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Click here to find comprehensive information on how to submit your electronic Arts Canterbury Application Form and complete all of the required audition forms.

Please ensure you read you are aware of the early January deadline for applications and submit your electronic application on time.

Click here to find out how audition dates and times. You will also learn about the group and individual auditions and some suggestions on how to prepare for both of these appointments.

Be sure to also visit the arts area for which you are applying and to thoroughly read through the program overview and audition requirement.

Selection of Applicants

If you are traveling over March Break please be sure to read this important message.

Those candidates who are accepted into Arts Canterbury will be mailed a letter of offering them a spot into the program to which they applied. Also contained within the mailed packages there will be a form titled “Arts Canterbury Confirmation Form”. Signing and returning the Confirmation Form verifies the candidate’s intention to accept the offered spot and attend Canterbury commencing in September, 2012. In order to hold your offered spot, the form must be dated and signed by the student and a parent or guardian. The confirmation form must also please be returned to the Arts Coordinator, Deborah Grinnell (contact information below) by 4:00 P.M. Monday March 19, 2012. If we do not receive your completed confirmation form by this time and date, we will have no choice but to assume you are not accepting our offer of placement into Arts Canterbury. As a result, we will then offer the space to the next candidate on our list.
Please understand that with over 50% of applicants being turned away, we cannot reasonably be expected to hold offered spaces for more than 7-10 days.

It is your responsibility to please ensure you monitor your mail if you are traveling and to ensure you return the form to us via mail, email or fax by the specified deadline. The confirmation form may also be found by scrolling down to the bottom of this page and visiting the text box titled “RESULTS”.

Thank you and best wishes,
Deborah Grinnell, Arts Coordinator
613-731-1191, extension 302 (phone)
613- 731-5210 (fax)
deborah.grinnell@ocdsb.ca

Arts Canterbury is a specialized Program of the Arts in the Ottawa-Carleton region. Established in 1983 at Canterbury High School by the former Ottawa Board of Education, it is now part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Entry to the Arts Canterbury Program is by audition only.

The Arts Canterbury Program offers students the opportunity to fulfill their high school graduation requirements while studying one of these five Arts disciplines in depth: Dance, Drama, Literary Arts, Music (Instrumental or Vocal) and Visual Arts.

To learn more about Arts Canterbury, please visit the Applying and Auditioning pages, or download the Forms and Results PDF documents.

For a list of all our upcoming events for the 2011-2012 school year, please download the Arts Canterbury Events Calendar.

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