Gig Guide

Trevor Shaskey (left). Picture supplied

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On this weekQueen Bee: Sings hits from the 1960s. The White House, Sunday, 1pm. Free entry.

Sonic Awareness: Jazz charity concert raising funds for the Gisborne Women’s Refuge. Featuring John Mackill’s Jazz Collective. Gisborne Bowling Club, Sunday, 2.30pm. $15.

The Messy Magic Adventure: Husband-and-wife duo, David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache present their family-friendly magic show. Smash Palace, Sunday, (1.30pm). Adults, $15. Children under-16, $10. This is followed by a Harry Houdini-inspired magic show for adults (7.30pm). Cost is $20. R14.

30th Gisborne International Music Competition: First rounds of competition on November 26-28. The semi-final is on November 30. War Memorial Theatre (10am, 2pm and 7pm). Free entry.

James Reid with Brendan McCarthy: Reid from The Feelers playing solo and acoustic music, with special guest Brendan McCarthy from Apollo Steamtrain. Smash Palace, November 28, 8pm. Tickets $35 from Eventfinda or the venue.

Coming upGisborne Ukulele Underground: Uke or experience not essential. Gisborne Bowling Club, November 30, 7.30pm. $5.

The Abba Show: Singing all your favourites from the 1970s Swedish pop group. War Memorial Theatre, December 2. Evening concert sold out. Some tickets available for 2pm show.

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 artsLife drawing: Lysnar House studios, Monday, 7pm. $8 for Artists’ Society members, $10 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials.

ExhibitionsTairawhiti 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.

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: Wahine Atua, works by Deborah Hope.

Zest: Textiles by More Than Fabric.

At the moviesOdeon multiplex

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.

They Shall Not Grow Old: Peter Jackson transforms audio and moving-image archive footage over 100 years old to tell the story of the men who experienced day-to-day life on the battlefields of World War 1.

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.

Dome cinema

Kusama: Infinity: A documentary by Heather Lenz. Yayoi Kusama has pushed boundaries in the art world and has often been at odds with her peers and those in power in the art world. Growing up in wartime Japan in a dysfunctional family who discouraged her creative ambitions, coping with mental illness in a culture that looked on it as shame, and growing old while continuing to devote her life to art, Kusama has created a legacy that spans a range of artistic disciplines.

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.

Yellow is Forbidden: New Zealand documentary maker Pietra Brettkelly (A Flickering Truth) chronicles designer Guo Pei’s attempt to break into the exclusive and mostly European club of elite fashion designers.

American Animals: True story of how four friends steal from the rare books collection of a university library in Lexington, Kentucky.

Women’s Adventure Film Tour: Some of the most inspiring women in adventure are featured in this celebration of women doing extraordinary things.

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