Gig guide

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

Thank Smash it’s Friday

Overdrive, the rowdiest teenagers in town, perform a combination of originals and covers, before Wairoa-based Hydra hit the stage. Smash Palace, Friday, 8pm. $10 at the door.

Danny Byrd

Drum and bass icon and king of the dance floor is heading to Sugar Night Club this Friday, 9pm. Tickets $25+bf from ticketfairy.com

COMING UP

No Place Like Dome

Come and celebrate Dome Theatre’s 15th birthday, Saturday, June 18, 8pm. The line-up includes The Night Moves, The Oh So Lonelys, Sound Collective and DJ Kirst. Free entry.

Skram

To celebrate the release of their debut album, Walk Into The Sun, Skram will play at Smash Palace, Saturday, June 18, 5pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz

Lead Zipline

Smash Palace, Sunday, June 19, 7pm. Tickets from $35+bf at eventfinda.co.nz

Gisborne Choral Society

Presents Vivaldi’s Gloria and assorted works at St Andrew’s Church, 2pm, June 26. Proceeds to go to Red Cross appeal for Ukraine.

A Skull in Connemara

Unity Theatre’s Norman Maclean-directed A Skull in Connemara is on tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or from the Gisborne i-SITE.

Auditions for Clue on Stage

Join Evolution Theatre Company for one of the most hilarious mystery experiences of all time. No experience necessary, just come ready to read for the role of a lifetime. All roles are for adults. Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, Saturday, June 18, 11am.

The Secret Garden

Evolution Theatre, Disraeli St. June 30 to July 10. Tickets from trybooking.com

Avenue Q The Musical

Musical Theatre Gisborne, on stage June 24 to July 8. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.

Rock of Ages

Gisborne Centre Stage presents Rock of Ages, coming to Lawson Field Theatre, August 12 to 20. R16. Tickets from ticketek or from the Gisborne i-SITE.

Pumanawa

An exploration and celebration of whakapapa. featuring art from Steve Gibbs, Christopher Huriwai, Piupiu Maya Turei, Georgina Watson and Skawenatti (Turtle Island).

Hoea! Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road.

Sea of Positivity

A collection of intuitive, abstract paintings and 3D wall sculptures inspired by ocean seascapes. Tairāwhiti Museum, until July 3.

Textiles Alive

For their latest exhibition, four textile artists have set themselves the challenge to focus on creating oversized fabric artworks all presented in their uniquely individual styling. Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 12.

Let Me Be Myself

Developed by Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and viewed by more than 10 million people in 80 countries, this exhibition explores what life in hiding was like for Anne, her family, and the other occupants of Prinsengracht 263. Tairāwhiti Museum, until July 24.

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

A disillusioned schoolteacher is transferred to the most remote school in the world, cut off from modern life deep in the Himalayan glaciers. In a classroom with no electricity or even a blackboard, he finds himself with only a yak and a song that echoes through the mountains.

Escape from Mogadishu

Rival diplomats from North Korea and South Korea become trapped as civil war rages in Mogadishu, Somalia. With no aid forthcoming from either government, their only shot at survival requires them to work together.

Haute Couture

A woman at the end of her career as head seamstress at a fashion-house workshop decides to help a 20-year-old girl who stole her handbag.

Jurassic World Dominion

This is the sequel to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the sixth instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise, the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy and the conclusion of the storyline started in the original Jurassic Park trilogy. Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill appear together in the franchise for the first time since Jurassic Park (1993). Dominion is set four years after the events of Fallen Kingdom. Dinosaurs now live alongside humans in a fragile balance. Chris Pratt also stars.

Mothering Sunday

A romantic drama following the life of Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) who, as an orphaned maid in the years following World War 1, has an affair with the son of her employers’ neighbours. Jane’s lover, Paul (Josh O’Connor), is due to marry Emma (Emma D’Arcy), who was unofficially engaged to Paul’s friend James, who died in the war. Paul and Emma have mixed feelings about their engagement but feel compelled to marry.

How to Please a Woman

Australian film about a woman who buys a failing removals firm and turns it into a business where handsome men help around the house.

The Bob’s Burgers Movie

A ruptured water main creates a sinkhole in front of Bob’s Burgers, blocking the entrance and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer. While Bob and Linda try to keep the business afloat, the kids set out to solve a mystery that could save their family’s restaurant.

Top Gun: Maverick

After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past.

The Northman

Viking story based on the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Stars Alexander Skarsgard, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

A Crawley family excursion to the South of France is the setting for the second feature film based on the characters of the deliciously addictive television series.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

A few months after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dr Stephen Strange, with the help of both old and new mystical allies, travels into the multiverse to face a mysterious new adversary.

The Bad Guys

Animated film in which criminal animals pretend to mend their ways.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Further adventures of the supersonic hedgehog.

The Lost City

Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt have a ball hamming it up in this story of a studious romantic novelist rescued by a book-cover model from the clutches of a billionaire seeking a lost city of riches.