THE GIG GUIDE

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

THIS WEEK

Friday Night Karaoke

Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm. Free entry.

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 on Friday.

Free entry.

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. Smash Palace, 24 Banks Street, 9pm-11.30pm on Saturday.

Door charge $15.

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, on Saturday. Extra bar.

Gisborne Orphans Club Concert

Live entertainment for all ages. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey Street, at 1.30pm on Sunday. Free entry. Phone Mike on 867 5247 for more details.

Gisborne Country Music Club Singers and musicians welcome. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey Street, 1pm to 4pm on Sunday.

$5 visitors, $3 members, $1 children, including afternoon tea.

Phone Flo on: 867 7637 or 027 494 6979 or email:  flo.pahuru@outlook.co.nz

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

Jersey Boys

Gisborne Centre Stage Theatre Group, War Memorial Theatre, September 8-16.

School of Rock

Musical Theatre Gisborne production, at War Memorial Theatre, September 8-16.

THEATRE

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street. Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm; Sunday at 4pm. 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!

Tickets: $24.70-$29.70 at trybooking.com/nz

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.

DOME CINEMA

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.

Chocolat

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a conservative village in France, much to the disapproval of the villagers. Over time they win them over, and help them with their problems. Film made in 2000, based on a Joanne Harris novel, and starring Juliet Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench and Lena Olin.

Corners of the Earth: Kamchatka

Filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia in search of new waves along the frozen coastline. The trip took two years of planning. Then, an hour before the party boarded their flight to Moscow, Russia invaded Ukraine.

ODEON MULTIPLEX

Strays

Abandoned on the mean streets 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.

Gadar 2

Set 17 years after the first instalment, this Hindi-language film follows Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) as he searches for his imprisoned son during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

Asteroid City

American comedy drama written and directed by Wes Anderson with a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Matt Dillon, Willem

Dafoe, Margot Robbie and Jeff Goldblum. It is Anderson’s

homage to popular 1950s memory

and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs.

Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter

A film based on one chapter of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The merchant ship Demeter is chartered to carry 50 unmarked wooden crates from Carpathia to London. When the Demeter arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict, deserted wreck.

The Miracle Club

The film follows the story of three generations of friends (played by Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey) of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin. When

the chance to win a pilgrimage

to Lourdes presents itself, the women seize it.

Meg 2: The Trench

Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) leads a research team diving into the deepest depths of the ocean, and forced into a battle for survival, pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers.

Chevalier

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to the heights of French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer.

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 American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called “father of the atomic bomb”. Stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr and Florence Pugh.

Coco Reo Maori

Coco is the fourth Disney movie to be reimagined in te reo Māori. It is written in the dialect of Te Tairāwhiti to honour the Spanish lineage of Jose Manuel on the East Coast. Te Matatini chairman Selwyn Parata and his son Ngarimu tackled translations for it.

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.