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This week
Cash or the Kete Gameshow and variety performance: Heart of Gisborne-run event, War Memorial Theatre, tomorrow (6.30pm).
Grawlixes: Wellington indie/folk band. Set Free album release tour, exploring romance with dry wit and sharp tongue, The Dome Room, tomorrow (8pm). Tickets $15 from The Aviary or $20 on the door.
Herman’s Hermits: War Memorial Theatre, July 22 (7.30pm).
Paul Ubana Jones: Peppers Beachfront bar and cafe, July 22. Reservations only.
COMING UP
Punks for West Papua: Anthony Brennan’s documentary about the illegal occupation of West Papua and the West Papuan freedom struggle, The Dome Room, July 25 (6.30pm), $20.
Swamp Thing: Smash Palace, July 29 (9pm), presales $25 at Eventfinda.co.nz
Fiesta Latina Dance Party: The Dome Room, July 29 (9pm), $5 presales, The Aviary, $10 door.
How I Met My Father: Comedian Rhian Wood-Hill’s storytelling show, The Dome Room, August 3 (8pm),
$14 presale tickets at Eventfinda, $18 at the door.
Answers from the Other Side: Sue Nicholson from Sensing Murder, War Memorial Theatre, Aug 7 (7pm).
Tairawhiti Museum
Sunday Concert Series presents James Jin (violin) and Xing Wang (piano), Aug 13 (2pm).
Rhys Darby: Mystic Time Bird, War Memorial Theatre, Monday Aug 14 (8pm).
Looking for Alaska: And Albi and The Wolves, The Dome Room, Aug 18 (8pm), $15 from BUY TIX 0800 289 849.
Bill Massey’s Tourists: Jan Bolwell plays her adolescent self, encouraging her grandfather to talk about WW1, Unity Theatre, Sept 6 (7.30pm).
Tutus on Tour: Royal NZ ballet, War Memorial Theatre, Sept 27 (7.30pm).
The Sound of Music: War Memorial Theatre, Oct 10 (7pm).
Isla Grant in concert: War Memorial Theatre, Nov 12 (7.30pm).
THEATRE
Beauty and the Beast: Musical Theatre Gisborne, War Memorial Theatre, Aug 2-5. Five shows.
Macbeth: Unity Theatre, Ormond Road, Aug 18-26.
At the flicksDOME CINEMA
The Journey: Colm Meaney plays Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness and Timothy Spall plays loyalist leader Ian Paisley in a reconstruction of how a shared car journey might have gone in the lead-up to Northern Ireland power-sharing talks.
Adult Life Skills: A 29-year-old woman bereft over the death of her twin brother cuts herself off from the world until she becomes entangled with a troubled eight-year-old boy obsessed with westerns.
This Beautiful Fantastic: A would-be children’s author must tidy her garden or be evicted. She befriends a gruff neighbour who likes gardening.
Despite the Falling Snow: A young woman in post-Stalinist Soviet Union spying for the Americans marries a member of the Kremlin elite to get information, falls in love and plans to defect with him. Thirty years later, he returns to see what happened to her.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
Baby Driver: Baby, a getaway driver with tinnitus, is in deep with the wrong people. Initially driving to pay off a debt, he is coerced into another job that could be the death of him. Edgar Wright film stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.
Dunkirk: Christopher Nolan waited 25 years to make this story as its contradictions attracted him. Dunkirk was not a victory, did not involve America, yet demanded big scale. Unknown actors in lead roles reflect soldiers’ inexperience. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance also star.
Met Opera: Eugene Onegin: Deborah Warner’s production of Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Pushkin novel stars Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin.
Spider-Man: Homecoming: Tom Holland is Peter Parker, who develops spider-like abilities after being bitten by a special spider. Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr also star.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul: On a family road trip for a birthday celebration, Greg plans a side trip to a gaming convention to meet his idol.
War for the Planet of the Apes: Caesar and his apes are forced into conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless colonel.
Churchill: Brian Cox plays Winston Churchill, waiting for the launch of the D-Day invasion.
The House: After destroying their daughter’s college fund, Scott (Will Ferrell) and his wife Kate (Amy Poehler) start a casino.
Despicable Me 3: Gru (Steve Carell) faces off against Balthazar Bratt, a former child star obsessed with the character he played.
My Cousin Rachel: Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin and Iain Glen star in mystery romance based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel.
Transformers: The Last Knight: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), an English lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford don join forces to save us all.
Cars 3: Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) sets out to prove he’s still got it.
Wonder Woman: Amazon princess has idyllic life upset by crash-landing pilot in World War 1, and vows to help bring about peace.
VISUAL ARTS
EXHIBITIONS
Tairawhiti Museum: The 100 Days Project group exhibition, until December 10; Flying Moas retrospective, to August 13; Mahunga: Photographs from the early 20th century, capturing the establishment of Mahunga Station near Matawai.
Toihoukura: Rakaunui — a collaborative exhibition of students’ and tutors’ work. Toihoukura, school of Maori visual arts, Cobden Street.
Pou Te Wharau: Echoes of Our Ancestors Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Childers Rd.
Muirs Bookshop and Cafe: Paintings by Derek Solomon.
Verve Cafe: Fabric art by Tina Drain.
Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald.co.nz, or call 869-0630.
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