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This week30th Gisborne International Music Competition: Semi-finals, Friday, War Memorial Theatre (10am, 2pm and 7pm). Free entry.
Almost Like The Church: Friday, Smash Palace (7pm), free entry. Followed by Summer Soundcheck featuring Brazilbeat Soundsystem + Dizfunk (10pm), $5 door.
Gisborne Ukulele Underground: Uke or experience not essential. Gisborne Bowling Club, tomorrow, 7.30pm. $5.
Concert under the Leaves: Bring a picnic and enjoy music from contestants in the Gisborne International Music Competition. Saturday, Marina Park, midday, free.
30th Gisborne International Music Competition - Final: Three classical music finalists will vie for the top prize. Saturday, War Memorial Theatre, (7pm). Tickets: $10 adults, students free, from Stephen Jones Photography, War Memorial Theatre or http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz
Queen Bee and B Bumble: Singing 1960s hits and pre-Xmas favourites. The White House, Sunday (1pm). Free entry.
The ABBA Show: Singing all your favourites from the 1970s Swedish pop group. Sunday, War Memorial Theatre. Evening concert sold out. Some tickets available for 2pm show.
Nanogirl Live: Out of this World: Science and engineering as you have never seen it before, featuring rockets, explosions and a real live tornado. War Memorial Theatre, December 4, (5pm and 7pm), $42.50 adult, $30.50 child. Tickets from Stephen Jones Photography and www.ticketdirect.co.nz.
Blues Club Ladies Night: The Dome, December 4 (8pm).
Subset BC: Dome garden bar, December 8, (8.30pm). $10 door, cash only.
COMING UP
Troy Kingi + Tyna Keelan, The Pines and Rose Campbell: The Dome, December 14 (8pm), Tickets $30.
The Voice Gisborne: Wrights Wines - karaoke at the cellar door. December 15 (11am-4pm).
TheatreKings of the Gym: A Kiwi comedy by Dave Armstrong. Unity Theatre, November 23-30. Tickets $20 from i-SITE.
Mayhem and Murder: A fun ‘whodunnit?’ murder mystery with 1970s songs. Musical Theatre Gisborne Clubrooms, November 29-30; December 1, 6-8 (7.30pm).
Evolution Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: December 7-22, Fridays, Saturdays at 7.30pm, Sundays at 2pm. Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street. Tickets available from i-SITE or http://www.evolutiontheatre.org.nz. Adults $32, seniors $29, youth 17 and under $24.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Wairere — Waterfalls, digital photographic compositions by Norm Heke, Ambitious Women, Gisborne suffragette movement, Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro, opens on November 30. Fresh Horizons, young artists exhibit their work alongside established artists and mentors.
Takuahiroa collaboration: Exhibition by Kaaterina and Tai Kerekere. HB Williams Memorial Library, November 12 - January 11.
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Paintings by Scott Gardiner.
Verve Cafe: Works by Lytton High School students and teachers.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Digital prints of East Coast inspired scenes by Troy Conole.
At the moviesDOME CINEMA
Vermilion: The daughter of composer Darcy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is preparing to marry. Darcy sees colours when she plays musical notes, and after seeing the colour vermilion is prompted to secretly make her own plans. Also stars Theresa Healey, Goretti Chadwick and Emily Campbell.
Pick of the Litter: Documentary that follows five Labrador Retriever puppies — from birth through months of intensive training with volunteers under the Guide Dogs for the Blind programme in California to the time for selection.
Women’s Adventure Film Tour: Some of the most inspiring women in adventure are featured in this celebration of women doing extraordinary things.
The Dawn Wall: American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson lived for weeks on the sheer vertical face of the Dawn Wall, a 3000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park, California.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Creed II: Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), still under the guidance of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), meets a new adversary. Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu) is the son of Ivan Drago, the boxer who killed Adonis’s father, Apollo Creed, in the ring. Dolph Lundgren again stars as Ivan Drago.
Beautiful Boy: Biographical film based on the memoirs Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Sheff, and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, by Nic Sheff. Stars Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
Robin Hood: Latest version of the legend stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson and Tim Minchin.
The Grinch: Animated comedy based on Dr Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones and Angela Lansbury star in voice cast.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant and Morgan Freeman star in a film about a young girl who, given a locked egg from her dead mother, sets out in a magical land to retrieve the key.
Widows: Film based on the 1983 ITV series of the same name. A group of women attempt a heist to pay back a crime boss after their criminal husbands are killed on a botched job. Stars Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Albus Dumbledore enlists former student Newt Scamander to help thwart Grindelwald’s plans to raise pure-blood wizards to rule over non-magical beings. Stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
Alien Addiction: Riko (Jimi Jackson) lives a normal life in a Waikato town until two aliens crash-land near his house. Riko befriends them. Meanwhile, an “alientologist” has tracked the aliens and plans to capture them and show them to the world.
Bohemian Rhapsody: Film tells the story of British rock band Queen, focusing on lead singer Freddie Mercury, up to the Live Aid performance at Wembley in 1985.
A Star is Born: The fourth remake of a 1937 film features Lady Gaga and director, co-producer and co-star Bradley Cooper.
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