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.
Join host Rue Collinge and the Tees Women Poets for a night of live poetry, prose and shenanigans. Featuring headline acts – the multi-slam-winning Hannah Davies with poems from her debut collection DOLLS, and Bram David Jarman from York’s dynamic performance poetry collective Say Owt. Plus, there are ten open mic slots up for grabs to Teesside writers in any genre! Please contact [email protected] to secure your place on the mic.
Hannah Davies is a writer, theatre-maker and poet from Yorkshire. She has performed at leading poetry nights across the UK (Find the Right Words, Sonnet Youth, Evidently, Women of Words, Tongue Fu, Inua Ellams Rap Party) and has won many slams (Great Northern Slam, Axis Slam, Bristol Poetry Slam, Word War Four, EdFringe Slam finalist). She is an Associate Artist at Say Owt, and her debut poetry collection DOLLS was recently launched as part of the York Literature Festival.
Bram David Jarman is a poet, playwright, musician and support worker from York. In 2019 his solo show Made of Nowhere was performed at the Camden fringe and various venues across the north. He’s an associate artist at Say Owt, a former resident poet at the Great Yorkshire Fringe, and a multi-slam winning champion. His plays have been produced by Sheffield Crucible, Theatre 503, York Theatre Royal and Common Ground Theatre. He’s one of three colourful people in an electro-pop band called Drooligan, who turn found poetry into quirky dance bangers. For the last couple of years, he’s been working for a charity that supports people experiencing homelessness in York whilst training to become a social worker. Through his writing, he’s looking to explore the relationship between lived experience and working in a helping profession.