Event running time: 90 mins approx (including a 20 min screening of Offshore)
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.
Seating: Unallocated - Cabaret
Join us at ARC for an evening of discussion, debate and collective imagining.
Offshore is a short documentary that brings together different perspectives from North Sea offshore workers on the coming energy transition.
The film screening kick-starts a panel and audience discussion around energy ownership, local economy and industry, climate change, and how we create new sustainable futures rather than repeat past cycles of deindustrialisation and division.
After the film we will hear how these issues apply specifically to Stockton and the Tees Valley, hearing from speakers from local politics, labour organising, Climate organising and arts and culture as well as sustainable engineering.
These thoughts will be followed by an opportunity for audience members to share their own perspectives, concerns and ideas in response to a series of prompts.
The energy transition gives us all an opportunity to rethink where our energy comes from and how it might fuel some of the changes we want to see.
An evening of big ideas, raising questions and forging connections towards a truly just transition for the North East.