The popular Lynette Stankovich and Wally Te Ua duo sing requests. Outside Elliott Travel, 183 Gladstone Rd, Saturday, 10am-1pm.
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the idea of forming a men’s choir in Gisborne at a meeting at the St Andrew’s Church Community Centre lounge, Sunday at 5pm.
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Cosmopolitan Club, Saturday, 8pm. Tickets $20, available from the club office.
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Pianists Bronwen and Samantha Holdsworth, Coralie Hunter, Isaac Hughes, Catherine Macdonald, Beverley Peach, Sean Scanlen and Trish Tattle, with students Sabine Lapointe, Willow Lawton, Rikki Noble and Sophie Roseman, playing two, three, four (and even more) at a time, on one or two (or more) pianos. Tea/coffee at door. Bring your lunch. Admission free or koha for performers and piano maintenance fund. St Andrew’s Church, Monday, June 7, 12.30pm.
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Smash Palace, Friday, June 11, 6pm. Tickets www.jordanluckband.com/tour
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Slayer tribute by Ghosts of War. Death tribute by Misanthropy plus support act Flay the Apostle. Smash Palace, Saturday, June 12. Tickets $15+bf from www.trybooking.co.nz/GXZ, door $20.
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Performed by Catherine Delahunty and Sarah Delahunty, Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, Saturday, June 12, 7.30pm. Entry $20 at door.
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Presented by Centre Stage. War Memorial Theatre, June 18 – 26. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek.
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Tennessee Williams’ evocation of loneliness and lost love. July 1 - July 11, 7.30pm shows plus two 4pm Sunday matinees. Adults $30+bf, youth $25+bf, drama/lit educators (with ID) $25+bf, seniors $25+bf. Book at trybooking.com via this shortcut https://tinyurl.com/ebwjt292. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St.
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Unity Theatre, 209 Ormond Rd. Opens Thursday July 8 - July 11, 7.30pm plus two matinees. Tickets from eventfinda, $25+bf.
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Works by kai whakairo Eru Brown, Tamanay Tuhou, Houston Pekin, Meka Mauriri, Kiwa Mihaka and Matthew Randall in a show that revisits the origins of these ‘artforms’ engineered for the practice of survival. Tairawhiti Museum, opens tomorrow 5.30pm.
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Poutu Puketapu’s installation that retells the legend of Uru, eldest child of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. Tairawhiti Museum.
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Tairawhiti Museum until July 25.
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Works by Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, and Matthew Couper.
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Ko Wai! Works by Steve Gibbs, Maia Gibbs, Maia Keane, Rina Kerekere, and Jual Toroa.
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A violinist visiting an Irish village for a semester of overseas study falls in love with an actor shooting scenes for an adventure fantasy. Forces linked to his stardom threaten to crush their hopes.
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The wife of a famous artist tries to contact his estranged family before his dementia worsens. Stars Lena Olin and Bruce Dern.
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Three Maori cousins are separated in childhood when one of them is taken away and raised in an orphanage, but the two still at home never stop hoping that the cousin who left will return.
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Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in a drama about a father who refuses help.
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True story of racehorse Dream Alliance, bred by a small-town Welsh bartender (Toni Collette) and raised with the help of weekly contributions from the meagre earnings of friends.
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Johnny Depp plays American war photographer W. Eugene Smith, who in 1971 travelled to Minamata, Japan, to document the effects of mercury poisoning on people.
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Another case from the files of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. It features the first case in US history where a murder suspect claimed demonic possession as a defence.
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The son of a border vigilante accidentally kills a Mexican immigrant boy, and flees on horseback across the Rio Grande. He becomes a gringo “illegal alien” in Mexico as he seeks forgiveness from the father of the dead boy.
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Julianne Moore are in the voice cast for a computer-animated film about Lucky, whose aunt moves her to a small town where her adventurous spirit won’t get her into scrapes. It’s too quiet for Lucky until she meets a wild mustang she must protect.
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A family venture out into a post-apocalyptic world where blind monsters with acute hearing roam. Stars Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy.
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Oscar winners Emma Stone and Emma Thompson star in a live-action film about the rebellious early days of the 101 Dalmatians bad egg, Cruella de Vil, or Estella as she was known in her youth.
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A smoke jumper and a 12-year-old boy fight for their lives as two assassins pursue them through the wilderness. Stars Angelina Jolie.
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An emotionally scarred woman retreats to the wilds of the Rockies, where a hunter brings her back from the brink of death.
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Isey and her son invite a filmmaker into their lives in the week leading up to Isey’s 100th birthday.
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A new security guard for a cash truck surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. Soon the marksman takes dramatic steps to settle a score.
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The cat-and-mouse stars of the short-film series get another feature-film outing.
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Peter can’t seem to shake off his reputation for mischief. Once he ventures out of the garden, Peter finds a world where mischief is appreciated.