Gig Guide

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

Dance to the rhythms, develop your creativity, fitness and health, and add joy to your life. Tonight, St Andrew's Community Centre, 7.30pm to 9pm. Entry $5. Bring comfortable clothes and a water bottle.

With the support of Smash Palace, Rhythm and Lines are hosting a Relay Your Way fundraiser on Friday, 7pm.All funds raised will go to our local Cancer Society. For information about Rhythm and Lines classes, check out their Facebook page.

An evening of acoustic guitar performed by three of New Zealand's finest players. Dome Room, Friday, March 25. Tickets from

Playing all the best-loved Eagles hits, celebrating one of the great country-rock acts in music, Dome Room, Saturday, April 2. Tickets from

New date, all previously purchased tickets are still valid. Smash Palace, Friday, May 20, 7pm. Tickets from

Evolution Theatre Company presents The Secret Garden. One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden has remained a favourite with children the world over. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, March 17 to 27. Tickets from

Unity Theatre's Norman Maclean-directed A Skull in Connemara is coming. April 1 to 9. Tickets on

Musical Theatre is auditioning for Avenue Q The Musical, which will be onstage in July 2022. Auditions Saturday, April 2, 101 Innes Street.

Gisborne Centrestage presents Rock of Ages, coming to Lawson Field Theatre in August. R16. Tickets from or from the Gisborne i-SITE.

Bronwyn Furlan and Kathy Grimson have enjoyed many years of quilting and are showcasing their collection at Tairāwhiti Museum, until May 1.

Baye Riddell presents the exhibition Tihei, on display at Te Waihi Gallery, 135 Waima Road, Tokomaru Bay.

Out of the Closet is a collaborative arts and crafts exhibition presented by weaver Adrienne Stewart and her multi-talented whānau. Tairāwhiti Museum, until April 3.

Paul Nache presents Peter Adsett Tri-Nations and To Face. Paul Nache Gallery, 89 Grey Street, until March 20.

Exhibiting works by Rākau Buchanan, Paul Edgar Bird, Moorina Bonini, Te Awariki Lardelli, Genevieve Pini, Katrina Reedy, Carmel Salmanzadeh and Ron Te Kawa. Hoea Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road. Open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm, or by appointment, until the end of March.

Tai and Kaaterina Kerekere's exhibition is a tribute to leaders who challenged the status quo, paved pathways of empowerment and broke barriers by bringing issues to the surface. Tairawhiti Museum, until March 20.

The mahi in this exhibition was influenced by observations weaver Michelle Hinekura Kerr made while spending time with her whānau during the summer break. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening March 26.

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Two filmmakers retreat to Fårö island and hope to find inspiration where Bergman shot his most celebrated films.

Three best friends from university recreate their post-graduation trip across Europe to honour the memory of their friend Anna. Joining Kate, Liz and Cassie is Anna's 18-year-old daughter, Maddie, fulfilling her mother's last wish to have them take this trip with her. Lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements test their resolve. Stars Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Judi Dench, Franco Nero, Ben Miller, Martin Shaw and Peter Bowles.

Four Zimbabwean refugees become South Africa's top sommeliers (wine waiters). Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and unshakeable national pride, they form Zimbabwe's first wine tasting team and set their sights on the title of World Wine Tasting Champions.

A mother mourning the loss of her husband lives with her teenage son in a small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as a shooting takes place at her son's school. Naomi Watts and Colton Gobbo star.

Batman (Robert Pattinson) ventures into Gotham City's underworld when a sadistic killer leaves behind a trail of cryptic clues. As the evidence leads closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator's plans becomes clear, Batman must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit and stop the corruption and abuse of power plaguing the metropolis.

Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) and Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) seek the greatest treasure never found.

A feature-length documentary that digs into the psyche of West Australian “slab wave” surfer Kerby Brown, a man whose connection with the ocean runs as deep as his love for his family.

Baba Yaga and Renfield are captured by a monster hunter so the Wishbone family again transform into a vampire, Frankenstein's monster, a mummy and a werewolf in a bid to free them.

Film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, recalling his childhood in a Northern Irish Protestant family at the time of “The Troubles”. Stars Jude Hill as nine-year-old Buddy, Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan as his parents, and Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds as Granny and Pop.

Kenneth Branagh returns as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in a tale of exotic locations with a star-studded cast.

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Two American filmmakers retreat to Fårö island for the summer and hope to find inspiration where Bergman shot his most celebrated films. As the days pass, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and the couple are torn apart. Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth and Mia Wasikowska star.

A young Swiss woman takes a job in Beirut as a nurse in the 1950s. She meets an astrophysicist and falls in love with him and his country. They marry and have a child; she makes art and he pursues his dream of building a rocket that will send a Lebanese astronaut to the moon. It is not until 1975, when civil war comes to Lebanon, that her image of paradise changes.

Comedy-drama written and directed by Geeta Malik, who drew on childhood experiences in Colorado. Her parents took part in gatherings of the Indian community that she initially thought were comforting. However, she came to realise they also gave rise to backbiting, gossip and drama behind the scenes.