A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Set Waves album release
Celebrate the release of Set Waves' self-recorded debut album. Featuring Oceanspace and DJ Kirst. The Dome, Saturday, 7pm. Pre-sale tickets $15 from Spellbound Wax or $20 on the door.
SKB at Smash Palace
Local band SKB play at Smash Palace on Saturday, 9pm. Entry $10 at the door.
A Night with Fame
Join the Gisborne contestants from 5 Minutes of Fame and watch them perform live. A fundraiser by Samantha Booth. Gisborne Girls' High School Music Room, entry via Wellington Street, Sunday, 6pm. Tickets+bf $10 from undertheradar.co.nz
Service of readings and choir music for Advent/Christmas
Come along to hear several churches and community musicians combine with British organist Ian Miles to create an oasis of calm. St Andrew's Church, Sunday, 7pm, free.
COMING UP
St Andrew's Lunchtime Concert
A recital by British organist and pianist Ian Miles with easy listening seasonal classics. St Andrew's Church, Wednesday, December 21, 12.30pm. Koha/donation for performers. Bring your lunch. Tea and coffee provided.
Smash Carols
The Smash Palace Handle Club and Pub Choir Gisborne are getting together to celebrate Christmas with carol singing and revelry (drinking). Bring pet food to go under the tree for the SPCA. Smash Palace, Wednesday, December 21, 7pm.
The Volt Thieves
Gizzy-born maestros are playing the wickedest of the wicked, and the chillest of the chill from Rage against the Machine to Bob Marley. Smash Palace, Friday, December 23. Tickets $15 at the door.
Smash Summer Sesh
Fifteen acts from around the North Island will meet at Smash Palace on December 29, from 3pm. Tickets $30 from undertheradar or Smash Palace.
The All-Stars New Year's Eve Party
Bring in the New Year with Tauranga-based four-piece band The All-Stars playing pop and rock covers. Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, 190 Derby Street, Saturday, December 31, 8.30pm. Free entry.
Countdown to Midnight
Head to Smash Palace for the Countdown to Midnight on New Years Eve with live music from Manfibian. Show starts at 10pm. Entry $10 at the door.
THEATRE
Pride and Prejudice
This isn't your grandmother's Jane Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match. Evolution Theatre, December 8 to 18. Tickets from tinyurl.com/4jjtkhz9
VISUAL ARTS
Out of the Illusion, Into the Unified Field
A new body of work and a retrospective by Tish Scott. Tairāwhiti Museum, opens Friday, 5.30pm.
Frame & Fortune
New pop-up gallery space Frame & Fortune features pieces from local artists. Open daily (except Mondays) 11am to 4pm and late night tomorrow, until Christmas. 111 Gladstone Road (old Stephen Jones photography store, next to Trade Aid).
Whai au
An exhibition of new works by students and staff from Toihoukura School of Māori Visual Art and Design. Tairāwhiti Museum, until January 22.
Colours Deluxe
Celebrating the achievement of Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne, who in the 1880s undertook an ambitious project to describe and paint New Zealand's flowering plants. Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 25.
He Pounamu
An exhibition of kākahu made by and for the mokopuna o Te Kōhanga Reo o Tōmairangi. Hoea! Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road, Thursday to Saturday 11am to 3pm, until December 18.
The Mudge Murals
An exhibition of Graeme Mudge's rarely seen preliminary sketches and mural design proposals at Tairāwhiti Museum, until January 29.
Kotuku Studios
Kōtuku Studios displays the works of local artists. Open Wednesday, midday to 5pm, Thursday 11.30am to 5pm, and Saturday 10am to 2pm.
Odeon Multiplex
Avatar: The Way of Water (2D, 3D)
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet star in James Cameron's sequel to the first Avatar film.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
In this DreamWorks Animation film, daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Antonio Banderas returns as the voice of Puss in Boots as he embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost lives. But with only one life left, Puss has to seek help from his former partner and nemesis, the captivating Kitty Soft Paws (voiced by Salma Hayek). In their quest, Puss and Kitty will be aided —against their better judgment — by a ratty, chatty, relentlessly cheerful mutt, Perro (Harvey Guillén). This trio must stay one step ahead of Goldilocks (Florence Pugh) and the Three Bears Crime Family, “Big” Jack Horner (John Mulaney) and terrifying bounty hunter, The Big Bad Wolf (Wagner Moura).
Little Eggs: An African Rescue
Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they've been taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.
Poker Face
Russell Crowe plays Jake, a tech billionaire who gathers his childhood friends to his Miami estate for what turns into a high-stakes game of poker. Those friends have a love-hate relationship with the host, a master game-player/planner, and he has concocted an elaborate scheme designed to bring a certain justice to all of them. However, Jake finds himself rethinking his strategy when his Miami mansion is overtaken by a dangerous home invader.
Strange World
Computer-animated Disney science-fiction adventure film that chronicles the exploits of the Clades, mainly Searcher Clade, who has always been a farmer and has never had the bravery of his family of explorers.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The leaders of Wakanda fight to protect their nation in the wake of their king's death.
DOME CINEMA
Stars at Noon
A young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) stranded in Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realises, though, that he may be in even greater danger than she is. Director Claire Denis co-wrote the script, which is adapted from a novel by Denis Johnson.
Ladies of Steel
Inkeri, a downtrodden 75-year-old woman, hits her husband over the head with a frying pan. Thinking she has killed him and is likely to spend the rest of her life in prison, she sets out on a wild road trip with her sisters Raili and Sylvi. The journey through Finland is filled with charming hitchhikers, memories and sinful dancing. When Inkeri comes across her old university writings and finds Eino, a crush from her youth, she is reminded of dreams that were suppressed by a patriarchal marriage. Inkeri has to choose between happiness and convention.
Compartment No.6
Travelling by train from Moscow to Murmansk to study the Kanozero Petroglyphs (rock drawings), a Finnish student forms an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner.
Victory at nationals means place in Team NZ for Hip Hope Unite World Champs.