Sixteen-year-old piano virtuoso Ashani Waidyatillake performs works by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and Franck. Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday, 2-4pm. Entry $10 adults, $5 Friends of the Museum, and free for students (with ID) and children.
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The Dome, Sunday, 7pm. Tickets, earlybird $32+bf, $40+bf.
Shipwreck Bar, Thursday, May 13, 7.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda; GA $25+bf, students, Gold Card and Community Services card holders $20+bf.
A programme featuring favourites from a wide range of genres. The beautiful counterpoint of Thomas Tallis will be presented alongside Leonard Cohen’s melodic genius, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show tunes alongside New Orleans-style jazz. St Andrew’s Church, Saturday, May 15, 2pm. Admission free/koha towards performers greatly appreciated.
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Raglan groovers with a fun vibe and catchy hooks, with guests Oceanspace and Dosage. Smash Palace, Saturday, May 15, 8pm. Tickets $10-$20 plus booking fee from ticketfairy.com
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Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, $5 at door.
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Musical Theatre Gisborne, 99 Innes Street. May 15-22. Tickets from i-SITE or eventfinda.
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Tairawhiti Museum, opens Saturday until July 25.
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An installation by Cyndy McKenzie. Tairawhiti Museum.
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Works by Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, and Matthew Couper, opens tomorrow.
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Contemporary artworks,
67 Gladstone Road.
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Woven art collection based on traditional raranga techniques, mixed with wild Israeli organic weaving. Tairawhiti Museum until July 9.
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Nine-year-old Monday, home-schooled by her father in Sydney with a weekly visit to the hospital her only outing, believes the Moon Rock (Uluru) will heal her. By chance, she gets caught up with a 16-year-old street kid, Tyler, with a big heart. They embark on a road trip to the Northern Territory to find the Moon Rock, and meet a rich variety of characters on the way.
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Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in father-daughter drama centred on an elderly man who refuses assistance — a decision that has him questioning everything around him.
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A character study set in Bogota, Colombia, in which a lawyer tries to look after her young son and ailing mother while dealing with a developing scandal at work.
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A smoke jumper and a 12-year-old boy fight for their lives as two assassins pursue them through the wilderness. Stars Angelina Jolie.
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An emotionally scarred woman retreats to the unforgiving wilds of the Rockies, and a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death.
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Isey and her son invite a filmmaker into their lives in the week leading up to her 100th birthday.
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A new security guard for a cash truck surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. Soon the marksman’s motives become clear as he takes dramatic steps to settle a score. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Jason Statham, Jeffrey Donovan and Josh Hartnett.
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Two friends in the 1820s American Northwest see a chance to get ahead by using the milk they sneak by night from the first cow in the territory. They make and sell “oily cakes” that go down a treat with the trappers who make up their clientele.
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Winner of Oscars for best picture, best director (Chloé Zhao) and best actress (Frances McDormand). Based on the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century, by Jessica Bruder. After her husband dies, a woman leaves her home town and travels around the United States as a van-dwelling working nomad.
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Reboot of the Mortal Kombat film series based on the video game franchise.
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Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench star in film about an English finishing school for girls from influential families of Nazi Germany, and a teacher’s warnings of sinister motives.
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Live-action/computer-animated hybrid where the cat-and-mouse stars of the old theatrical short-film series get another feature-film outing.
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Peter can’t seem to shake off his reputation for mischief. Once he ventures out of the garden, Peter finds a world where mischief is appreciated, but soon his family come to bring him home.
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Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play father and daughter in this study of a steadfastly independent man gradually losing more and more of himself to dementia. Hopkins won the Oscar for best actor with this role.
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Mythic adversaries do battle, with the fate of the world at stake.
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A lone warrior must find the last dragon to stop monsters that dragons and humans once fought and defeated together.
