Gig Guide

The Modern Maori Quartet performs with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the War Memorial Theatre on March 17.

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THIS WEEKShot Bro, Confessions of a Depressed Bullet: Rob Mokaraka, Tauawhi Men’s Centre, 1st Floor, 71 Peel St, tonight and tomorrow, (6.30pm).

Build-a-band: Motivate your muso mates or just turn up, instruments and sound gear all provided. Smash Palace; every Friday (8pm).

Bodyheat — All Male Revue: An evening of live male entertainment and cheeky games. Smash Palace, tonight February 9, 8.30pm. $20 presale, $30 on the door.

West Side Story auditions: Information packs available at Stephen Jones Photography. Musical Theatre Gisborne clubrooms; February 10 – 11.

COMING UPTiromoana Summer Concert Series: Sydney violinist Fox Chen is joined by pianist Tony Lin to perform all three of the Brahms Sonatas for their respective instruments. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred Street; February 11 (7.30pm).

The Nukes: The Auckland three-piece return after a sell-out concert last year. The Dome Room; February 28, $25.

French for Rabbit: Dreamy alt-folk duo from Wellington ($20 presales online at Eventfinda or $25 on the door) Dome Room; March 10 (8.30pm).

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with the Modern Maori Quartet: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents Summer Pops with the Modern Maori Quartet. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre; March 17 (7 – 9pm).

Tiromoana Summer Concert Series: The final concert in the series is a gala event that features work for four hands performed by Chilean pianist Edith Fischer and the Argentinean Jorge Pepi-Alos. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred Street; February 18 (7.30pm).

The Rude Boyz: Roots reggae band from Napier. $10 door sales. Smash Palace; February 18, (9pm).

Miss Peach and the Travellin Bones: Storyteller-cum-singer-songwriter Miss Peach brings her new album, with support double bass, drum and violin ensemble Travellin’ Bones. Earlybird tickets $15 or $20 on the door (includes album). Dome Room; March 25 (8.30pm).

THEATREThe Pop-up Globe: Make a trip up to Auckland for a very Shakespearean evening in a life-size replica of the playwright’s theatre. Tickets are on sale via Eventfinda and at popupglobe.co.nz Auckland; February 23 - May 14.

Swan Lake: Moscow Ballet company La Classique. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre; May 8, (7.30pm). Sold out.

Four Flat Whites in Italy: Two delightfully mismatched couples valiantly negotiate the pitfalls of a later-in-life OE. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre; May 17 (8pm).

Rhys Darby: Awesomeness Comedy presents Rhys Darby ‘Mystic Time Bird’. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre; August 14 (8pm).

AT THE FLICKSODEON MULTIPLEXGold: Matthew McConaughey plays an unlucky businessman who teams up with a geologist to find gold deep in the uncharted jungles of Borneo. Loosely based on a 1993 mining scandal.

Fifty Shades Darker: Based on novel of the same name by E. L. James. Sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey. A wounded Christian Grey convinces Ana Steele to resume their romance under Ana’s conditions, but Christian’s past threatens to tear the couple apart.

Pork Pie: Remake of New Zealand film industry breakout movie Goodbye Pork Pie, about three friends who drive a Mini to Invercargill, with police in pursuit. Directed by Matt Murphy, son of GPP director Geoff. Stars Dean O’Gorman, James Rolleston and Ashleigh Cummings.

Patriots Day: Drama-thriller about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt. Stars Mark Wahlberg, J. K. Simmons, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon and Michelle Monaghan. National Board of Review chose it as one of 2016’s top 10.

Split: Psychological horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. James McAvoy plays a man with 23 different personalities, who kidnaps three girls.

Hidden Figures: Three African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the first successful space missions. Based on a true story.

Live by Night: Based on a novel by Denis Lehane, with a screenplay written by star, director and co-producer Ben Affleck. Joe Coughlin, a World War 1 veteran of Irish descent and the son of a Boston police captain, gets mixed up in the 1920s underworld. Also stars Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s last stand against the undead.

Lion: Fact-based story of an Indian boy separated from his family and seeking them from thousands of kilometres away. Stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman.

Ballerina: Animated film, set in 1880s France, of a poor girl who runs away from a rural orphanage to chase her ballet dream.

La La Land: Musical comedy-drama with record-equalling number of Oscar nominations. Musician Ryan Gosling and aspiring actress Emma Stone fall in love in LA.

Moana: Disney musical comedy adventure featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison and Jemaine Clement.

DOME CINEMAPaterson: Bus driver Paterson (Adam Driver) has a routine, observing the city, listening to conversation fragments, writing poems. Wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) has an ever-changing life. Paterson supports her ambitions; she champions his gift.

A Man Called Ove: A townhouse neighbourhood’s sullen prefect has his life turned around when a boisterous family move in next door.

Dancer: Documentary on the life of Ukrainian-born “bad boy of ballet” Sergei Polunin, who became the Royal Ballet’s youngest principal dancer at the age of 19.

The Country Doctor: French comedy-drama set in a village where the people’s reliable doctor falls ill, and a young hospital doctor has to prove she can replace the irreplaceable.

VISUAL ARTSEXHIBITIONSPaul Nache Gallery: Village huha — Virginia Leonard, Evan Woodruffe, Glen Barkley until March 7.

Te Whetu Art Gallery: A range of work by Tolaga Bay artists, from acrylic and oil paintings depicting landscapes, figures and more conceptual imagery, to sculpted kowhai flowers and planter pots. Exhibitors include Jeanette Johnson, Fiona Bryant, Kereopa Wharehinga, Jury Harrison, William Burgess, Makahuai Thatcher and Sarah McKinley.

Tupara Gallery: Whitingia Exhibition: Contemporary Gisborne artists, including Walter Dewes, Tawera Tahuri, Henare Tahuri, Mokaraka Phil Berry and Nick Tupara come together in this summer exhibition. Finishes February 20.

Tairawhiti Museum: A-Hoe! Exhibition: Toihoukura associate professor and artist Steve Gibbs shows a series of paintings inspired by his studies of rarely seen waka hoe from around Europe, New Zealand and America. Ko Rongowhakaata exhibition: the Rongowhakaata people share their history through a large and varied collection of taonga from across New Zealand. Mahunga: A collection of photographs from the early 20th century, capturing the establishment of the Mahunga farm station near Matawai; works by John Roy; Gladstone Road: Photos celebrating Gisborne’s main drag.

Gisborne i-Site: Exhibition space featuring a rotation of works by local artists.

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