We invite low-income, at-risk, and special needs students who are participating in local educational programs with non-profit organizations to attend professional performing arts at Popejoy.

Not only are they exposed to the arts, but they also learn social and group behaviors and form a community around these shared experiences. For most, including the chaperones, it is their first experience with live performance and being in a theater. It is also their introduction to the University of New Mexico campus and the myriad of opportunities available through UNM.

Groups who have participated in the program are:

• Very Special Arts New Mexico
• The Ranches
• Youth Development Inc. / Mentoring Initiative
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Working Classroom
• Children’s Court (Special Programs) Bernalillo County
• Juvenile Drug Court in Sandoval County
• Youth Building Better Lives
• Casa Angelica
• Delancey Street Foundation
• Boys and Girls Clubs of New Mexico
• Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless (Tierra del Sol)
• Upward Bound
• Almas de Amistad
• NMHU School of Social Work's Community Clinical Treatment Program
• Warehouse 508

• We provide free master classes with touring artists to UNM students.
• We bring teaching artists from Popejoy Presents shows out of the theater and into the classroom.
• We provide educational visits to Popejoy Hall including tours backstage with demonstrations of our technical equipment.
• We collaborate with other organizations and UNM departments in support of their projects and the Albuquerque arts community.