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.
you have already survived celebrates the afon wysg (river usk). some rivers have rights, this one has riots, and taught us post-trauma-growth is possible. a lifetime in the making, this body of work layers lived experience with history, myth, politics and nature to offer love&rage aka healing and justice.
exhibition includes large poetry banners; craft paper-flowers and a paper-bird (inspired by welsh poppies and curlews); an a.v. display of 78 photos accompanied by ‘recovering our first rain song’, from our album of sound-art layering riverscape with fragments of song. theres also a number of affordable childlike poem-paintings
‘a truly remarkable work that forges a deep connection with those who experience it, with art that always brings love, hope and thoughtfulness.’ The NewBridge Project
Join us for the exhibition launch on Friday 9th May at 6pm, in the Gallery upstairs, with refreshments and a chance to hear from the artist. This will be followed by gobscure’s performance of ‘you have already survived’ in the studio theatre at 7pm.
in association with live theatre and supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company
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content information and context
research shows saying trigger warning doesn’t help. it primes folx to focus on somethingthat may be fleeting. our show is about post trauma growth, about learning from nature,about finding healing in places of peace. as this is our post trauma growth, brief mentionsof some traumas / ptsd will occur. there is likely to be descriptive swearing; we will expresscontempt for sick-chiatry / sick-chiatrisation and for the dwp especially their medicalassessments for social security; we will also mention our multiple heat-attacks caused byenforced ‘antipychotic’ meds. we reclaim languages relating to madness, bisexuality and weoffer our take on politics of defiance in the eighties. the show is playful, chidlike andconversational. it is also a relaxed performance travelling upstream from britains lastinsurrection to date, asking whats love in yr language, realizing unicorns are real (if extinct),attending our first punk gig as teen in defiance of sick-chiatry, and finally discovering widerhorizons, our place of peace. a narc reviewer summarised the show as coming back tonature and stillness as a radical act of defiance
