Gig Guide

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

THIS WEEK

Brown Sugar

Rolling Stones tribute band Brown Sugar present some of the best songs from the Rolling Stones over the past 50 years like they should — energetic, live and loud. Smash Palace, Friday, 8.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz

XMASmash

Dress up and jingle your bells to the beats of Brazilbeat, Dizfunk, Morgz, DJose and more. Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. Tickets $10 from eventbrite.co.nz

Irish Music Session

Enjoy Irish music and a sing-song. The Rivers, Sunday, 4pm. Phone Marty on 021 055 7685 to book.

Art & Wine Evening

Celebrate a revamped Cellar Door and a new art space for emerging artists to showcase their masterpieces. Wrights Vineyard & Winery, Sunday, 5pm. Tickets $25 from tinyurl.com/277246dr

COMING UP

LoGee

Back from the USA to release his EP, LoGee, a maestro and live-looping phenomenon, will grace the Gisborne stage with the amazing Scarlett Eden with her sultry sounds. Smash Palace, Friday, December 9, 9pm. Tickets from ticketfairy.com

THEATRE

The Wolves audition

Audition for a part in a play set in an indoor football facility, depicting nine teenage girls from a high school football team and one mum. Unity Theatre, Sunday, 2pm.

Weed

Gisborne Unity Theatre, 209 Ormond Road, tomorrow and Saturday, 7.30pm. Tickets $27+bf from eventfinda.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.

A Vicar of Dibley Christmas

Join Vicar Geraldine and the parish council as the village of Dibley prepares for Christmas celebrations. Musical Theatre Gisborne, until Saturday. Tickets $30+bf from eventfinda.co.nz

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 on Friday, December 9, 5.30pm and continue on Saturday morning.

VISUAL ARTS

Haru at Verve Cafe

Enjoy a coffee and a treat at Verve Cafe and appreciate Maiko Lewis-Whaanga's latest exhibition, until December 10.

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 Tomairangi. 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.

Tatau: Samoan Tattooing and Photography: Tatau Samoa ma ata pu'e

Tairāwhiti Museum, until December 11.

Odeon Multiplex

Emily

An imagined story of events that led Emily Brontë to write Wuthering Heights. Emily is ill and near death when her elder sister Charlotte asks her what inspired her to write the novel. Written and directed by Frances O'Connor and starring Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

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 red-head, 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.

Bones and All

Two young cannibals go on a road trip across the United States and fall in love. Based on a 2015 coming-of-age novel by Camille DeAngelis.

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. But that is about to change. Good voice cast.

She Said

New York Times journalists publish a report exposing sexual abuse allegations against powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The story also serves as a launching pad for the #MeToo movement.

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, although his approach to cuisine has some shocking surprises.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The leaders of Wakanda fight to protect their nation in the wake of King T'Challa'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 to pursue her dream, she travels to Paris and changes not only her own outlook, but the future of the House of Dior.

DOME CINEMA

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 with her sisters.

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.

Never Forget Tibet

Documentary film in which The Dalai Lama recounts his escape through the Tibetan borderlands into India in 1959. The film features interview footage with The Dalai Lama and access to the private diary of the Indian political officer who led him to safety.