Picture by Thomas Teutenberg
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This weekGisborne Ukelele Underground: Cancelled for tomorrow, but will be back at the Gisborne Bowling Club on October 26.
Gisborne Competitions Society’s 100th Festival of the Arts: Dance, speech and drama at the Holy Trinity Church hall and music at St Andrew’s Church.War Memorial Theatre, Friday 28 September — Tuesday 2 October, sessions at 9am, 1pm and 6.30pm.
Programmes available from Stephen Jones Photography and Ballance St Bookshop.
Family concession $40 (two adults, two children), adult concession $25 (all sessions, all venues); adult $5 per session; child $1 per session.
100th anniversary concert: The Gisborne Competitions Society special will feature performers associated with the “Comps”. MC is Amanda Gillies who will also perform with the Gill Clout Dance Troupe. Admission by gold coin donation. War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, (6.30pm).
Queen Bee sings Connie Francis and other 60s hits: The White House, Peel St, Sunday (1pm). Entry free.
Spaghetti Toast and Shifty Peaks: Dome Bar, Saturday, (9pm), $5 door.
Coming upCosmopolitan Club: GNL plays your favourite music. October 5.
Musica Viva: presents Australian pianist Tony Lee Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu, October 6 (4pm). Door sales, adult $20, students $10.
ExNE - East by North East: A screening of the live 2017 showcase Smash Palace, October 6 (6pm), $10.
NZTrio: presents Exotica Music from Spain, Argentina, Brazil and beyond. War Memorial Theatre, October 11 (7pm). Tickets from TicketDirect or Stephen Jones Photography.
TRAMPS: Singers, musicians and poetry readers welcome. The Band Room, Childers Road, Saturday, October 13 (2pm). $2 in the jar.
NZ Male Choir: Supported by Gisborne Choral Society, Saturday October 13, St Andrew’s Church (7.00pm).
Musica Viva: presents Australian violinist Emily Sun and British pianist Gamal Khamis, Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu, October 15, (7.30pm). Door sales, adult $20, students $10.
Songs for Nobodies: One-woman show by Joanna-Murray Smith presented by Ali-Cat Productions Ltd, War Memorial Theatre, October 17 (7.30pm).
Theatre Dr Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat: War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, October 27 (10am and 12.30pm).
Visual ArtsLife drawing: Lysnar House studios October 1 - November 26 (Mondays, 7pm) $50 for Artists’ Society members, $60 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials.
ExhibitionsTairawhiti Museum: A Quilt Does Not Have To Stand Alone — a unique approach to quilting. Wairere — Waterfalls, digital photographic compositions by Norm Heke; Atarau: Moonlight, children explore native nocturnal birds and insects of this region.
Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street. Mahi A Atua exhibition of work by Mark Kopua, Nick Tupara, Poutu Puketapu, Huia Edmonds, Gavin Smith and others.
Verve Cafe: Wahine Atua, works by Deborah Hope.
Zest: Textiles by More Than Fabric.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Artworks based on Gisborne and East Coast scenes, by Troy Conole.
At the flicksOdeon multiplex
Night School: Comedy in which troublemakers are forced to attend night school in their bid to pass an exam to finish high school. Stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish.
The House with a Clock in its Walls: A boy goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house, which is haunted by the ghost of his uncle’s former friend, who wants to end the world with a clock he hid in the house. Stars Owen Vaccaro, Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
Ladies in Black: In 1959 Sydney, Lisa Miles (Angourie Rice) thinks her job in a department store is a stepping stone to a career as a poet or actress. Instead, she gets the worst jobs and can’t do anything right. But the Slovenian-born head of the modern-gowns section, Magda (Julia Ormond), takes her under her wing.
Johnny English Strikes Again: Rowan Atkinson returns as the accident-prone British spy, brought out of retirement by a cyberattack that exposes all active British agents.
Smallfoot (2D, 3D): Animated musical comedy about a group of yeti who come across a human, each species having thought the other was just a myth. Stars the voice talents of Channing Tatum, James Corden, LeBron James and Danny DeVito.
The Predator: A boy accidentally triggers the return to Earth of the most lethal hunters in the universe.
A Simple Favour: A small-town blogger (Anna Kendrick) investigates the disappearance of her friend (Blake Lively). Betrayals, surprises and the discovery of a dead body follow.
Christopher Robin: The boy who had adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh has grown up and lost his way. Now Pooh and co enter the everyday world to help Christopher rediscover his loving, playful self. Stars Ewan McGregor.
The Nun: Supernatural horror film. In 1952 Romania, a Catholic priest and a novice are sent to investigate the mysterious suicide of a nun at the Carta Monastery.
Crazy Rich Asians: Romantic comedy-drama touted as the first modern film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.
Book Club: Four 60-plus women discuss the Fifty Shades series at their book club. Stars Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen.
Dome cinema
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. They had planned the climb — plotting and practising their route — for six years. For Caldwell, it was the culmination of a life spent overcoming obstacles.
Mega Time Squad: New Zealand-made time-travel action comedy set in Thames. Small-town criminal John dreams of getting enough money to move to Paeroa with his boss’s sister. Sent by his boss to rob the local triad, John comes across an ancient Chinese bracelet with time-travelling powers, but he discovers that altering timelines brings complications.
McQueen: A personal look at the life of tortured fashion visionary Alexander McQueen through recovered archives, visuals, music, and interviews with family and close friends.
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