Exhibition

He Rau Aroha Gallery, 26 Peel Street, featuring mahi toi by various ringatoi. The exhibition runs until August 18.

Let The Guide know what’s on, guide@gisborneherald.co.nz or ph 869 0600