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This weekVerve Cafe — Open mic night for acoustic artists; Friday, May 27.
Gisborne Bowling Club — Gisborne Ukulele Underground holds its monthly strumalong, go with or without uke; Friday, May 27 (7.30pm).
The White House — Kiwi country music star Craig Adams is on the road with his band The Rustlers; Friday, May 27.
War Memorial Theatre — Smoke-free Rockquest . . . musicians battle it out in the East Coast final; Saturday, May 28 (7pm).
Retro Bar — Kiwi artists Ty & Pieter T perform to mark the launch of Ty’s new single, Turn Me On; Saturday, May 28.
Smash Palace — Live music from Lazy 50 (Adrian Athy, Pete Te Kani & Dave Martin): Saturday, May 28.
Coming upTRAAMPS — Open mic for music, poetry and song. The Bandroom; Saturday, June 4 (2pm).
Piano Extravaganza VI — The popular annual recital returns, this time with more than 15 musicians playing in combinations one to three, or more. St Andrew’s Church; June 6 (12.30pm).
Poverty Bay Blues — Popular with players and spectators alike, Gisborne blues club holds its monthly jam night. The Dome Room; June 7.
Jesse Morris — Byron Bay soul, roots and reggae troubadour heads this way. The Dome Room; June 10.
Starflight 3000 — Another flight of fancy from local 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, soulful 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) play the second in this year’s afternoon concerts. Tairawhiti Museum; June 12 (2pm).
The Great Gatsby — Operatunity celebrates the 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 theatre tours its tale of the imagination. War Memorial Theatre; June 20 (9.30am & 11am).
Night Of Laughs — Hospice Tairawhiti fundraiser featuring top Kiwi comedians Ben Hurley, Justine Smith and Jamie Brown. War Memorial Theatre; June 23.
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Tomorrow People — Hamilton big-band on the road with their brand of “sunshine reggae”. Wairoa Community Centre, June 30; Gisborne Cosmo-politan Club, July 1; Tolaga Bay Inn, July 2.
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’ll be “afrotastic” . . . Musical Theatre Gisborne tackles one of the most beloved contemporary musicals. War Memorial Theatre; July 12-16.
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.
At the moviesDome Cinema tel: 08 324 3005The Great Maiden’s Blush — New Kiwi film following Bunny and Aila who, facing the challenges of new motherhood, develop a precarious friendship leading each to confront her past and come to terms with the paternity of her baby.
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.
Brooklyn — A critical and popular hit, Brooklyn tells the story of an Irish immigrant in New York experiencing homesickness, love and divided loyalties. Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen get the acting plaudits.
Purple Rain — The Dome marks the death of Prince with a screening of the film that helped make him a star.
Odeon Multiplex tel: 867 3339 Alice Through the Looking Glass — The sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 movie 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, and Sacha Baron Cohen is Time. 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 ’80s hit.
Royal Shakespeare Company Presents: Shakespeare Live — David Tennant hosts a BBC-RSC celebration of Shakespeare’s plays and their influence on music, dance, opera, musical theatre and comedy. Captured live from Stratford-Upon-Avon on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the production has a cast that includes Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rufus Wainwright, John Lithgow, David Suchet and Joseph Fiennes.
X-Men Apocalypse — 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.
Bad Neighbours 2 — Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron return in this sequel to the 2014 original, this time facing a new bunch of neighbours, a sorority sisterhood of party-throwing college girls.
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.
Captain America: Civil War (2D, 3D) — Collateral damage in an Avengers operation brings political pressure for a system of accountability for the superheroes. This splits the Avengers into two warring camps.
The Jungle Book — New take on Rudyard Kipling’s stories, in which man-cub Mowgli (Neel Sethi) must save himself and all the animals of the jungle from tiger Shere Kahn.
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.
ExhibitionsThe Aviary — Faku-fired ceramics and felt works by Peggy Ericson, 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 June 6.
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 i-Site — Exhibition space featuring a rotation of works by local artists.
Tairawhiti Museum — Reach For The Stars, works by Jean Loomis; Home Is Where The Heart Is, paintings by Walter Dewes; Waitangi Wahine, works by Robyn Kahukiwa, Tracey Tawhio, Linda Munn, Suzanne Tamaki & Andrea Hopkins; Gladstone Road, photos celebrating Gisborne’s main drag; The Children’s War, experiences of WW1; Jack Richards Decora-tive Arts Collection, this month includes Chinese-style glass vessels by Alexander Lamont Workshops; Japanese-influenced ceramics by Kiwi potter Aaron Scythe; paintings by Melanie Mills and early 20-century Japanese wedding robes.
Coming up
Pottery Workshop — Gisborne Pottery Group is hosting a workshop to be led by Auckland artist Dulcie Draper. The workshop will be held at Lysnar House Studios over the weekend of May 28-29. For details contact Trudi Roe, telephone 06-868-9236 or e-mail trudi.r@xtra.co.nz
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