Gig Guide

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

Fiesta Latina

Join BrazilBeat Sound System for a night of dancing and fun at the Dome. Saturday, 8pm.

The Ashes

Popular local band The Ashes play at Smash Palace this Saturday, 9pm. $10 at the door.

Boogie Wonderland

It’s time to dust off those boogie shoes and head to Smash Palace for the annual Boogie Wonderland 70s disco party. Smash Palace, Sunday June 5, 8pm. Prizes for dressing up and dancing, supper provided. $10 at the door.

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concert Series

Piano Extravaganza XII: Pianists Bronwen and Samantha Holdsworth, Coralie Hunter, Corey Lugtig, Catherine Macdonald, Sue McVey, Beverley Peach, Sean Scanlen and Trish Tattle, with students Pyper August, Monty Copeland, Te Rei Forbes, and Wairere Kutia, playing two, three, four (and even more) at a time, on one or two (or more) pianos. St Andrew’s Church, Monday, June 6, 12.30pm. Free entry, koha optional to performers for expenses and piano maintenance fund.

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 coming June 3 to 11. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or from the Gisborne i-SITE.

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). Opening June 3 and running to July 30. 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 — The Story of Anne Frank

Developed by Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and viewed by more than 10 million people in 80 coauntries, 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.

Mothering Sunday

A British 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. Jane becomes a writer and marries a philosopher she met while working in a bookshop. Asked how she became a writer, she lists her birth and the gift of a typewriter, but keeps the third reason to herself.

How to Please a Woman

Australian film with an English lead and a New Zealand actor or two about a woman who buys a failing removals firm and turns it into a business where handsome men do housework and, if requested, give orgasms.

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.

Haute Couture

Esther is at the end of her career as head seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20-year-old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade.

Operation Mincemeat

It’s 1943 and the Allies are set to invade Fortress Europe, landing on Sicily. But they must convince the Germans they have other plans. Stars Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald and Penelope Wilton.

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.

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.

Nobody Has to Know

A man who has had a stroke and has no memories of his life meets a woman on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She lets him into a secret: they were in love.