Barleycorn and The Band School: Performing at the Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Eastwoodhill Arboretum, 2392 Wharekopae Road Sunday, March 4. Gates open from 10.30am. $5 entry for adults with no children. $20 carload (2 adults and all children).
Jolly Lifestyle Market: Live music, stalls, parking in the paddock. Jolly Stockman carpark, 3 Saleyards Road, Sunday, March 4 (11am-2pm).
Coming upRado & Raybon Save the World: Guaranteed fun with comedians Nick Rado and Raybon Kan perform at the Cosmopolitan Club, March 6 (8.30pm). Tickets $25 from the Cosmopolitan Club.
Tahi Paenga: Gisborne solo musician performs at the Cosmopolitan Club, March 9 (8pm).
The D4, Sit Down in Front: Rocking out at Smash Palace, March 10, (9pm). Tickets are $40 plus booking fee from www.undertheradar.co.nz
Operatunity presents Rat Pack Returns: Three talented young singers: My Way, Fly Me to the Moon and more, War Memorial Theatre March 14, (11am-1pm). Tickets: Ph 0508 266 237 or www.operatunity.co.nz
Subset BC plus DJs Missing Link and Subsekretary: The Dome Bar, March 17.
LRB: Three-piece cover band perform at the Cosmopolitan Club, March 23, (8pm).
The Marriage of Figaro, One Crazy Day: Presented by Wanderlust Opera. War Memorial Theatre, March 31, (7.30pm).
Heath Franklin’s Chopper — ‘Bogan Jesus’: Star of 7 Days brings his Ocker humour, and moustache, to Gisborne. War Memorial Theatre, May 2, (7.30pm).
The Nutcracker: Performed by Moscow Ballet La Classique. War Memorial Theatre, May 7-8, (7.30pm).
At the flicksODEON MULTIPLEX
Red Sparrow: Jennifer Lawrence is a Russian ballerina who suffers a career-ending injury and is recruited by Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their bodies and minds as weapons. She emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow ever produced; then a CIA agent tries to convince her she can trust only him. Also stars Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling and Jeremy Irons.
Winchester: Helen Mirren plays the heiress to a fortune built on a repeating rifle. Eighty kilometres out of San Francisco, the widow of a gun manufacturer builds a huge mansion to try to help the ghosts of those killed by the Winchester rifle.
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool: Film based on a memoir by Peter Turner about his love affair with fading film star Gloria Grahame in 1970s Liverpool, and her diagnosis with cancer. Stars Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters.
Game Night: Max and Annie’s weekly game night gets a boost when Max’s brother Brooks stages a murder mystery party. But is Brooks’s kidnapping part of the game?
The Party: Secrets are revealed during a party. Stars Patricia Clarkson, Cillian Murphy, Bruno Ganz, Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Mortimer.
Finding Your Feet: Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley star in the story of Sandra, who discovers her husband of 40 years is having an affair with her best friend. Sandra seeks refuge in London with an estranged elder sister.
Black Panther: The heir to the kingdom of Wakanda returns to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to take up the throne, but troubles are in store.
Lady Bird: Coming-of-age comedy-drama about a girl and her turbulent relationship with her mother.
Fifty Shades Freed: The Fifty Shades trilogy concludes with newly married Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey having to deal with fallout from their past.
Broken: A former gang leader must choose forgiveness or revenge when his daughter is murdered by a rival gang.
Ferdinand: Torn from his home, Ferdinand the bull rallies a misfit team to help him return.
The Greatest Showman: Musical inspired by life of P. T. Barnum.
DOME CINEMA
The Music of Silence: Andrea Bocelli tells his story through alter ego Amos Bardi, who was born in a Tuscan village with the gift of a beautiful voice but an illness that left him almost blind.
Loving Vincent: Each of this film’s 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas. A team of 125 painters, working in the style of Vincent van Gogh, thus created an animated biographical drama about the artist.
The Hero: An ageing western star has a relationship with a woman and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, while searching for a legacy role.
Dancer: Ukrainian-born ballet “bad boy” Sergei Polunin became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal dancer at the age of 19. Two years later he walked away from it all, resolving to give up dance.
Exhibitions
Dreamspace: Exhibition of works by Peter Harris, 61 Carnarvon Street.
Tairawhiti Museum: The Company of Potters which explores creative/social relations linking three kilns and New Zealand ceramicists, runs until April 15. My Language of Pattern and Colour — Watercolours by Gisborne artist Jan Linklater, runs until April 8. Paintings by Rosemary Parcell. Horse riding and dressage influences her work — opens on March 2. Da Vinci Machines and Robotics — opens on March 9. This award-winning exhibition invites visitors to delve into the mind of Renaissance artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci and showcases many of his inventions.
Te Kurahuna: Traditional Maori arts exhibition launches tonight at Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street, from 5.30pm.
Te Kuwatawata gallery: Te Whare Ripene, an exhibition of ribbon weaving by Te Aitanga a Hauiti artists.
Paul Nache Gallery: Paintings by Evan Woodruffe.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Lottie Lu postage stamp work by Janine McDiarmid.
Zest Cafe: Photographs of NZ native birds by Neil Foster and wildlife-inspired paintings by Joanne Foster.
Verve Cafe: Works by Richard Rogers.
Something on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald.co.nz, or call 869-0630.
