A reminder that Erin Arts Centre will be closed on Friday 18th April, and there will be no events over the Easter weekend (the Isle Listen gig has been cancelled and Mad Daddy are playing at The Riddler Under The Nest on Saturday night instead, and Hysteria Evil Choir are taking a week off from Sunday rehearsals). After that we’re back open on Tuesday 22nd April with all our weekly clubs as usual, and our [read more…]
Author: Louisa Thomas
Mananan Festival 2025 announced
The moment you’ve all been waiting for… the final confirmed names playing at the Mananan Festival 2025! This year’s festival will run from Monday 30th June every night until Saturday 5th July at Erin Arts Centre. EAC Members have received an email today which includes a password for early access – from 7pm tonight (Monday 7th April), you can book tickets online for the events Monday to Friday during the festival. For everyone else, these [read more…]
Steve The Artist
A sunny day, a run of sold out shows this weekend, and a visit from Steve The Artist! What more could we want on a brisk April Day?
Met Opera: Fidelio start time 4.55pm
Please note – due to the change in daylight savings time in the USA, the Met Opera live screening of Fidelio on Saturday 15th March will start at 4.55pm rather than the usual 5.55pm.
Window Wanderland 2025
Window Wanderland 2025 – Port Erin If you have registered to attend the Window Wanderland Workshop with Kate Summerville at EAC, please feel free to bring the measurements of a home window that you would like to transform into a work of art. Kate will give you tips and inspiration about decorating your window and we will have materials you can use here. Register your address here: https://www.windowwanderland.com/event/port-erin-2025/ Click on ‘Take part in this event’ [read more…]
Social Media Update
New account alert! We’ve just set up a brand new TikTok account where you can follow us for clips of performances and sneak peeks behind the scenes. You can find us on Tiktok, Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook & X (formerly Twitter) – look for @erinartscentre and hit follow to keep up to date.
Goodbye to the Challen Grand Piano
Our beautiful Challen Grand Piano has left the building for a new life in the west! Loaned and subsequently gifted to us by Isle of Man Arts Council, the Challen has been here since the very beginning and was played by Clive Lythgoe at the Grand Gala Opening Night of the Erin Arts Centre on October 30th 1971. Since the Steinway arrived in 1991, the Challen has sadly not seen much action so we are [read more…]
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays! We are now closed for Christmas & New Year but we’ll be back open as usual (10-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday) from Tuesday 7th January 2025.
Festive Events at Erin Arts Centre 2024
Piano Series: Masterclass & Recital with Emanuil Ivanov
Winner of the prestigious Busoni Competition 2019, Emanuil Ivanov, continues this season’s Piano Series at EAC with a masterclass and evening recital. His recital programme will be: Schumann– Theme and Variations in E-flat major “Ghost variations” – Symphonic Etudes op.13 (with posthumous variations) Rachmaninoff– 9 Etudes-Tableaux op.39 Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, starting piano lessons with Galina Daskalova around the age of seven. He later studied with the renowned [read more…]