2018 ExNE movie premiere: A showcase of Gisborne and East Coast bands on the biggish screen, Smash Palace, May 30, 7pm, free entry.
White Chapel Jak: Recent winners of RNZ Battle of the Covers band bring their rocking original flavours to town. Smash Palace, May 31, 8pm, $20 door sales, R18.
Coming upThe Schizophonics: San Diego rockers coming to Gisborne as part of their New Zealand tour. Smash Palace, June 2, (9pm) Tickets $22+bf from www.undertheradar.co.nz
St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concert Series: Ninth Piano Extravaganza: Ten pianists play two, three, four (and even more) at a time, on one or more pianos. Tea/coffee at door. Bring your lunch. St Andrew’s Church, June 3 (12.30pm). Admission free/koha.
Poverty Bay Blues Night: Every first Tuesday of the month at the Dome. June 4, doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. $5 at the door.
Hospice Tairawhiti Annual Night of Laughs: Comedians Ben Hurley, Michelle A’Court and Donna Brookbanks perform at the War Memorial Theatre on June 7 (8pm). Tickets $49 plus booking fee from TicketDirect and Stephen Jones.
Tairawhiti Museum winter concert series: Classical guitar duo Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga. Sunday, June 9 (2pm) Entry $5 adults, children and students with ID free.
TheatreFearless Fridays Improv Comedy Club: For ages 15 and over. A fun and fearless foray into improv comedy. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, tomorrow, 6.30pm, $5 cash-only door sales.
The Palace Dance Studio: Reclaim the Crown: Hip-hop dance company direct from Auckland. War Memorial Theatre, June 15, (7pm).
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: OHO. Recent work by Fiona Collis, Melanie Tahata and Izzy Te Rauna. Hei Ora exhibition, recent works by Henare Brooking. About Time, paintings by Dave Andrew. Flat-Pack Whakapapa, artist, weaver and academic Dr Maureen Lander has created three installations that explore the connections between whakapapa and raranga (Maori weaving).
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Evan Woodruffe.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Annabel Dowding.
Verve Cafe: Installation by Conor Jeory.
At the moviesDome cinema
Thunder Road: Officer Jim Arnaud (write-director Jim Cummings) raises his daughter as a love letter to his late mother.
Woman at War: When Halla’s application to adopt an orphan is approved, she must reconcile her activism with the adoption.
The Heart Dances: Backstage look at New Zealand movie The Piano being re-imagined by Czech choreographer Jiri Bubenicek and his twin brother Otto, and expanded for the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Mountainfilm on Tour: A festival of films celebrating indomitable spirit, and inspiring people to make the world more habitable.
The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps: Martin Phillipps and his band are examined in travels as Phillipps faces mortality and looks back on music that was part of the 1980s Kiwi landscape.
Where Hands Touch: Germany, 1944: Leyna, the 15-year-old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth, and they form an unlikely bond.
Odeon multiplex
Aladdin (2D and 3D): Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action remake of 1992 animated film. Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott.
Brightburn: Horror film that imagines an alien child crash-landing on Earth and becoming a force not for good, but for evil.
The Hummingbird Project: Cousins Vincent and Anton play the high-stakes game of high-frequency trading. With a dream of building a straight fibre-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey, they push themselves and everyone around them to breaking point. Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard and Salma Hayek.
Top End Wedding: Australian romantic comedy. Lauren (Miranda Tapsell) and Ned (Gwilym Lee) have 10 days to reunite Lauren’s newly separated parents and pull off their dream northern Australia wedding.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Ryan Reynolds voices Detective Pikachu, a wisecracking Pokémon who searches for his former partner, Harry Goodman, in a world where humans and Pokémon live side by side.
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum: John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has a $14 million price on his head and an army of killers on his trail. Also stars Halle Berry, Anjelica Huston and Ian McShane.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen: A portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita (Patu!, Mauri) told through her children. Her youngest, Hepi Mita, shares what he discovers.
All is True: Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Kenneth Branagh stars.
Poms: Martha (Diane Keaton) brings cheerleading to a retirement community.
The Hustle: Con artists played by Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway have contrasting methods but the same naive target.
Avengers: Endgame: The remaining Avengers must bring back their vanquished allies for a showdown with Thanos.
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