"Daughters of Britannia: The Lives & Times of Diplomatic Wives" by Katie HickmanJoin us in Harry's Bar on the first Wednesday of each month for a friendly book-chat over coffee.No entry fee, donations welcome.About the book:An authoritative and entertaining account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service. Their stories - from ambassadresses downwards - never before told, are a feast of eccentricity, genuine hardship [read more…]

Kristene Sutcliffe (soprano) Olga Eggert (piano) take to the EAC stage for an evening of beautiful duets by Chopin, Mozart, Rossini and Porter.Adults £12/ Under 18 £2Born in Wales and raised on the Isle of Man Kristene Sutcliffe was a regular child performer at the Manx Music Festival and was the first ever winner of the Young Singer of Mann competition.  She went on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester [read more…]

Wednesday 13th September 2023 – screenings at 2pm + 7.30pmAdults £6 / under 18s £2Our new Midweek Movie season opens with Marc Forster’s heartwarming and funny story about love, loss, and life.A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama based on the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. The film tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a  bitter old man who is struggling to see purpose in his life following [read more…]

Wednesday 13th September 2023 - screenings at 2pm + 7.30pmAdults £6 / under 18s £2Our new Midweek Movie season opens with Marc Forster's heartwarming and funny story about love, loss, and life.A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama based on the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. The film tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a  bitter old man who is struggling to see purpose in his life following [read more…]

Adults £7 / Under 18 £2After a cameo appearance at the beginning of the year, the swashbuckling songsmiths are back to shiver your timbers with a full night's entertainment. Enjoy an evening of salty singing and nautical natter with the Island’s premier (and only!) sea shanty group, “Mine's a Shanty”Expect shanties old, new and Manx - with a chance to join in and sing along!This is a General Admission event with cabaret style table seating.

The EAC gallery will be open between 12pm and 4pm today, free entry. Drop in to see the work and meet the artist in person. Steve gets his inspiration from looking at nature, using bright colours, shadows and shapes to create abstract art. He fills large blank canvases using acrylic paints and other media, which mingle and weave like a tapestry.Steve is part of the Glen Maye and Isle of Man Art Society, and was [read more…]

Masterclass - 11am startThe event is free to everyone but please book here to give us an idea of numbers.We open this season's Piano Series with a free masterclass by prodigious Korean pianist, Minkyu Kim.  He will be playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Beethoven, Liszt and Onac.  This is an ideal opportunity for pianists to meet and observe a really special talent at the [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18s £2 We're opening this season's Piano Series with a very special talent. Do not miss!Minkyu Kim was born in South Korea in 1995. He studied pianoforte with Soo-Jeong Jeong at Goyang High School of Arts and with Hyung-Joon Chang and Sehee Kim at Seoul National University, as well as harpsichord with Joohee Oh. After graduating summa cum laude in 2017, he began his studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on [read more…]

Join us each Tuesday afternoon for tea, friendly chat, and whatever crafty project you're working on!There's no need to book, just turn up on the day and you'll be welcomed. Tea & coffee is free but we do ask for a small donation toward the Erin Arts Centre for the use of Harry's Bar.

We are staging a community exhibition here at Erin Arts Centre, inviting open submissions from local artists, taking their inspiration from any aspect of the spooky season!All Hallows, All Saints, Hop Tu Naa, Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead, is a time of remembrance, of honouring the ancestors and the departed, a time when the veil between this world and the Otherworld is thin, allowing the spirits to move freely between the earthly and supernatural [read more…]

Adults £6 / Under 18 £2Friday Film Club open's its doors for the new season with this epic journey of self discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps.  The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound and complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who meet as children and share an idyllic summer in the outdoor playground of the mountains.Directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, who adapted the screenplay from the novel of [read more…]

The EAC gallery will be open between 12pm and 4pm today, free entry. Drop in to see the work and meet the artist in person. Steve gets his inspiration from looking at nature, using bright colours, shadows and shapes to create abstract art. He fills large blank canvases using acrylic paints and other media, which mingle and weave like a tapestry.Steve is part of the Glen Maye and Isle of Man Art Society, and was [read more…]

"Treacle Walker" by Alan GarnerJoin us in Harry’s Bar on the first Wednesday of each month for a friendly book-chat over coffee.No entry fee, donations welcome.About the book:An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world.Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books and playing with marbles. When a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the [read more…]

Those hazy September days on the beach are stretching out towards autumn and there’s jazz in the air! The Port Erin Jazz Festival is back for a third instalment with a thrilling and eclectic lineup. Tickets will fly so get them quick! The festival opens at the Erin Arts Centre on Friday 6th October with local heroes, the Blue Train Big Band who set the place alight last year supporting Martin Taylor. Expect Hawaiian shirts and slick, dynamic interpretations of modern [read more…]

Those hazy September days on the beach are stretching out towards autumn and there’s jazz in the air! The Port Erin Jazz Festival is back for a third instalment with a thrilling and eclectic lineup. Tickets will fly so get them quick! Festival favourite Beccy Rork is up first, supported by local stars all The President’s Men. Beccy is an excellent sax player, teacher and arranger whose melodic style and warm tone have been likened to that of Paul Desmond, Art Pepper and Bud Shank. She began playing in blues, funk and soul bands [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18s £2Internationally and nationally acclaimed, Toby Walker has been hailed as an award winning, roots music fingerstyle guitar virtuoso and songwriter who has toured the US, the UK, Canada and Europe. Blending the styles of blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, old-time jazz and rock, Walker has developed his own style and as such, received numerous awards, including being the 1st place recipient of the International Blues Challenge Award in Memphis and the [read more…]

Adults £6 / Under-18s £2Writer-director Greta Gerwig’s cinematic reinvention of Mattel’s most infamous toy finds the titular character residing in a pastel pink haven where 'thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism and equal rights have been solved' - Welcome to Barbieland! However, when this habitually smiley creature finds herself haunted by thoughts of sadness, anxiety and death, she embarks upon a riotous journey of self-discovery to the Real World accompanied by stowaway sidekick, Ken.With [read more…]

Steve gets his inspiration from looking at nature, using bright colours, shadows and shapes to create abstract art. He fills large blank canvases using acrylic paints and other media, which mingle and weave like a tapestry.Steve is part of the Glen Maye and Isle of Man Art Society, and was recently the awarded the Archibald Knox Trophy from Isle of Man Art Society.The exhibition will be available to view (free entry) from Monday 4th October [read more…]

Admission £10 / Under 18 £2For the first of their 2023 shows here at EAC, Rushen Silver Band present an evening of music from the Stage and Screen. Rest assured there will be something for everyone here, with classic soundtracks, themes and singalongs to get you in the party spirit.Get your tickets while you can!

£10 adults / £2 under 18sThe Kirk Michael Chamber Orchestra was formed in 2015 and has given concerts regularly since then, although this is the first time they have performed at the Erin Arts Centre.The concert features music by Stamitz, Mozart, Elgar and Tchaikovsky, together with Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto, with soloist Graham Kirkland. Graham was a junior exhibitioner at the Northern School of Music, Manchester and, as a full-time student, won the Special Graduate [read more…]

Under 18s £2 / Adults £6When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's Hotel Transylvania.As Dracula's daughter Mavis turns 118, he finally allows her to leave the castle and see the human world, but not without an elaborate plan to make sure she sees the worst of them. His fiendish plot is foiled when a human guest stumbles into the hotel, falls in love with Mavis, and threatens Drac's [read more…]

Thursday 26th / Friday 27th OctoberTickets £10 Rita is searching for something more than her life as a working class wife and hairdresser. She enrolls in an Open University course to better herself, where she meets the disillusioned and alcoholic Professor Frank, who is to be her tutor. This funny, poignant and entertaining play whisks us along on their journey. Written by Willy Russell and first performed by The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, Educating Rita was [read more…]

Adults £6To celebrate 50 years since it's release and to acknowledge the death of it's mercurial director William Friedkin, we are Hop Tu Naa screening the Directors Cut of The Exorcist.We all know the story- 12-year-old girl (Linda Blair), daughter of a neurotic movie star (Ellen Burstyn), starts to behave diabollically and Father Merrin is summoned to help. One of the touchstones of modern horror, this evergreen masterpiece still possesses a malevolent and unsettling power. Empire [read more…]

The Weekend View - drop into the gallery 12-4pm on Saturday 4th November to see the current exhibition, including 80 pieces from 70 artists. We were overwhelmed by the amount and quality of work that came in for our Otherworld exhibition, and we're so proud that the BBC have noticed too! This is a great little piece about our current show: https://tinyurl.com/yvysz37aDrop into the Erin Arts Centre 10-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday or 12-4pm on Saturdays [read more…]