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News
Goodbye to the Challen Grand Piano
Our beautiful Challen Grand Piano has left the building for a new life in the west! Loaned and subsequently gifted to us by Isle of Man Arts Council, the Challen has been here since the very beginning and was played by Clive Lythgoe at the Grand Gala Opening Night of the Erin Arts Centre on October 30th 1971. Since the Steinway arrived in 1991, the Challen has sadly not seen much action so we are [read more…]
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays! We are now closed for Christmas & New Year but we’ll be back open as usual (10-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday) from Tuesday 7th January 2025.
CALL FOR CRAFTERS
After postponing our Christmas craft market due to the appalling weather at the weekend, we are proposing a new date for Saturday 14th between 11am and 3.30pm Not everyone is able to make the new date, so we have a few spaces. If anyone would like a stall for this new date, please get in touch by emailing us at [email protected] or messaging us on FaceBook or Instagram as soon as you can. Let’s try [read more…]
Festive Events at Erin Arts Centre 2024
Piano Series: Masterclass & Recital with Emanuil Ivanov
Winner of the prestigious Busoni Competition 2019, Emanuil Ivanov, continues this season’s Piano Series at EAC with a masterclass and evening recital. His recital programme will be: Schumann– Theme and Variations in E-flat major “Ghost variations” – Symphonic Etudes op.13 (with posthumous variations) Rachmaninoff– 9 Etudes-Tableaux op.39 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 [read more…]
Applications for Young Singer of Mann 2025 NOW OPEN!
Applications for the next Young Singer of Mann competition in January 2025 are now open! This competition is open to anyone aged 7 to 18 as of 25th January 2025 with no entry fee and the winners leave with a gorgeous trophy and £150 cash prize. Submit your application online or drop into the Erin Arts Centre to pick up some info in person (Tue-Fri 10-4.30pm): https://www.erinartscentre.com/ysom/ Young Singer of Mann is kindly sponsored by [read more…]
EAC Book Circle – 2024 Book List
If you’re looking for a relaxed new hobby to take up during the summer, our Book Circle meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 2pm in Harry’s Bar for coffee & chat. Here’s a list of the books for 2024, chosen by the members, to give you an idea of the range covered:
EAC Cinema Ticket Prices
Regular film-goers will notice that we have increased the price of our Midweek Movie to £8 for adults from September 2024. We stalled this as long as we could, but our running costs have risen sharply over the last couple of years and the time has come. Tickets for under 18’s will still be £2.
New York Met Opera 2024-25
We’re excited to announce the dates for our live screenings direct from New York Met Opera! We finish 2024 with Les Contes D’Hoffman (Offenbach) in October, and Tosca (Puccini) in November. In the new year we’ll be screening Aida (Verdi) in February, Fidelio (Beethoven) in March, Le Nozzi De Figaro (Mozart) in April, and closing the season with Salomi (Strauss)and Il Barbiere Di Saviglia (Rossini) in May. As always, these are incredible productions filmed on [read more…]