DISTILLED THEATRE: North Yorkshire writer/storyteller/performer Alexander Flanagan-Wright (pictured) and musician Phil Grainger bring their multi award-winning show Orpheus to the Dome next week. Picture supplied
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This weekFreeDance: Movement and dance meditation practice with sound and rhythm, led by Pascale. St Andrew’s Church Hall, tonight, 7pm, $7.
Sonic Delusion: Swiss-Kiwi electro-folk artist brings pop infused, funky folk looped beats to the Dome Room, Saturday, 8.30pm. Presale tickets $15 from Aviary, $20 on the door
Autumn Awakening: Three tribute acts for heavy metal bands Metallica, Pantera, and Megadeth. Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. $15+bf at trybooking.com or $20 door sales.
Coming upOrpheus: An internationally award-winning show about falling in love, seismic shifts in your everyday life, and how far you’d go to save those you hold close. Dome Room, April 12 (8.30pm) Tickets $25 eventfinda or $25 cash door
Mako Road and Dolph with support act Spaghetti Toast: Dome Room, April 13. Tickets undertheradar or $30 cash door. 8.30pm.
Rolling Stone tribute: Brown Sugar: Cosmopolitan Club, April 13 (8pm), $15 members, $20 non-members.
The Gisborne Beer Festival presents: The Phoenix Foundation, Beastwars, Temple Of The Grunge, and Spaghetti Toast. The Jolly Stockman, April 20 (12pm). Entry from $65. Book at tinyurl.com/yyaheybr
Maori Volcanics: RSA, April 13 (7.30pm). Tickets $20
Gisborne Orphans Club Concert:Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, April 17 (7.30pm)
Flite: Dome room, Saturday, April 27 (8pm) $20 Presales from The Aviary Collective, www.undertheradar.co.nz, or $25 on the door.
TheatreEast Coast Shakespeare Festival: Girls High School hall, Wednesday, 7pm. Door sales $10 adults $5 students.
Mamma Mia! auditions: Come join the party and audition for the ABBA-tastic musical. Gisborne Musical Theatre clubrooms, April 13-14 (9am).
ETC’s Fearless Fridays: Theatre-sports-based improv, give-it-a-go, comedy club.Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St, 6.30pm, $5 cash only at door
Romeo and Juliet: Unity Theatre, Ormond Rd, Opens April 25 (7.30pm) + matinees 3pm. Tickets $20 from iSite or at door if seats available.
Cats, The Musical: War Memorial Theatre, April 29 (7.30pm). Tickets from Stephen Jones Photography or ticketdirect.co.nz, $121.50 adults, $82.40 child.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum
Phyllis Underdown - retrospective collection of Gisborne scenes. Fruits of a Splendid Isolation, a retrospective of works by John Walsh, Richard Rogers, Daryl File and Kent Baddeley. OHO - recent works by Fiona Collis, Melanie Tahata and Izzy Te Rauna. Hei Ora exhibition, recent works by Henare Brooking.
The Weight of the Captain’s Wrist: Book launch for Peter Ireland’s The Weight of the Captain’s Wrist - essays and illustrations that focus on Ireland’s James Cook paintings. Tairawhiti Museum, April 12, 5.30pm.
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Evan Woodruffe.
Verve Cafe: Works by Conor Jeory.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Annabelle Dowding.
Eastwoodhill Arboretum: Photography Exhibition: Seasons of the Arboretum Eastwoodhill Arboretum Homestead Tea House, April 3 - 28, Wed – Sun, 10am-3pm
At the moviesOdeon multiplex
Shazam: A 14-year-old foster kid (Asher Angel) turns into adult superhero Shazam (Zachary Levi) simply by shouting out his own superhero name, a power conferred on him by an ancient wizard. He has lots of fun with his new powers but eventually must knuckle down and defeat the forces of evil controlled by Dr Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).
Pet Sematary: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz and John Lithgow star in the second film adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a burial ground in rural Maine where the grieving are offered false hope that ultimately turns to malignance.
Us: American horror film written, directed and co-produced by Jordan Peele, who directed Get out and co-produced BlacKkKlansman. A family fight back against a group of doppelgangers wanting to take their place.
Five Feet Apart: Two young people with cystic fibrosis develop a relationship, initially complying with the guideline that patients should be kept at least six feet apart to lower the risk of cross-infection. Later they reduce their separation to five feet by holding either end of a pool cue.
Dumbo: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Alan Arkin star in Tim Burton-directed live-action remake of the Walt Disney animated classic of 1941. The storyline of the new film is different from that of the original but still features a flying elephant.
Fighting with My Family: English wrestling-mad siblings Saraya and Zak try out for the WWE but only Saraya earns a spot in the programme. After crossing the Atlantic and making her way in a cut-throat world, she takes the name Paige from her favourite character in the film Charmed. Based on the life of Saraya “Paige” Bevis, the film stars Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn and, in a cameo, the film’s executive producer, Dwayne Johnson. Stephen Merchant directed.
Daffodils: New Zealand “musical love story” based on a stage play by Rochelle Bright, who drew inspiration from her parents’ marriage. Film is driven by Kiwi music from the 1960s to the ’90s. Directed by David Stubbs and starring Rose McIver, George Mason and Kimbra.
Captain Marvel: Brie Larson plays a former fighter pilot whose DNA is fused with that of a Kree in an accident, giving her superhuman strength and energy projection.
Green Book: A bouncer from The Bronx is hired to drive a black pianist on a tour to the Deep South in the 1960s.
Dome cinema
Vai: The story of one woman’s life is told in eight separate moments from the perspective of eight different Pacific Island cultures. Made by nine female Pacific filmmakers and filmed in Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
The Heart Dances: The Piano, Jane Campion’s movie set in 19th century New Zealand, is re-imagined by Czech choreographer Jiri Bubenicek and his twin brother and designer, Otto, and expanded for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. This film gives a behind-the-scenes view of the challenges of the production. Directed by Rebecca Tansley.
Older than Ireland: Documentary that tells the story of a hundred years of life as seen through the eyes of 30 Irish centenarians.
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