Festival of the Arts: The Gisborne Competitions Society presents ballet, tap, modern and hip-hop; speech, drama and music. September 28-30. Entry $40 family; $30 adult concession; per session: $5 adults or $1 children. Programmes $10 from SJ Photography or Ballance Street Bookshop.
Coming upTe Tairawhiti Arts Festival: The inaugural arts festival opens on October 4 with Maui Putahi — kai, performance and stories of our place. Marina Park, (5.30pm), free entry. More information at https://tetairawhitiartsfestival.nz
TheatreCellfish: Five counts of reckless use of Maori mythology and four counts of possession and cultivation of Shakespeare. Lawson Field Theatre, October 15, midday and 7pm. Adult tickets $20-$25, tickets from Gisborne i-Site.
Shel We?: A tribute to the work of American artist Shel Silverstein and the environment that has made a man. War Memorial Theatre, October 16, 6.30pm. Adult tickets $20-$25, children $15 from Gisborne i-Site.
The Pohutukawa Tree: Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, opens November 1, 7.30pm. Tickets adult general admission $32+bf, youth aged 17 and under $22.50+bf and senior 65+ $29+bf from www.eventfinda.co.nz
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: The Lieutenant’s Calling Card and the Response of a Quizzical Eye.
Lawson Field Theatre: Vai Exhibition — installation by Lina Marsh. October 4-20. Free entry.
Muirs Bookshop & Cafe: Lino cuts by Teri Wilkinson.
At the moviesDOME CINEMA
Florianopolis Dream: An Argentinian couple on the verge of separation and their near-adult children go on vacation together to a Brazilian beach resort.
Girls of the Sun: Bahar, leader of a battalion of Kurdish women fighting extremists who have conquered their town, hopes to find her son, who is being held hostage.
Herbs: Songs of Freedom: Kiwi Pacifica reggae band Herbs are celebrated in a documentary film about what they mean to New Zealand and the music scene.
Dan Carter: A Perfect 10: The personal story of All Black first five-eighth Dan Carter which details both his triumphs and dark times.
Live in Cinemas: Margaret Atwood: Author and social campaigner Margaret Atwood is hosting a rare live in-person event broadcast on Saturday, September 28. It will feature discussion from her hugely successful The Handmaid’s Tale and excerpts from her upcoming sequel called The Testaments. Tickets are $20.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Abominable: Cartoon in which teenager Yi (voiced by Chloe Bennet) meets a young yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai. She and her friends name him Everest and try to reunite the creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. Eddie Izzard voices a character who wants to capture the yeti.
Ad Astra: Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut who goes into space in search of his father, whose experiment threatens the solar system. Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland also star.
Good Boys: Three pre-teen boys get into scrapes as they try to attend a party hosted by their popular classmates. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are among the producers.
Rambo: Last Blood: Sylvester Stallone reprises his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. He travels to Mexico to save his niece, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless cartel. Stallone recently stated that this would be the last Rambo film, saying that his character would “finally find what he assumes to be peace.”
Downton Abbey: It’s 1927, soon after the TV series’ story ended, and the King and Queen visit Downton. Old favourites return.
The Angry Birds Movie 2: Big names in voice cast lead the drive to make a sequel more appealing than the original. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Rachel Bloom, Peter Dinklage and Maya Rudolph are among those telling a story where the birds and pigs must join forces to repel a threat.
UglyDolls: An animated adventure in which the free-spirited UglyDolls confront what it means to be different, struggle with a desire to be loved, and ultimately discover who you truly are is what matters most.
It: Chapter Two: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader and Bill Skarsgard star in the sequel to It. Both movies are based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel, this one set 27 years after the events of the first film.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Sarah Bellows, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories. The stories have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome in 1968 small-town America.
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