The Walsh Brothers. Marina Park, Friday, February 5, 6pm. Bring a picnic and relax on the lawn.
Cosmopolitan Club, Friday, February 5, 8pm. Free entry.
Free music festival featuring The Black Seeds, Supreme Brother Sound, Troy Kingi and The Clutch, The Witchdoctor, Bella Kalolo and more.The Soundshell, Centennial Marine Drive, February 6, 10.30am-4.00pm.
Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street. Friday, January 15 - 30. Tickets for 7pm shows and 3pm matinees, $28+bf for adults, $25+bf youth/seniors, from
Drama workshops with actor/writer/director Belinda Campbell. Dance workshops with choreographer/dancer Anita Zwart. Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, January 27-31. Several more classes for various ages are also available. For more information visit .
Works by John Walsh, Evan Woodruffe and Virginia Leonard.
Rachel Barber, Dreamland.
A collection of surrealist works by Tish Scott. Wairoa Museum, January 26-March 5.
A multi-media exhibition featuring Gisborne-born boxer Tom Heeney, New Zealand’s first global sporting hero and world 1928 heavyweight title contender. Tairawhiti Museum, December 12 - February 28.
Works by Kaaterina Kerekere, Tai Kerekere, Fiona Collis, Michelle Kerr, Wendy Whitehead, Johnny Poi, Hiwirori Maynard, Tawera Tahuri, Henare Tahuri, Claudette Collis, and aspiring rangatahi artists Tangiahua Kerekere, Maia Kerekere, Te Owaina Tangohau, Waiapu Tangianau, Cyene Tahuri, Te Hurutea Hapi, Khama Paul, and Te Whaitiri Tangohau. Tairawhiti Museum, January 30-March 21.
Vee Hoy’s photographic exploration of diversity in identification. Tairawhiti Museum, opens February 5 at 5.30pm — April 25.
Liam Neeson plays an Arizona rancher and former Marine living on the Mexican border and drawn in to the protection of a boy on the run from members of a cartel.
A reclusive writer has her life upended when a boy evacuated from wartime London comes to stay with her and awakens her caring side. Stars Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond and Penelope Wilton.
Pixie sets out to avenge her mother’s death by attempting a heist to give her the means to leave behind her small-town life. When things turn bad she goes on the run in the Irish countryside with two out-of-their-depth misfits.
Kate Hudson plays Zu, a newly sober drug dealer who becomes sole guardian of her teenaged autistic half-sister Music. Written and directed by singer-songwriter Sia.
Oscar Kightley tells the story of Dawn Raid Entertainment, the South Auckland music label that backed hip-hop and rhythm and blues artists like Savage and Aaradhna.
A mother is paralysed in a fall and she, her husband and their children struggle to adjust to their new life. An injured baby magpie makes all the difference.
A med school dropout sets out to get even with predatory men following the death by suicide of her friend after nobody believed her rape complaint. In bars she feigns being drunk, then turns the tables on men who try to take advantage.
Young Firedrake wants to show that he’s a real dragon. When humans are about to destroy his family’s last refuge, Firedrake sets off on an adventure with forest brownie Sorrel. They and Ben, who claims to be a dragon rider, must work together because they are being hunted by a dragon-eating monster created to track down and kill every dragon on Earth.
Animated story of a girl who misuses her ability to create and control others’ dreams to teach her stepsister a lesson.
Diana Prince is working at the Smithsonian when not fighting crime as Wonder Woman. Businessman Maxwell Lord visits the Smithsonian in search of a dreamstone that grants wishes to anyone who touches it, and then things kick off.
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken home town for a funeral, but his return opens a decades-old wound — the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
The prehistoric Crood family discover an idyllic, walled-in paradise, but they must also learn to live with a family a couple of steps above them on the evolutionary ladder.
Celebrity chef Yotam Ottolenghi assembles a team of the world’s most innovative pastry chefs to put on a Versailles-themed culinary gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Spanish comedy in which a couple invite their neighbours from across the hall for an evening’s entertainment. Soon small talk becomes the least of their problems.
A struggling street musician becomes the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat at Christmas.
