Dates & Times
5:30pm
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.
Evaluation doesn’t need to be boring, complicated or just for funders. Join us for an evening that breaks down what evaluation is really for, why it matters, and how to make it part of your community or creative practice – not an add-on.
We’ll open with soft landings and a welcome from Aaron, who’ll help us get to grips with what evaluation actually means in the context of the Borderlands Training Programme – and how we might begin thinking differently about it.
You’ll hear from Mark Robinson (Thinking Practice), who’ll give a short talk on the value of evaluation in cultural work and introduce some of the wider tools and provocations they’ve developed.
We’ll then hear from ARC Stockton on the power of numbers – why large-scale data matters, how it gets used and what funders are really looking for, from someone on the coal-face of data.
To close, we’ll circle back with Aaron for an exercise digging into qualitative & quantitative processes in action, and how it’s going thus far, with a focus on creative, human-first methods of welcoming feedback. Less survey monkey, more actual conversation.
This session is for community groups, artists and wider partners involved in Borderlands, or anyone curious about evaluation that feels purposeful rather than painful.
Location: KFC Youth Foundation Trust, Resource Centre, Meath St, Middlesbrough TS1 4RY.
This event is part of the wider Borderlands training programme of activity to support the Communities of Possibility commissions. This session is for artists, producers, community workers and anyone supporting public-facing creative activity across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland.