Isaiah B Burnt trio: Australian trio brings their brand of blues to the Dome, March 7 (7pm), tickets $20 on the door.
Coming up111: Tauranga covers band, Cosmopolitan Club, March 8 (8pm). Free.
Dennis Marsh and Brendan Dugan: Just the Two of Us: Two legends in concert. RSA, March 9 (7.30pm), tickets $20 from the RSA during office hours.
Lazy Fifty — The Covers Set: Classic rock at its best. Smash Palace, March 9 (9pm), tickets $5 at the door.
It’s only Life: Singer/actor Chris Green performs songs by American songwriter John Bucchino. St Andrew’s Church, Wednesday, March 13 (12.30pm). Admission free/koha
TheatreMamma Mia! pre-audition: Meeting and workshop for Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia! MTG clubrooms, 99 Innes Street (5-6pm), Sunday.
Mockingbird: Two-woman black comedy about motherhood and mental health. Unity Theatre, March 11 (8pm), tickets $30 from http://www.eventfinda.co.nz or at the door.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Ambitious Women, a look back at the Gisborne suffragette movement, Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro. Posing, Not Posing Exhibition, takes a look at photography before smartphones and selfie sticks. Retrospective: Phyllis Underdown collection of Gisborne scenes including Sponge Bay.
Studiowest Gallery: Original oil paintings by Roger Shanks, Saturday and Sunday (10am-4pm).
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Matthew Couper
Verve Cafe: Works by Conor Jeory
Life drawing at Lysnar House: Eight week programme starts February 4 (7pm). Gisborne Artists Society members $50, non-members $60 or $8 a session for GAS members, $10 non-members. Bring paper, large paper clips and drawing materials. For more information, call Chris at 868 3422.
At the moviesDome cinema
The Guilty: A Danish thriller in which a police officer demoted to desk work has to use all of his intuition and skill to find a kidnapped woman and her assailant while confined to the police station.
Capharnaum: After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents.
Vox Lux: Teenage sisters become stars after writing and performing a song about their survival of a school shooting. Years later, one of them prepares for a concert while dealing with the fallout of a terrorist attack that uses her iconography. Stars Natalie Portman.
Border: Fantasy film about Tina, whose ability to sniff out guilt and shame is useful for the Swedish border agency.
Scotch: A Golden Dream: Documentary film about Scotch whisky, a spirit that generates annual export earnings of over $6 billion.
Odeon multiplex
Greta: Isabelle Huppert has the title role of an eccentric widowed French piano teacher (Greta) who befriends a naive young woman (Chloe Grace Moretz). However, Greta’s behaviour becomes disturbing.
Celia: Amanda Millar directed this film on Celia Lashlie, the first female prison officer in a male prison in New Zealand. Lashlie fought to get people the tools for making responsible decisions.
A Dog’s Way Home: A dog (voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard) travels over 400 miles to find her owner. Stars Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp and Wes Studi.
Stan & Ollie: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in a film focusing on a music hall tour of Britain and Ireland in 1953 as the duo struggle to get another film made.
Escape Room: Psychological horror film that follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of escape rooms, only to find the consequences are deadly.
Alita: Battle Angel: American cyberpunk action film based on a Japanese graphic novel series. In 2563, a cyborg scientist discovers a disembodied female cyborg with a human brain, rebuilds the cyborg and names her Alita, after his late daughter.
What Men Want: Ali Davis is successful in the male-dominated world of sports agents, but is passed over for promotion. When she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts, she looks to outsmart her colleagues.
Happy Death Day 2U: In Happy Death Day, Tree Gelbman relived the same day repeatedly after being hunted and killed. Tree unexpectedly re-enters the time loop, but now her friends are also targets.
Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson plays a snowplough driver who, after learning a drug cartel murdered his son, seeks revenge.
Green Book: A bouncer from The Bronx is hired to drive a black pianist on a tour to the Deep South in the 1960s. The Green Book guides them to places that are safe.
Aquaman: Arthur Curry, heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, must lead his people against his half-brother Orm, who seeks to unite the underwater kingdoms against the surface world.
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