This exhibition runs from Thu 25 Apr (launch 6pm) to Wed 8 May.
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.
Bus Stop Goths is a multidisciplinary arts project that celebrates goths and alternative youth from the Teesside, and the sacred outdoor spaces that they’ve claimed for themselves. We all know these spots as pillars in our towns, maybe it’s a bus stop, a park, a set of steps, a bench, a field, a fountain, even a particular table in a local Mcdonalds. The project’s outcomes have culminated as a theatre show and an exhibition, supported by community arts events held by alternative youth and adult goths and ex goths alike.
Whilst the show aims to invent a myth of these spaces – why they’re there, and why they feel so sacred. The exhibition aims to showcase the communities that reside there, with an aesthetic reframing of them as if these communities are more than just people. Ethereal beings, creatures, otherworldly entities. As if these folks are the subject of a gothic folktale of our region. This will aim to acknowledge the otherness presented towards these groups, whilst celebrating them for their differences, their expression, and their spirit.
The exhibition has been curated and art directed by ARC associate artist Audrey Cook, and features photograph portraits of the local goth community by Matthew Cooper, digitally edited hybrid images by Lucy Harding, and commissioned folk stories from Carmen Marcus and Kym Deyn, presented in written form and recorded form with underscoring by Joseph Browning.
The portraits have been taken by local goths and ex goths that attended our ‘goth social’ community events, as well as portraits of participants of the ‘Curious Arts Middlesbrough Youth Group’ – where they additionally participated in monthly workshops to explore using non human folklore to channel queer youth identity, and learning skills on how to make unregulated social spaces safe for young people.
This project was made possible by ARC Stockton, Arts Council England, Curious Arts, and Middlesbrough Town Hall.
