Gig Guide

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Hell's Wrath

Smash Palace, tomorrow 8.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz

Music Showcase

Fundraiser for multiple sclerosis. Salvation Army, 389 Gladstone Road, Saturday 2pm. Entry $10 cash at the door.

Country Music dinner and dance

Dance the night away with country music hits from some of Gisborne's finest. Cosmopolitan Club, Saturday 6pm. Spot prizes for best dressed. Tickets $40. Contact Flo Pahuru on flo.pahuru@outlook.co.nz or 027 494 6979

COMING UP

The Betty Tour

After two postponed attempts at hitting the road, Ainslie Allen will bring The Betty Tour to Smash Palace on Friday, September 9, 8pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz

Summer Thieves Spring Tour

After one of their biggest summers yet, indie/rock/pop outfit Summer Thieves are hitting the road for a massive spring tour across the country. Smash Palace, Saturday, September 10, 8pm. Tickets from bit.ly/3IZXJ38

Diablos Caravan

After an amazing run of 42 shows around New Zealand earlier this year to sold out venues and regional towns, Diablos Caravan are back on the road for another national run of dates, bringing amazing world-class acoustic guitar from Spanish, flamenco, blues, country and everything in between. Dome Room, Friday, September 16, 7.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz

The Elements Tour

Auckland-based progressive-rock band playing live, along with Gisborne-based Lazy Fifty and Uni-Fi with rock, blues and metal tunes. Smash Palace, Friday, September 16, 8pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz

Motel California

Playing all the best-loved Eagles hits, celebrating one of the great country-rock acts in music. Dome Room, Saturday, October 1. Presales from $30+bf eventfinda.co.nz or $30 cash sales from Aviary.

Pride and Prejudice

Auditions for Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill and directed by Elizabeth Boyce. This is not a traditional Jane Austen production and as such, may not be suitable for those with a “delicate” constitution (or children). Evolution Theatre, Saturday, 11am.

Avenue Q

Musical Theatre Gisborne, 101 Innes Street, September 8 to 17. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.

Clue

Evolution Theatre are bringing Clue to the stage, September 15 to 25. Tickets from trybooking.com

VISUAL ARTS

Tumanako

Tūmanako is a display of artworks drawn from the Tairāwhiti Museum Fine Art collection and is curated by curatorial intern and recent Toihoukura graduate Maia Keane. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening tomorrow 5.30pm.

Beginnings: The Origins and Progress of a Painter

This exhibition consists of 31 paintings dating from 1956, when the artist Peter Ireland was nine, until the later 1990s when he was middle-aged, plus a mass of documentary material in vitrines, all charting his very zig-zagging course as a self-taught painter. Tairāwhiti Museum, until November 13.

He Ara Hou

An exhibition of new work by Indiana Carter-Dodd, Puratana King, Riki Tipu Anderson, AJ Fata, Jessica Palalagi and Momoe i manu ae ala aeta'e Tasker. Hoea Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road. Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm.

Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition

This year's combined exhibition of the Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers will showcase a diverse range of artworks, ceramics and photography. Tairāwhiti Museum, until September 25.

Pick and Mix: Allsorts

An exhibition of artists with varied cultures, skills and a shared passion for art: Sue-Ann Blandford, Amber Graham, Kiri-Ana Tough and Maiko Lewis-Whaanga. Tairāwhiti Museum until September 4.

Muru

Drama about the 2007 police raids of the Ngai Tūhoe community of Ruatoki. Stars Cliff Curtis and Manu Bennett. Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi.

Gloriavale

Sharon Ready, the central figure of this documentary film about the Gloriavale Christian Community, is of Ngāti Porou descent. The film, directed by Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth (Camino Skies) examines the allegations of abuse in the community.

The Gardener

Shortly before his death at the age of 86, influential gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot recounted his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his eight-hectare English-style garden and summer estate that was opened to a film crew for the fist time in 2009. Nestled among the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world's foremost private gardens.

Three Thousand Years of Longing

A scholar of story and mythology finds a djinn in a bottle and is offered three wishes to set him free. Stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.

Lancaster

Archival material tells the story of the Lancaster, the British bomber responsible for some of the most famous flying missions during World War 2. Film features accounts from some of the men who flew in the bomber and, while honouring the courage and sacrifice of the airmen, it acknowledges the human cost of the bombing raids.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Peter Parker asks Dr Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to use magic to make Parker's identity as Spider-Man a secret again following its public revelation at the end of Far From Home. When the spell goes wrong, the multiverse is broken open, which allows visitors from alternative realities to enter Parker's universe.

The Railway Children Return

A sequel of sorts, in which one of the teenage stars of the 1970 film The Railway Children (Jenny Agutter) returns as a mother and grandmother in wartime Yorkshire when children are being sent to the countryside.

Beast

A widower (Idris Elba) and his two teenage daughters on vacation at a game reserve must fight for their lives when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.

Muru

Drama about the 2007 police raids of the Ngai Tūhoe community of Ruatoki.

Gloriavale

Documentary that examines allegations of abuse at the Gloriavale Christian Community.

The Invitation

A young woman with no family discovers a long-lost cousin and is invited to a lavish wedding where horrors await her.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack star in the story of an older woman who decides to experience what she's been missing out on all these years.

Minions: The Rise of Gru

In the 1970s, young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains but things don't go as planned.

Top Gun: Maverick

One of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is called in to train a detachment of graduates for a special assignment.

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor embarks on a quest for inner peace. But he is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

Japanese computer-animated martial arts fantasy/adventure.