The Gig Guide

A WINTER HEARTBREAK: New Zealand School of Music graduates Will King and Nicholas Kovacev will treat ears this Sunday with a performance of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise at Tiromoana. Picture by Kate Bennett

Playing all the favourites

Cossie Club, tomorrow, 8pm till late. Free entry.

Celebrate a new EP release.

Dome Room, July 24, 9pm.

Presales $20 from Dome Bar or Aviary. $25 on the door.

Sunday, 2pm. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred St, Okitu. Tickets $25 and free for students.

Come along for some alternative music. Guests: Tauranga-based Threat.Meet.Protocol and locals Uni-Fi. Smash Palace, Friday, July 30, 8–10pm. Tickets: $10 from undertheradar.co.nz or $15 door sales.

Dome Room, Thursday, August 5. Tickets from or direct from venue. Pre-sales $25+bf. Unwaged $15 (limited to 30). Tickets from . Special guests to be announced.

A cabaret-style themed concert for first-time to seasoned performers. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, Friday, August 20, 7pm, koha at the door. Register to sing:

Dome Room, Saturday, August 21, 8.30pm. Presales from $30+bf from or $30 cash sales from Aviary.

Dome Room, September 4, 8.30pm. Tickets through or Aviary $30.

September 11, 8pm.Tickets through . Presales from Aviary $15.Door sales $20.

September 17, 8pm. Tickets from or Aviary $25 cash.

For ages 15 and over to get up and put it on the line for a laugh, or sit back and laugh at the crazy antics. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli Street, Friday, July 30, 6.30–8.30pm, $5 cash-only door sales.

This exhibition explores the impact of the written and printed word in the dissemination of knowledge, and the advancement of literacy and access to knowledge in societies over the centuries. Tairawhiti Museum, until August 17.

Tairawhiti Museum until Sunday.

Works by Steve Gibbs, Maia Gibbs, Maja Keane, Rina Kerekere, and Jual Toroa.

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 until August 1.

An M. Night Shyamalan film in which a family discover the secluded beach on which they are relaxing is causing them to age rapidly.

A lone fighter, known as Snake Eyes, is welcomed into an ancient Japanese ninja clan, but finds his loyalties tested when secrets from his past are revealed.

To protect an eight-year-old girl, an assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

Animated horror-comedy in which Danny, a maverick high school student, is transferred to a secret boarding school where he opens a portal to monsters from the fifth dimension. To save the school from havoc, he must work with his more successful rival, Liz, and their moth-human-hybrid professor.

Moonbound tells the story of little Pete, who embarks on an enchanting journey with June bug Mr Zoomzeman and the Sandman to rescue his little sister from the Moon Man.

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Also stars Rachel Weisz and Ray Winstone.

Superstar LeBron James and his young son, Dom, get trapped in digital space by a rogue AI. To get home safely, LeBron teams up with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang for a high-stakes basketball game against the AI’s digitised champions of the court.

After surviving a series of deadly escape rooms designed by Minos Escape Rooms Corporation, Zoey Davis and Ben Miller are determined to bring the corporation to justice for the deaths of those who hadn’t survived the rooms. On their way to confront Minos in New York City, they are trapped with several other survivors of escape rooms.

Vin Diesel is joined by John Cena, Michelle Rodriguez, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron in the latest instalment. Dom Toretto is living the quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, but danger lurks just over the horizon.

Musical drama based on a stage musical by Quiara Alegria Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda. It tells the story of a corner in the Washington Heights neighbourhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, where everyone pursues their dream of a better life.

War photographer W Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

In mid-1990s Ireland, Eddie and Amber stage a relationship to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to liberal London.

Far Out Film Night documentary celebrates the work of New York’s street photographers and the city that has inspired them.

A teenage Metallica fan and his mother must coexist for the holidays after plans for the boy to spend time with his father in Florida fall through.