Doug Holder interviews Brian Harkins--Revere Arts Activist

Nyx Breen is the artistic pseudonym of Brian Harkins, a prominent photographer, digital artist, and arts advocate based in Revere, Massachusetts. He is widely recognized for his visual storytelling, community-driven public art installations, and digital creations in virtual environments.

Creative Profile & Work

• Photography & Visual Art: His photography frequently highlights local coastal landscapes, abstract urban architecture, and moody black-and-white imagery. He publishes his professional work on the official  4, 5]
• Immersive Virtual Worlds: Breen is highly active in the OpenSimulator (OpenSim) community, particularly within the Pangea Grid. He constructs complex, large-scale virtual art installations utilizing advanced atmospheric lighting and mesh design. 
• Community Leadership: Deeply involved in the local Massachusetts art scene, he founded the Revere Art Community and co-founded the Revere Public Arts Commission. He has also served as a Massachusetts Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Adjunct Fellow. 
• Public Art Projects: During the pandemic, he launched the "Who I wear a mask for Revere" initiative, a community photo-collage banner designed to foster unity through art rather than politics. 

July 29 Interview with Robert Upton-- Director of the Revere History Museum

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0n7a4ynRs

Robert Upton is the president of the Revere Society for Cultural and Historical Preservation (RSCHP) and head of the Revere History Museum located at 108 Beach Street in Revere, Massachusetts.

July 2026: Doug Holder interviews Kevin Carey and Stephenie Young about " Revere Beach Stories"

 

Revere Beach Stories will show you just what it means to be a recorder of lives in this seaside haven, first public beach in America and a microcosm of the larger New England community.

— Rusty Barnes, author of On Broad Sound

January 12 , 2023 Stephen O'Connor author of " Northwest of Boston."

 Stephen P. O’Connor is a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, home of Beat author Jack Kerouac, where much of his writing is set. He is the author of "Smokestack Lightning," a collection of short stories, and the novels "The Spy in the City of Books" and "The Witch at Rivermouth." O’Connor has worked as a roofer, a garbage collector, a harvester of grapes, a drywall man, a shoe salesman, a factory hand, and for more than twenty years, a high school teacher. He earned master’s degrees from University College Dublin and UMass Boston, and has lived and worked in Ireland and in France. O’Connor lives with his wife Olga and their two children in Lowell. When he’s not working or writing he can be found walking in the woods, drinking coffee downtown, playing soccer with the old boys or cranking out Irish tunes on a fiddle inherited from his Uncle Eddie.

Michael Keith and Greg Wolos discuss their new books.... Dec 14, 2022

 Michael Keith will discuss his collection of flash fiction "Quiet Geography." Greg Wolos will discuss his collection of short stories " Green Ray and other Stories."

Tom Laughlin: "The Rest of the Way"

 

TOM LAUGHLIN is a professor at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts where he teaches creative writing, literature, and composition courses, as well as coordinating the MCC Visiting Writers Series and open readings for students, faculty, and community members for the Creative Writing Program. He also coordinated the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Middlesex Community College for many years; coordinated an Early Academic Intervention Program, the Writing Center, and creative writing activities at Massasoit Community College for nearly a decade; and taught literature classes in two Massachusetts prisons.

His poetry chapbook, The Rest of the Way, was released by Finishing Line Press in August 2022.

Guests September 7 Victor Wallis and Inez Hedges

 Victor Wallis and Inez Hedges will talk about their new books--- Socialist Practice by Wallis and Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine by Hedges.