Behind the Red Curtain: A night of burlesque at the Dome Room, June 15-16. Tickets from the Dome or Aviary: $35 VIP seating, or $30 general.
More Hot Jazz On a Winter’s Day: Jazz charity concert, featuring John Mackill’s Jazz Collective, for Hospice Tairawhiti. Gisborne Bowling Club, Wainui Rd, June 17 (2:30 pm).
St Andrew’s concert series: Confetti: Emily Cargill, flute, Dana Parkhill, flute, Paula Sugden, cello. Expect a professional, polished performance. St Andrew’s Church, June 30 (4pm).Admission Free. Optional koha for performers.
The Bootleg Beach Boys: War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, August 9, (8pm).
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: Classical Hits as opposed to classic hits. War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, September 6 (7pm).
TheatreHe Kura E Huna Ana: Taki Rua Productions. He Kura E Huna Ana tells of the origins of pounamu in Arahura Valley.War Memorial Theatre, Friday, June 22. (7pm).
Evolution Theatre Company: Auditions for Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama Our Town. Parts for males and females 12-70 years old. For more information go to www.evolutiontheatre.org.nz/audition. 75 Disraeli St. June 23 (10am-3pm).
Ice Block: Beleza Events presents a Winter Arts Showcase Multimedia performances with music by Dick Johnson (Akl) and Dizfunk. War Memorial Theatre foyer. July 7 (7pm) July 7 (7pm)
Footrot Flats - The Musical: Musical Theatre Gisborne production. War Memorial Theatre. July 18-21 (7.30pm) Saturday matinee (2pm).
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Tao Nga Pare-mata, Mangatu taonga from the Campbell collection. Hikoi, works by Toni Rangi, Yvonne Tana and Jeannette McDonnell-Rata. He o Mo Apanui, paintings by Erena Koopu. Annual Gisborne Artsts’ Society and Gisborne Potters exhibition, opening tomorrow night (5.30pm).
Te Kurahuna: Traditional Maori arts exhibition at Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street.
Verve Cafe: Works by Leah McCann
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Kath McLaughlin.
Zest Cafe: Cushions, hand-painted fabric with original designs and vintage fabric cushions by Teri Wilkinson
At the moviesDOME CINEMA
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts: Documentary film focusing on two exhibitions — one in 2012, the other in 2016 — at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Features in-depth interviews with English artist David Hockney, 80 and showing no sign of slowing down.
Mr Stein Goes Online: French-language film about 75-year-old widower Pierre, who joins an online dating site using a picture of the young man who teaches him computer basics. Asked to go on a date, Pierre asks the computer expert to go in his place.
The Breaker Upperers: Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek are the co-writers, co-directors and co-stars of a film about an agency that will break up relationships, for a fee. Also stars James Rolleston.
Swagger of Thieves: All-access portrait of hard-charging New Zealand band Head Like a Hole, directed by Julian Boshier, who worked for a decade on the film. Nigel “Booga” Beazley and Nigel Regan feature in a documentary in which no legacy is polished and no one’s feelings are spared.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Kodachrome: Matt (Jason Sudeikis) drives his estranged and dying father (Ed Harris) across country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab that can develop them, as they navigate a world changing from analogue to digital.
2001: A Space Odyssey: Fiftieth-anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction classic.
The Incredibles: Incredibles 2 is released in June, so this is background for those who missed or want to view again the 2004 original.
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Ron Howard directs a “space Western” about Han Solo. A stand-alone instalment set before the events of A New Hope, it features the adventures of a young Solo and Chewbacca. Alden Ehrenreich stars as Solo. Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Paul Bettany also feature.
The Bookshop: Film based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel of the same name, and starring Emily Mortimer as Florence Green, a widow who opens a bookshop in an abandoned house in a small Suffolk coastal town in the late 1950s. While she has her supporters, she also meets opposition as she stocks groundbreaking literature. Also stars Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: While touring to promote her book of humorous columns about wartime life, Juliet Ashton (Lily James) receives a letter from a Guernsey pig farmer who has come into possession of her copy of Essays of Elia and wants to know more about the author, Charles Lamb. Intrigued by the name of the book club to which the farmer belongs, Juliet makes a visit that changes her life.
Deadpool 2: Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) forms a team of mutants called the X-Force to protect young mutant Russell (New Zealand actor Julian Dennison, of Hunt for the Wilderpeople) from the time-travelling soldier Cable (Josh Brolin). Deadpool 3 is in development.
Avengers: Infinity War: The Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to stop Thanos from amassing the all-powerful Infinity Stones. Stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo.
The Breaker Upperers: New Zealand film about professional relationship-enders. See synopsis above.
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