Gizzy Gig Guide

KITA bring their Love Lives Here Tour to Smash Palace on Friday night. The show starts at 8pm and tickets are $30.

This Week

Build-a-band

Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam !  Free entry.

Karaoke

Friday September 22 at Breakers’ Jandal Bar.

Te Ara i Whiti 2023

Kelvin Park, Corner Stout St and Fitzherbert St. For Te Ara i Whiti 2023. Light show exhibition open until Sunday October 8, from 12pm – 10pm, free.

KITA: The Love Lives Here Tour

Smash Palace, tomorrow October 6, starts at 8pm and tickets cost $30. Melding inspirations of folk, soul, pop and psychedelia with the guitar and spirited storytelling of musician-actor Nikita Tu-Bryant (Avatar 2, Far North); the thick lushness of Moog synth and Fender Rhodes from Ed Zuccollo (Zuke); and the filthy drive and barking drums of Rick Cranson (Little Bushman), KITA have solidified themselves as a must-see live band with a massive sound.

Theatre

UPU

War Memorial Theatre, Friday and Saturday Oct 6 and 7. UPU gives the stage to some of Oceania’s most electrifying poets — they all have a home here. Starts at 7pm. Get tickets from https://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=TTAFUPU23

Big J - A New Legacy

Lawson Field Theatre. A solo work written and performed by Jacob Dombroski, Big J explores his passions — music, dance, and acting. Highlighting struggles he has faced for being perceived as different, Jay uses this pain to create a dialogue about acceptance and truth. Tickets $16. Wednesday and Thursday, October 11 and 12, 7pm.   https://bit.ly/BigJ-Tickets

Coming Up

A&P Spring Show

Friday and Saturday October 13 and 14. The A&P show will be packed with all the attractions and entertainment for which it is renowned including: equestrian showjumping, shearing, wood chopping, dog trialling, dancing, 200+ trade exhibits and lots of rides and sideshows.

First Light Wine & Food Festival Gisborne 2023

Sunday October 22, 12 midday – 7.00pm. The 2023 event features two locations — TW Wines and Matawhero Wines. Both venues will offer a great selection of food, wine and music. Entry includes bus tickets that courier people from the Gisborne i-Site out to both venues, provide transport between both and then back to central Gisborne.

Back to the Future

Gisborne Choral Society presents a programme of music ancient and modern. St Andrew’s Church, Monday October 23, 2pm. Koha.

Gisborne Japan Day

Saturday, October 28, from 10am to 1.30pm, Treble Court. Come and enjoy Japanese culture through performances, workshops, and food.  Free entry. Taiko drums performances and Judo demonstrations.  Join us in Bon-odori Japanese folkdance. Many workshops including origami, Japanese calligraphy, language exchange and sushi.

Diwali Festivalof Lights 2023

War Memorial Theatre, October 28. Free food and sweets. Cultural performances by locals and artists from Auckland. 6pm to 8pm.

Visual Arts

Maiko Lewis-Whaanga’s Breathe Exhibition Opening

The opening of Maiko Lewis-Whaanga’s Breathe exhibition will be held at the Tairāwhiti Museum tomorrow, October 6, at 5.30pm and will engage all the senses. Tasting platters will be created by Maiko’s sister, Satomi and mother, Kuni. Sheryl Edwards will also be exhibiting her exquisite head pieces, and Gana Goldsmith will be performing music she created for the exhibition and a short film she made will be shown. The last few years have been challenging. This has been the catalyst for Maiko to create a space that reconnects herself and the viewer back to a basic, biological function, the breath and its power to ground us and create a sense of calm in a busy and uncertain world. The exhibition will close on Sunday December 3.

Wearable Art by Susan Holmes

The exhibition of Wearable Art by Susan Holmes is currently on at Tairāwhiti Museum. The exhibition finishes on November 5.

He Kākahu Rerehua — The Uplifting Wind

Weaving together an exhibition, a collection care project and wānanga in one space, He Kākahu Rerehua — The Uplifting Wind opens on October 1. Each strand of this kaupapa will honour the different dimensions of a kākahu: the materials; the process of its creation; the life it has led; and the people it is connected to.