The final public advice session for our Extraordinary Events fund takes place tomorrow evening 6-8pm at the Erin Arts Centre in Port Erin.As last week's session ended up having to be rescheduled due to the icy weather, we are extending the deadline for applications to Monday 20th January 2025 iomarts.com - 694598 - iomartscouncil@gov.im

Wednesday 15th January 2025 Start time 2pm and 7.30pm UK rating 15 Running time 1 hours 41 mins Just too late to be the Christmas Grinch, Sir Ian McKellen is delightfully waspish in Anand Tucker's spiky thriller, featuring Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong. London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails [read more…]

Friday 17th January 2025 / 7.30pm Tickets £20 / Under 18s £2Way back in April, Alan and Dave were booked for a return visit to the EAC Jazz Club. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas. Finally, they've found space in the diary, so blow away those January blues and treat yourselves to a night out with two masters of the craft. If you've never heard them, you need to and if you have, you know [read more…]

Free Admission- 11am start - Please book your place to give us an idea of numbersTalented Wirral pianist, William Bracken opens 2025's Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Bach, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven. These informal sessions allow a fascinating look inside the mind and technique of a professional musician and provide an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet [read more…]

Admission £15 / Under 18 £2William Bracken is in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. The Wirral-born pianist has won numerous awards including 1st prize at the 2022 Liszt Society International Piano Competition, 1st prize, press prize and audience prize at the 2023 Euregio Piano Award international piano competition and 3rd prize at the 2024 UniSA international piano competition in South Africa. He is currently continuing studies at the Guildhall School [read more…]

Tickets are now available for Young Singer of Mann 2025: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/erinartscentreCome and support your young singers in this friendly and exciting competition. Each competitor sings two songs in pursuit of the Young Singer of Mann title! Saturday 25th January will showcase the Junior competitors (age 7 to 12) from 2pm onwards, while Sunday 26th sees the Young Singer of Mann competitors (age 13 to 18) perform live from 2pm. Last year's winner Orry Wilson will [read more…]

Previously Friday 24th January 2025 Rescheduled for Friday 31st January 2025 Start time 7.30pm UK rating 18 Running time 1 hour 45 minsCurrently one of the most in-demand acts on the planet, Kneecap play themselves in this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle [read more…]

The Weekend View with The Manx Artful Dodgers. Meet the artists and chat about the current exhibition Mysteries of Light and Shadow. Free entry 12-4pm Saturday 1st February and Saturday 22nd February at Erin Arts Centre.

Adults £15 / Under 18 £2Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival [read more…]

Reset Mini RetreatA note from Jess: Relax and unwind on our Reset Mini Retreat. Enjoy an afternoon of rejuvenating Pilates and mindfulness before indulging in the warmth of a cosy beach spa and stunning views of Port Erin Bay. Connect with like-minded souls and nourish your body with wholesome food, all while embracing the peaceful energy of nature. All abilities welcome. Meet at Erin Arts Centre. Limited spaces - don't miss out! DM or contact [read more…]

Adults £7 | RHT Friends £5 Collinson House - A History of one of Port Erin's most iconic buildings, with Julie Blackburn. Collinson House has been an iconic landmark in Port Erin for more than a century, after the site was bought by Ted Collinson and the original cafe built by contractor McArd. It was an instant success, buoyed along by the ever-growing wave of tourism, but underwent several transformations in the decades since and [read more…]

Wednesday 5th February - 2pm - By donationA 2023 dystopian novel by Irish author Paul Lynch.The novel depicts the struggles of the Stack family, in particular Eilish Stack, a mother of four who is trying to save her family as the Republic of Ireland slips into totalitarianism. The narrative is told unconventionally with run-on sentences, no paragraph breaks and dialogue without quotation marks.

Tickets £15 / Under 18s £2 David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen.Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With [read more…]

Under 18s £2 / Adults £8 Our half-term film is one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated animated features, as Peter Brown’s much-loved novel gets turned into a dazzling big-screen film for all ages. The film follows Roz (Lupita Nyong'o), a service robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island who must adapt to her surroundings, build relationships with the local wildlife, and become the adoptive mother of an orphaned goose, Brightbill (Kit Connor). Clever, heartfelt and [read more…]

Please note - the Port Erin workshop is now full. Please contact other venues in Douglas and Peel or add your name to the Port Erin waiting list. 1pm to 4pm Thursday 20th February 2025 Erin Arts Centre Free entry ​- all ages welcome, children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Please book your place to let us know you'll be there. On Thursday 20th, fantastic local artist Kate Summerville will be giving a free, [read more…]

Adults £8 / Under 18 £2 Cillian Murphy stars in Tim Mielants' atmospheric adaptation of Claire (Quiet Girl) Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene Laundries novella. In 1985, devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets as he witnesses Ireland’s abusive church workhouses for unwed mothers. Whilst making a delivery to a convent, he finds a young woman locked in a freezing shed and must decide whether to put his family and livelihood at risk by following his conscience. Murphy [read more…]

The Weekend View with The Manx Artful Dodgers. Meet the artists and chat about the current exhibition Mysteries of Light and Shadow. Free entry 12-4pm Saturday 1st February and Saturday 22nd February at Erin Arts Centre.

Mike Wilton returns to the Isle of Man for his fifth But First gig, after helping us start it all off back in April 2018 with Mark Morriss at Noa Bakehouse.For those of you who are unaware of Mike's music, he is a phenomenal guitarist/songwriter (think if Davy Knowles came from East Sussex), influenced by The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks and Syd Barrett.Mike started his career with the Standard Lamps who recorded two albums [read more…]

hysteria – alternative show choir, looking for new bloodJoin us for the first rehearsal of a brand new choir in the Isle of Man, specialising in eccentric, haunting, blood-splattered musical performances. We’ll be learning a selection of horror pop, witchy folk tunes and gothic acapella to perform at a horror-folk festival in October this year. The choir is open to anyone over 18 (due to the potential content) who loves to sing and is confident on [read more…]

Adults £7 | RHT Friends £5 People have been attracted to the small hilltop of Balladoole (also known as Chapel Hill) for thousands of years to work and to worship, and it was the site of an incredible burial spectacle a millennia ago. Early Christians and pagan Vikings shared this hallowed ground - although shared might be putting it politely! This illustrated talk by Allison Fox, Curator or Archeology at Manx National Heritage, explores what archeological [read more…]

Exciting news - Local artist Ellie Baker is running a six week course in acrylic landscape painting! Sessions will be on Tuesdays from 2pm to 5pm at Erin Arts Centre, starting 4th March.The emphasis of the course will be on imagination and experimentation. There will be lots of demonstrations and one-on-one time - it will be a small group so Ellie can help everyone develop their skills. Interesting materials (all included) will be used to [read more…]

Wednesday 5th March - 2pm - By donationMoney by Martin AmisMoney is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis based on his experience as a script writer on the feature film Saturn 3. The novel is the story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, fast food, drugs, pornography, and more. It is ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage; a tale of life lived without restraint.Join us the first Wednesday of the month at [read more…]