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…]
Our gallery will be open on Sunday 26th November 12-4pm.
The 21st of May falls on the 21st week of the year. In the course of that week the sun sets at 21 minutes past the 21st hour.Kitterland will screen their film 2121 at the Erin Arts Centre on 17th December.Recorded at the Sound Cafe on May 21st, their film takes in views of the island from dawn until dusk, from sea to river, to forest and field.
Adults £8 Under 18's £2What better way to sign off before the festivities than with a visit to the EAC & Bushy's Yuletide institution! We all know the story but it's still beautiful thing to watch it all unfold surrounded by friends, sharing the spirit of Christmas. An angel is sent from heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. James Stewart, Donna Reed [read more…]
Adults £15 / Under 18 £2Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. Mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova and tenor SeokJong Baek, in his company debut, are Fenena and Ismaele, whose love transcends politics, and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy repeats his celebrated portrayal of the high priest Zaccaria. [read more…]
Adults £5 | RHT Friends £4 | Under 18s £2William Hoggatt is well-known as a painter of Manx landscapes, but he was also an outspoken campaigner and champion for the protection and preservation of the Manx countryside in the late 1930's. In the next of our season of talks, Yvonne Cresswell, former curator of Social history for Manx National Heritage, will reveal how there was much more to this elderly artist than his familiar mac and [read more…]
New exhibition Tuesday 8th January to Friday 18th February 2024.Gallery open 10am-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday, plus during events and selected weekends.
Adults £6 / under 18s £2We open the new Midweek Movie season with a variation on our recent theme of absconding senior citizens taking long journeys!Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson are on sparkling form in this true-life heartwarmer about the Word War 2 veteran Bernard Jordan, who in 2014, jauntily sneaked out of his seaside care home (where he lived with his wife Irene) to get aboard a cross-channel ferry and attend the [read more…]
Free Admission- 11am startThis evening’s Piano Series guest, outstanding Russian pianist, Nikita Lukinov , will give a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. This is an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet and observe a young professional at the top of his craft. Tell all your keyboard playing friends! A disciple of the Russian Piano School, Nikita Lukinov began his [read more…]
Meet the artist - Frauke will be in the gallery to answer questions and chat about her work between 12pm and 4pm on Saturday 20th January (no entry fee).This exhibition is available from Tuesday 9th January to Friday 16th February 2024.The gallery will be open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4.30pm, plus during events and specially selected Saturdays.For as long as she can remember, Frauke has been fascinated by the things other people consider as [read more…]
Adults £15 / Under 18s £2 We continue the Piano Series 2023/24 with a recital by another outstanding young player, Nikita Lukinov. A disciple of the Russian Piano School, Nikita Lukinov began his musical education at the age of six in the class of Svetlana Semenkova in Voronezh, Russia. At the age of ten, he had his debut performance as a soloist with a symphony orchestra, winning a full scholarship to study with Tatiana Sarkissova at the [read more…]
Adults £6/ Under 18 £2Charlotte Regan’s feature debut, about a resourceful 12-year-old living alone whose father re-enters her life, fizzes with energy, ideas and colour.Since her mother died, 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) has been living alone in the flat they shared, getting by on her electric wits, whilst pulling the wool over the eyes of the social services. When Jason (Harris Dickinson), her absent father turns up out of the blue, she is forced to [read more…]
Apply online: www.erinartscentre.com/ysom2024 Saturday 27th January - Juniors (7-12 years)Sunday 28th January - Seniors (13-18 years) Come 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!The winners of both the Junior and Senior competitions will receive a £150 cash prize, the Young Singer or Junior Singer of Mann trophy, and an additional trophy which they keep. Runners-up will each [read more…]
Drop into the gallery at Erin Arts Centre this Saturday to chat with our current artist, Frauke Watson. Her fascinating and exhibition includes a collection of colourful and unique pieces created with found and recycled objects.
Adults £15 / Under 18 £2The Met's second production of the year is one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, Bizet's Carmen.Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story and uncovering issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labour structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries. Dazzling young mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of stars in the complex and volatile title role, alongside [read more…]
