Gig Guide

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

THIS WEEK

Zephyr Love & Jennifer K Austin: NZ Tour, supported by Clown’s Kiss

Smash Palace Friday April 21, 8pm, Retro rock band Zephyr Love has teamed up with Jennifer K. Austin Tickets $20.

Derek and Kay Biddle

RSA, Friday from 7pm. Dance the

night away with local Gisborne musicians.

Mix it Up! Trad dance to live music

The Contrabandits. Girl Guide Hall, 181 Palmerston Road. Saturday, 7pm to 10pm. No experience or partner needed. $10 adults, $5 unwaged, school kids free. Bring a plate for supper.

Kita Mean - Delightfully Camp!

Join Rupaul Drag Race Down Under’s season 1 winning queen on a whirlwind of pop parodies, stand-up hilarities and mental clarities. Lawson Field Theatre, Friday April 21, 8pm Tickets from Eventfinda.

Saturday Night Live: Matt Clarke

Breakers Jandal Bar, 8pm to 11pm. Free.

Eagles Experience

Dome Cinema, PBC, Saturday April 22, 8pm to 11pm. Tickets + Bfee $32,

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The Ashes

Smash Palace, One night of dance-floor faves. 9pm.

Gisborne Line Dancing

Join in the fun. All ages, beginner/advanced dancers. Senior Citizens’ Hall, 30 Grey St, Tuesday 4.30 to 6.30pm. Details: Kerry ph 021 102 4890.

COMING UP

New Zealand Army Band

Tairāwhiti Community Concert, Gisborne Boys’ High School, Thursday, May 4, 7pm. Free tickets from Eventfinda.

Rhythm n’ Lines

Prepare for the international line dance flash mob on May 6 by learning this year’s chosen dance Storm and Stone. $10. Limited to 25 dancers.

The Chardonnay Affair - Rendezvous on The Chardonnay Express

Gisborne Railway Station, Grey St, Sunday May 28, 12.30pm to 5.00pm.

THEATRE

The Wolves, by Sarah de Lappe

Unity Theatre, Ormond Road. Opening night Friday, April 21. Tickets on sale at Eventfinda, adults $27, students $24, concession for a group of 10 or more $22.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Centre Stage presents the iconic

rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. War Memorial Theatre, April 27 to May 6. Tickets from ticketek.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.

Chicago - The Musical

Musical Theatre Gisborne present Chicago - The Musical, War Memorial Theatre, May 19-27. Book at i-Site or Ticketek.

VISUAL ARTS

Lightscapes

Exhibition by Zoe Alford, Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 11.

The Deal Exhibition

Dave Roil’s dramatic and exclusive haute couture garments, with local photographer Tink Lockett with 14 fine art images printed on silk. Opens tomorrow. Closes June 18.

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. At Tairāwhiti Museum until June 25.

DOME CINEMA

Huda’s Salon

A young mother goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem. However, this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda blackmails the mother to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, thus betraying her people.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

London charwoman Ada Harris sees a Dior dress in the wardrobe of one of the houses she cleans, and decides she must have one.

Driving Madeleine

Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to take her to a retirement home. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine’s life. Her extraordinary past is revealed in the streets of Paris.

ODEON MULTIPLEX

Evil Dead Rise

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival.

Mafia Mamma

Toni Collette stars as a mild-mannered suburban mum who inherits her grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere, she defies everyone’s expectations as she finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war.

Suzume

Japanese animated adventure film in which a high school girl and a mysterious young man try to prevent a series of disasters across Japan.

The Pope’s Exorcist

The film is based on Father Gabriele Amorth’s memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. Russell Crowe plays Amorth, an Italian Catholic priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant star in the tale of a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who undertake a heist to retrieve a lost relic.

Argonuts

In a port city of ancient Greece, the people are threatened by the wrath of Poseidon. A young mouse and the cat who adopted her will help old Jason and his Argonauts save the city.

Super Mario Bros

Chris Pratt is the voice of Super Mario in this video-game-to-film adaptation from Illumination.

Allelujah

Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi and Judi Dench star in this adaptation of an Alan Bennett play. Proposed closure of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital prompts the community to invite a news crew to film preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse.

Air

Ben Affleck directs Viola Davis, Matt Damon, Marlon Wayans, Jason Bateman and himself in this sports biopic about the partnership between Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division.

Red, White & Brass

A Tongan fan will do anything to get tickets to the Tonga-France Rugby World Cup game, even if it means promising to deliver a brass band for pre-match entertainment.

John Wick: Chapter 4

The seemingly indestructible Wick is in Paris and on the trail of The High Table.