Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
The pace at which wind turbine technology has developed over the last two decades has exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts. Turbines have got bigger faster than anybody expected to the point that now some offshore wind farms have electric power outputs greater than the conventional fossil-fuelled power stations that they are replacing. This talk will look at the growth in turbine size over time, what this means for some local wind farm projects, what the major challenges and what comes next for the wind energy sector and where the UK sits internationally with its deployment of wind power.
About our speaker
Professor Simon Hogg, BSc PhD CEng FIMechE holds the Ørsted Chair in Renewable Energy at Durham University, UK, and was Head of the Department of Engineering for 5 years until July 2022. He was the Executive Director of the Durham Energy Institute for three years from 2014 to 2017. He is a mechanical engineer with research interests in the general areas of renewable and conventional power generation. Before joining Durham University in 2010, Simon worked for Alstom (now GE Power) for 12 years. He held senior management/technical leadership positions in R&D and then Alstom’s Steam Turbine Retrofit Business, eventually becoming Engineering Director for this business in 2007. Simon is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.