Berkshire Community College partners with Barrington Coffee Roasters volition connection in-depth java grooming classes. Petr Kratochvil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Berkshire Community College Partners with Barrington Coffee Roasters to Offer ‘Fundamentals of Coffee’ Classes
Pittsfield— Berkshire Community College (BCC) and Barrington Coffee Roasters person announced a three-part grooming programme focused connected the accumulation of java and however to service java professionally. Courses volition screen the past of java making, farming and accumulation arsenic students larn astir the fascinating travel of java beans — including their origins successful tropical climates, the galore methods of brewing and the creation of tasting the last product.
Classes volition beryllium held successful BCC’s caller Culinary Lab, located connected the main field astatine 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, connected the archetypal 3 Tuesdays of February, opening February 7. They are unfastened to amateur java lovers and professionals looking to summation greater acquisition and knowledge.
Tuition is $50 per class, oregon each 3 classes for $120. Students whitethorn registry for the archetypal oregon 2nd classes independently but indispensable implicit the archetypal 2 classes successful bid to enroll for the third. To register, sojourn www.berkshirecc.edu/coffee.
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The Literacy Network of South Berkshire’s Miguel Silva Promoted to Director of Tutoring
Lee— The Literacy Network of South Berkshire (LitNet) announces the promotion of Miguel Silva to Director of Tutoring. Silva, who joined LitNet successful 2021, formerly served arsenic LitNet’s Learner Liaison. In his caller role, nether the absorption of Executive Director Leigh Doherty, Silva volition oversee the enrollment of each caller tutors and volition service arsenic enactment for LitNet’s existing 140+ unpaid tutors. He volition clasp his responsibilities arsenic besides being the constituent of interaction for LitNet’s progressive learners, the bulk of whom are immigrants seeking English connection instruction.
Since 1991, LitNet has provided free, one-on-one tutoring to adults successful Berkshire County successful the areas of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), U.S. citizenship trial preparation, precocious schoolhouse equivalency, and basal education. Members of the assemblage funny successful becoming unpaid tutors tin interaction Silva astatine info@litnetsb.org oregon (413) 243-0471.
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Lisa Dent, via Artspace, New Haven.MASS MoCA promotes Denise Markonish and hires Lisa Dent
North Adams— MASS MoCA has promoted seasoned curator Denise Markonish to go its caller Chief Curator. Markonish joined MASS MoCA successful 2007, and has implicit 20 years of acquisition producing and commissioning large-scale and experiential exhibitions and publishing catalogues, antecedently astatine the Fuller Museum, Brockton, Mass., and Artspace, New Haven, Conn.
In addition, MASS MoCA has appointed Lisa Dent arsenic its caller Director of Public Programs, the archetypal successful MASS MoCA’s astir 25-year history. Dent comes to MASS MoCA from Artspace New Haven, wherever she has been Executive Director since 2020. Previously, she led nationalist programs and concern improvement astatine Powerhouse Arts, led the Artist Services section astatine Creative Capital, and was Associate Curator of Contemporary Art astatine Columbus Museum of Art.
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Lee Bank Foundation awards assemblage funding
Lee— Lee Bank Foundation has awarded $45,670 to 10 Berkshire country organizations for their fourth-round of 2022 assemblage funding. Recipients were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to enactment their section programming. Included successful the awards are a bid of Arts Access Grants for arts and civilization organizations to grow entree to programming for underserved audiences.
The pursuing organizations received backing from Lee Bank Foundation:
- 18 Degrees
- Berkshire Community Action Council
- Berkshire County Head Start
- Berkshire Grown
- Berkshire Immigrant Center
- Berkshire Pulse
- Business Professionals of America, Massachusetts Association
- Extra Special Teas
- Latinas 413
- Literacy Network of South Berkshire
The deadline to use for the archetypal circular of 2023 Foundation backing is March 1st. The exertion and much accusation tin beryllium recovered connected the Community Impact conception of Lee Bank’s website.
To beryllium considered for assistance awards, applicants indispensable beryllium a (501)(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Foundation is focused connected backing programs that enactment to span income and accidental gaps successful our region.
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Mark J. Sterling, MD. Image courtesy of Berkshire Health Systems.A caller gastroenterologist has joined BHS supplier practice
Pittsfield— Berkshire Health Systems announces the assignment of Mark J. Sterling, MD, a committee certified and fellowship trained Gastroenterologist, to the aesculapian unit of Berkshire Medical Center and the supplier unit of Gastroenterology Professional Services of BMC. Dr. Sterling is accepting caller patients successful request of endoscopic and gastroenterology attraction and is partnered with Drs. Jason Bratcher, Ketisha De Roche and Jeffrey St. John astatine Gastroenterology Professional Services of BMC.
Dr. Sterling’s objective interests see diseases of the esophagus, stomach, tiny bowel, colon, pancreas, and liver; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and Colonoscopy; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; endoscopic ultrasound; endoscopic dilation and tiny bowel endoscopy.
He is committee certified successful Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, and fellowship trained successful Gastroenterology astatine St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center/Faulkner Hospital, Boston, and successful Advanced Endoscopy/Gastroenterology astatine the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He received his aesculapian grade from New York Medical College and completed his residency successful Internal Medicine astatine the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester.
For an assignment with Dr. Sterling, inquire your superior attraction doc for a referral, oregon for much accusation telephone Gastroenterology Professional Services of BMC astatine 413-499-8590.
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Berkshire Regional Planning Commission volition person a $50,000 assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts
Pittsfield— Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) has announced it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to person a Grants for Arts Projects grant of $50,000. This assistance volition enactment the Creative Compact for Collaborative and Collective Impact (C4) Initiative. This assistance is 1 of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling astir $28.8 cardinal that were announced by the NEA arsenic portion of its archetypal circular of fiscal twelvemonth 2023 grants.
The adjacent signifier of C4’s enactment volition absorption connected cultivating our originative workforce by broadening the region’s consciousness of the myriad of vocation opportunities successful the arts and civilization sector. This volition see establishing formalized vocation pathways successful arts/cultural organizations, making disposable the internships successful the arts/culture assemblage disposable to Berkshire precocious schoolhouse and assemblage students, and producing a student-hosted podcast that cracks unfastened the nonstop connections betwixt aboriginal originative learning and arts vulnerability and captious workforce skills.
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