NAC@Home Stacey Cross

We are hitting the pause button on our podcast, whilst we concentrate on our delivering our NAC programme.



Our NAC CEO Trevelyan Wright joins us for a look back on what we have  achieved with NAC@Home. Our podcast highlights and tells us more about  you can expect from the next few months here at the arts centre,  including new ventures for NAC and our future events.



We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to you for listening, we do hope  you have enjoyed listing to us over the last few months. So the time has  come to say goodbye for now but do come and see us soon.

To tie in with our recent announcement of our new venture in cinema is  this special film edition of NAC@Home.  In September our NAC courtyard  will be transformed into Wolverhampton’s open aired community cinema.  Find out what film we are kick starting our brand new socially  distanced cinema with and exactly what you can expect from NAC’s  Courtyard Cinema. There may even be some hidden clues for our programme  in this specially dedicated episode.

This week’s guest is Phil Rose, well known on the local jazz scene for  being a key member of organisations like Birmingham Jazz and Jazz West  Midlands.

In the absence of live Jazz across our region, Jazz  West Midlands have commissioned a number of performances for everybody  to enjoy online.  Join us for this Jazz special, where we find out more  about what new digital performances we can look forward to and how you  can get involved and support the project, plus some finely selected  tunes from Phil himself.

This week we interview Renna Tailor Panchal from Bollywood Dream Dance.  Renna is well known in our city of Wolverhampton for providing her fun  and additive Bollywood style dance classes at here at NAC.  Throughout lockdown she has provided free interactive sessions via  Facebook Live and is now just about to launch her online summer course  via Zoom. Get ready as we talk dance, bollywood, fitness and well-being in this  episode of NAC@Home.

This week’s special quest is artist, dancer, and entertainer Sohan Kailey. Newhampton Arts Centre visitors will know Sohan for his Bhangra Kids and Bhangra Tot’s dance classes, previously featured in our NAC summer activities programme and community lead events like Wolverhampton’s Fun palaces.

Lockdown has not stopped Sohan delivering these fun dance classes, taking his Bhangra tots adventures online, performing live through Facebook from his home studio for early years and families to enjoy. The recording artist has also been busy releasing his new album ‘Let's Naach’ a collection of funky music for family to enjoy and get active too. We talk to Sohan about this latest music video project and the importance of well being and keeping fit during lockdown.

This week we catch up with our very own NAC Site Manager Chris Brown, as well as been responsible for putting on live shows at Newhampton Arts Centre, Chris is also a musician himself and during lockdown he has become better known as the COVID Cowboy, sharing his one man band music videos across You Tube and Facebook.

We are eager to find out more about the project COVID Cowboy. We will also be talking all about Chris’ hard work behind the scenes here at NAC and what  progress has been made for the return of live music to our venue.