Theatre BC Club Card

Club Card  FACT SHEET

What Is It & Who Has It?
Why the Club Card Program?
How Does It Work?
How Do Club Card Sponsors Benefit?
What Does it Cost?

What Is It & Who Has It?

The Theatre BC Club Card is a laminated personalized membership privilege card that features the commissioned artwork of North Vancouver and Commonwealth Games (1994) artist Ken Wesman and entitles members to pre-authorized discounts on:

• Box Office prices at more than 135 professional, post-secondary and Member Clubs' (community) theatres and BC Museums throughout BC. ( See Participating theatres/venues here )

• Registration Fees for Theatre BC Regional Workshops, the New Play Workshops (in conjunction with Theatre BC's Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition), and the annual 10 Zone Festivals and provincial MAINSTAGE Festival;
  
  
• Accommodation at any of Choice Hotels' 200 locations nationally, (including Quality, Comfort Inns, Clarion and Choice Hotels, Rodeway Inns and Econolodge), PLUS access to the "Choice Club" with extra benefits including meals, rate guarantees, free room upgrades, privileged corporate rates at U.S. hotels, and more! Please call 1-800-4-CHOICE (1-800-424-6423) and quote the Client File # on the back of your Theatre BC Club Card to receive your discount. At this time, Choice Hotels online reservation form does not provide for this discount, soplease call the Toll Free number. 

• Car, Van and Truck Rentals through Budget's national CorpRate Plan with savings from 15% to 25% PLUS 50% off hotel room rates at participating chains when renting from Budget. Please check with your local branch office for participation.

• 10% off  books & magazines at Biz Books , Vancouver,   604-669-6431 (mailto:info@bizbooks.net ), including playscripts. They have an extensive stock of Canadian and Samuel French's plays. 

• Issued directly to current Individual, Family, Youth  & Talent Bank members on a 1-year or 3-year renewal basis;

• Replaces the former Theatre BC Discount Card, in use since 1985.

Why the Club Card Program?

• Provides access to individual benefits as a Theatre BC Member and makes year-round theatre activities and services more affordable, more accessible, more often;

• Serves as promotional support between different levels of B.C.'s theatre community and, with corporate participation, a distinctive and practical connection between the theatre and related business services;

• Represents a unifying, personal link between the provincial theatre community, (Theatre BC since 1932), and the theatre practitioner or supporter at any level in any location in the province.

How Does It Work?

• Members present their Club Card at the time of purchase and pay the pre-determined discount price. (At box offices, the Club Card entitles the Member to one ticket per Card at a time);

• The Club Card Program is intended to extend existing discount programs NOT necessarily to introduce new levels of ticket or purchase prices. Suggestions for honouring the Card are:

a) Theatres: Charge a lesser or the lowest published ticket price; ie: an Adult pays a Student or Senior rate; a Student or Senior pays a "Group Rate", OR piggy-back the Club Card on an existing discount plan, such as the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance or Equity card;

b) Hotels: Charge Corporate or Government rates upon presentation of the Club Card;

c) Retail & Theatrical Suppliers: Wholesale prices or pre-set discounts, (20% for example).

• There is no limit to the number of times a member can use their Club Card over their given year, HOWEVER ALL SPONSORS maintain the right to limit acceptance of the Card subject to availability, such as specific performance nights, non-sale items or accommodation bookings, etc. Click here for a list of B.C. theatres currently honouring the Theatre BC Club Card. Check with each organization individually to find out if and what their level of participation is.

How Do Club Card Sponsors Benefit?  

•  A productive form of "sponsorship" based on the exchange of privileged rates to Theatre BC members for exposure and directed business from Theatre BC members;

• Encourages greater frequency due to privileged rates;

• Sponsors are listed FREE of Charge in the quarterly Theatre BC NEWS, direct-mailed to members throughout BC. Sponsor updates are also regularly featured with details of benefits offered to Club Card-holders;

• Corporate logos will be included in Theatre BC membership brochures for public display to increase sponsor recognition province-wide;

• For professional theatres and performing arts centres, the Club Card encourages a "new" audience who do not or cannot otherwise afford to support professional or touring productions. 

What Does it Cost? 

• Sponsors receive the Theatre BC NEWS and may choose to advertise their participation. Privileged Member and Non-member Rates are available and apply to ALL Theatre BC events and publications, (Regular advertisers can access privileged rates by becoming an Associate Member);

• A Direct-Mail Insert service by community, region or province-wide is also available for sponsor brochures or catalogues, for example, on request.

 How Do You Become a Sponsor? --It's Easy! 

• Contact Theatre BC to discuss ways to honour the Club Card;

• Complete and return the "Agreement to Honour", which is perpetual, can be amended by the sponsor or cancelled at any time and simply serves as a central record of membership benefits with the Club Card;

• Keep Theatre BC informed of productions, special products and promotions by phone, FAX, mail or e-mail.

Participating theatres  supply a completed "Agreement To Honour" form to the Theatre BC office;