Sunsmash: Featuring Knights of the Dub Table, Dion Whaanga, Kings of Kaiaua and Loop Theorem. Smash Palace, Saturday (8pm). Tickets $25 from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz
Frank Burkitt Band: American roots music for all ages, with hints of jazz, blues and swing. Dome Room, Thursday, (8pm). Tickets $25+bf from eventfinda.co.nz or 0800 289 849.
Coming upChurch & AP: Rising young rap duo perform at the War Memorial Theatre, Thursday January 24 (8.30pm). $15 at the door.
G‘n’I: Classic rock and easy-listening music. Marina Park, January 25 (6pm), free.
Chaidaze: Acoustic duo with roots from Thailand, Spain and UK present a mix of high vibration percussion, soft, melodic vocals and acoustic guitar, Wrights Vineyard Winery, January 26 (1pm). Free entry.
Smash 29th Birthday: Join the birthday celebrations at Smash Palace, January 27 (3pm).
Erinsphere: Progressive, upbeat folk at the Dome garden bar, January 27 (6pm). Free entry.
Hail To The Thieves: Radiohead tribute band, The Dome, February 2 (8.30pm). $20 cash on the door.
Welcome to Smashville: Featuring The Warratahs and Honey Jam, Smash Palace, February 2 (9pm). Tickets $30 from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz
TheatreThe Luck of the Irish — Operatunity: War Memorial Theatre, tomorrow, 11am. Tickets $35. Book at 0508 266 237 or operatunity.co.nz
Tiromoana Summer Concert Series: Berlin-based lyric soprano Joanna Foote and Auckland tenor Harry Grigg perform a variety of operatic pieces, supported by pianist Xing Wang. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred Street, Okitu, February 10 (7.30pm). Tickets: adult $25, student/child free.
Visual ArtsExhibitions
Tairawhiti Museum: Ambitious Women, a look back at the Gisborne suffragette movement,
Out of The Bedroom Into the Lounge, Jan Nigro. He Tirohanga ki Tai: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. Hawaiiki Hou (New Horizons), works by Toihoukura students. 2018 marked the 25th year of Toihoukura – School of Maori Arts and design at the Eastern Institute of Technology, and consists of recent works by students and staff. Posing, Not Posing Exhibition, take a look back in time before selfie sticks and smartphones.
Tony Ogle screenprints: Ormond Road Cafe.
Paul Nache Gallery: Works by Glen Hayward and Oliver King.
Verve Cafe: Works by Maiko Lewis-Whaanga and Blair Hindmarsh.
Muirs Bookshop Cafe: Works by Krystle Kelly.
At the moviesDome cinema
The Happy Prince: Biographical drama about Oscar Wilde. Rupert Everett wrote, directed and acted in the film, which also stars Colin Firth.
Being Rose: Ailing ex-cop Rose (Cybill Shepherd) takes a motorised wheelchair on a road trip and falls for old cowboy Max (James Brolin), himself at a crossroads.
Shoplifters: Japanese film about a family who rely on shoplifting to cope with a life of poverty.
Sgt Stubby: An American Hero: Animated film centring on the real-life Sergeant Stubby, a stray Staffordshire Bull Terrier who becomes a hero during World War 1.
Hurricane: Film that tells the story of the Polish airmen who joined the Royal Air Force to continue the fight against Nazi Germany.
Ocean Film Tour — Vol 5: The International Ocean Film Tour Volume 5 is on its way with the best ocean adventures and environmental documentaries on board.
Odeon multiplex
Glass: Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
Mary Queen of Scots: Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Storm Boy: A beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele’s classic Australian tale. Storm Boy has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can’t explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father.
The Kid Who Would Be King: A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.
Instant Family: Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne star as a couple who take in three children.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise is set in a shared multiverse called the Spider-Verse.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: Hiccup has created a dragon utopia, but danger threatens the village he and Toothless call home.
Mary Poppins Returns: Set in 1930s London, 25 years after the events of the original film that starred Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins — former nanny of Jane and Michael Banks — returns after a family tragedy.
Aquaman: Arthur Curry, heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, must step forward to lead his people against his half-brother Orm, who seeks to unite the seven underwater kingdoms against the surface world.
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Video game bad guy Ralph and another misfit, Vanellope von Schweetz, must risk everything by travelling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush.
The Favourite: Stellar cast portray female triangle in 18th century England. Sarah Churchill and her cousin Abigail Hill compete for Queen Anne’s favour.
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