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.
Dr Callum Macgregor is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Hull University, and is an enthusiastic naturalist who has been lucky enough to fall into a scientific career studying the ecology of (mostly) butterflies and moths.
He is interested in the ways in which individual organisms, populations and entire ecological communities respond to changes in their environment, especially those caused by human activities. His research has ranged from detailed single-species experimental and field studies to analysis of ecological communities’ dynamics over periods of years to decades.
His PhD (at Newcastle University, and for which he received the Royal Entomological Society’s prestigious Alfred Russel Wallace Award, 2016-17), examined the importance of moths as an underappreciated group of pollinators, and the threat posed to this group by light pollution at night.
He then spent three years at the University of York, studying the resilience of butterflies and moths to climate change: the topic of this Webinar. Now based at the University of Hull, he is conducting research on the ecological and social value of brownfield sites.
Due to the current social distancing guidelines this instalment of Café Scientifique will be hosted online Via Zoom. Please contact [email protected] for details of how to join the meeting.