Gig Guide

Ben Hurley. Picture supplied

This week2018 ExNE movie premiere: A showcase of Gisborne and East Coast bands on the biggish screen, Smash Palace, tonight, 7pm, free entry.

White Chapel Jak: Recent winners of RNZ Battle of the Covers band bring their rocking original flavours to town. Smash Palace, tomorrow, 8pm, $20 door.

The Schizophonics: San Diego rockers coming to Gisborne as part of their New Zealand tour. Smash Palace, Sunday, 9pm Tickets $22+bf from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concert Series: Ninth Piano Extravaganza: Ten pianists play two, three, four (and even more) at a time, on one or more pianos. Tea/coffee at door. Bring your lunch. St Andrew’s Church, Monday 12.30pm. Admission free/koha.

Salmonella Dub Soundsystem: New album tracks and remixes, with the Mighty Asterix, DJ Rudeboy, Laughton Kora and DJ Mant. Smash Palace, June 3, 4pm. Tickets $38 +bf from http://www.cosmicticketing.co.nzPoverty Bay Blues Night: Every first Tuesday of the month at the Dome. June 4, doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. $5 at the door.

Coming upHospice Tairawhiti Annual Night of Laughs: Comedians Ben Hurley, Michelle A’Court and Donna Brookbanks perform at the War Memorial Theatre on June 7 (8pm). Tickets $49 plus booking fee from TicketDirect and Stephen Jones.Live at the RSA: G&I, classic rock and easy-listening music from duo Guy and Fiona. RSA Gisborne, June 7 (7pm), free entry.

East Coast Homecoming Party: Worldwide MCs return for a hip-hop festival with homegrown artists: 4sayken, Azee, Coey East, Luminis, Coastees and more. Smash Palace, June 8 (8pm), $10 door sales or $50 VIP, R18.Tairawhiti Museum winter concert series: Classical guitar duo Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga. Sunday, June 9 (2pm) Entry $5 adults, children and students with ID free.TheatreFearless Fridays Improv Comedy Club: For ages 15 and over. A fun and fearless foray into improv comedy. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, tomorrow, 6.30pm, $5 cash-only door sales.

Wairoa Maori Film Festival: Three-day event starts tomorrow with a powhiri at 11am. Mana Wahine short films from 6pm, and Pasifika Shorts from 8pm. Kahungunu Marae, Wairoa. Tickets from www.eventfinda.co.nz

The Palace Dance Studio: Reclaim the Crown: Hip-hop dance company direct from Auckland. War Memorial Theatre, June 15, (7pm).ExhibitionsTairawhiti Museum: OHO. Recent work by Fiona Collis, Melanie Tahata and Izzy Te Rauna. Hei Ora exhibition, recent works by Henare Brooking. About Time, paintings by Dave Andrew. Flat-Pack Whakapapa, artist, weaver and academic Dr Maureen Lander has created three installations that explore the connections between whakapapa and raranga (Maori weaving).

Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Evan Woodruffe.

Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Annabel Dowding.

Verve Cafe: Installation by Conor Jeory.

Te Awa studios: Works by Amanda Rutherford, Eva Zwinnen and Jess Blackwood opens at the Te Awa studios in the Heritage Plunket Building tomorrow at 6pm.

At the moviesODEON MULTIPLEXRocketman: Taron Egerton (Kingsman) stars in the story of how shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight becomes pop superstar Elton John. Jamie Bell (as lyricist Bernie Taupin) and Richard Madden (as Elton’s first manager, John Reid) also star.Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion: Asterix and Obelix embark on a quest to find a young druid worthy of learning the secret of the magic potion, after elderly village druid Panoramix breaks his leg in a fall from a tree.Godzilla II: King of the Monsters: Humans must rely on Godzilla to defeat King Ghidorah and other Titans who have awoken and are causing destruction around the world.Aladdin: Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action remake of 1992 animated film. Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott.Brightburn: Horror film that imagines an alien child crash-landing on Earth and becoming a force not for good, but for evil.The Hummingbird Project: Cousins Vincent and Anton play the high-stakes game of high-frequency trading. With a dream of building a straight fibre-optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey, they push themselves and everyone around them to breaking point. Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard and Salma Hayek.Top End Wedding: Lauren and Ned have 10 days to reunite Lauren’s warring parents and pull off their dream northern Australia wedding.Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Ryan Reynolds voices Detective Pikachu, a wisecracking Pokémon who searches for his former partner, Harry Goodman, in a world where humans and Pokémon live side by side.

John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum: John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has a $14 million price on his head and an army of killers on his trail.Poms: Martha (Diane Keaton) brings cheerleading to a retirement community.The Hustle: Con artists played by Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway have contrasting methods but the same naive target.Avengers: Endgame: The remaining Avengers must bring back their vanquished allies for a showdown with Thanos.Dome cinemaOne Last Deal: Finnish drama about an elderly art dealer whose attention is caught by an old painting being auctioned. He decides to make one last deal to earn some pension money, and teams up with his teenage grandson to investigate the background of the painting. Subtitled.Where Hands Touch: Germany, 1944: Leyna, the 15-year-old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth, and they form an unlikely bond.The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps: Martin Phillipps and his band are examined in travels as Phillipps faces mortality and looks back on music that was part of the 1980s Kiwi landscape.The Heart Dances: Backstage look at New Zealand movie The Piano being re-imagined by Czech choreographer Jiri Bubenicek and his twin brother Otto, and expanded for the Royal New Zealand Ballet.