A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
THIS WEEK
The Boss — Bruce Springsteen Tribute War Memorial Theatre, tonight, 7.30pm. Tickets from ticketek or Gisborne i-SITE.
Reb Fountain IRIS Tour
With touring plans curtailed in 2021, Reb Fountain welcomes the opportunity to bring her latest album IRIS to life with her band in 2022. Dome Room, tomorrow, 7.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
St Andrew's Concert Series
Come along to hear the Unity Bridge Jazz Group with Rhonda Bryant-Corbett, Nick van Dijk and Amanda Maclean performing a smorgasbord of sounds. St Andrew's Church, 176 Cobden Street, Saturday, 2pm. Koha or donation for performers appreciated.
Seki Bradaz
Masterton-based five-piece band Seki Bradaz are hitting Smash Palace with their Pacific-reggae/RnB sounds. Saturday, 9pm.
The Walsh Brothers Duo
Wizzard Productions presents TWB, singing songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Gisborne RSA, Sunday, 1.30pm. Tickets $5 from the club.
Mad Doggerel Cabaret
David Eggleton, Daren Kamali and Richard Wallis combine to present a comical and lyrical portrait of New Zealand with wild musicality and lightning humour. Smash Palace, Sunday, 7pm to 8.30pm, R18. Tickets $25 from eventfinda.co.nz
COMING UP
Hell's Wrath
Smash Palace, Friday, September 2, 8.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz
The Betty Tour
After two postponed attempts at hitting the road, Ainslie Allen will bring The Betty Tour to Smash Palace on Friday, September 9, 8pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Diablos Caravan
After an amazing run of 42 shows around New Zealand earlier this year to sold out venues and regional towns, Diablos Caravan are back on the road for another national run of dates, bringing amazing world-class acoustic guitar from Spanish, flamenco, blues, country and everything in between. Dome Room, Friday, September 16, 7.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
The Elements Tour
Uni-Fi will be supporting Coridian on their Elements Tour at Smash Palace this September with their mates Lazy Fifty and Pull Down The Sun. Friday, September 16, 7pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
THEATRE
Avenue Q
Musical Theatre Gisborne, 101 Innes Street, September 8 to 17. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.
Clue
Evolution Theatre are bringing Clue to the stage, September 15 to 25. Tickets from trybooking.com
VISUAL ARTS
Beginnings: Adventures on the way to painting
This exhibition consists of 31 paintings dating from 1956, when the artist Peter Ireland was nine, until the later 1990s when he was middle-aged, plus a mass of documentary material in vitrines, all charting his very zig-zagging course as a self-taught painter. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening tomorrow, 5.30pm.
He Ara Hou
An exhibition of new work by Indiana Carter-Dodd, Puratana King, Riki Tipu Anderson, AJ Fata, Jessica Palalagi and Momoe i manu ae ala aeta'e Tasker. Hoea Gallery, 67 Gladstone Road. Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm.
Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition
This year's combined exhibition of the Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers will showcase a diverse range of artworks, ceramics and photography. Tairāwhiti Museum, until September 25.
Pick and Mix: Allsorts
An exhibition of artists with varied cultures, skills and a shared passion for art: Sue-Ann Blandford, Amber Graham, Kiri-Ana Tough and Maiko Lewis-Whaanga. Tairāwhiti Museum until September 4.
Odeon Multiplex
The Railway Children Return
A sequel of sorts, in which one of the teenage stars of the 1970 film The Railway Children (Jenny Agutter) returns as a mother and grandmother in wartime Yorkshire when children are being sent to the countryside.
Beast
A widower (Idris Elba) and his two teenage daughters on vacation at a game reserve must fight for their lives when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
Muru
Drama about the 2007 police raids of the Ngai Tuhoe community of Ruatoki. Stars Cliff Curtis and Manu Bennett. Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi.
Gloriavale
Documentary that examines allegations of abuse at the Gloriavale Christian Community. Q&A session with the filmmaker on Friday.
The Invitation
A young woman with no family discovers a long-lost cousin and is invited to a lavish wedding where horrors await her.
André Rieu: Happy Days Are Here Again
Dutch violinist Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a concert touring act as successful as some of the biggest global pop music acts.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack star in the story of an older woman who decides to experience what she's been missing out on all these years.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Kya raised herself in the marshlands of North Carolina. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect.
Nope
Two siblings running a horse ranch in California discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above.
Bullet Train
Five assassins find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated.
Minions: The Rise of Gru
In the 1970s, young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains but things don't go as planned.
Top Gun: Maverick
One of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is called in to train a detachment of graduates for a special assignment and must confront the ghosts of his past.
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor embarks on a quest for inner peace. But he is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Japanese computer-animated martial arts fantasy/adventure.
DOME CINEMA
Gloriavale
Sharon Ready, the central figure of this documentary film about the Gloriavale Christian Community, is of Ngati Porou descent and will be at the Dome screening tonight to answer questions. The film, directed by Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth (Camino Skies) examines the allegations of abuse connected with the community.
Ruby's Choice
Jane Seymour plays Ruby in this Australian film about how a family comes to terms with the arrival to stay of their mother and grandmother, who has dementia.
Persona
Swedish psychological drama film, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The story revolves around a young nurse and her patient, a stage actress who has suddenly stopped speaking.
Quant
Documentary film celebrating the life of fashion designer Mary Quant.
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