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This weeksThreeplay: Smash Palace, tomorrow (8pm), free entry.

Confetti: Emily Cargill, flute, Dana Parkhill, flute, Paula Sugden, cello. St Andrew’s Church, Saturday, (4pm).Admission free. Optional koha for performers.

Hail To The Thieves: The Dome Room, Saturday, (8.30pm) $20 on door.

Brass Band & Orchestra: Gisborne Civic Brass Band and Gisborne Civic Orchestra present a programme that includes Grease, My Fair Lady, Mahler Symphony 1, Mars and Jupiter from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. St Andrew’s Church, Sunday, (2.30pm). Door: $10 adults, $5 children.

Coming upIce Block: Arts showcase and multimedia party featuring music by DJs Dick Johnson, MC Woody and Dizfunk. Live ice carving by Simon Lardelli. Dance performance by Liana Akroyd. War Memorial Theatre foyer, July 7 (7pm). Entry $20 general, VIP $25 +bfs. Door sales available. Fundraiser for Gizzy School Lunches.

Strangely Arousing: Dome Room, July 7 (8.30pm) presales $15 undertheradar, $20 door.

Sunday afternoon concert series: Tenor Joe Haddock, soprano Pasquale Orchard and pianist Bruce Greenfield perform at the Tairawhiti Museum, July 8 (2-3pm). Adult $5, child/student with ID free.

Winter Arts & Crafts Fair: Poverty Bay Bowling Club, July 15 (9.30am-2pm). Free entry, Eftpos available.

St Andrew’s concert series: Farewell Fundraiser: Gisborne-raised flautist, Anna Cooper, will be accompanied on piano and violin before travelling to study in the Netherlands. Featuring works from Bach, Mouquet, John Rutter and Ian Clarke. July 15, (2pm), free or koha towards Anna’s course fees.

Gisborne Orphans Club concert: Have a laugh and enjoy the entertainment. All welcome. Senior Citizens Hall, Grey St. July 18, (7.30-11pm).

TRAMPS: Music, poetry and song. All welcome to the fortnightly event at the Band Room, Childers Road, starting July 7, 2pm.

TheatreDancefit Studios: Hip-hop dance concerts, War Memorial Theatre. Friday SOLD OUT. Saturday 1.20pm and 6.30pm, tickets $15 from Dancefit.

Footrot Flats: The Musical: Murray Ball’s classic is brought to life on stage, War Memorial Theatre (July 18 to 21, 7.30pm). Matinee (July 21, 2pm). Tickets $25-45 from Stephen Jones and ticketdirect.co.nz

Evolution Theatre Company: A two week intensive course running from July 9-20 for 11-17-year-olds to learn and perform an abridged version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Details at http://www.evolutiontheatre.org.nz/shakespeare-camp

Visual ArtsExhibitions

Tairawhiti Museum: Tao Nga Pare-mata, Mangatu taonga from the Campbell collection. Annual Gisborne Artists’ Society and Gisborne Potters’ exhibition. A Quilt Does Not Have To Stand Alone — a unique approach to quilting. Pouwhare: A Pillar of Strength. Tribute exhibition to Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki. Public floor talk Monday 10.30am

Te Kurahuna: Traditional Maori arts exhibition at Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna, 75a Peel Street.

Verve Cafe: Stitched fabric works that depict classic summer scenes by Tina Drain.

Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Kath McLaughlin.

Zest: Tammy Gooch, photographs.

At the moviesDome cinema

Edie: Sheila Hancock, now 85, became the oldest woman to make the trek up Mt Suilven in the northern Scottish Highlands when, at the age of 83, she did so for this movie. A woman whose daughter is making plans for her to move into a retirement home decides to go on the climbing trip her late husband vetoed shortly after their marriage.

C’est La Vie!: French comedy about a disgruntled caterer at his last wedding event, in a 17th-century chateau. Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) just wants to get through the night, but things go haywire.

Going for Gold: Australian movie in which 17-year-old Emma (Kelli Berglund), after moving to Australia, introduces cheerleading to a group of misfits.

Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story: Documentary that examines the treatment of the kangaroo — viewed as an Australian national symbol but also as a pest to be shot and sold for profit.

Odeon multiplex

Sicario: Day of the Soldado: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Donovan reprise their roles as the drug war at the Mexican border escalates to the point where the cartels have begun transporting terrorists.

Incredibles 2: Sequel to the 2004 movie The Incredibles, with Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell and Samuel L. Jackson reprising their roles. Newcomers include Huck Milner, Bob Odenkirk and Catherine Keener. The Parrs try to restore public trust in superheroes while being a family. But a new foe seeks to turn people against all superheroes.

Adrift: Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin star in a film based on a true story about Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp, who were stranded on a hurricane-damaged yacht in the Pacific. With Richard badly injured and no radio, Tami was faced with the task of getting them to Hawaii.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Second film in Jurassic Park reboot trilogy. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) try to rescue the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar before a volcanic eruption destroys the island.

Tag: A group of friends, at the age of nine, start a game of tag that they play through the month of May. After 30 years, it is the one thing that brings them together, even when their lives take them in different directions. But this year’s edition might be the last, as it seems Jerry — who’s never been tagged — might quit. Stars Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Hannibal Buress and Ed Helms.

Oceans 8: Debbie, estranged sister of Danny Ocean, puts together a team to pull off the heist of the century. Stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter.

Hereditary: When the matriarch of a family dies, her daughter’s family learn terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

Tea with the Dames: Dames Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright talk about their acting experiences.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: While touring to promote her book of humorous columns about wartime life, Juliet Ashton (Lily James) receives a letter from a Guernsey pig farmer who has come into possession of her copy of Essays of Elia. Intrigued by the name of the book club to which he belongs, Juliet makes a visit that changes her life.

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