What's On Gig Guide

A six-hour DJ event Out of the Box at the Dome Bar tomorrow (Friday June 16) will feature world-class house music presented by top local DJs Bubzilla, Angus  Chapman, Matty Tones and DJ Rascal. Tickets are $10 and the action starts at 7pm.

THIS WEEK

■ Thursday Build-a-Band

Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 7pm-11pm, free entry.

■ Friday Night Karaoke

Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm to midnight, free entry.

■ Out of the Box

Dome Bar, Friday June 16. Six hours of world-class house music featuring top local DJs Bubzilla, Angus  Chapman, Matty Tones and DJ Rascal. Tickets $10, 7pm to 1am.

■ Black Comet

Smash Palace. Friday June 16. Intergalactic funk and the smoothest soul grooves from some of NZ’s top musos. 7pm to 11.30pm. https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2023/black-comet-this-is-the-way/gisborne/tickets

■ Manphibian

Saturday June 17. Smash Palace. Rock juggernauts Manphibian return with special guest Keira Coogan.  9pm. $10.

■ Saturday Night Live - Walter Walsh ‘The Wiz’

Breakers, Jandal Bar, Saturday June 17, 8pm to 11pm. Total entertainment — country, rock ‘n’ roll, easy listening and some reggae. Free entry.

■ Gisborne Country Music Club

Singers and musicians welcome. Sunday June 18, Senior Citizens’ Hall, 30 Grey St, 1pm to 4pm, $5 visitors, $3 members, $1 children, incl afternoon tea, ph Flo 867 7637 or flo.pahuru@outlook.co.nz

■ Gisborne Caledonian Society Dance

Saturday June 17, Social, modern and sequence dancing. Theme: Black and white. Holy Trinity Church Hall, 7.30pm to 11pm. No stiletto heels. Details: ph Pat 021 049 7148 or Allan 021 243 3652.

■ Tuesday Gisborne Pub Choir

Smash Palace, June 20, 7pm to 9pm. Group sings popular songs. Singing tuition provided, no prior experience needed. Learn a new song each week and sing about a dozen pop classics.

COMING UP

■ Seattle Tribute 2023 - Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana

Smash Palace. Saturday August 5.  The Superunknowns/Sludge Factory and Tom Grant Disciples stun audiences with their high energy tributes to these three Seattle bands. 8pm. Tickets $34.50 from https://waxstartouring.flicket.co.nz/events/9e6774a4-cf95-499e-8cc9-381c6df4f57c

THEATRE

■ School of Rock Auditions

Musical Theatre Gisborne is holding a School of Rock pre-audition info session on Saturday June 17 from 4pm to 5pm at MTG Clubhouse Theatre, 101 Innes Street, Awapuni subdivision. Meet the team and ask questions to help prepare for auditions.

■ Winnie the Pooh Plus A Midnight’s Dream

Evolution Theatre Rising Stars, 75 Disraeli St, Monday June 26 – Thursday June 29 5.30pm – 7.30pm. Winnie the Pooh (ages 6-12), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ages 12 - 17). Support the Rising Stars as tamariki join in the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh. Then follow rangitahi as they venture into Shakespeare. Adults $10, kids (17 and under) $5.

VISUAL ARTS

■ Ataata Exhibition by Heremaia Barlow

Ataata is a reflection on the origins of whakairo. This is Barlow’s first solo exhibition. Tairāwhiti Museum. On display until June 17.

■ The Deal Exhibition

Dave Roil’s dramatic and exclusive haute couture garments, with local photographer Tink Lockett, with 14 fine art images printed on silk. Open until June 18. Using upcycling methodology and sewing only by hand, David Roil established a subculture in 2004 becoming involved with the London Pacific Fashion Week. Over the years his men’s and women’s range have been shown at the Melbourne Fashion Festival in the Melbourne Museum for the Global Indigenous Runway.

■ Colours Deluxe

Celebrating the achievement of Sarah and Edward Featon of Gisborne, who in the 1880s undertook an ambitious project to describe and paint New Zealand’s flowering plants. At Tairāwhiti Museum until June 25.

Let The Guide know what’s on, guide@gisborneherald.co.nz or ph 869 0600