This is a Free exhibition located in our gallery space downstairs. Please note the building is closed on Sundays and Mondays.
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.
Showcasing original work co-created by local participants from ARC’s regular creative engagement classes, refugees and asylum seekers who now call Stockton home, and our award-winning associate company of learning disabled theatre makers, Full Circle.
The exhibition documents the creative process behind Our Freedom: Stockton Rising, a special live event reflecting on what freedom means to members of Stockton’s community, 80 years after the end of the Second World War.
Featuring visual art, written materials, artefacts, and recorded footage – plus new versions of work from the live event, specially filmed in locations across Stockton, the exhibition offers a window into the question: ‘what does freedom mean to you, here and now?’
ARC is one of 60 arts centres and libraries producing projects for Our Freedom: Then and Now; part of a £2million national creative programme supported by UK Government through Arts Council England. We are thrilled that work shaped by the communities of other North East venues will join our exhibition from Tuesday 18 December.
However, this is more than an exhibition. It’s a raw, uplifting, and unfiltered celebration of community, identity, resilience and place – told through the voices of those who live it. Above all, it’s a call to connect and experience what freedom means to Stockton – and the North East – through the power of creativity.
Our Freedom: Then & Now as a national, UK-wide project and more details can be found at ourfreedom.org.uk
There will be be a launch event on Tuesday 11 November at 8pm. For tickets and information, see details below.
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Open Times & Visiting ARC
ARC Opening Times:
Mon: Closed
Tue: 10am – 6pm
Wed: 10am – 7.30pm
Thu: 10am – 9.30pm
Fri – Sat: 10am – 6pm
Sun: Closed
Further information about visiting ARC is HERE
