Gig Guide

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

THIS WEEK

Thursday Build-a-Band

Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 7pm.

Smokefree Tangata Beats

War Memorial Theatre, tomorrow Friday, 5.30pm, Door sales only

Friday Night Karaoke

Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm.

Caledonian Society Modern Sequence and Social Dance

Theme: Blues, visitors welcome. Holy Trinity Church, 70 Derby Street, Saturday, 2pm.

Gisborne Orphans Club Concert

featuring guests from Taradale Orphans Club. 7.30pm Saturday. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St. Free. Ph Mike: 06 867 5247.

Gisborne Country Music Club presents Country Hits of the Decades

Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, Saturday July 29, $50 dinner and show featuring Itchy Fingers. Doors open at 5pm. Tickets from flo.pahuru@outlook.co.nz mobile 027 494 6979.

Poverty Bay Blues Night

Dome Cinema, PBC, 38 Childers Road, Tuesday August 1.

Gisborne Line Dancing

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

Gisborne Pub Choir

Smash Palace, every Tuesday 7pm to 9pm. Group sings popular songs. Singing tuition provided, no prior experience needed. Learn a new song each week and sing about a dozen pop classics.

Gisborne Choral Society

St Andrew’s Church , Monday nights, 7pm. Rehearsing for a concert in October of Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna and other items.

COMING UP

Hans Pucket

Pop-rock quartet tour their album

No Drama

Friday, August 4. Dome Cinema PBC.

38 Childers Road, 7pm doors.

Tickets available from:

hanspucket.com.

Irish Music Session

Enjoy Irish music and a sing-song.

The Rivers, cnr Gladstone Rd & Reads Quay. 3pm-5pm, Sunday August 6.

Bowie: Absolute Bowie Tribute

Saturday, August 12. A seven-piece band supported by Lazy Fifty.

Dome Cinema PBC. 38 Childers Road, 8pm, $30 Eventfinder or $35 at the door. Tickets from cancelled February show valid.

THEATRE

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

Evolution Theatre August 10-20.

Michael James Manaia

By John Broughton directed by Norman Maclean, Gisborne Unity Theatre, Ormond Road, August 11-19.

Jersey Boys

Gisborne Centre Stage Theatre Group War Memorial Theatre, September 8-16.

School of Rock

Musical Theatre Gisborne production, at War Memorial Theatre, September 8-16.

Let The Guide know what’s on, guide@gisborneherald.co.nz or ph 869 0600

VISUAL ARTS

Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition

Join the Gisborne Artists’ Society, Pottery Group and Camera Club for their annual showcase at Tairawhiti Museum. Open until August 20.

Ka tū te Rūnanga Exhibition/Whakaaturanga — John Moetara

A mixed media offering by John Moetara who specialises in painting and is active in both whakairo and kapa haka. On displayat Tairawhiti Museum until July 30.

What They Didn’t Teach Us At School

Clayton Gibson exhibition at

Tairāwhiti   Museum until

September 17.

Matariki Exhibition

He Rau Aroha Gallery, 26 Peel Street, featuring mahi toi by various ringatoi. The exhibition runs until August 18.

ODEON MULTIPLEX

Talk to Me

An Australian supernatural horror film directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, in their feature film directorial debut. The film is written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman from a concept by Daley Pearson, and stars Sophie Wilde, with Alexandra Jensen and Joe Bird appearing in supporting roles. Talk to Me had its preview screening at the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, followed by its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in January.

John Farnham: Finding the Voice

A 2023 Australian documentary film following recording artist John Farnham’s career in an authorised biopic. The film was released in Australian cinemas on May 18 and broadcast on the Seven Network on July 24. It includes commentary from Jimmy Barnes, Daryl Braithwaite, Celine Dion, Tommy Emmanuel, Brett Garsed, Graeham Goble, Bev Harrell, Richard Marx, Olivia Newton-John, Robbie Williams and Glenn Wheatley. The film exceeded $2.57 million in its second weekend. The television premiere on Monday had 866,000 viewers across the five city metro spread, and was the third most viewed programme of the evening.

Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback

Documentary in which highly regarded television director Steve Binder reveals his remarkable story — how he teamed with Elvis Presley to defy Elvis’s notorious manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and create one of the most memorable moments in TV and pop-culture history: the ‘68 Comeback Special that reinvented and restored Elvis’s popularity and changed music forever. Directed by John Scheinfeld.

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this film based on American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called “father of the atomic bomb”. Stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence

Pugh, Josh Hartnett and Casey Affleck.

Coco Reo Maori

Coco is the fourth Disney movie to be reimagined in te reo Māori. It is written in the dialect of Te Tairāwhiti to honour the Spanish lineage of Jose Manuel on the East Coast. Te Matatini chairman Selwyn Parata and his son Ngarimu tackled translations for the film.

Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colourful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. But when they get a chance to go to the real world, they discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Insidious: The Red Door

Josh Lambert heads east to drop off his son Dalton at school. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team set out to track down a terrifying new weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

When a new threat emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth.

DOME CINEMA

The Inspection

A young, gay Black man with few options for his future decides to join the Marines, willing to do whatever it takes to prove himself to his estranged mother and triumph in a system that would otherwise cast him aside. However, even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the gruelling rigour of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength and support in this new community.

Country Cabaret

A dairy farmer sees a dazzling nightclub performance and decides to save his farm by turning his big old barn into a country cabaret. In French, with subtitles.