PUBLISHER'S NOTE: ACT ONE

BACK TO SCHOOL MEANS

Act One Field Trips!

INjust a few weeks, Act One will be filling buses full of children and traveling to newly reopened arts venues in Tucson. Imagine the children’s excitement as they exit the bus to experience Tucson’s beautiful museums, theaters, and concert halls. The anticipation in the air is almost palpable, as their eyes take in the sites around them: the art, the architecture, the performance, the dance, the music, the acting, the artists and more. After a year of weathering a pandemic, this first field trip will feel like a celebration! Over the past ten years, Act One has touched the lives of 240,000, Title I students in Arizona by providing arts-based field trips. For many of these children, this is their first introduction to the arts and their first visit to a museum or a theater. As expected, access to arts education was significantly reduced this past year not only in the state of Arizona but also nationwide. Our organization aims to restore access to the arts to the most underserved populations and provide invaluable arts education experiences. Act One is not only bringing busloads of children to the arts, we have also created the very first virtual reality field trip program in Arizona. The Act One VR field trip program, “Freedom in Expression” will launch this fall into schools in Tucson and the far corners of Southern Arizona to bring an exciting, immersive arts experience directly to the classroom. We hope you will visit our new website act1az. org, to learn more about all of our programs at Act One. Consider becoming a donor to support our mission of providing access to the arts. With your help, just imagine the children we can reach! Bernadette Carroll Executive Director For more information, visit act1az.org.