Private View: Thu 10 Oct, 7pm
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.
Brian Hutchinson: A Retrospective is a show of oil paintings by the Stockton-on-Tees born artist.
Exploring Brian’s education in Graphic Design, the work takes the Bauhaus movement as a starting point for the exploration in larger pieces, adapting each piece to provide a modern perspective.
Brian is 86.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2020. He was born in Norton and continues to live in Stockton, is married to Doreen and has three daughters, Debra, Tanya and Michaela, and five grandchildren.
Brian studied what would now be termed Graphic Art at Sunderland College of Technology, and went on to become an art teacher working at St Bede’s Catholic Secondary School for Boys in Stockton. He would later teach at Darlington College of Technology.
Brian has never been one to sit back and rest, during his forty-plus years of full-time teaching he fitted in extra work as a taxi driver, a plasterer’s assistant, and a fruit picker – the list goes on!
After retiring from Darlington College he ran short courses on Art in Adult Education. He once was a keen cyclist, enjoying rides to places like Richmond, Barnard Castle and Whitby. The bike is now replaced by a mobility scooter which is operated with equal characteristic enthusiasm! He used to have two allotments and did well in gardening competitions, he still has a lovely garden
Then there is his art – his achievements include a prize-winning copper sculpture that used to be on display at the NEEB Offices in Thornaby, and 40 large abstract oil paintings once exhibited at St Peter’s School in York in 2006. Recently, Brian discovered a new outlet for his energy – boxing! He never misses a session at Parkinson’s Punchers, a group run by Billingham Boxing Academy, using boxing training routines to combat the symptoms of Parkinson’s. The journey continues…
Private View: Thu 10 Oct, 7pm