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…]

Tickets £6 / Friends of RHT £5Diving the Wreck of Mona's Queenwith Dr Michelle HaywoodIn April 2023, a team of divers from the Isle of Man set off to Dunkirk to dive the wreck of Mona's Queen III, one of three IOM Steam Packet Company ships lost within 24 hours during the evacuation in May 1940. In this illustrated talk, Dr Haywood explains how one of the Steam Packet's finest vessels was lost and the [read more…]

Adults £6 / under 18s £2Based on Rachel Joyce's quirky novel, Hettie Macdonald directs this poignant tale of faith, hope and human connection.Retired pensioner Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) lives in Kingsbridge with his wife Maureen (Penelope Wilton), whose marriage to him has become despondent and quiet. One day, Harold receives a letter from his old friend, Queenie Hennessy, who is dying from cancer and is living in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Harold decides to send [read more…]

The Weekend View - drop into the gallery 12-4pm on Saturday 11th 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…]

Thursday 16th / Friday 17th / Saturday 18th November - 7.30pm startAdults £10 / Under 18s £2 A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy.It begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an actoid, a robotand his programming is off-kilter.

This new exhibition is open from Tuesday 21st November and through the festive season until Friday 5th January, with free entry into the gallery.We are open Tuesday-Friday 10am to 4.30pm, plus during events and select Saturdays.

Adults £6/ Under 18 £2We've got a big soft spot for the handcrafted, cinematic magic of Mark Jenkins here at EAC - his grainy masterpiece Bait opened our Friday Film Club back in 2021.His second film Enys Men (Cornish for "stone island") is a strange and disquieting study of isolation, time and landscape on a small island haunted by the history of Cornwall. Set in 1973 and shot by Jenkin on grainy 16mm colour film [read more…]

This event is orgniased by the Inner Wheel Club of Rushen & Western Mann.£3 entry fee includes tea/coffee and a mince pie.

Our gallery will be open on Sunday 26th November 12-4pm.

Join us on Tuesdays 2-4pm for tea, friendly chat, and any craft you can bring along. By donation.

Adults £11 / Under 18s £3 (+booking fee)Join Rushen Silver Band for their annual Christmas concert. Full of popular festive tunes and singalong carols, the event will be entertaining for all the family. The concert signals the start of the band's Christmas period and to get us in the festive spirit we will be decking the halls, jingling the bells and inviting special guest Debbie Gooding to sing at the party. This year, due to previous [read more…]

Tickets £6 / Friends of RHT £5Tourism was once the mainstay of the Manx economy and in this illustrated talk historian Charles Guard explains how it all started (long before most people imagine) and how the Island adapted to the annual influx of hundreds of thousands of people. He will highlight some of the more challenging aspects of running a boarding house and there will be lots of photographs, amusing anecdotes... and a few naughty [read more…]

Join us on Tuesdays 2-4pm for tea, friendly chat, and any craft you can bring along. By donation.

Join us for coffee & book chat. By donation.

Adults £6 / under 18s £2Christopher Nolan's formidable and ambitious portrait of theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer is coming to EAC!Cillian Murphy stars as the brilliant mind, tasked with working on the top-secret Manhattan Project during WW2. His work comes to an ominous fruition on July 16th 1945 with the world's first nuclear explosion, changing the course of history forever. Oppenheimer is a modern age Frankenstein movie, in which a man captivated by the the possibilities [read more…]

Twinkling lights, pine needles, carols and mulled wine - that magical time of year is almost upon us!To help you into the festive mood and provide a solution to those pesky present problems, the Erin Arts Centre will be hosting our EAC Christmas Market (11am-4.30pm) on Saturday 9th December.With over 20 varied craft stalls, a tombola, raffle and hot food & drink served all day, we can guarantee a fine festive atmosphere and fabulous gifts. [read more…]