Gig Guide

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

Their first time overseas, Australia's Northern Rivers psych bop band Pasiflorez venture to Gizzy for pollination. Joined by locals Oceanspace, who transcend time and space with psychedelic rock and electronic dance music. Smash Palace, tonight, 7pm.

Live at Smash Palace, tomorrow, 8pm. Entry $10 at the door.

Gisborne Country Music Club: Awards Auditions

Come along for summertime vibes, or audition to compete in the finals. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, 8am, $8A and $2Ch cash-only door sales, pre-schoolers free. Entry forms: Flo Pahuru ph 027 494 6979 or flo.pahuru@outlook.co.nz

An alcohol-free, community collaboration day with wild, foraged and homegrown food, music, qi gong and yoga classes. Anzac Park, Saturday, 9am, free entry/food/classes.

Yuzhang Wu plays live. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu, Saturday, 2.30pm, koha entry. Email Gill at gillco@gisborne.net.nz or text 021 170 7641.

T-Bonez plays live acoustic music. Matawhero Wines, Sunday, 1pm. Free entry with lunch booking. Gourmet platters/sharing plates available. Bookings essential at cellardoor@matawhero.co.nz

Join the celebration. Smash Palace, Sunday, 3pm. Free entry, R18.

Beleza Events presents Full Moon Party, featuring Brazilbeat, Paws, DJose and more. Smash Palace, Friday, February 3, 9pm. Tickets $15 from eventbrite.co.nz

Festival postponed to February 4 and 5. Awapuni Soundshell. Tickets from ticketspace.co.nz

Wrights Vineyard and Winery are hosting Franzi Corker at the Cellar Door on Saturday, February 4, 6pm. Cheese platters will be available on the evening for purchase, plus a build-your-own gourmet picnic will be operating. Tickets $10 from wrightswines.co.nz

Centre Stage presents the iconic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Onstage April 27 to May 6. Tickets from ticketek.co.nz or Gisborne i-SITE.

Tickets on sale now at ticketek.co.nz. War Memorial Theatre, May 19 to 27.

A body of work and a retrospective by Tish Scott. Tairāwhiti Museum, until February 17.

Celebrating the achievement of Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne, who in the 1880s undertook an ambitious project to describe and paint New Zealand's flowering plants. Tairāwhiti Museum, until June 25.

An exhibition of Graeme Mudge's rarely seen preliminary sketches and mural design proposals at Tairāwhiti Museum, last day Sunday.

Local handcrafted creations: batik, doll clothes, fashion, jewellery, knitting, macrame, pottery and woodwork. Poverty Bay Bowling Club, Sunday, 9am to 1pm.

Graeme Nicoll has sketched, painted and carved for as long as he can remember. It's his happy place, hence his exhibition's title. This exhibition concentrates mainly on his artwork since retiring in 2018. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening tomorrow, 5.30pm.

A series of paintings created during Ryan Ledger's recovery process of mental health after burning himself out — after completing his media arts degree while also making music videos in the underground RnB and hip-hop scene in New Zealand. The exhibition explores the themes of identity and his interpretation of what spirituality is while identifying as a gay man. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening February 4.

This exhibition is an extension of Erena's exploration of waiata in paint. These works are a translation of lyrical excellence, of iwi histories and whakapapa through visual expression. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening February 18.

High-octane Indian Hindi-language thriller directed by Siddharth Anand and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham.

Diego Calva, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt lead an ensemble cast in this epic comedy-drama — 189 minutes of it — that chronicles the rise and fall of multiple characters during Hollywood's transition from silent to sound films in the late 1920s. It has garnered award nominations but its style, graphic content and lengthy runtime have divided critics.

Tad's biggest dream is to be accepted by his archaeology colleagues, but his accident-prone nature gets in his way. When he inadvertently destroys a rare sarcophagus, a spell is cast, putting his friends' lives in danger. Saving Mummy, Jeff and Belzoni will trigger an adventure resulting in Tad and Sara travelling to the far corners of the world.

Irish comedy-drama in which lifelong friends fall out over one's insistence that he wants no more to do with the other.

Animated film based on Terry Pratchett's book The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. Great voice cast.

Super spy Orson Fortune and his operatives recruit a movie star to help them stop an arms broker from selling weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives. He embarks on an epic journey into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star and restore his lost lives.

Tom Hanks plays grumpy widower Otto Anderson, who is bothered by the arrival of a lively young family next door.

Steven Spielberg directed, co-wrote and co-produced this semi-autobiographical film that draws on his early life and filmmaking.

Horror film in which a lifelike doll is programmed to be a child's perfect companion.

Avatar: The Way of Water (2D, 3D)

Jake Sully lives with his new family on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.

Director John Daschbach spent a year in Tokyo making a documentary about self-taught Japanese ramen master Masamoto Ueda. At his legendary ramen shop, Bizentei, the gregarious master has been serving his traditional Tokyo-style ramen (a Japanese dish of wheat noodles served in a broth) to diehard fans for over 40 years. Daschbach goes along with Ueda and some of his regulars on their weekend culinary adventures across Japan's picturesque countryside.

A young American journalist stranded in Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who is her best chance of escape.

Austin Butler won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in probably the best film so far on the life and music of The King. Also worth seeing for Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager.