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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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  • Meet a singer/songwriter in Provincetown who had to lose her voice… before she could find it. Nathan Tobey reports. For more information and music visit…
  • Greg O'Brien is a journalist with a mission; writing what might be his last story ever. O'Brien has Early Onset Alzheimer's disease, and his cognitive…
  • Brian Weir of South Dartmouth earns his living making wooden bowls and furniture. Although he works alone in his shop, his artistic career is built on a…
  • Cape Cod was first settled by Europeans almost four hundred years ago; and there are still plenty of original houses around here. But how do you maintain…
  • The Falmouth Senior Center poetry group hosted a public event to read their work. But it turned out to be less about sharing their artistry and more about…
  • A herd of carved wild horses has been looking for a home on Cape Cod. Brigitta Greene tells a story, years in the making, of Lance Shinkle's unusual…
  • For two years now, people on Martha’s Vineyard have had a front row seat to the building of a large wooden boat. It’s one of the most unusual boat…
  • Last month, a group of students at Dartmouth High School competed in the National Performing Arts Festival at Disney World. During school vacation week,…
  • The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently home to a scientist who, in 2009, tried to record something no human ear had ever heard. Annie…
  • At Nauset Middle School in Orleans, a group of students are collaborating on a unique after-school project with one of their teachers. They’re painting a…