Piano Extravaganza 10. Eight plus pianists play two, four and even more at a time, on one or more pianos. St Andrew’s Church, Labour Day, Monday October 26 (12.30pm).Optional koha for performers’ expenses and piano maintenance fund.
Gisborne Choral Society presents a celebration of world music and old favourites. St Andrew’s Church, Cobden St. November 7, 4pm. Koha.
Dress up in 70s costumes, and dance the night away to the music of the 70s. Prizes for best costumes. Dome Room, November 7 (9pm)
Directed by Norman Maclean, Unity Theatre. Last show Saturday. Tickets $25+bf from i-SITE or eventfinda
Directed by Belinda Campbell, Lawson Field Theatre. December 11-19. Tickets from i-Site or Ticketek
Indigenous storytelling in comic-book form, with a Maori voice. Tairawhiti Museum, Friday October 2 – Sunday October 11.
An exhibition of work by contemporary artists Inga Fillary, Gene Walker, Daniel Metcalfe, Yvonne Abercrombie and Diane Scott.
Tairawhiti Museum, Sept 26-Nov22.
Jo Torr explores in costume and textile history cultural exchanges between European and Maori. Tairawhiti Museum until December 6.
Tairawhiti Museum until November 10.
Lysnar House. Mondays 7pm-9pm until November 23 (excl October 26). Gisborne Artists’ Society members $8 per session or $50 for 8 sessions. Non members $10 per session.Bring your own sketch pads, pencils, paints.
Scientists discover that fragments of a comet will hit Earth in a few days, and will likely cause the extinction of humanity. The only hope for anyone to survive is a group of bunkers in Greenland. John Garrity (Gerard Butler, who also co-produced the film) struggles to ensure the safety of his wife and son as they journey across Greenland to get to the bunkers before it’s too late. Also stars Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman and Hope Davis.
A young 1980s mother’s efforts to be a good wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Adapted by Jo Brand from her novel, the film stars Mark Addy, Sheridan Smith, Sally Phillips, Ella Hunt, Sheila Hancock, Elizabeth Carling and Brand.
Two years after the death of supposedly illiterate pizza cook Henri Pick, he is hailed as the author of a celebrated novel. Not everyone is convinced that Pick wrote the book, though. Among the cynics is literary critic Jean-Michael Rouche (Fabrice Luchini), who sets out to discover the truth behind Pick and the book that bears his name. Camille Cottin co-stars as Josephine Pick, daughter of Henri, who reluctantly helps Rouche navigate the Breton landscape. French and Russian with subtitles.
Freddy Lupin comes from a proud line of werewolves, but he gets a shock when his first “warfing” goes wrong and he’s turned into a ferocious poodle. New Zealand comic actor Rhys Darby has a voice role in this animated comedy.
An art gallery assistant is an emotional hoarder who keeps a memento from every relationship she’s been in.
A boy will stop at nothing to get his room back from his grandfather, who has come to live with the family after the death of his wife. Stars Robert De Niro.
An orphaned girl finds a magical secret garden on her uncle’s estate.
A supervillain parrot hatches a devious scheme to break the long-standing truce between cats and dogs.
The super pups must defend Barkingburg from the Duke of Flappington, who has acquired the power of mighty levitation.
A young space traveller lands on a wild and unexplored planet and has to survive with the help of Buck, a survival robot.
A woman’s idyllic life comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he is leaving her for another woman.
New Zealand film Savage follows Danny across three decades of his life, trying to understand the boy who eventually becomes the brutal enforcer of a gang.
American romantic drama film based on the 2014 new adult fiction novel of the same name by Anna Todd.
An operative of the organisation Tenet is tasked with preventing World War 3.
New Zealand film in which Tom Sainsbury plays a hapless character who can see and speak with the dead.
A London lawyer and his wife redefine later life by motoring across rural India in their battered 1936 Rolls Royce, falling in with chaiwallahs and maharajahs, and dodging tribal conflicts to get to a human rights festival in Bangladesh.
A selection of the best New Zealand and international short films will be shown along with the 11-minute film , written and directed by Cian Elyse White and starring Williams Davis and Gisborne actresss Ngapaki Moetara. Next week, Gisborne short film will feature.
Two elderly women carry on a secret affair. French with subtitles.
The new deputy principal of a Paris school is warned by her colleagues that the students are unmotivated and undisciplined, but she sees things differently. With subtitles.
