Archive for October 2020
NCTV & Community Media Day
Community Media Day is an annual celebration of voices that bring awareness to the importance of free speech and accessible media for all individuals to have their voices heard. Community media encourages local dialogue, increases discourse around policy issues, fosters an understanding of local cultures, and shares information to improve our lives. Norfolk Community Television…
Read MoreMindfulness Monday: Why White Noise helps you sleep
Are you getting enough sleep? Having trouble sleeping? Some background noise just might do the trick in helping you get some shut-eye. A National Sleep Foundation poll from 2012 found that 5% of Americans use some sort of sleep machine, smart device app, fan, etc to assist them in falling asleep. If you’re having trouble…
Read MoreMA State Rep Candidate’s Night
Norfolk Community League and Norfolk Community Television are hosting a live debate between MA State Representative Candidates Shawn Dooley and Brian Hamlin for the Ninth Norfolk District (Consisting of Medfield: Precincts 3, 4; Millis: Precinct 1; Norfolk; Plainville; Walpole: Precinct 5; Wrentham). This event is virtual & can be seen live online at www.youtube.com/norfolkcable as well as…
Read MoreMedia That Matters: “Lumumba”
At the Berlin Conference in 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the property of Belgium’s King Leopold II. On 30 June 1960, a nationalist of 36, Patrice Lumumba, Became the first prime minister of a new independent state. He would last 2 months in office. This is a true story. This…
Read MoreMindfulness Monday: Yoga with Ginny
Mindfulness and yoga go hand in hand. One of our community producers, Ginny Dorn hosts yoga lessons regularly via Zoom that you can either participate in yourself or watch on our channel. Below is a playlist of her quickly growing number of episodes and under that, we ask her a few questions about Yoga and…
Read MoreThe 7th Annual Wood Duck Derby
Norfolk Community Television is proud to partner with the Mass Audubon’s Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary and the Norfolk Community League to make sure that this year’s Duck Derby goes off… just virtually. Today at 2:00 pm is when it’s all going down… watch online or on TV. There’s $500 on the line for the Grand…
Read MoreMedia That Matters: Future by Design
“Future by Design is an intellectually and visually engaging documentary following the life of Jacque Fresco. Accepted as the modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci, Peer to Albert Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Mr. Fresco is a self-educated futurist who likes to be considered as a generalist or a multi-disciplinarian — a scholar of several interrelated fields of science. He’s…
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