OPEN DOORS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Each month Open Doors will host an art event at the Weymouth Studio. The events are a way for us to recognize and help promote art in the community. These events are by donation and open to the public. Donations go to providing opportunities for emerging and well-known artists, poets, musicians and dancers to showcase and share their work at Open Doors Weymouth Studio.
At Open Doors we believe that our community is vibrant and thriving with artistic expression. We invite you to share your art with us. For more information on events and shows contact Gloria Monaghan, monaghang@wit.edu , or Marilva Wedge, customersupport@opendoorsyogastudios.com.
NEXT EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
FALL HARVEST Poetry Reading
Saturday, November 14 | 6-8 pm
Poetry Reading followed by an open mic.
Location: Open Doors Yoga Studios, Weymouth Studio
Events are FREE and Open to the Public. Event location is not wheelchair accessible.
FEATURED ARTISTS
MIRIAM MANGLANI
Miriam Manglani lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and three children. She holds a Master’s degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in English from Brandeis University. She is the author of the poetry collection Invisible Lines (Kelsay Books) and the chapbook Ordinary Wonders (Prolific Press). Her work has appeared in Sparks of Calliope, One Art, Glimpse, Canyon Voices, Ibbetson Street Magazine, Paterson Literary Review, and other journals. When she is not writing, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, reading, biking, swimming, and crocheting. Explore her published work at www.miriammanglani.com.
SHERRI STEPAKOFF
Sherri Stepakoff is the author of Sanctuary at Unity Farm, her debut poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in print, online, and on video with publications including Passagers, Off the Coast, and Notable Works’ ecological anthologies, Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet (III and IV). She received honorable mentions in the NFSPS Prouty Memorial Contest (2024) and Fish Publishing Poetry Contest (2023). She was the inaugural poet-in-residence at Unity Farm Sanctuary, a refuge for farmed animals in Sherborn, Massachusetts.
WENDY DREXLER
Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Harvest of What Remains, received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize and was published in February 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. She was awarded the 2025 E. E. Cummings prize from the New England Poetry Club, and served as poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018–2023.
GREAT EVENTS... WONDERFUL MEMORIES.
PAST EVENTS
GLORIA MONAGHAN's SHORT FILM DEBUT
Daughter of Rubens, was accepted into the Provincetown Film Festival 2023. This is a short documentary about the life and work of Nancy Ellen Craig, who lived in Truro with the reclusive poet Preston Carter. The screenings for the film were June 11, at 11 am at the Provincetown Art House 1 and June 18th, 4:00 pm. Provincetown Water’s Edge 1.
The film premiered on April 4th, 2023 in Blount Auditorium where several curators from local museums were invited and attended as well as the President of Wentworth, Mark Thompson and his wife Karen.
The Provincetown Independent as well as The Cape Cod Chronicle in addition to The Provincetown Magazine featured articles about the film!
