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Enter CIC is an approved academic, exam centre, a training provider, a creative hub, as well as being a cultural and heritage production centre.

Our new website will be going live soon, so look out for lots of new content and a new look and feel. To keep up to date with what we're doing, please visit our social media pages.

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Academic Exams

We are a leading approved training provider and academic exam centre, supporting hundreds of home educated, distance learning and adult learners across the North and beyond. We facilitate CAIE, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC examinations for private candidates. For more information visit our Private Exams North East link below.

Private Exams North East website

Theatre

We are an award-winning theatre company with our own working professional theatre. We specialise in high quality professional, community and youth-focussed theatre. We are internationally renowned for our commitment to new writing and artist development programmes. We tour internationally and have some of our productions available for commercial licensing.

Heritage

Heritage is what you take from the past and give to the future. For the past 10 years we have been passionate about creating projects that connect people with their national, local and cultural heritage. Use the links below to see more. 

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Community

Enter CIC has become know as a positive enabler across Durham and the North East. We specialise in programmes that raise aspiration, combat social isolation, improve mental and physical wellbeing as well as developing volunteering and employment skills. We have won awards for our work with elderly communities.

Upper School (Age 13+)

Students studying on our upper school programme will have the opportunity to study at different levels with a number of different examination boards. Students will be provided with numerous performance opportunities and will be entered into local and national competitions. They will have the opportunity to be personally mentored by industry professionals and be actively encouraged to understand all aspects of theatre including front of house, technical theatre, stage management as well as the traditional performance roles. Educational visits will be organised to complement their study and where appropriate audition preparation will be available for students applying to performing arts institutes or wishing to make the transition directly into the industry.

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Upper School sessions run on a Wednesday evening and a Sunday afternoon. The sessions are between 2-3 hours in duration. Students participate in an array of creative classes (solo and group tuition) and have the option to participate in graded examinations in Drama, Dance, Musical Theatre, Performance Arts, Singing, Musical Instruments, Lighting, African Drumming, Media.

Students studying on our Upper School programme also have the option to study Arts Awards at Silver and Gold level. They will have regular opportunities to visit recording studios and theatres to gain first hand experience of the creative industry. Upper School students are also encouraged to participate in the Enter CIC Mentoring Programme this can be part of their Arts Award, or completed as a separate volunteering programme.

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