G’zukers Goodtime Band: Playing live at Matawhero Wines, Riverpoint Road ,Sunday, February 25, (1-3pm). Repertoire includes Louden Wainwright, Vance Joy, Monsters and Men, David Kilgour, Brooke Fraser, OMC, The Nukes, Split Enz and The Swingers.
COMING UP
10 String Symphony: Nashville fiddler duo perform at the EastEnd Cafe, Wairoa, March 1 (7.30pm), $20 at the door.
Dub Cymatics: Dome garden bar, March 3 (7pm-11pm). Free entry.
Barleycorn: Performing at the Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Eastwoodhill, March 4.
Rado & Raybon Save the World: Comedy at the Cosmopolitan Club, March 6. Tickets $25 from Cosmopolitan Club or i-Site.
Tahi Paenga: Cosmopolitan Club, March 9 (8pm).
The D4, Sit Down in Front: Rocking out at Smash Palace, March 10, (9pm). Tickets are $40 from www.undertheradar.co.nz
Subset BC plus DJs Missing Link and Subsekretary: The Dome Bar, March 17.
LRB: Cosmopolitan Club, March 23, (8pm).
The Marriage of Figaro, One Crazy Day: Presented by Wanderlust Opera. War Memorial Theatre, March 31, (7.30pm).
Heath Franklin’s Chopper — ‘Bogan Jesus’
Star of 7 Days brings his Ocker humour, and moustache, to Gisborne. War Memorial Theatre, May 2, (7.30pm).
The Nutcracker: Performed by Moscow Ballet La Classique. War Memorial Theatre, May 7-8, (7.30pm).
ExhibitionsDreamspace: Exhibition of works by Peter Harris, 61 Carnarvon Street.
Tairawhiti Museum: Toru Tekau, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of a new movement in ceramics, Nga Kaihanga Uku — Maori Clay Artists runs until February 26. The Company of Potters which explores creative/social relations linking three kilns and New Zealand ceramicists, runs until April 15. My Language of Pattern and Colour — Jan Linklater, opens on Friday, February 23. Rosemary Parcell — opens on March 2.
Te Kuwatawata gallery: Te Whare Ripene, an exhibition of ribbon weaving by Te Aitanga a Hauiti artists.
Paul Nache Gallery: Paintings by Evan Woodruffe.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Lottie Lu postage stamp work by Janine McDiarmid.
Zest Cafe: Photographs of NZ native birds by Neil Foster and wildlife-inspired paintings by Joanne Foster.
Verve Cafe: Works by Richard Rogers.
At the flicksDOME CINEMA
Loving Vincent: Each of this film’s 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas. A team of 125 painters, working in the style of Vincent van Gogh, thus created an animated biographical drama about the artist.
The Music of Silence: Andrea Bocelli tells his story through alter ego Amos Bardi. Bardi’s life was full of challenges from an early age. He was born in a Tuscan village with the gift of a beautiful voice but an illness that left him almost blind.
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars: The 18-time Grammy Award-winner is profiled in this documentary tribute directed by Lili Fini Zanuck.
Aotearoa Surf Film Festival: Two screenings, one headed by the feature Perilous Sea, in which UK director Mike Bromley follows a group of surfers as they explore the landscapes and waves of the North Atlantic fringe; and the other headed by Nervous Laughter, in which director Dan Norkunas takes an inside look at the wave nicknamed Jaws. Both with shorts.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Game Night: Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams play Max and Annie, whose weekly game night gets a boost when Max’s brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) stages a murder mystery party. Then Brooks is kidnapped. Is it part of the game?
The Party: Dark comedy of a party at which secrets are revealed and tensions build. Stars Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy and Bruno Ganz.
Finding Your Feet: Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley star in the story of Sandra, who discovers that her husband of 40 years is having an affair with her best friend. Sandra seeks refuge in London with an elder sister who makes her leave her comfort zone.
Black Panther: After the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, T’Challa returns to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to take up the throne, but troubles are in store.
Lady Bird: Coming-of-age comedy-drama about a girl and her turbulent relationship with her mother.
Fifty Shades Freed: The Fifty Shades trilogy concludes with newly married Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey having to deal with fallout from their past.
Phantom Thread: The life of a 1950s London dressmaker is turned upside-down by a younger woman. Stars Daniel Day-Lewis.
Broken: A former gang leader must choose forgiveness or revenge when his daughter is murdered by a rival gang.
Darkest Hour: Prime Minister Winston Churchill leads a country on the edge of a precipice.
The Post: The first female newspaper publisher in the US and her editor do battle with the government over long-kept secrets.
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri: A mother uses billboards to challenge the police to catch her daughter’s killer.
Ferdinand: Torn from his home, Ferdinand the bull rallies a misfit team to help him return.
The Greatest Showman: Musical inspired by life of P. T. Barnum.
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