The next start date for the six week course in acrylic landscape painting with Ellie Baker is 15th April. Sessions are on Tuesdays from 2pm to 5pm at Erin Arts Centre. Each week has a different focus and areas such as texture, bold colour, mark making and composition are covered. The emphasis of the course is on imagination and experimentation. There are lots of demonstrations and one-on-one time - it is always a small group [read more…]

Adults £15 / Under 18 £2  Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot, one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story— filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting, rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.  Headlining the new staging is soprano [read more…]