Admission £15 / Under 18 £2 For the first Piano Series of the new year, we are thrilled to welcome Lithuanian star, Milda Daunoraite to our stage. Milda began playing the piano aged six, under the guidance of Irena Meldaikienė. At eight years old, she became a scholar of the SOS Talents Foundation, marking the start of her European performances. She is currently studying with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music, where she [read more…]
Attention All Young Singers! Applications for next year’s Young Singer of Mann Competition at Erin Arts Centre are now open, with a closing date of 4pm on Friday 12th December 2025. The competition will take place on Friday 31st January and Saturday 1st February 2026 and sees the introduction of a new Intermediate class, alongside the existing Junior and Senior classes. The classes will now be organised by school year rather than age and we [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 4th February - from 2pm My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor Based on real events, this novel follows an Irish priest smuggling allied troops and Jews out of Italy in 1943. Suspenseful and beautifully written, My Father's House tells an unforgettable story of [read more…]
A note from the organisers: We’re thrilled to announce that Robert Vincent, joined by the wonderful Anna Corcoran, will perform live on the Isle of Man for two special nights of music: Erin Arts Centre – Friday 13 February 2026 Peel Centenary Centre – Saturday 14 February 2026 Fresh from the success of his critically acclaimed album ‘Barriers’ – which spent weeks in the Country Music Charts and reached the Top 10 of both the [read more…]
Dodgy frontman Nigel Clark returns to the Isle of Man but this time with singer-songwriter Tom Bright who made his Erin Arts Centre debut earlier this year.
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 4th March - from 2pm Educated by Tara Westover Tara Westover's journey from an isolated survivalist Mormon upbringing in Idaho to stepping into a classroom at 17 and earning a PhD from Cambridge. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It [read more…]
Adults £25 / Under 18s £2 The Mananan Festival, our annual celebration of the arts, will be 50 in 2026. To celebrate this incredible milestone, we shall be programming some special events throughout the year. When Eliza played here in 2024, she was adamant that we should bring her dad here too. We can't think of a better occasion! Martin Carthy is a legendary ballad singer and guitarist who has influenced generations of artists, including Bob [read more…]
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” [read more…]
James ‘Jay’ Lewis, bass player with Cast, lead guitarist with The Zutons, will be playing two 45 minute sets (one acoustic, one electric) that showcase both aspects of his back catalogue. All you need to know about James Jay Lewis: Self-taught multi-instrumentalist, James ‘Jay’ Lewis has graced some of the biggest stages across the globe as part of three of the biggest bands to come out of Liverpool (apart from you know who!), performing in [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 1st April - from 2pm The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien First published in 1960, the novel was banned in O’Brien’s native Ireland for its frank and candid portrayal of female desire, sexuality and independence, subjects that were not discussed in the conservative [read more…]
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 6th May - from 2pm The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Her cancer cells, taken without her knowledge, became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools [read more…]
Ian Prowse and the Fiddle of Fire return to the Erin Arts Centre on Saturday 9th May for another electrifying performance. Ian’s shows are full of energy and passion, and he will be performing songs from his extensive back catalogue with Pele, Amsterdam and his own solo material. You don’t have to be familiar with his songs to be carried away on a wave of enthusiasm and Scouse humour.
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 3rd June - from 2pm The Aspern Papers by Henry James A novella originally published in The Atlantic in 1888. Arguably the most popular and critically successful of James’ longer works, The Aspern Papers tells the story of a poetry enthusiast and aspiring [read more…]
Join the EAC Book Circle on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) from 2pm to discuss the chosen book over tea & coffee. £2 minimum donation and newcomers welcome! Wednesday 1st July - from 2pm Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in Mumbai, one of the 21st [read more…]
