Gig Guide

Danger-act duo Charlie and Rachel Atlas bring their modern-day vaudeville show to Smash Palace.

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THIS WEEKSaritah: Acoustic reggae Smash Palace, Friday, 6-8pm Free entry.

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

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

Death Do Us Part: Danger show — burlesque knife throwing action. Smash Palace, 7.30pm, March 2. Bookings at Eventfinda or 0800 BUY TIX (289 849) General admission $15.

Tour De Science: A Science Storytelling Show The Dome, 8pm, March 2 . All ages. Entry $10. Phone sales 0800 BUY TIX (289 849). Door sales also available.

The World’s First Organ Recital in a Woolshed: John Wells on his Roland C330 digital organ performs in a Muriwai woolshed, Wairakaia Station, State Highway 2, Muriwai, 7pm, March 7. Admission $20, student $5. Bus to and from Woolshed $7. Ph Gill at 868 6443 or email gillco@gisborne.net.nz

That’s Amore: Operatunity presents a concert by three tenors. The War Memorial Theatre, March 8. Tickets $34 and include lunch (Discounts available for groups). Bookings: 0508 266 237 or www.operatunity.co.nz

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

LRB: Three-piece cover band. The Cossie Club; March 10 (8pm till late).

One One One: Tauranga covers band. The Cossie Club; March 17 (8pm till late).

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

Miss Peach and the Travellin Bones: Storyteller-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).

Jayne Tankersley and Greg Neil masterclass: Performers and educators Jayne Tankersley and Greg Neil from Hamilton present master classes, seminars and private lessons in their specialty fields of piano, vocal and choral training for music students and teachers. Sunday and Monday April 9-10.

Aotearoa surf film festival: The Dome, March 4, 6pm

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

AT THE FLICKSODEON MULTIPLEXT2 Trainspotting: Director Danny Boyle’s sequel to his 1996 film. Loosely based on Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel, Porno. With original Trainspotting stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.

Rings: Third film in The Ring franchise of supernatural horror films in which people die after watching a cursed videotape.

Fist Fight: Ice Cube and Charlie Day star as teachers who fall prey to pranks on the last day of school. When one of them is fired for his reaction, he blames the other for his dismissal and challenges him to a fight.

The Great Wall: Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe play western adventurers drawn into a struggle between a horde of alien monsters and a secretive Chinese military sect. Set in the Song dynasty (960 to 1279) in the vicinity of the Great Wall.

Gold: Matthew McConaughey plays an unlucky businessman who teams up with a geologist to find gold deep in the uncharted jungles of Borneo.

Fifty Shades Darker: Sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey. Based on novel of the same name by E. L. James. 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 Goodbye Pork Pie . . . three friends drive a Mini to Invercargill, with police in pursuit. Written and directed by Matt Murphy, son of GPP director Geoff Murphy. Stars James Rolleston.

La La Land: Musician (Ryan Gosling) and aspiring actress (Emma Stone) fall in love in LA.

Hidden Figures: Three African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data for pioneering space missions. Nominated for best-picture Oscar.

Lion: An Indian boy separated from his family seeks them from thousands of kilometres away.

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

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

DOME CINEMAThe 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.

Paterson: Jim Jarmusch film in which bus driver Paterson (Adam Driver) observes the city, listens to conversation fragments, and writes 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.

Jackie: Film portrait of First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Natalie Portman has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the lead role.

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.

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.

Tairawhiti Museum: A-Hoe! Exhibition: Toihoukura associate professor and artist Steve Gibbs shows 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.

COMING UPTe Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki: His influence on Maori visual art symposium. Toihoukura, 5pm, March 23. Entry free.

Haahi: Exhibition by Tairawhiti artists 5.30pm, March 22, Tupara Gallery.

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