A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
111 Duo
Come along to hear all of your favourite songs. Boulevard Bar, Cosmopolitan Club, 190 Derby Street, tomorrow, 8pm, free entry.
Hospice Tairawhiti Annual Night of Laughs
The stand-up comedy trio of Jeremy Elwood, Justine Smith and Vaughan King deliver long-awaited laughs and raise much-needed funds/awareness for a good cause. Saturday, War Memorial Theatre. Doors open 7pm, R16, language may offend. Tickets+bf: $50 at ticketek.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.
One One One
Don't miss the legendary rockers One One One, back for one night only. Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. $10 at the door.
Movement and Remembrance Concert
The Gisborne Civic Orchestra presents an hour of music by Bernstein, Franck, Peter Maxwell Davies, Beethoven, Brahms and more. Koha entry. St Andrew's Church, 176 Cobden Street, Sunday, 3pm.
COMING UP
The Boss — Bruce Springsteen Tribute War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, August 25, 7.30pm. Tickets from ticketek or Gisborne i-SITE.
Reb Fountain IRIS Tour
With touring plans curtailed in 2021, Reb Fountain welcomes the opportunity to bring her latest album IRIS to life with her band in 2022. Dome Room, Friday, August 26, 7.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Seki Bradaz
Masterton-based five-piece band Seki Bradaz are hitting Smash Palace with their pacific-reggae/RnB sounds. Saturday, August 27, 9pm.
The Walsh Brothers Duo
Wizzard Productions presents TWB, singing songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Gisborne RSA, Sunday, August 28, 1.30pm. Tickets $5 from the club.
Rock of Ages
Gisborne Centre Stage presents Rock of Ages, August 12 to 20. R16. Tickets from ticketek or from the Gisborne i-SITE.
Rising Stars Performance: The Nutcracker Prince
Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St, August 17 to 20. Tickets from trybooking.com
Avenue Q
Musical Theatre Gisborne, 101 Innes Street, September 8 to 17. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.
He Ara Hou
An exhibition of new work by Indiana Carter-Dodd, Puratana King, Riki Tipu Anderson, AJ Fata, Jessica Palalagi and Momoe i manu ae ala aeta'e Tasker. Hoea Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road, opening Saturday, 6pm.
Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition
This year's combined exhibition of the Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers will showcase a diverse range of artworks, ceramics and photography. Tairāwhiti Museum, until September 25.
Pick and Mix: Allsorts
An exhibition of artists with varied cultures, skills and a shared passion for art: Sue-Ann Blandford, Amber Graham, Kiri-Ana Tough and Maiko Lewis-Whaanga. Tairāwhiti Museum until September 4.
Salt
A photographic exhibition by Phil Yeo. The portrait series considers our collective and individual identities and was produced during 2020, as the global pandemic changed our world. Tairāwhiti Museum until August 21.
Beginnings: Adventures on the way to painting
This exhibition consists of 31 paintings dating from 1956, when the artist Peter Ireland was nine, until the later 1990s when he was middle-aged, plus a mass of documentary material in vitrines, all charting his very zig-zagging course as a self-taught painter. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening August 27.
Quant
Documentary film celebrating the life of fashion designer Mary Quant features contributions from Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Edward Enninful, Dave Davies, Charlotte Tilbury, Jasper Conran and Zandra Rhodes, as well as her family and peers.
Ruby's Choice
Jane Seymour plays Ruby in this Australian film about how a family comes to terms with the arrival of their mother and grandmother, who has dementia and who must live with them.
The Gardener
Shortly before his death at the age of 86, influential gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot recounted his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his eight-hectare English-style garden and summer estate that was opened to a film crew for the first time in 2009. Nestled among the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world's foremost private gardens. Created over 75 years and three generations, it is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack star in the story of a disappointed older woman who decides to experience what she's been missing out on all these years, and hires a male sex worker.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Japanese computer-animated martial arts fantasy/adventure film. Written by Dragon Ball series creator Akira Toriyama, it is the 21st Dragon Ball feature film overall, the fourth produced with Toriyama's direct involvement and the first to use mainly 3D animation. Piccolo and his former student Gohan set out to save the world from the re-formed Red Ribbon Army.
Nope
Two siblings running a horse ranch in California discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, while the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, other-worldly phenomenon.
Bullet Train
Five assassins find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to each other.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Kya raised herself in the marshlands of North Carolina. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect.
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor embarks on a quest for inner peace. But he is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. Stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Taika Waititi (who also directed) and Russell Crowe.
Elvis
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Stars Austin Butler as Elvis, Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker and Olivia De Jonge as Priscilla Presley.
Minions: The Rise of Gru
In the 1970s, young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains called the Vicious 6 after they oust their leader — the legendary fighter Wild Knuckles. When the interview turns bad, Gru and his Minions go on the run with the Vicious 6 hot on their tails.
Whina
Rena Owen, Miriama McDowell, James Rolleston and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne star in a film that follows the life of Māori leader Dame Whina Cooper.
Top Gun: Maverick
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is now a test pilot. Called in to train a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past.
Victory at nationals means place in Team NZ for Hip Hope Unite World Champs.