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This weekThe Bandroom — TRAAMPS open mic for acoustic music, poetry and song; Saturday, June 4 (2pm).

Smash Palace — Popular covers band One One One is back; Saturday, June 4.

St Andrew’s Church — As part of the Lunchtime Concert Series, the annual Piano Extravaganza returns, this time with more than 15 musicians playing in combinations one to three, or more; Monday, June 6 (12.30pm).

The Dome Room — Poverty Bay Blues Inc’s popular monthly jam night; Tuesday, June 7.

Coming upJesse Morris — Byron Bay soul & roots troubadour heads this way. The Dome Room; June 10.

Starflight 3000 — Another flight of fancy from musical theatre group Centre Stage. Lawson Field Theatre; June 10-12.

Wild World — Touring artist Bryce Wastney and Ryan Beehre (of Minuit fame) offer acoustic interpretations of the songs and story of the great Cat Stevens. The Dome Room; June 11.

Lauren Armstrong & Alexander Boulton — Vocalist and guitarist/tenor banjo player (respectively) are in town to play the second in this year’s series of afternoon concerts. Tairawhiti Museum; June 12 (2pm).

The Great Gatsby — Touring troupe Operatunity celebrates the great composers of the 1920s and 1930s. War Memorial Theatre; June 15 (11am).

East Coast District Chamber Music Contest — Regional leg of the country’s biggest chamber music competition for school-age players. St Andrew’s Church; Thursday, June 16.

TRAAMPS — Open mic for music, poetry and song. The Bandroom; Saturday, June 18 (2pm).

Shu’s Song — Capital E national children’s theatre tours its tale of the imagination. War Memorial Theatre; June 20 (9.30am & 11am).

Annual Night Of Laughs — Hospice Tairawhiti fundraiser featuring top Kiwi comedians Ben Hurley, Justine Smith and Jamie Brown. War Memorial Theatre; June 23.

Tomorrow People — Hamilton big-band on the road with their unique brand of “sunshine reggae”. Wairoa Community Centre, June 30; Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, July 1; Tolaga Bay Inn, July 2.

TRAAMPS — Open mic for music, poetry and song. The Bandroom; Saturday, July 2 (2pm).

Poverty Bay Blues — Popular with players and spectators alike, Gisborne blues club holds its monthly jam night. The Dome Room; July 5.

Xing Wang — The emerging piano star is back to play the third in this year’s series of afternoon concerts. Tairawhiti Museum; July 10 (2pm).

Hairspray — It’s going to be “afrotastic” . . . Musical Theatre Gisborne tackles one of the most beloved contemporary musicals in the world. War Memorial Theatre; July 13-16.

Winter Arts & Crafts Fair — Featuring work by members of Arts & Crafts Gisborne. Ilminster Intermediate School; July 16.

Boomshack Band — Playing as part of the Dome’s cinema equipment fundraising series. The Dome Bar; July 16.

Tribute To The Rat Pack — Tribute from touring troupe Operatunity’s own “brat pack” Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua, Rutene Spooner and Robert Enari. War Memorial Theatre; July 20 (11am).

At the moviesOdeon Multiplex tel: 867 3339Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (3D, 2D) — The Turtles come into conflict with scientist Baxter Stockman and their old enemy The Shredder, who has hired Stockman to create mutants Bebop and Rocksteady to even the score. The Turtles discover a retro-mutgen that they hope will allow them to become humans. Meanwhile, they have to deal with an alien invasion.

Money Monster — Film, directed by Jodie Foster, about the on-air hostage-taking of TV financial expert Lee Gates (George Clooney), producer (Julia Roberts) and crew after a promoted stock crashes.

Mahana — Lee Tamahori directed this film based on Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha. Temuera Morrison, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty and Tolaga Bay’s Akuhata Keefe star in a tale of two shearing families’ rivalry.

Alice Through The Looking Glass (3D, 2D) — The sequel to Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland has James Bobin as director and Burton as a producer. Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter are back as Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Queen and the Red Queen respectively. It’ll be weird.

The Nice Guys — Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling play 1970s cops who stumble into a conspiracy while investigating the alleged suicide of a once-prominent female porn star. Shane Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon, directed and co-wrote this movie in the spirit of his 1980s hit.

X-Men Apocalypse (3D, 2D) — The most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, Apocalypse amassed the power to become immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he recruits a team of mutants to cleanse mankind and create a new world order.

The Angry Birds Movie — The mobile game characters hit the big screen with a story about an island populated by happy, flightless birds, until mysterious green pigs arrive. Red and his fellow bird outcasts must figure out what they’re up to.

Florence Foster Jenkins — Meryl Streep plays a New York heiress who became an opera singer notorious for her lack of singing skill. Hugh Grant plays stage actor St Clair Bayfield, long-time partner and manager of Foster Jenkins.

Hunt For The Wilderpeople — Written and directed by Taika Waititi and based on a Barry Crump book: the story of a defiant city kid, his cantankerous “uncle” and a dog who all go on the run.

Dome Cinema tel: 08 324 3005Phoenix — Highly acclaimed drama loosely adapted from Hubert Monteilhet’s 1961 novel, The Return From The Ashes. In post-war Germany, concentration camp survivor Nelly seeks out her husband. With her features changed following disfigurement from a bullet wound, Nelly is unrecognisable to her husband, who could be the person who betrayed her.

45 Years — Geoff and Kate Mercer (Tom Courtney/Charlotte Rampling) are coming up to their 45th wedding anniversary when news arrives that the body of Geoff’s first love has become visible where she fell into a crevasse over 50 years earlier. Although the relationship occurred before Geoff and Kate met, the discovery has unsettling effects.

Legend — Tom Hardy is riveting as both Ronnie and Reggie Kray in a movie adapted from John Pearson’s book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins. Directed by Brian Helgeland.

Mother’s Day — Comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts and Jason Sudeikis. Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day.

ExhibitionsThe Aviary — A new collection of raku-fired ceramic pieces and felt works by Peggy Ericson, plus paintings by Stella Goodall.

Tirohia Gallery — The Design School, emerging designers share their work.

PaulNache — Closed for Auckland Art Fair. Reopening with a new show next week.

Verve Cafe — Flowers At Verve, new paintings by Lynda Platten.

Tupara Gallery — Ko Wai Au, a gathering of Maori painters.

Toihoukura — Rukuhia, drawings by students working across all levels.

Gisborne iSite — Exhibition space featuring a rotation of works by local artists.

Tairawhiti Museum — Ad Astra: Reach For The Stars, Jean Loomis looks at life through a cosmic lens; Home Is Where The Heart Is, paintings by Walter Dewes; Waitangi Wahine, works by Robyn Kahukiwa, Tracey Tawhio, Linda Munn, Suzanne Tamaki and Andrea Hopkins; Gladstone Road, photos celebrating Gisborne’s main drag; The Children’s War, reflecting on children’s experiences of WW1; Jack Richards Decorative Arts Collection, this month includes Chinese-style glass vessels by Alexander Lamont Workshops; Japanese-influenced ceramics by Kiwi potter Aaron Scythe; paintings by UK/NZ Melanie Mills and early 20-century Japanese wedding robes.

Wairoa Museum — Under renovation, galleries reopening soon.

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