Peter Shaw, Mike Pomana and John Matete are inviting people to Holy Trinity Church hall on Sunday, 7pm for a koha fundraiser concert.
Set Waves album release
Come celebrate the release of Set Waves' self-recorded debut album. Featuring Oceanspace and DJ Kirst. The Dome, Saturday December 17, 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, December 17, 9pm. Entry $10 at the door.
St Andrew's Lunchtime Concert
A recital by British organist and pianist Ian Miles with easy listening seasonal classics. St Andrew's Church, Sunday, 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.
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
Chicago auditions
Director Dean “Danceman” McKerras is coming back to Gisborne to direct and choreograph Musical Theatre Gisborne's latest production, Chicago. Auditions commence tomorrow, 5.30pm.
VISUAL ARTS
Frame & Fortune
New pop-up gallery space Frame & Fortune features pieces from local artists. Open daily (except Mondays) 11am to 4pm and late night on December 15, until Christmas. 111 Gladstone Road (old Stephen Jones photography store, next to Trade Aid).
Haru at Verve Cafe
Enjoy a coffee and a treat at Verve Cafe and appreciate Maiko Lewis-Whaanga's latest exhibition, until Saturday.
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.
The Road Dance
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before World War 1. Isolated by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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.
Ladies of Steel
A Finnish film in which a downtrodden 75-year-old woman hits her husband over the head with a frying pan and, thinking she has killed him and is likely to spend the rest of her life in prison, sets out on a wild road trip.
The Lost King
An amateur historian tracks down the remains of King Richard III to a carpark in Leicester.
Mister Organ
Journalist David Farrier finds himself in a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious stranger.
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
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has burnt through eight of his nine lives. Puss sets out to find the mythical Last Wish to restore his nine lives. Great voice cast.
Emily
An imagined story of events that led Emily Brontë to write Wuthering Heights. Emily is near death when elder sister Charlotte asks her what inspired her to write the novel.
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 directs and stars in a thriller about a tech billionaire who gathers friends at his house for a high-stakes poker game. Things go awry when his mansion is invaded by a killer.
Seriously Red
Australian movie in which a vivacious redhead, after misreading her work party's dress code, trades in her nine-to-five job in real estate for a new career as a Dolly Parton impersonator.
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.
The Menu
A young couple travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant run by a celebrity chef who has prepared a lavish molecular gastronomy menu where food is treated as conceptual art.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The leaders of Wakanda fight to protect their nation in the wake of their king's death.
Black Adam
Teth Adam was given the powers of the gods, but used them for vengeance. He was imprisoned and became Black Adam. Nearly 5000 years on, he is free to dispense his own form of justice.
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls in love with a couture Dior dress and decides she must have one. After raising the funds needed, she travels to Paris and changes not only her own outlook, but the future of the House of Dior.
