Elton at the Dome
Michael Stodart presents a non-stop, two-hour-long Elton John experience. The Dome, Saturday, 7pm. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz
Smash Palace 107FM launch party
The team at Smash Palace are starting their very own radio station. Smash 107FM will be “switched on” at a special launch party this Saturday, 8pm, at Smash Palace to celebrate the occasion — with live sets by Uni-Fi, Lazy Fifty, The Crumb Factory and Overdrive. Free entry.
Lazy Fifty
Lazy Fifty are heading back on the road and will kick it off with a live show in Te Karaka. Rangatira Tavern, Sunday, 1pm.
COMING UP
No Place Like Dome
Come and celebrate Dome Theatre's 15th birthday, Saturday, June 18, 8pm. The line-up includes The Night Moves, The Oh So Lonelys, Sound Collective and DJ Kirst. Free entry.
Gisborne Choral Society
Presents Vivaldi's Gloria and assorted works at St Andrew's Church, 2pm, June 26. Proceeds to go to Red Cross appeal for Ukraine.
Chamber Music NZ
Presents Tararua - Bird Like Men. Saturday, July 9, 7pm. Lawson Field Theatre.
THEATRE
A Skull in Connemara
Unity Theatre's Norman Maclean-directed A Skull in Connemara is coming June 3 to 11. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or from the Gisborne i-SITE.
Avenue Q The Musical
Musical Theatre Gisborne, on stage June 24 to July 8. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.
The Secret Garden
Evolution Theatre, Disraeli St. June 30-July 10. Tickets from trybooking.com
Rock of Ages
Gisborne Centre Stage presents Rock of Ages, coming to Lawson Field Theatre, August 12 to 20. R16. Tickets from ticketek or from the Gisborne i-SITE.
VISUAL ARTS
Our Side of the Fence
Experimental exhibition at HOEA Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road, until May 21.
Sea of Positivity
A collection of intuitive, abstract paintings and 3D wall sculptures inspired by ocean seascapes. Tairāwhiti Museum, until July 3.
Textiles Alive
For their latest exhibition, four textile artists have set themselves the challenge to focus on creating oversized fabric artworks all presented in their uniquely individual styling. Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 12.
Let Me Be Myself — The Story of Anne Frank
Developed by Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and viewed by more than 10 million people in 80 countries, this exhibition explores what life in hiding was like for Anne, her family, and the other occupants of Prinsengracht 263. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening Thursday, May 26.
Odeon Multiplex
The Northman
Viking story based on the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet. Stars Alexander Skarsgard, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe.
Top Gun: Maverick
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears.
Nobody Has to Know
A man who has had a stroke and has no memories of his life meets a woman on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She lets him into a secret: they were in love.
Haute Couture
Esther is at the end of her career as head seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20-year-old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade.
Operation Mincemeat
It's 1943 and the Allies are set to invade Fortress Europe, landing on Sicily. But they must convince the Germans they have other plans. Stars Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald and Penelope Wilton.
The Velvet Queen
Documentary in which wildlife photographer Vincent Munier takes novelist Sylvain Tesson to the Tibetan plateau in search of rare-animal encounters, including one with the elusive snow leopard.
Downton Abbey: A New Era
A Crawley family excursion to the South of France is the setting for the second feature film based on the characters of the deliciously addictive television series. Family members are eager to learn the circumstances of an inheritance that leaves the dowager countess in possession of a French villa.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
A few months after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dr Stephen Strange, with the help of both old and new mystical allies, travels into the multiverse to face a mysterious new adversary.
The Lost City
Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt have a ball hamming it up in this story of a studious romantic novelist rescued by a book-cover model from the clutches of a billionaire seeking a lost city of riches.
The Bad Guys
Animated film in which criminal animals pretend to mend their ways.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Further adventures of the supersonic hedgehog.
DOME CINEMA
Nobody Has to Know
A man who has had a stroke and has no memories of his life meets a woman on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She lets him into a secret: they were in love. Written and directed by Bouli Lanners, who also stars with Michelle Fairley.
After Yang
A girl's beloved companion — an android namd Yang — malfunctions, and the girl's father searches for a way to repair it. In the process, he reconnects with his wife and daughter and discovers the life that has been passing in front of him. Stars Colin Farrell, Haley Lu Richardson and Justin H. Min.
A Hero
Iranian film that has Rahim (Amir Jadidi) in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor (Mohsen Tanabandeh) to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.
Big Bike Film Night
Two sold-out sessions of biking short films that take the viewer around the world.