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.
General Prices: Suggested donation £5
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Ben Brock to the Café for what promises to be a fascinating evening.
Ben says – we frequently hear stories in the media about the dramatic changes occurring to snow and ice cover on Earth due to the warming climate: from vanishing Arctic Sea ice, to shrinking mountain glaciers and collapsing ice shelves; the picture is certainly very concerning. This talk will give an overview of what the latest scientific evidence tells us about how much, and how quickly, Earth’s snow and ice is disappearing, and look at what computer models predict for the future of ice on Earth, to the end of the 21st century and beyond. There are increasing indications that we are approaching environmental tipping points, after which the retreat of the great polar ice sheets would become irreversible, with disastrous consequences for human societies. What are the current and likely future impacts of disappearing ice in the UK and other parts of the world, and how could we adapt to these changes?
About our speaker – Professor Ben Brock is Professor of Physical Geography at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1996 and joined Northumbria University in 2011, where he was Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences between 2017-2022. He has over 30 years of research experience on glaciers and climate in mountain regions in Europe, Central Asia, South America, and New Zealand and has developed widely used computer models to calculate the surface melt rates of glaciers and snow covers. Northumbria has the largest group of scientists studying the Earth’s snow and ice of any university in the UK and hosts the Directorate for the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling.
