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.
Cybercrime is a large and seemingly unavoidable consequence of the world in which we live. It varies from spam emails and texts through to ransomware attacks on a system which can bring down an entire system. We now have the problem that attackers are getting more ‘smart’ by using our data against us. We therefore need to up our game as well. In this talk I shall present some of the latest Artificial Intelligence approaches which are being used in order to combat these cybercriminals.
Dr Stephen McGough is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University who is working at the intersection of Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. His research focus is on applying the latest research approaches from Deep Learning to the problems of Cyber Attacks. In addition he is looking at how AI technologies could be used to attack systems and hence how we can defend against these up-coming attack vectors.
This month’s Cafe Scientifique is via Zoom. Access to the talk can be requested by emailing [email protected]