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Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald.co.nz or telephone 869-0630.
This weekSoulfej: Reggae/dub sounds with three-part harmonies. Smash Palace, tomorrow (8.30pm). Free entry.
TRAMPS: Beginners to experienced singers, musicians and poetry readers are welcome to come along and perform. The Band Room, Saturday (1.30pm). $2 in the jar.
Hail To The Thieves: Radiohead tribute band, The Dome, Saturday (8.30pm). $20 cash on the door.
Welcome to Smashville: Featuring The Warratahs and Honey Jam, Smash Palace, Saturday (9pm). Tickets $30 from www.undertheradar.co.nz
G’Zukers Goodtime Band: Playing live, platters available. Matawhero Wines, Sunday (1pm). Free entry.
Jon Toogood: Solo acoustic set from the Shihad frontman, Smash Palace, February 8 (7pm). Tickets $42.50 at the door or from www.jontoogood.live
Coming upBlack Slate: UK reggae band returns to Gisborne for one show. Supported by Te Whanau Up Rising. Shipwreck Bar, February 8 (8.30pm). Tickets $40+bf from eventafinda.co.nz, door sales $50.
Save our Francis Bacon!:The Poverty Bay Blues Club, New Orleans jazz pianist David Parquette and friends present an evening of New Orleans jazz and blues to raise funds to pay for the club’s recently bought Francis Bacon piano. Dome Room, February 9 (6pm). $10 cash at the door.
Tiromoana Summer Concert Series: Berlin-based lyric soprano Joanna Foote and Auckland tenor Harry Grigg perform operatic pieces, supported by pianist Xing Wang. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred Street, Okitu, February 10 (2.30pm). Tickets: adult $25, student/child free.
Spaghetti Toast with Maorissey: Gisborne band Spaghetti Toast with Set Waves, and Smiths tribute band Maorissey, Dome garden bar, February 16 (9pm). $10 on the door.
Marlon Williams: The Turangawaewae Tour: Australian-based Kiwi singer-songwriter plays live Alt-country. folk and bluegrass. War Memorial Theatre, February 21 (7.30pm). Tickets available at TicketDirect, $68.55+bf and Stephen Jones Photography $71.
Jeremy Elwood and Michele A’Court: On the Road: Insightful and outrageously entertaining husband-and-wife comedians. The Gaiety Theatre, 252 Marine Parade, Wairoa, February 21 (7.30pm), $25. Tickets available from The Gaiety Theatre Facebook page, i-Site Wairoa phone 0800 924 762 or Wairoa District Council.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Ambitious Women, a look back at the Gisborne suffragette movement, Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro. He Tirohanga ki Tai: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Hawaiiki Hou (New Horizons), works by Toihoukura students and staff. Posing, Not Posing Exhibition, take a look before selfie sticks.
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Glen Hayward and Oliver King.
Verve Cafe: Works by Maiko Lewis-Whaanga and Blair Hindmarsh.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Krystle Kelly.
Life drawing at Lysnar House: Eight week programme starts February 4 (7pm). Gisborne Artists Society members $50, non-members $60 or $8 a session for GAS members, $10 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials. For more information, call Chris at 868 3422.
At the moviesDOME CINEMA
Making the Grade: Irish documentary that invites viewers into the world of piano lessons and students’ preparations for graded exams, Grade 8 being the top. Film explores the bond between teachers and pupils.
Ocean Film Tour — Volume 5: The International Ocean Film Tour Volume 5 is on its way with the best ocean adventures and environmental documentaries on board.
Hurricane: Film drama that tells the story of Polish airmen who joined the Royal Air Force to continue fighting Nazi Germany.
Kusama: Infinity: Yayoi Kusama grew up in wartime Japan in a dysfunctional family who discouraged her creative ambitions. Coping with mental illness, Kusama has created a legacy that spans a range of artistic disciplines.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Green Book: An Italian-American bouncer from The Bronx is hired to drive a world-class black pianist on a concert tour to the Deep South in the 1960s. The Green Book guides them to the places that are safe for African-Americans. Stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
Bohemian Rhapsody (sing-along): The Freddie Mercury film reissued with song lyrics on screen.
The Mule: Clint Eastwood plays an elderly war veteran running drugs for a Mexican cartel. Also stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia.
Glass: Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man with 24 personalities. Stars James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly: A Japanese anime martial arts movie.
Mary Queen of Scots: Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Storm Boy: Storm Boy has grown up to be Michael Kingley, grandfather and retired businessman. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can’t explain, he is forced to rekindle childhood memories of growing up on an isolated coastline with his father.
The Kid Who Would Be King: A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise is set in a shared multiverse called the Spider-Verse.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: Hiccup has created a dragon utopia, but danger threatens the village he and Toothless call home.
Mary Poppins Returns: Set in 1930s London, 25 years after the events of the original film that starred Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins returns.
Aquaman: Arthur Curry, heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, must lead his people against his half-brother Orm, who seeks to unite the underwater kingdoms against the surface world.
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Video game bad guy Ralph and misfit Vanellope von Schweetz risk everything by travelling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush.
Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald.co.nz or telephone 869-0630.
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