Adults £22 / Under 18 £2Creeaght is a new composition by Isla Callister. 'Creeaght' is the Manx word for 'courage' and this musical project celebrates the role women have played in Manx history. The piece was originally commissioned by Culture Vannin and premiered at Yn Chruinnaght Festival 2022 with an all-woman ensemble. The first half of the show will be a showcase of Manx and Scottish traditional music comprising short sets from Mera Royle on [read more…]

Adults £22 / Under 18s £2We're very excited to welcome UK Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, to open this year's festival. He will read a selection of his work, including new poems. A Q&A and book signing will follow.Simon is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the PEN Prize for Translation. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers. A regular broadcaster, he [read more…]

Adults £6 / under 18s £2For the final screening in our Midweek Movies series, we're showing Tár - Todd Field’s outrageous, delirious and sensual psychodrama starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, an orchestra conductor who is starting to unravel. Set in the world of classical music, Tár centres on Blanchett's fictional female conductor, a household name at the height of her career, whose life comes crashing down after a series of scandals come to the surface. [read more…]

A brand new, monthly, adults only, horror-pop singing workshop.We're going for a Pride-themed arrangement to celebrate LGBTQIA+ artists in June, expect a mix of lyrics from Halsey, Sam Smith and Billie Eilish!We'll start with group warm-ups, arrange ourselves into 3 sections then work our way through an exclusive vocal arrangement created by musical director Louisa Thomas. Just bring a pen and we'll provide the lyrics and sheet music. There's no audience for these workshops so [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18s £2In a mythical land between the sun and the moon, Prince Tamino flees a terrible serpent. Three ladies in the service of the Queen of the Night save him and offer him a magic flute to ensure his safety on the journey...One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best [read more…]

Adults £6 / Under 18 £2Friday Film Club shuts up for the summer, leaving you with this sun flecked beauty.Charlotte Wells makes a formidable debut as writer/director of this stunning, coming-of-age drama. Set in the late 1990s, the film follows Sophie (Frankie Corio), an 11-year-old girl on holiday with her father Calum (Paul Mescal), at a Turkish resort, on the eve of his 31st birthday. As the world of adolescence creeps into her consciousness, Calum [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18 £2Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters.Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut, conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone [read more…]

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the Oscars 2023. The penultimate Midweek Movie of the season is Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's mind-melting, multi-Oscar-winning, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Wednesday 17th May 2023 at the Erin Arts Centre - screenings at 2pm and 7.30pm - tickets £6 (under 18s £2) Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Wang, a laundromat owner who becomes [read more…]

The IOM's first and only horror-pop singing club! A monthly singing session with no commitments - warm up, learn a cool-but-weird song, record it to share on the socials, then home happy and wait for next time! It's basically a musical coven, meeting in the gorgeously gothic Erin Arts Centre and hosted by musical director Louisa Thomas.This event is focused on expression and performance, with each monthly Sunday session a unique chance to learn/workshop a [read more…]

Wednesday 10th May to Saturday 13th May 2023 - 7.30pm each nightAdults £10 / Under 18s £2 Set in the 1980s with costumes and music to match!Orphaned twins, shipwrecks, love triangles and more ......Viola, separated from her twin Sebastian in a shipwreck, finds herself in Illyria, where she dresses as a boy (Cesario) to work for the Duke Orsino, whom she falls in love with. Orsino is in love with the Countess Olivia and sends Viola [read more…]

Our gorgeous new photography exhibition is now open!!! The EAC gallery is open as usual Tuesdays to Friday 10am to 4.30pm for FREE ENTRY to see “A Year in The Life of Port Erin” all through April and until Friday 5th May.You can also drop in on Saturdays 1st, 8th and 22nd April between 12pm and 4pm to see the exhibition and meet a member of Southern Photographic to chat about their work.This is a [read more…]

“Ravens’ Nests & Spring Tides” – writing about place and nature in Iceland and the Isle of Man Author talk by Dr Sarah Thomas and Dr Fiona Gell Wednesday 19 April 7.30pm Authors Sarah Thomas and Fiona Gell have written about two very different places – Iceland’s Westfjords and the underwater world around the Isle of Man – but their writing has captured the landscapes, nature and heritage that have shaped their own stories. From the cultural importance of [read more…]

As a special holiday treat, we're screening the family-friendly, animated classic that launched the Minions!A man who delights in all things wicked, supervillain Gru, hatches a plan to steal the moon. Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru makes ready to vanquish all who stand in his way. However, nothing in his calculations and groundwork has prepared him for his greatest challenge: three adorable [read more…]

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging. This live cinema transmission is part of [read more…]

Wednesday 12th March 2023 - screenings at 2pm and 7.30pmAdults £6 / Under 18s £2Starring Sex Education's Emma Mackey and directed by Frances O' Connor, the film imagines Emily Bronte's transformative and exhilarating journey to womanhood. As the rebellious misfit strives for personal and artistic freedom within the confines of her family life, she channels her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.UK Rating: 15

Our gorgeous new photography exhibition is now open!!! The EAC gallery is open as usual Tuesdays to Friday 10am to 4.30pm for FREE ENTRY to see "A Year in The Life of Port Erin" all through April and until Friday 5th May.You can also drop in on Saturdays 1st, 8th and 22nd April between 12pm and 4pm to see the exhibition and meet a member of Southern Photographic to chat about their work.This is a [read more…]

Monday 3rd April 2023 - 7.30pm at Erin Arts CentreAdults £5 / Friends of Rushen Heritage Trust £4 - general admission (no assigned seating).Popular local historian Peter Kelly presents some of the fascinating pictures he put together for the Isle of Man Examiner Millennium Supplement in 1999, the images taken from photographs, magic lantern slides and glass plate negatives held in the Manx National Heritage collection - and presented in Peter’s inimitable and relaxed style.Tickets [read more…]

Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging. Baritone Michael Volle sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed turns in the production’s 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford, soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park [read more…]

Our gorgeous new photography exhibition is now open!!! The EAC gallery is open as usual Tuesdays to Friday 10am to 4.30pm for FREE ENTRY to see "A Year in The Life of Port Erin" all through April and until Friday 5th May.You can also drop in on Saturdays 1st, 8th and 22nd April between 12pm and 4pm to see the exhibition and meet a member of Southern Photographic to chat about their work.This is a [read more…]

Saturday 25th March - 5pmThis is a live recording of the performance on 18th March 2023.Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by [read more…]

This show was originally planned for 9th, 10th and 11th March but was postponed due to bad weather. Anyone who booked for the original dates via Ticketsource or by card in the office has been automatically refunded. If you paid by cash, please drop into the EAC box office for a refund.New date: 7.30pm Friday 24th March (one night only)Adults £10 / Under 18s £2 September In The Rain by John GodberNewly-wed Yorkshire couple Liz and [read more…]

Thursday 23rd March, 7.30pm. Free Admission, please book to reserve your place.The Isle of Man Arts Council are proud to present an evening of short films.The evening will feature films by Brook Wassall, John Craine, Aegis Productions, Dark Avenue Film, Three Leg Productions, Joe Simmons, Daniel Harris and Peter Marsden, and will include the premiere of “Sollys,” a dance film by the Arts Council’s Graduate Intern Sophie Linham.The Arts Team and Arts Council members will [read more…]

Adults £15/Under 18's £2The EAC Jazz Club is proud to present piano legend Mr Dave Newton, back by popular demand. His last appearance with Alan Barnes, here at the Port Erin Jazz Festival was an absolute keyboard masterclass and we are very lucky that he was keen to return, playing both solo and ably backed by the cream of Manx jazz, All The President's Men. Dave has been voted Britain's best jazz pianist no less than [read more…]

The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell & Brendan GleesonScreenings at 2pm and 7.30pmAdults £6 / under 18s £2On a remote island off the west coast coast of Ireland, Pádraic is devastated when Colm abruptly ends their lifelong friendship. With help from his sister and a troubled young islander, Pádraic sets out to repair the damaged relationship by any means necessary. However, his resolve brings about an ultimatum that leads to shocking consequences.Martin McDonagh's tragicomic [read more…]