ALL SMILES: Ora Taukamo after her big win on Homai Te Pakipaki
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RSA — 2015 Homai Te Pakipaki TV talent show winner Ora Taukamo; performed in Gisborne on Friday.
This weekPoverty Bay Blues Inc — Players and spectators welcome at blues club’s popular monthly jam night. The Dome Room; February 2.
Gisborne Choral Society — Rehearsals begin for the Brahms German Requiem, St Andrew’s Church Community Centre; February 2 (7.30pm)
I Love Paris — The latest show from touring troupe Operatunity, in which Cameron Barclay, Susan Boland, Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua and violinist Jessica Hindon to present a taste of France. War Memorial Theatre; February 10 (11am).
John Fogerty & Dr Hook — Not the real ones (obviously), but a fun tribute to the hitmakers of the 1970s. Cosmopolitan Club; February 12.
Aroused Wolves — Multi-band tour with Aucklanders Albi And The Wolves, Rotorua ska/rock/roots band Strangely Arousing, and master guitarist Zarek Silberschmidt. The Dome Room; February 12.
Brown Sugar — Rolling Stones tribute band playing Gisborne Tatapouri Fishing Club; February 19. (6.30pm, show starts 8pm).
Andrei Freidine — brilliant Franco-Russian clarinettist presents a special “Leap-Concert” in a varied programme, starring Rossini, born 29/2/1792, and including Mozart and Bellini plus some jazz (Satie, Gershwin, Goodman. . .) and especially exciting Klezmer highlights. Accompanied by Christopher Hainsworth. St Andrew’s Church; February 29. (7.30pm)
Poverty Bay Blues Inc — Players and spectators welcome at blues club’s popular monthly jam night. The Dome Room; March 1.
Jake Stokes & The Smoking Barrels — “New Zealand’s answer to Joe Bonamassa”, Wellington guitarist/singer and band are reloaded and ready to pull the trigger on another tour. The Dome Room; March 4.
Three Tenors & A Soprano Reunited — Operatunity’s new show, paying tribute to the great tenors. War Memorial Theatre; March 9 (11am).
Crooked Weather — English duo play “earthy, unruly and original” folk songs. The Dome garden bar; March 11.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa — Performs in public in Gisborne for the first time since the 1999/2000 millennial celebrations. War Memorial Theatre; March 16.
Grease Sing-a-long — Homage to the 1978 musical and fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research. War Memorial Theatre; March 26.
Jimi Jackson — Comic Jimi Jackson returns. Gisborne Boys’ High School hall; March 26.
FilmOdeon Multiplex tel: 867 3339
The Danish Girl — Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) takes the role of one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery. In 1920s Copenhagen, landscape artist Einar Wegener stands in for a female model for his wife, portrait artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander), and this act unmasks Einar’s lifelong identification as a female, Lili Elbe. Gradually Lili leaves behind the Einar identity, and Lili and Gerda go to Paris, where Gerda’s portraits of Lili prove popular. Ultimately, Lili seeks a surgical transformation.
Dirty Grandpa — A week away from marrying the boss’s daughter, Jason (Zac Efron) is tricked into driving foul-mouthed grandfather Dick (Robert De Niro) to Daytona for spring break. Parties, bar fights and karaoke ensue as Dick tries to live life to the full, with Jason in tow.
The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino directs post-Civil War western in which four stagecoach passengers seek refuge at a stagecoach stopover. Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell), prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), soldier-turned-bounty hunter Marquis Warren (Samuel Jackson) and self-proclaimed sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) are greeted by four unfamiliar faces (including that of Tim Roth, as a hangman). Things go bump in the night.
The Big Short — Fact-based comedy-drama about the 2007-08 financial crisis and how some profited by betting against the US housing market. Stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt.
The 5th Wave — Four waves of alien attacks have devastated Earth. As Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz) prepares for the fifth wave and tries to save her little brother, she meets a young man who may be her only hope.
Suffragette — Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep lead the cast of fact-based drama focusing on the fight for women’s right to vote in early-20th-century Britain.
Oddball — Australian family movie about a chicken farmer’s attempt to train his dog to protect penguins.
The Revenant — Leonardo DiCaprio plays frontiersman Hugh Glass, who was mauled almost to death by a bear and left for dead by his companions.
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peauts Movie — Charlie Brown develops a crush, while Snoopy juggles his time between the Red Baron and a poodle called Fifi.
The Good Dinosaur — Film asks what might have happened if a lethal asteroid had missed Earth.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip — The Chipmunks go on a road trip to try to convince Dave not to get rid of them once he is married.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2D, 3D) — An update that picks up the story 30 years after the action in Return of the Jedi (1983).
Dome Cinema tel: 08 324 3005The Belier Family — Louane Emera plays 16-year-old Paula Belier, who interprets for her deaf parents and brother. Then a music teacher encourages her to enter a singing contest that could change everything.
A Walk in the Woods — Bill Bryson and long-lost friend Katz walk the Appalachian Trail. Robert Redford plays Bryson and Nick Nolte, Katz.
Amy — A “powerful, and powerfully sad” documentary charting the rise and fall of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. Directed by Asif Kapadia.
The Sea — A man searching for peace after his wife’s death returns to the seaside village where he spent his childhood summers, and recalls the wealthy, middle-class family he became entangled with. Based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Irish writer John Banville. Stars Ciaran Hinds, Rufus Sewell, Natascha McElhone, Charlotte Rampling and Sinead Cusack.
ExhibitionsMuirs Bookshop Cafe — Digital illustrations of East Coast beaches, reproduced on canvas, by Troy Conole.
Tupara Gallery — Ko Wai Au, a gathering of Maori painters.
Tirohia Gallery (Kaiti Mall) — Highlights from the Te Urunga Toi Maori art market.
PaulNache — Eyeshots, new work by Matt Arbuckle. Plus Dusty Plain, new work by Merryn Lloyd.
Toihoukura — The last of the end-of-year graduate shows are in the Maia and Kotuku galleries.
Gisborne iSite — New exhibition space featuring a rotation of works by local artists.
Verve Cafe — “Sculpture-paintings” by Richard Rogers.
Tairawhiti Museum — Child Of My Heart, Tomorrow Is Another Day, photographs by Noel Ratapu; After The First Brushstroke, landscapes from the fine art collection; Gladstone Road, photos celebrating Gisborne’s main drag; WW100, remembering World War 1; Wm. F. Crawford: Photographic Landscape Artist; Jack Richards Decorative Arts Collection.
Wairoa Museum — Indelible Lines, images of kuia-mau-moko from the photographic collections of Ian Cosgrove, the late Peter Hamilton and the late Jim Kerr.
Coming upRevision — New works by Peter Ireland; opens Friday (5.30pm), floor talk Saturday (2pm).
PaulNache — Grafitti Lounge, Even Woodruffe, Kim Annan, Glen Hayward, Teressa HR Lane, Virginia Leonards, Richard Darbyshire, Sue Dickson; February 5-27.
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