We invite low-income, at-risk, 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, they 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, being in a theater, and 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
• The Ranches
• Youth Development Inc.
• 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
• Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless (Tierra del Sol)

• 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.