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:
FINDING WARMTH UNDER THE WANING MOON
Saturday, December 6 | 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
LYNNE VITI
Lynne Viti served as the inaugural poet laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts, from February 2023 to June 2025). She has published four poetry collections, most recently The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). Her work has received recognition from the Beal Poetry Award, Fish Publishing Poetry Contest, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, Miriam Chaikin/Westbeth Artists Poetry Award and Highland Park Poetry. A faculty emerita at Wellesley College, she facilitates a poets in the schools project in Westwood and a poetry workshop for adults at the Westwood Library and is a New England Poetry Club advisory board member.
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CYNTHIA BARGAR
Cynthia Bargar is the author of Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room, a 2023 Massachusetts Book Award Honors Poetry Book. Her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, Ocean State Review, On the Seawall, Lily Poetry Review, Verse Daily, The Last Milkweed Anthology (Tupelo), and elsewhere. Cynthia is poetry co-editor at Pangyrus. She lives in Provincetown, MA.
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STEPHEN HAVEN
Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025). Stephen has three earlier collections: The Last Sacred Place in North America (New American Press), winner of the New American Poetry Prize; Dust and Bread (Turning Point), winner of the Ohio Poet of the Year Award; and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks, runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry when Levine was judge. Stephen's memoir, The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk, was published by Syracuse University Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Arts & Letters, Guernica, The Southern Review & elsewhere.
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STEVEN CRAMER
Steven Cramer’s Where Thoughts Come From: New and Selected Poems will be published in 2027 by Lily Poetry Review Press. Lily published his chapbook, As If: Variation on Enrique Anderson-Imbert, in 2025. Steven ‘s previous collections include Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press, 2023); Listen (MadHat Press, 2020), long-listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012); and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and named a Massachusetts Honor Book. Recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, he founded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.
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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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