About Us

Since 2011, Act One has sent students from Title I schools on educational arts field trips and covers the cost of admission tickets and transportation. Act One facilitates the field trips from start to finish: securing tickets with the arts organizations, working with teachers to book field trips, paying for the transportation and providing educational materials that teachers can use to integrate the field trip into their curricula and prepare the students for their arts experience.

In 2013, Act One adopted its second program, the Culture Pass. By “checking out” a Culture Pass at one of nearly 200 Arizona libraries, library cardholders receive free admission for two to one of the many museums, theaters and cultural sites that participate in the program. In its first year under Act One, the Culture Pass was expanded to include passes to performances, and today performance tickets are available annually to library cardholders in Maricopa and Pima counties. From 2021 to 2025, the program was expanded into nearly every county in Arizona, now hosted in nearly 200 academic and public libraries in 13 of 15 counties. Additionally, the program partners with over 40 Arizona arts and cultural institutions to provide over half a million Culture Passes to Arizonans each year, completely free, all with just their local library card.

In 2021, Act One started it’s Virtual Reality Field Trip program, Arts Immersion™. This one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking program started in response to the need to bring arts and culture experiences to Arizona’s students attending Title I schools outside of the Greater Phoenix and Tucson Metro Areas. Act One’s team of Virtual Reality Specialists travel anywhere in Arizona with 50 VR headsets loaded with custom content created just for Act One. The first experience, “Freedom in Expression,” focuses on the Mexican Muralist Movement, the Arizona artist Sentrock, art curation as a career, and an all-female mariachi group from Tucson, Las Azaleas. The second experience, “Weaving Our Story,” features Indigenous Arizona artists Tyrell Tapaha, Janelle Stanley, and then Duncan Family – all who use their art as a medium for sharing their cultural heritage and expression.