NBCC Sets Annual Meeting, Northern Berkshire Hero Award Presentation

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition will hold its annual meeting at Greylock WORKS on Friday, June 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
 
This marks its 37th year as a community organization.
 
This year's keynote speaker will be state Sen. Paul Mark and the coalition will honor George and Nancy Canales with the Northern Berkshire Hero Award for their decades of community involvement, including their volunteer efforts with the LaFesta Baseball Exchange, the SteepleCats baseball team and the North Adams visitors booth.
 
The theme of this year's meeting, "Telling Your Story," will include memories captured in photographs of the past 37 years of work the coalition has done in the community. Some  photographs will be enlarged and displayed throughout the event space and thousands of photographs will be available for attendees to search through and take home. The coalition recently digitally archived its collection of photographs and welcomes the community to take home any photographs they would like to keep. Most of the photographs available are from 1998  through 2002.
 
Tickets for the event are $25 per person. Scholarships are available for community residents who would like to attend. Buffet lunch, coffee and dessert will be provided by M&J's Taste of Home Catering. Registration is available online or by calling the coalition at 413-663-7588.
 
Registration link: https://conta.cc/40HKN9l

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Mass MoCA Commission Approves Mental Health Practices as Tenants

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Mass MoCA Commission on Thursday approved three new tenants for Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. 
 
Kimma Stark, project manager at the museum, gave the commission the rundown on each of the new tenants. 
 
Eric Beeman is a licensed mental health counselor who uses art in his therapy. He holds a master's degree in expressive arts and arts therapy from Lesley University, where he's also taught graduate-level practices and principles of expressive art therapy.
 
He integrates creative arts based interventions into his clinical work including drawing painting, poetry, writing, brief drama and roleplay, movement and sound. Beeman works one-on-one and with small groups and said he mostly works with adults. 
 
He will be operating as Berkshires Expressive Arts Therapy on the third floor of Building 1. 
 
Beeman said Stark has been very helpful. "It's different than just renting a space and she's been very helpful and personable and accessible," he said. 
 
Mary Wilkes, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, works with individuals with severe mental illness, with attachment and relationship issues and needing support navigating major life transitions. She works with teenagers, college and students and adults. 
 
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