About Us

Act One sends 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 2021, Act One launched its newest program and began creating arts education content using Virtual Reality. Act One’s curated, groundbreaking Virtual Reality field trip program, Arts Immersion™, allows schools, libraries, senior living facilities, and community organizations to explore the world of art from anywhere. Our VR Specialists travel to urban, rural and remote locations in Arizona in two donated vans with custom “bus cases” filled with 100 VR headsets and built in Wi-Fi.

In 2013, Act One adopted its second program, the Culture Pass. By “checking out” a Culture Pass at one of 64 local 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 more than 10,000 performance tickets are available annually to library cardholders in Maricopa and Pima counties. In 2014, the Sedona Public Library joined the list of partners, bringing the Culture Pass to Northern Arizona. In October 2015, the program launched in Pima County and is available at 11 Pima County Public Libraries and the Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus Library.