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.
DECEMBER EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
WINTER SOLSTICE POETRY READING
Saturday, December 28 | 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.
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FEATURED ARTISTS
SARAH LETOURNEAU
Sara Letourneau’s debut poetry collection, Wild Gardens, is out now through Kelsay Books. She’s also a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services; the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield, Massachusetts; and the co-editor of the Pour Me a Poem anthology. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her new and upcoming work can be found in Amethyst Review, The Arts Fuse, Gyroscope Review, Nixes Mate Review, Rituals, Remington Review, and Silver Birch Press, among others. Sara lives in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
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JENNIFER MARTELLI
Jennifer Martelli has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, The Queen of Queens, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and My Tarantella, which was also shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and named finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Jennifer Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER. www.jennmartelli.com
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JENNIFER JEAN
Jennifer Jean is the author of Where Do You Live? (a collaborative poetry collection, forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press in May 2025), as well as VOZ, The Fool, Object Lesson, and Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. She’s also the editor of Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women (forthcoming from Tupelo Press in January 2026). Jennifer’s received honors from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, DISQUIET, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems and co-translations appear in POETRY Magazine, Rattle, the L.A. Review, The Common, and On the Seawall. And, she is an organizer for the Her Story Is collective, a core faculty member in the Solstice MFA program, and the senior program manager of 24PearlStreet—the Fine Arts Work Center’s online writing program.
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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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