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Creative Life

Creative Life offers an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Coast. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell. Creative Life airs every second Monday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast.. Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.

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  • Glass artist Andrew Hicks works out of a small wooden shed in East Falmouth where he uses a propane torch to turn glass rods into works of art. For our…
  • Provincetown in winter - like other Cape towns - goes from being pulsing tourist spot to a quieter place with a small-town feel. But production of a new…
  • As we get older, it becomes especially important to keep the mind active. A memoir-writing class at a local assisted living facility is providing just…
  • Using an abandoned hot dog stand as an enormous pinhole camera, Marian Roth blurs the boundaries between her photography and her imagination. For Creative…
  • Some people come to music later in life. On Creative Life, a family man with a good job discovers a new passion. Ryan Fletcher oversees heating and air…
  • Susan Wasson thought her retirement would be a time to relax and take it easy. But she has discovered a new life as an artist, making dolls out of trash.…
  • Come backstage for the debut performance of the Brazen Belles in Woods Hole, where you'll find humor, song and strip tease.The Brazen Belles will be…
  • For this week's Creative Life, in Orleans, Suzanne Leahy, a master boatbuilder, brings the unique eye of a sculptor to the craft. Alex Lewis reports.
  • Provincetown used to have a booming leather trade, which has all but died out. But Victor Powell continues to make sandals one pair at a time, for some…
  • Martha’s Vineyard is home to three thousand immigrants from Brazil. Some of them have found community in the centuries-old Afro-Brazilian martial art…