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.
JUNE EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
THE MONTH OF ROSES
Saturday, June 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
ANDY HOFFMAN
Andy Hoffman began working in publishing at age 20, when he became an editor at Running Press. He has published work in multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, and biography. A serial entrepreneur, he founded or co-founding several enterprises, mostly in educational technology. A Board Member at Mass Poetry, currently on hiatus, he has just begun work on a new project, UP ROOTED, about living an itinerant life.
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DEBORAH LEIPZIGER
Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil, Ms. Leipziger is the author of several books on sustainability and human rights. Her collection of poems, Story & Bone, was published in 2023 by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. Her poems have been published in ten countries in such magazines as Revista Cardenal, Inkwell, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and Salamander. She is currently working on a Lexicon of Change, which shares the vocabulary we need for social and environmental transformation. She has had residencies at T S Eliot House and received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Brookline Commission for the Arts, and the Jewish Arts Collaborative. She is a Writer in Residence at the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service at Northeastern University.
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BRIAN MOSHER
Brian Mosher was born in Foxboro, MA, and currently resides in nearby Mansfield. He has self-published 3 books: “One Bad Day Deserves Another” (short stories) and “Moon Shine and Lemon Twists” (poetry), both in 2016; and “The Broken Mosaic” (poetry and prose), in 2021. All available through Amazon.
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His poetry chapbook, “Dreams and Other Magic” (2023) is published by Alien Buddha Press. His work has appeared in Blue Villa, Nixes Mate, eMerge, Books and Pieces, Confetti, Rituals, Coneflower Cafe, Written Tales, Oddball Magazine, Esoterica Magazine, Half and One Magazine and Verse Wrights.
He also maintains a poetry blog, Phlubbermatic: (www.phlubbermatic.blogspot.com).
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MICHAEL MCINNIS
Michael McInnis is a sailor, veteran, raconteur, designer, carpenter, occasionally migrainous, bi-polar poet, and co-founder of Nixes Mate Review. He lives in Boston.
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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!
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