Time to save money: Register for Open Studios NOW!
OK. We get it. We're artists, writers, actors, dreamers. Our favorite thing to do, besides create wonderful things, is to procrastinate. But here's incentive to stop, right now! The June 15, 2011, early bird registration deadline for the Dorchester Arts Collaborative's Open Studios is quickly approaching. Want to save money on registration? (Hey, with the gas prices, who doesn't want to save money?) Want to see your name on our materials? (Your friends will be really impressed.) Stop procrastinating. Register now. 
One less thing to worry about putting off, right?
Open Studios will take place Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, 2011. Read the great coverage we got for last year's event in the Boston Globe.
Dac breakfast, May 13
Write on!
Locals, get to know your writers. Writers, get to know your locals. Join your fellow literary aficionados on Tuesday, May 3rd at the first "Write on the DOT" reading of poetry and fiction by UMass Boston Creative Writing MFA students and local Dorchester writers. The reading kicks off at 7 p.m. at The Blarney Stone Bar/Restaurant in Fields Corner (1505 Dorchester Ave., 1 block from the Fields Corner T Stop on the Ashmont Red Line). Come raise a glass and join your neighbors as our readers unfurl beauty and darkness, ideas and inspiration. Tuesday's readers are: Rad Thie, Kurt Klopmeier, Andra Hibbert, Betsy Gomez, Zachary Bos, and Mark Rotondi. If you're a writer living/working in Dorchester and would like to read at an upcoming Write on the DOT, please send an email to dotreadingseries@gmail.com – we'd love to hear from you. For more info, visit http://www.writeonthedot.blogspot.com/.Come. Eat. Talk. Learn.
Are you ready for your audience? Be sure. Come to the Dorchester Arts Collaborative’s monthly breakfast series. On the menu for Friday, April 15, 2011, is presenter Anna Koon, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., at Dot2Dot Café. She is a full-time professional artist, writer, creative coach, and Jamaica Plain Arts Council board member. She will present a talk titled “The Basics of Open Studios” and give a brief overview of her workshop "Now What.” The discussion is designed to help all artists make the best of Open Studios or any other event in which they are involved.
Breakfast is $5. Dot2Dot Café is located at 1739 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Mass. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@dac-online.org. See you there.
Come to the Chili Throwdown on Friday
The Dorchester Arts Collaborative invites you to join us for the 4th Friday Potluck on Friday, March 25, from 7 to 10 p.m., at 11 Pearl Street, Dorchester, Mass.
The Dorchester Arts Collaborative has lots to celebrate on its second 4th Friday. First, its SPRING! Second, we will be showing off our new office and arts space, Studio D (11 Pearl Street) and our current show featuring Chuck Sullivan and VIncent Crotty. Third, we will be launching our new, fully functional and comprehensive web site for a sneak peek, and we will be asking everyone to sample a variety of chili and vote on their favorite to help us decide which recipe to enter in the Dorchester Chilli Cook-off.
There is a BONUS for anyone who buys a painting, becomes a member or patron of DAC, or registers for Open Studios 2011 using our online registration forms (a laptop will be available): You will get the recipes for all the chili you will be tasting!
