Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Two-Year Performing Arts Diploma
Canadian College of Performing Arts · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Award
- Performing Arts Diploma
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In person33 weeks x 2 years
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Two-year conservatory-style program training students in acting, voice and dance with performance opportunities and career management courses from the first term. It is not eligible for a Post-Graduation Work Permit.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Musical theatre, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Performing Arts Diploma
- Award status
- Provider-issued awardIssued by the school or studio itself. It is not an academic degree; check separately whether any authority recognises it.
- Awarding body
- Canadian College of Performing Arts
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 33 weeks x 2 years
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeMonday through Friday 8:30am - 8:30pm and Saturday 9am - 6pm
- Contact hours
- 2,269
- Teaching location
- CCPA, VictoriaVictoria BC, V8R 5L7
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two short contrasting monologues, one written before 1950 and one typically after 1950.
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- In-person or virtual audition; also two contrasting songs and a dance component. In-person auditions March 6, 2027 combined with the interview.
- Interview
- Combined with the in-person audition; virtual interview for video applicants.
- Prior education
- High school diploma or equivalent, or over the age of 19.
- Experience
- Previous training in at least one of the three disciplines of acting, dancing and singing is beneficial.
- Language requirements
- Ability to understand instruction in the English language per the language proficiency assessment policy.
- Deadlines
- Early Admission Deadline: December 11, 2026
- Application Deadline for All Programs: February 27, 2027
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)