The Killing Floor Live: Followed by Campbell Ngata playing rare vinyl. Garden Bar, November 30, PBC, 38 Childers Rd, 8.30pm, $10 cash-only door sales.
Summer Soundcheck: BrazilBeat, Johnny Hitman, Dizfunk, Bubzilla, Paws, Djose, MX Dreadeye. DJs in two areas, big-screen visuals, prizes for best festival look + giveaways including R&V pass. Smash Palace, Saturday November 30, 6pm-late. $5.
Summer IPAs at the Royal: Live music, food from the new kitchen menu, eight breweries serving IPAs, APAs, NEIPAs and more. The Royal (Jolly Stockman), 3 Saleyards Rd, November 30, midday-5.30pm.
Gisborne International Music Competition: War Memorial Theatre, December 2-7. Free entry.
St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concert Series: Claudia and Sofia Tarrant-Matthews play piano and violin in solo or accompanied performances. St Andrew’s Church, 176 Cobden St, 12.30pm. Doors open midday, koha or donation for performers. Bring your lunch, tea or coffee provided.
Subset BC present: Courtyard Cosmogony. The Dome garden, December 7. $10 door. DJs Missing Link and Subsekretary and special guests from 8pm.
TheatreThe Vicar of Dibley: Presented by Musical Theatre Gisborne. November 23, 26-30, 7.30pm, November 24, 2pm. Lawson Field Theatre. Book at Ticketek or iSite.
Auditions for Calendar Girls: December 8, Unity Theatre, Ormond Rd. Online audition form at https://tinyurl.com/r8rlxq9
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: The Lieutenant’s Calling Card and the Response of a Quizzical Eye. Native Voices: Ko au, ko matau - I am, we are. Tu te Whaihanga — 37 taonga. Mon-Sat, 10am - 4pm.
Muir’s Bookshop Cafe:
Photography by Gisborne Camera Club.
Verve: A Second Fruiting: Collaborative works by John Walsh, Richard Rogers and Daryl File.
Sketching day with Ginny Penn: Cave Road. Saturday November 23, 10am-3pm. Only five places are available. Call 868 7369 for details.
Studio Clear-Out: Works by Norman Maclean. Lysnar House, November 23 and 24.
Mudge Art Exhibition open home: 157 Ormond Road, November 29 and 30.
Paul Nache Gallery: Blue vs Red, work by contemporary Maori artist Kauri Hawkins.
At the moviesODEON MULTIPLEX
Fisherman’s Friends: Fact-based story of a group of shanty-singing Cornish fishermen signed by a cynical London music executive, on the say-so of his boss, who — as a prank — orders him to make the deal. Soon the cynic is won over, but now he must convince the rest of the music world. Stars Danny Mays, Tuppence Middleton and James Purefoy.
Ready or Not: Black-comedy horror film that stars Samara Weaving as a newlywed who becomes hunted by her spouse’s family as part of a wedding-night ritual. Mark O’Brien, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny and Andie MacDowell also star.
Ford v Ferrari: A team of American engineers and designers are directed by Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca to build a car that can beat the dominant Ferrari team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. Matt Damon plays designer and engineer Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale plays British war veteran and racing driver Ken Miles.
Charlie’s Angels: The Angels network has expanded. Teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys provide security and investigative skills around the world. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska star.
Bellbird: A Northland community rallies round a bereaved farmer. Stars Marshall Napier, Cohen Holloway and Rachel House.
Last Christmas: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Emma Thompson star in a romantic comedy about an unlucky young woman who accepts a job as a department store elf, then meets Tom.
Doctor Sleep: Film based on the 2013 novel by Stephen King, which is a sequel to King’s 1977 novel The Shining. Set decades after the events of The Shining, the film combines elements of the novel and its 1980 film adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Jojo Rabbit: Kiwi director Taika Waititi stars as Hitler, the imaginary friend and “life coach” of a Hitler Youth youngster who discovers his mother is harbouring a Jew.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil: Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) is back and not happy about Princess Aurora telling her she’s getting married to Prince Phillip.
Ride Like A Girl: Movie, starring New Zealand’s Sam Neill, about Michelle Payne — the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup (2015).
DOME CINEMA
Anne Frank: Parallel Stories; Oscar winner Helen Mirren shares Anne Frank’s story through the words of her diary. Anne Frank would have been 90 this year, and her story is intertwined with the stories of five Holocaust survivors — girls who were teenagers, just like Anne, during World War 2.
Hillary: Ocean to Sky: Michael Dillon, a member of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Ocean to Sky expedition in 1977, put together a documentary, From the Ocean to the Sky, released in 1979. Now he presents his revisited version of the film.
Ailo’s Journey: In its first year of life, a reindeer fights for survival in the wilds of Arctic Lapland. Narrated by Donald Sutherland.
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Classic Australian mystery drama about a group of schoolgirls and their teachers who on Valentine’s Day in 1900 visit a local geological formation known as Hanging Rock. Some never return. Based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel of the same name. Stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard and Helen Morse.
