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.
APRIL EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
IN SPRING ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.
-EE Cummings
Saturday, April 20 | 6-8 pm
Poetry reading followed by an open mic.
Location: Open Doors Yoga Studios, Weymouth Studio
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Events are FREE and Open to the Public.
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Featured Poets
LINDA CARNEY-GOODRICH
Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her work has appeared in spoKe 10, Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Nixes Mate Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Literary Mama, Muddy River, Wordgathering, Gyroscope Review, and City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems. Her work has been translated in Spanish and published in Columbia and Mexico. Several poems of hers have been displayed at Boston City Hall. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and founder of Home Scholars of Boston. Her one person shows include The Secret Childhood Diary of a Welfare Mother and My Life in Barbie. Dot Girl is her first collection of poetry published in March 2024 with Nixes Mate Books. You can find her at lindacarneygoodrich.com
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TRISHA ZEMBRUSKI
Trisha Zembruski is an improvisational actress and visual artist. She teaches and directs Theater for Kids, a theater program for all ages. She works as a graphic artist, primarily for children's publications. Trisha was a featured poet at the Menino Arts Center/Hyde Park. She is currently working on 3 visual poetry books—You Can’t Dance With The Accordion Player, Next, and Fry It Up With Eggs in the Morning. You can reach her at tzembruski@gmail.com
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MAY EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
WILD PACK OF THE LIVING & GLITTER ROAD
Friday, May 31 | 6-8 pm
Featured Authors followed by an open mic.
Location: Open Doors Yoga Studios, Weymouth Studio
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Events are FREE and Open to the Public.
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Featured Authors
EILEEN CLEARY
Eileen Cleary (she/her) is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She co-edited the anthology ' Voices Amidst the Virus' which was the featured text at the 2021 MSU Filmetry Festival. Cleary founded and edits the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and curates the Lily Poetry Salon. A multipushcart nominee, her work is published widely in journals and anthologies.
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JANUARY GILL O'NEIL
January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O'Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2024 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
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GREAT EVENTS... WONDERFUL MEMORIES.
PAST EVENTS
Open Doors Center for the Arts
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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