This week we are joined by Gloria Crist, Creative Director the CORE Org! 

The CORE Org. is Creative Outreach Reinventing Expression, a source, and resource 501(c)3, providing arts enrichment and wellness. The CORE Org. was created by Ms. Gloria Crist, who holds a Master of Arts in Holistic Counseling as well as a CAGS in Expressive and Creative Arts. She is a professional actor/director and producer with various credits in theater/film and television. Gloria has been the Creative Director of Tiverton High School Drama since 2009. She has been an arts-integrated specialist for many years, and has worked with children in the public school system, private settings and adjudicated/at-risk children. Gloria has developed many arts-integrated programs and non-profits for children and young adults, including most recently, TASA (Tiverton After School Arts), which was The Core. Org.’s predecessor. She believes all children from all levels of life are entitled to arts-integrated learning, and self-awareness through the creative process.

Peer Productions, a collaboration with the CORE org and Newport County Prevention Coalition, is taking the power of film and social media and putting it in the creative minds of 8th-12 graders to write, produce and act in their own series of films- in the hope their narrative will have a wider and more realistic approach for young people struggling with the chaos and mental health issues Covid introduced into their world.  PEER PRODUCTIONS fulfills a specific need:  Giving young people the power to express themselves through writing/acting and film- in real time- with real stories on big theme issues:  depression, anxiety, relationships, self medicating, substance abuse, gender identity, isolation and feeling like "not being heard or seen".

For more information, visit www.thinkfeelcreate.org or www.newportcountyprevention.org/peerproductions