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
April is poetry month!
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
MIXING MEMORY AND DESIRE
Presenting
THE CHIVE COLLECTIVE
Saturday, April 10 | 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
ANNE ELEZABETH PLUTO
Anne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn, NY before it was cool. She is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where she is the artistic director of the Oxford Street Players. She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review and Nixes Mate Books. Her publications include chapbooks: The Frog Princess, White Pine Press (1985), eBook Lubbock Electric, Argotist ebooks (2012), Benign Protection Cervena Barva Press (2016), the edited print edition of Lubbock Electric Nixes Mate Books (2018), and full-length collections The Deepest Part of Dark, Unlikely Stories Press, NOLA (2020), and How Many Miles to Babylon?, Lily Books, (2023)
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CHRISTINE JONES
Christine Jones lives in Orleans, MA where she and her husband can be found swimming in their shark mitigating wetsuits all year round. She’s the author of Now Calls Me Daughter (Nixes Mate Review, 2022) and Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020), also co-editor of the anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Books, 2020). She’s the associate editor of Lily Poetry Review and co-founder of the Lily on the Cove Manuscript Clinic and Retreat. Her poetry can be found in numerous anthologies and journals in print and online.
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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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GLORIA MONAGHAN
Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry. Her seventh book, Diary of Saint Marion, Lily Poetry Review, (2025) is featured at AWP. Her poems have appeared in Nixes Mate, NPR, Poem-a-Day, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Griffin Prize. She recently completed a film on painter, Nancy Ellen Craig, Daughter of Rubens, which was accepted into the 2023 Provincetown Film Festival. She is currently working on another film about the Dominican painter, Jose Ricon Mora.
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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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