Free music festival featuring The Black Seeds, Supreme Brother Sound, Troy Kingi and The Clutch, The Witchdoctor, Bella Kalolo and more.The Soundshell, Centennial Marine Drive, Saturday, 10.30am-4.00pm.
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Scribe, Witchdoctor and special guests. Smash
Palace, Saturday, 9pm. Door sales only, $25.
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War Memorial Theatre, March 4, 6.30pm. Adults $27-$37, children $12-$22. Book at ticketek.co.nz
The former journalist performs flamenco guitar. Tairawhiti Museum, March 27, 7pm. Tickets $30 eventfinda.co.nz
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Works by John Walsh, Evan Woodruffe and Virginia Leonard.
Wet Paint auction, tomorrow, 6pm.
A collection of surrealist works by Tish Scott. Wairoa Museum, January 26-March 5.
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A multi-media exhibition featuring Gisborne-born boxer Tom Heeney, New Zealand’s first global sporting hero and world 1928 heavyweight title contender.Tairawhiti Museum, December 12 - February 28.
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Works by Kaaterina Kerekere, Tai Kerekere, Fiona Collis, Michelle Kerr, Wendy Whitehead, Johnny Poi, Hiwirori Maynard, Tawera Tahuri, Henare Tahuri, Claudette Collis, and aspiring rangatahi artists Tangiahua Kerekere, Maia Kerekere, Te Owaina Tangohau, Waiapu Tangianau, Cyene Tahuri, Te Hurutea Hapi, Khama Paul, and Te Whaitiri Tangohau. Tairawhiti Museum, January 30-March 21.
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Vee Hoy’s photographic exploration of diversity in identification. Tairawhiti Museum, opens February 5 at 5.30pm — April 25. POSTPONED
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World War 1 veteran Travis recruits the Aboriginal youth Gutjuk, whose life he saved, to track down an uncle leading an outlaw group. Both are torn by conflicting loyalties.
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In World War 2, a female officer (Chloe Grace Moretz)with a secret package joins an unsuspecting bomber crew.
A 10-year-old orphan girl who grew up without knowing she was the daughter of a witch is taken from the orphanage by a strange duo.
Liam Neeson plays a rancher and former Marine living on the Mexican border and protecting a boy on the run.
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A reclusive writer has her caring side awakened when a boy from wartime London comes to stay with her. Stars Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond and Penelope Wilton.
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Pixie attempts a heist to avenge her mother’s death and give her the means to start afresh. When things turn bad she goes on the run in the Irish countryside with two out-of-their-depth misfits.
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Kate Hudson plays Zu, a newly sober drug dealer who becomes sole guardian of the autistic teenager who is her half-sister Music.
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A mother is paralysed in a fall, and she and her family struggle to adjust to their new life. An injured baby magpie makes all the difference.
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A med school dropout sets out to get even with predatory men following the death by suicide of her friend after nobody believed her rape complaint.
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When humans are about to destroy his family’s last refuge, young Firedrake the dragon sets off with forest brownie Sorrel. They and “dragon rider” Ben must work together because they are being hunted by a dragon-eating monster.
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A girl misuses her ability to create and control dreams to teach her stepsister a lesson.
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Diana Prince (Wonder Woman in civvies) works at the Smithsonian. Businessman Maxwell Lord visits in search of a dreamstone that grants wishes to anyone who touches it, and then things kick off.
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Aaron Falk’s return to his drought-stricken home town for a funeral opens a decades-old wound — the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
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The prehistoric Crood family discover an idyllic, walled-in paradise, but they must also learn to live with a family a couple of steps above them on the evolutionary ladder.
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A couple invite their neighbours from across the hall for an evening’s entertainment. Soon small talk is the least of their problems.
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An executive from Toronto gives up on the rat race and moves to Italy to revive his grandfather’s vineyard.
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Celebrity chef Yotam Ottolenghi assembles a team of the world’s most innovative pastry chefs to put on a Versailles-themed culinary gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Filmmaker Joe Berlinger travels the globe with legendary windsurfer Robby Naish, whose quest to master the world’s longest waves reveals his vulnerabilities.