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Creative Life
00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9ab20000Our series Creative Life discontinued on October 30th, 2017. It has been replaced by Ways of Life. The Creative Life archive lives on this page. Creative Life offered an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on the Cape and Islands. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell.Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.Creative Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Theater Program Helps Students Transcend Disabilities On and Off Stage

The students at Riverview School are in most ways no different to teenagers at any other New England boarding school. They play soccer and run cross country, cram for exams, waste time with friends. But they’re also coping with a range of disabilities. Vanessa Barchfield tells the story of how the school’s theater program is helping students transcend their disabilities on and off stage. 

For more information on the Riverview School http://riverviewschool.org/home

Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison and sponsored by the Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.  Vanessa Barchfield was a student  at the The Transom Story Workshop - a media training program from Atlantic Public Media. You can learn more at Transom.org