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Welcome to NOCCA

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts|Riverfront is a world-class educational institution that has been changing the lives of young people since 1973. Every year, this pre-professional arts training center provides intensive instruction in dance, media arts, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), visual arts, and creative writing, to students from public, private, and parochial schools across Louisiana through schoolday, after-school, weekend, and summer sessions.

The NOCCA Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides financial support and advocacy for NOCCA. Founded in 1982, the Institute oversees a Financial Aid Program, an Artists-in-Residence Program, the CENTER STAGE performance series, and other important initiatives that enhance the quality of NOCCA|Riverfront's educational environment.

To learn more about this extraordinary pre-professional arts training center and how you can help us grow, use the menu bar to your left. You'll read about NOCCA|Riverfront's extraordinary history, its structure and admissions standards, and see our exciting new home. Welcome!