Gig guide

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

India Sweets and Spices

Dome Cinema, tonight, 7pm.

COMING UP

Diablos Caravan

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

Motel California

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

White Chapel Jak

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

When Sun and Moon Collide auditions

Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, Saturday, March 5, 11am.

Big Theatre Open Weekend

Evolution Theatre is participating in the Big Theatre Open Weekend. Come down for a chat with the artistic director about the upcoming 2022 season, get a backstage tour and a sneak peak at the set for The Secret Garden. Evolution Theatre, Saturday, March 5, 4pm to 6pm.

The Secret Garden

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 trybooking.com

A Skull in Connemara

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

Out of the Closet

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.

Tri-Nations

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

Pride Tairawhiti

To coincide with Pride Month in February, Tairāwhiti Rainbow Collective and Tairāwhiti Museum have come together to showcase stories and experiences of some of our LGBTQIA+ community members who have lived and grown up in Tairāwhiti. Tairāwhiti Museum until February 27.

Whakakaha

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.

Makorori Artists Collective

The collective's second show is on at Verve Cafe in Gladstone Road until the end of February.

Be the Taniwha

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.

Book of Love

Uptight English writer Henry (Sam Claflin) produces a novel that fails everywhere but Mexico. When he visits to promote the book, he discovers that the Spanish translator, Maria (VerÓnica Echegui), rewrote it as an erotic novel. When the publisher insists the pair go on a book tour across Mexico together, sparks fly.

Cyrano

A musical romantic drama adapted from a 2018 stage musical, itself based on the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand. Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) plays Cyrano, who understands that his social status and appearance will be barriers to a relationship with the woman he loves. Nevertheless, he lends his way with words to a tongue-tied suitor.

Valimai

A police officer is assigned to track down a gang of outlaw bikers linked to serious crimes. Indian Tamil-language action-thriller, much anticipated in India because of Covid-caused delays and associated publicity. Its worldwide theatrical release was set for today. Gisborne gets it tomorrow.

Aaja Mexico Challiye

A young Punjabi man travels to Mexico seeking adventure and wealth, and gets more than he bargained for. Released worldwide tomorrow and in Gisborne the day after.

Uncharted

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

Belfast

Semi-autobiographical 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.

Death On the Nile

Kenneth Branagh returns as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in a tale of exotic locations with a cast that includes Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Blacklight

Liam Neeson is a shadowy government agent specialising in the extraction of operatives whose cover has been blown. He uncovers a conspiracy to shut down dissent, and declares war on it.

Marry Me

Jennifer Lopez is a pop star whose partner's infidelity casts a pall over their wedding plans. Then she locks eyes with a stranger (Owen Wilson) and marries him instead.

Jackass Forever

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and the gang get together again to hang out and do crazy stuff.

Sing 2

Can-do koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast prepare a stage extravaganza.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

A magical animal rescuer gives Emily a small red puppy that overnight turns into a giant.

India Sweets and Spices

Comedy-drama written and directed by Geeta Malik, who drew on childhood experiences in Colorado. Her parents would take part in gatherings of the Indian community. Although she initially saw these parties as comforting, she came to realise they also gave rise to backbiting, gossip and drama behind the scenes.

Aline, the Voice of Love

French actress Valérie Lemercier wrote the screenplay, directed and starred in this “fiction freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion”. For Aline Dieu, nothing matters more than music, family and love. Her voice captivates all who hear it, including the successful and much older manager who marries her.

Mothers of the Revolution

Documentary about the Greenham Common women's protest, which started in 1981 when 36 women set off on a 120-mile march from Cardiff to Berkshire to protest against the planned arrival of US nuclear missiles on UK soil.