New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Classical Hits: Featuring the world premiere of Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s Turanga-nui. War Memorial Theatre, September 6 (7pm).
Coming upStars In Their Eyes: War Memorial Theatre, September 8 (2.30pm & 7.30pm).
Anxiety Club: Dome Room, September 8 (8pm). Tickets $15 from the Aviary or http://www.undertheradar.co.nz
West African drum and dance workshop: Tairawhiti Environment Centre September 8-9 (10.30am-3.30pm including lunch break). Cost is $90 for one day or $150 for two days.
Sunday afternoon concert series: Claudia and Sophie Matthews (violin and piano), Tairawhiti Museum, September 9 (2pm). Adults $5, children and students with ID free.
The Chills + Reb Fountain (solo): Dome Room, September 15, (8.30pm) Presale tickets $45 from the Aviary.
TheatreAuditions for Mayhem and Murder: Musical Theatre Gisborne needs actors for its interactive whodunnit. For details, contact Dorothy Fletcher at 929 1217 or dodonbarn@gmail.com
48-Hour Play Festival: Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street. September 14-16.
Musical Theatre Gisborne quiz night: MTG clubrooms, 99 Innes Street, September 15 (7pm). Tickets $10 from Stephen Jones Photography.
Operatunity’s Tennessee Waltz: War Memorial Theatre, September 26 (11am).
ExhibitionsTairawhiti Museum: The 80s Show, paintings by Philip Clairmont, Julian Dashper, Dick Frizzell, Max Gimblett, Jeffrey Harris, and Gordon Walters. A Quilt Does Not Have To Stand Alone — a unique approach to quilting. Pouwhare: A Pillar of Strength. Tribute exhibition to Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki (10am-4pm), Monday-Saturday.
Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street: Mahi A Atua exhibition of work by Mark Kopua, Nick Tupara, Poutu Puketapu, Huia Edmonds, Gavin Smith and others.
Verve Cafe: Wahine Atua, works by Deborah Hope.
Zest: Textiles by More Than Fabric
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Artworks of Gisborne and the East Coast by Troy Conole.
At the moviesThe Odeon
Crazy Rich Asians: Romantic comedy-drama touted as the first film in a modern setting by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. Stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh.
Mile 22: A CIA task force must get an informant 22 miles to an extraction point while being hunted by terrorists. Stars Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich.
Spitfire: Documentary film on the most famous fighter plane ever made.
Mar Gaye Oye Loko: Sunday screening of Punjabi-language romantic comedy. Stars Gippy Grewal.
The Happytime Murders: In a world where puppets coexist with humans, puppet private investigator Phil Philips (Bill Barretta) reunites with Detective Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy) to find a serial killer.
The Meg: Scientists encounter a 23-metre megalodon shark while on a rescue mission at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Stars Jason Statham, Cliff Curtis, Rainn Wilson and Li Bingbing.
Book Club: Four 60-plus women discuss the Fifty Shades series at their book club. Stars Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson and Craig T. Nelson.
BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee directs fact-based film about a black undercover policeman who uses a Jewish surrogate to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colorado Springs.
The Darkest Minds: Science fiction thriller based on novel about teenagers with superpowers going on the run from the government.
Mission: Impossible — Fallout: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team have a race against time to retrieve plutonium cores from a terrorist group.
The Wife: A wife (Glenn Close) questions her life choices as she travels with her husband to Stockholm for the Nobel Prizes.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Set five years after the events of Mamma Mia! Film stars Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth, Andy Garcia and Cher.
Dome Cinema
Interlude in Prague: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, tired of demonstrating his talents to a privileged elite, is brought to the Bohemian city of Prague by Baron Saloka.
Zama: An administrative official in a remote Spanish colony in 18th century South America longs for a better assignment but is frustrated over a long period.
Number One: Corporate drama about a woman making a bid to become the first female chief executive of a company listed in the French equivalent of the Dow Jones.
LBJ: Woody Harrelson plays Lyndon B. Johnson, the Vice-President who was made US President after John F. Kennedy was killed. The film focuses on the political upheaval Johnson faced, and how he worked to heal the nation.
The Way: A New Zealand story of surf culture featuring past and present heroes. Former Championship Tour surfers Maz Quinn and Ricardo Christie will answer questions after the film (on Saturday).
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