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.
In residency with us this week is Afidi Nomo who performs as Radikal Queen, the North East’s premier Black spoken word artist. She is an award-winning artist with a global background of community-based, multimedia collaborative work within festivals, schools, carnivals and touring productions.
As an Indigenous person whose Elders gave her an ambassadorial brief, Radikal Queen’s work centres upon developing sustained global, cultural links with Indigenous and Marginalised communities. She uses words that dance to original Black music in order to communicate with people from diverse cultures. As a cultural activist, she connects communities all over the world via her ethos: bringing the margins to the centre. To this end, she has co-founded two Black-led and revolutionary performance troupes after training at Tricycle Youth Theatre, and recently co-founded a Newcastle music collective.
She has worked with independent filmmakers in the Northeast, created a commissioned filmpoem called “Love Poem” with Apple & Snakes, and spent a semester delivering drama workshops at Crisis Homeless Centre, whilst being mentored by Alan Lyddiard.
She has taught at the Heart of the Beast Theater in Minneapolis, and has consolidated her craft with studies at Newcastle and Gateshead colleges.
She has recently started incorporating digital platforms in her work, and hopes to work with ARC to fine-tune the details of this aspect.
She aims to spend her residency at ARC finalising JazzWitch, which will be a live show incorporating song and spoken word on the subject of Taboo, and what that means to Black, Marginalised Genders, and Queer folk. She’ll be working with original music and poetry, as well as referencing some of the pioneers from Jazz and Blues, genres she has specifically chosen because they have been historically vilified, ostracised… and then colonised. She wants to speak on her behalf, on behalf of those who can relate to her, and on behalf of the Black Ancestors who originated and established music that STILL crosses social, cultural, and spiritual boundaries.
JazzWitch will be launched at the HerStory Festival in Newcastle on March 23, 2022.
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