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…]

There is an amazing new village-wide competition in Port Erin this year! We've hidden 24 movie hints in shop windows around the village, and all you have to do is let us know the movie titles to be in with a chance to win an incredible hamper full of local goodies. The hampers are on display in The Good Health Store on Station Road, and the hints are all over the village from the Darnills [read more…]

Join us for our last events of 2024!Rushen Heritage Trust: Amateurs Can't Run a Museum (21 years of the Aviation & Military Museum) - Monday 2nd Dec, 7.30pm - tickets £7 / £5 for Friends of RHT EAC Book Circle: Freedom To Think by Susie Alegro - Wednesday 4th Dec, 2pm - by donation*POSTPONED* IOM Arts Council: Public Advice Session re Extraordinary Events Funding - Thursday 5th Dec, 6-8pm - free entry*POSTPONED* EAC Christmas Market [read more…]

Friday 13th December 2024 Start time 7.30pm UK rating 15Running time 2 hours 13 mins The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama starring Paul Giamatti and directed by Alexander Payne. This beauty arrived too late for Christmas 2023 so we're making it our Friday Film Club gift to you this year.Three lonely people: A cantankerous, unpopular teacher, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti); a bright, abrasive student, Angus (Dominic Sessa); and Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), [read more…]

After the storm forced us to postpone, the EAC's annual Christmas Craft Market will now take place here on Saturday 14th December between 11am and 4pm. With over 20 stalls, raffle, tombola and hot food and drinks all day this is one of our favourite events of the year!We are operating as part of Port Erin's Countdown to Christmas, with events on around the village. Don't forget to try the Christmas movie quiz, with clues and [read more…]

Opening hours (free entry):Tuesday to Friday, 10-4.30pm until Friday 21st DecemberSaturday 30th November, 12-3pmSaturday 14th December, 12-3pmRosie & Iona will be at the EAC Christmas Market on Saturday 7th December 11-4.30pmRosie’s work focuses on the stories played out by the animals living within the foothills of Snaefell, drawing on the magical nature of the valleys for inspiration. Iona’s work is a personal perspective on the story of The Wild Swans through intricate pen and ink. [read more…]

Admission £12 / Under 18 £2As Christmas draws closer, we're delighted to be hosting this Shimmering Yuletide soirée! Join the Shimmers for a timeless Victorian Christmas celebration. Travel back in time with Jane Corkill, Ruth Tickle, Christopher Sullivan, Paul Costain, and Naomi & Ashley Cole for an evening of traditional festive music, stories and poetry. We can't wait!

Adults £8 / Under 18's £2 Our final event before the festivities and a great big Happy Christmas to all from the EAC & Bushy's Yuletide institution! We all know the story but it's still a 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 [read more…]

Adults £7 | RHT Friends £5 Exploring Moorhouse Farm and the Isle of Man's agricultural heritage. In the third of their season of talks, Rushen Heritage invite you to... Step into the rich tapestry of Manx history with a closer look at Moorhouse Farm, its connection to the Ballagawne quarterland, and its roots in the ancient treen of Sansan. Farmer Paul Costain, Captain of the Parish of Rushen, reflects on the agricultural development of the [read more…]

Wednesday 15th January 2025 Start time 2pm and 7.30pm UK rating 15 Running time 1 hours 41 mins Just too late to be the Christmas Grinch, Sir Ian McKellen is delightfully waspish in Anand Tucker's spiky thriller, featuring Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong. London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails [read more…]

Friday 17th January 2025 / 7.30pm Tickets £20 / Under 18s £2Way back in April, Alan and Dave were booked for a return visit to the EAC Jazz Club. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas. Finally, they've found space in the diary, so blow away those January blues and treat yourselves to a night out with two masters of the craft. If you've never heard them, you need to and if you have, you know [read more…]

Free Admission- 11am start - Please book your place to give us an idea of numbersTalented Wirral pianist, William Bracken opens 2025's Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Bach, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven. These informal sessions allow a fascinating look inside the mind and technique of a professional musician and provide an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet [read more…]

Admission £15 / Under 18 £2William Bracken is in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. The Wirral-born pianist has won numerous awards including 1st prize at the 2022 Liszt Society International Piano Competition, 1st prize, press prize and audience prize at the 2023 Euregio Piano Award international piano competition and 3rd prize at the 2024 UniSA international piano competition in South Africa. He is currently continuing studies at the Guildhall School [read more…]

Friday 24th January 2025 Start time 7.30pm UK rating 18 Running time 1 hour 45 minsCurrently one of the most in-demand acts on the planet, Kneecap play themselves in this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like [read more…]

Calling all young singers out there! Apply online: www.erinartscentre.com/ysom/Applications for Young Singer of Mann 2025 here at Erin Arts Centre are now live. There are two trophies (Junior and Young Singer of Mann) cash prizes and vouchers to be won, with certificates for all competitors. If you’d like the opportunity to prepare and sing two contrasting songs to a friendly, supportive audience and jury, then read on.Young Singer of Mann is kindly sponsored by IOM Arts [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18 £2Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Under 18s £2 David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen.Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With [read more…]

"ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL” - REV. KATE BOTTLEY (BBC RADIO 2)“THE EXCELLENT TOM BRIGHT” - GUY GARVEY (BBC 6 MUSIC) “ONE OF THE UK’S MOST MOVING SONGWRITERS” - JOHN KENNEDY (RADIO X) The rise of Tom Bright has seen him appear on BBC’s The One Show, Sky News, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, BBC 5Live, Radio X, perform at the iconic London Palladium, Shepherd's Bush Empire, countless festivals and tour across Europe multiple times. He’s gigged relentlessly [read more…]