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.
Cafe Scientifique – Stockton on Tees
7.45pm, Tuesday 18 April 2023
We are delighted to be joined by
Professor Volker Pickert
Director of Discipline Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Director of EPSRC CDT Sustainable Electric Propulsion
School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Are electric cars as green as we think?
There’s a change of format for our April Cafe. Professor Volker Pickert, who many Cafe goers have seen before when our Cafes were on Zoom, is bringing seven PhD students who will ask, and help us get the answer to, the question ‘are electric cars as green as we think?’ Please come along and be part of this interesting and important discussion.
You can make your contribution in ARC using the collection boxes provided. If you’d prefer to pay on line the details are available at the event. Please put your name as a reference. Thank you
We all assume that electric cars are greener than petrol driven cars. But are they? In a departure from our usual format we’re very grateful to Volker Pickert who is bringing seven PhD students to the Cafe to discuss this important issue. There will opportunities to ask questions and offer your own views. Please bring a friend along, particularly a younger person who may be interested in this area of science as a career. We’re in for an interesting evening!
About Volker Pickert
Volker is director of discipline in electrical and electronic engineering at Newcastle University’s school of engineering. He presented to the Cafe on Zoom about TEV, the Tracked Electric Vehicle project in June 2021.
Our website
Our website contains a list of all the talks we have held since we were set up in January 2004 and the up and coming talks for this season. Find out more at http://www.cafesci-stockton.org.uk/