Smash Palace, Saturday (6pm), $10
Queen Bee: Sings Roy Orbison and 60s hits. The White House, Sunday, (1pm). Entry free.
NZTrio: presents Exotica Music from Spain, Argentina, Brazil and beyond. War Memorial Theatre, October 11, (7pm). Tickets from TicketDirect or Stephen Jones Photography.
Coming upTRAMPS: 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 (7pm).
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).
TheatreOur Town: Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, October 12-27 at 7.30pm with 2pm matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays.
This weekVisual arts
Life 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
Exhibitions
Tairawhiti 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 Ha Art Awards and Exhibition, October 5 to 31.
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 moviesDome cinema
Together: After 60 years of marriage, Rosemary and Philip — played by Sylvia Sims and Peter Bowles — are separated when Rosemary goes into hospital for a routine procedure. Philip goes to a care home but when his wife is returned to their home, he is not allowed to join her. They must prove they can live independently, together. Based on fact.
Stray: Kieran Charnock and Arta Dobroshi star in director Dustin Feneley’s first movie. Set in Central Otago, it charts the relationship between a man on parole and a woman just out of a psychiatric facility. Charnock won the best-actor award at the 2018 Moscow International Film Festival.
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 time-travelling bracelet.
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.
Chasing Coral: Divers, photographers and scientists set out to discover what is happening to coral reefs around the world.
Odeon multiplex
Venom: Investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter ego, Venom. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organisation wanting its own symbiote.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: Animated superhero comedy film based on the television series Teen Titans Go! Robin and the rest of the Teen Titans decide they need an arch-nemesis to get a movie made about them.
Night School: Comedy in which troublemakers are forced to attend night school in their bid to pass an exam to finish high school.
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.
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 and James Corden.
A Simple Favour: A small-town blogger (Anna Kendrick) investigates the disappearance of her friend (Blake Lively).
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.
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