Sunday, July 3Te Wherowhero Lagoon Public Planting Day from 9am. Signposted from SH2 Muriwai (main road south). Call Tairawhiti Envir. Centre for details 867 4708 or email volunteer.gisborne@live.com
Gizzy Food Week: Yoga Workshop and Wholefoods Brunch with Nici Wickes and Jade Gunness, 9am, Waikanae Surf Club, $100. Tickets from Interiors.
Gizzy Food Week: Exclusive lunch with Fleur Sullivan, 12 noon, Poverty Bay Golf Club, $100. Tickets from Interiors.
Monday, July 4Jewellery and art exhibition (through to July 14), 10am-4pm, The Aviary, PBC. Free.
Gizzy Food Week: 'Just Cook Community' workshop, 10am, Supergrans, Childers Road, free. Ph 868 3571 to reserve.
Gizzy Food Week: Write Bite 'edible masterpiece' competition, H.B.Williams Memorial Library. Have entries in by 3pm for public voting 3.30-4.30pm. Ph 867 6709 for info. Free.
Gizzy Food Week: Sausage-tying, 5.15-6.15pm, the Gisborne Deli, Derby St cnr. Free.
Tuesday, July 5Gizzy Food Week: 'Just Cook Community' workshop, 10am, Supergrans, Childers Road, free. Ph 868 3571 to reserve.
Gizzy Food Week: Butchery Demo and Knife Sharpening, with the Pak'nSave butchers, 6pm, Poverty Bay Golf Club, $5. Tickets from Interiors.
Kids Book Club night and fun activity for ages 5-13, H.B.Williams Memorial Library, 4-5pm. Free.
Poverty Bay Blues Club monthly jam, The Dome, music starts at 8pm, $5.
Wednesday, July 6Toddler Time; Stories and songs for little ones, 10-10.30am, H.B.Williams Memorial Library, free.
Gizzy Food Week: 'Just Cook Community' workshop, 10am, Supergrans, Childers Road, free. Ph 868 3571 to reserve.
Gizzy Food Week: Tips'n'tasters with celebrity chef Alan Brown, 2-6pm, The Marina, Ph 868 5919 to reserve. Free.
Gizzy Food Week: Mara Kai Masterchef Interschool Competition finals, 3pm, Poverty Bay Golf Club, free. Followed by School Lunchbox Ideas, 6pm at the same venue, $5. Tickets from Interiors.
Gizzy Food Week: Peppers 6-course Degustation, Peppers, $80. Ph 867 7696 to reserve.
Everest Untold; Two-man play about the successful summiting of Mount Everest in 1953, 7.30pm, Lawson Field Theatre. "The story all New Zealanders should know." $27.50 and $32.50 tickets from Stephen Jones Photography.
Thursday, July 7Tau Hou: the opening of an exhibition celebrating Matariki. Dr Rangi Matamua, a senior lecturer in Waikato University's School of Maori and Pacific Development will present a public lecture, Maia Gallery, Toihoukura, EIT Tairawhiti, 80 Cobden Street, 6pm. Free. Enquiries to Te Rina Armitt on 869 0847.
Gizzy Food Week: Vegetarian Cooking with Kelly Reynolds & Daisy Dagg from the Rugby Pantry, 6pm, Poverty Bay Golf Club, $20. Tickets from Interiors.
Ulysses Motorcycle Club, Gisborne Branch meeting, 7.30pm, Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club. For anyone who rides or is interested in motorcycles. Ph Chris 868 9661.
Friday, July 8Gizzy Food Week: Sunshine Brewery Long Lunch, with Chris Green, noon, Sunshine Brewery, $75. Tickets from Interiors.
Gizzy Food Week: The Jolly Stockman Bogan Bingo, Beer and Burger, The Jolly Stockman, $20. Ph 867 8879 to reserve.
Gizzy Food Week: Burger Night at the Flagship Diner, from 6pm. Ph 281 0372.
Saturday, July 9St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale, 9am–12 noon in car park behind church, access off Childers Rd, $5 per car (paid on arrival, set-up 8.30am). Ph Val 868 8226. Wide variety of realistically-priced goods.
Art exhibition (through to July 31), featuring local artist Krystle Kelly, Verve Cafe.
Jewellery and art exhibition, 10am-2pm, The Aviary, PBC. Free.
Young Country Exhibition opens; based around the imagery of railways employee/amateur photographer William Williams, Tairawhiti Museum.
Gizzy Food Week: Exclusive Lunch with Ben Bayly, noon, The Black House, $120. Tickets from Interiors.
Gizzy Food Week: The Marina 6-course Degustation Dinner with wine match, 7pm, The Marina, $95. Ph 868 5919 to reserve.
The Prophet Motive - Super Narcoman Tour 2016, 8pm, Smash Palace bar. $10 at the door.
Sunday, July 10Gizzy Food Week: Masterclass with Ben Bayly, 10.30am, Poverty Bay Golf Club, $100. Tickets from Interiors.
Xing Wang, emerging piano star, 2pm, Tairawhiti Museum. $5 adults, children and students free.
