Admission £25. Buy a ticket for both Festival events at the same time and pay only £45 (click continue shopping after first booking)The Port Erin Jazz festival is back with a talent packed weekend of high-octane entertainment!As ever, the event is being staged across 3 venues  - The Erin Arts Centre, The Bay Hotel & The Falcon’s Nest Hotel and features a mixture of international jazz stars and home-grown talent.John Coghlan, drummer for the legendary [read more…]

Admission £25. Buy a ticket for both Festival events at the same time and pay only £45 (click continue shopping after first booking)To close this year's festival, we are delighted to welcome back the hard swinging bebop quartet who set last year's Mananan alight....The Harvey O'Higgins Project. Support comes from local heroes, Blue Vannin.Graham Harvey (Piano), Dave O'Higgins (Saxophone), Jeremy Brown (Bass) and Matt Skelton (Drums) have played together for years, following that thread in [read more…]

Screenings at 2pm and 7.30pm Adults £8 / Under 18s £2 Running time: 1 hour 30 mins UK rating: 15 Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy bring their agile and unpredictable storytelling approach to the real-life tale of Rose Dugdale (Imogen Poots) who died earlier this year. A British aristocrat and debutante, Dugdale was born into wealth and privilege – a background she not only renounced but also weaponised when she became an active volunteer [read more…]

Unfortunately we will be unable to screen Les Contes d'Hoffman from NY Met Opera this Saturday (12th October) due to a problem with the satellite transmission. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. If you paid by card, you will receive a full refund in the next few days. We understand this is very disappointing as it's the first event in the new season, but hopefully we will see you all at future opera events. Adults [read more…]

Screening at 7.30pm Adults £8 / Under 18s £2 Running time: 1 hour 56 mins UK rating: 15 Friday Film Club opens it's doors for a new season with Jeff Nichols' freewheeling account of the rise and fall of a Midwest bike gang, based on a book of images and interviews by Danny Lyon.After a chance encounter at a local bar, Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of [read more…]

This event is now sold out - please email But First via [email protected] for the waiting list. Saturday 19th October 2024Erin Arts CentreChris Helme (The Seahorses) and Nigel Clark (Dodgy)

Our new exhibition from Rosie Watson & Iona Jerry: The Wild: Foothills & Fairy Tales This brand new exhibition will be available to the public from Tuesday 22nd October until Friday 21st December during our normal opening hours (10-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday) and during events. Look out for special Saturday openings! Rosie's work focuses on the stories played out by the animals living within the foothills of Snaefell, drawing on the magical nature of the [read more…]

This event is being organised by the One World Centre IOM, and hosted by the Erin Arts Centre. More information coming soon.

Date: Saturday 26th October 2024 Start time: 6pm at The Railway Station, Port Erin We start with a walk around the village, meeting surprise ghosts & goblins along the way! We finish the walk at Erin Arts Centre where there will be hot chocolate, live music, games, and treats to collect. Dress to impress for a chance to win the "Best Costume" and "Best Moot" contests. All children must be accompanied. There is no charge [read more…]

Monday 28th October - 6.30pm at Erin Arts Centre Contact Amy (The Good Health Store) on [email protected] or 01624 832865 for more information. Viridian Nutrition Educator PHIL BEARD will be discussing all things cognitive health, and how to support an aging brain.

Screening at 2pmAdults £8 / Under 18s £2Running time: 1 hour 22 minsUK rating: UWhat better choice for a  half-term film than a classic, road-trip comedy.......with ducks. Mack is an overprotective mallard who does not intend to leave New England anytime soon. Somehow his adventurous family convince him to take them south for the winter and their adventures begin.This Illumination Films animation speaks to our natural anxieties as parents and of the will to follow your [read more…]

Wednesday 30th October Show starts 7.30pmAdults £20 / Under 18s £12Steve Knightley, a highly acclaimed and multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and musician, occupies a prominent position in the English folk/acoustic and roots music scene. As a founding member of the revered Show of Hands, Knightley's musical journey is deeply intertwined with a profound connection to geographical places, particularly the West Country where he currently resides. His body of work, infused with a profound love of English traditional [read more…]

Screening at 7.30pm Adults £8 Running time: 1 hour 49 mins UK rating: 18 This year we're bringing our Hop tu Naa celebrations to a grisly head with a screening of John Carpenter's classic The Thing, starring Kurt Russell.A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is apparently hunting them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can assume the form of its victims, [read more…]

We've got a great range of events in November as the weather turns colder! Drop into the EAC for a chat or to book in person, we're open Tuesday to Friday, 10am and 4.30pm,Book tickets online here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/erinartscentre or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X (Twitter) @erinartscentre

This event has sold out - please contact John Quirk on 464634 for the waiting list. Monday 4th November 2024 - 7.30pm start timeAdults £7 / Friends of Rushen Heritage Trust £5 - General Admission (no assigned seating) The new Rushen Heritage season opens at EAC with this special feature about Colby River. Presented by Jane Glover and Phil Gawne. Rushen Heritage Trust is thrilled to be hosting the premiere of a new film, Romance of [read more…]

Wednesday 6th November - 2pm - By donation Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster, to the parents desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, all experience the most intense hours of their [read more…]

Admission £15We're privileged and excited to have Christine Collister kick off her UK tour here at EAC.Children Of The Sea is a collection of 9 original songs inspired by Manx Folklore and a magical sense of place. Accompanying the CD is a gorgeous book with lyrics, stories, inspirations and original illustrations from local (Isle Of Man) artists. Christine will be performing to the tracks she produced for this very special project along with beautiful video [read more…]

Free Admission- 11am start - Please book your place to give us an idea of numbersEmanuil Ivanov touches down at this season's Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. 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! Emanuil [read more…]

Admission £15 / Under 18 £2Winner of the prestigious Busoni Competition  2019, Emanuili Ivanov, continues this season's Piano Series at EAC with a masterclass and evening recital.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 Bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018 and attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 [read more…]

Screening at 7.30pmAdults £8 / Under 18s £2 Running time: 1 hour 44 mins UK rating: 12A As the long, cold nights draw in it, we're hanging onto that spooky Hop Tu naa feeling as long as we can. Yes folks, 36 years after the original, Beetlejuice is back! This follow-up to the classic supernatural comedy is a gleefully zany farce packed with knock-out punchlines and great practical effects. After an unexpected family tragedy, three [read more…]

Thursday 14th November / 7.30pm Friday 15th November / 7.30pm Saturday 16th November / 2.30pm & 7.30pmTickets £12 / Over 65s £10 / Under 18s £5 A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens's well-known tale of how the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the importance of generosity towards all mankind and finally embraces the true spirit of Christmas. His transformation is prompted by the appearance on Christmas Eve of the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, [read more…]

Tony Wright (Terrorvision) with special guest Milly Evans

Saturday 23rd November 10am - 1pm Admission £3 (includes fresh coffee & mine pie) In aid of The Parkinson's Disease Society IOM & other local charities

Adults £15 / Under 18 £2 Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics have often had issues with the opera's subject matter, the directness and intensity of its score, and the crowd-pleasing dramatic opportunities it provides for its lead roles. However, these same aspects have made Tosca one of a handful of iconic works that seem to [read more…]