Ocean Island Victoria Guide

Victoria College of Art is laid-back and unpretentious and just minutes from Victoria. They offer lots of different programs, and show off their students’ work in awesome graduate art shows.    

Comprehensive and Intensive English Programs year round. Want to add some specialty courses? They also offer at various times throughout the year, TOEIC and TOEFL Test Preparation, Listening, Pronounciation, Writing, Business English, and a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course. Private and Semi-Private lessons are other popular options.

The CCPA offers ceritificate and diploma progams in the comprehensive skills required for a stage or screen career as a singer, actor, dancer and/or in Musical Theatre.

PFMA (formerly the Victoria Motion Picture Shcool) is a school put together by filmmakers, with tons of grads working in the film industry. Apparently they can really rock and roll.

Located in the Quadra Village, the Vancouver Island School of Art offers all kinds of drawing and painting courses and workshops. They have a lot of one-day workshops in drawing and painting, that are great for someone in Victoria just for a few days. They are located in a big old school building with lots [...]

This is really the place to be. A nonsensical haven for eccentric artists trying to get ahold of what it is they want to do and how. With its myriad hidden make-out spots and excellent end-of-the-semester student art shows (which you can get a hint of on their online student galleries), you can’t go wrong [...]

The oldest school of its kind in Canada offers three, four and five year programs in the study of acupuncture and herbology. This non-profit focuses on synthesis of western medicine and TCM so students can integrate into the mainstream medical system. It also has a partnership with Thompson Rivers University so students have the option [...]