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.
This new sound installation, created uniquely for Stockton, looks at the town through ten viewpoints. Coming out of lockdown, the piece highlights both the hidden and distinctive sounds of places where communities gather. Through a series of interviews individuals reflect on being in the town, and the connections or barriers of communication to other people living alongside them.
Sound recordings have been built from multiple sites, including the Georgian Theatre, Farooq E Azam Mosque and Islamic Centre, the Golden Smog public house, the North East Migration Project at Newtown Community Centre and more.
Each recording is layered and replayed, the order is composed and driven by variables such as local weather data, traffic data and time of day so that a new and unique score emerges over time, driven by real world environmental conditions, creating evolving perspectives of the town.
Using ten directional speakers, sound bounces off surfaces in public spaces around ARC, creating sound bubbles. Audiences are invited to discover, listen and drift within these soundscapes. No one experience will be the same!
Whether you’re stopping by for a coffee, attending an event or screening, or visiting particularly to hear the installation, this is an opportunity to hear the sounds of Stockton in a way you haven’t experienced before.
Made in collaboration with Patricia Verity Suarez, Stevie Price, Phil Bolton, Chris Cobain, Richard Drake, Sahd Ahmed, Alireza Soleimani, Gladys Obale.
Recording locations include Mosque Farooq E Azam Mosque & Islamic Centre, ARC, Holy Trinity Green, Under the Council of Europe Boulevard Bridge, Hope & Union, High Street, Kopper Keg, River Tees, Golden Smog, Georgian Theatre, Drake Bookshop, Newtown Community Centre, North East Migration Project and Locomotion no.1.
Illustration by Lizzie Lovejoy
This is one of 40 new projects taking place in and around 40 arts centres as part of Here and Now, a national and local celebration of culture within communities. Supported by Arts Council England and Future Arts Centres, marking the National Lottery’s 25th birthday.
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