New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, opened in 1973 as a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, NOCCA provides intensive instruction in classical music, creative writing, culinary arts, dance, drama, jazz, media arts, musical theatre, theatre design, visual arts, vocal music, and academics to students from public, private, and parochial schools across Louisiana. Admission is by audition, and NOCCA is tuition-fee.