See Our Mighty Meandering River Tees exhibition from Tue 16 Jul – Sat 17 Aug
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.
For decades Stockton town centre has had its back turned to the Tees – a dark, polluted, and foul-smelling industrial river, but now Stockton is opening up again to the riverside and welcoming the Tees back into the heart of our town.
This gives us the perfect opportunity to celebrate our river and learn how to protect and enhance its beauty, its biodiversity, its opportunities for low-carbon transport, community cycling, walking, and its provision of cooling green space.
Our Mighty Meandering Tees is a project, funded by ARC Stockton’s Pizza and Pitches fund, with an aim to spark imagination, love, and knowledge about our River. Pupils from Tilery Primary school became experts in their River, learning about the River’s habitat, what is being done, and what more could be done to help the River adapt to changes and thrive in the future.
We travelled back in time to discover how the River has changed over the centuries, how it brought industry and wealth to the town, but also how industry damaged and polluted the river creating an almost dead river. We investigated the river today and how its biodiversity has been brought back to life, and we learned about the fascinating eels of the river Tees.
Local children’s author Lisette Auton helped us create the story of our Mighty Tees from its murky past to what we think it might look like in the future – would it be good news?
Project delivered by Drake the Bookshop.
Work created by Tilery Primary School pupils, supported by Lisette Auton.