Mimbre believes that teaching young people a new acrobatic move or a complicated dance step will help build their confidence, aspirations and perseverance. Mimbre offers classes for young people in Hackney to learn acrobatics and street dance in a safe, fun and supportive environment with...
We are running a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for our brilliant youth program! To donate, watch the video or spread the word click here! #handstand4hackney Supporting our campaign through the first 3 day, is crucial, as it would help get Indiegogo pick up the campaign...
One of the things I love the most about my job is organising the community days. If you've never been to one of ours, you’re really missing out on a big dose of instant happiness. The focus this term was to let the children come up...
We've had such a great summer at Mimbre! Here are some of our highlights. (Photo credit: Marcos Avlonitis, Talula Sheppard) At the start of the summer we were offered continued support by the Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. We are incredibly proud...
We're very excited to announce the schedule for our 2nd annual Mimbre Circus Central festival in Hackney Central. The event is on the pedestrianised portion at the north end of Mare Street, very close to Hackney Central Station. The programme this year is so much fun. The festival...
Who said that kids don't like fruit? An important part of our regular youth classes is the commitment to teach our young people not only acrobatic and street dance moves, but also to discuss healthy eating and living. Therefore we also offer them different kinds of...
Our young people are getting better and better at acrobatics and street dance and for last week we gave them the challenge to lead an open class! Everyone (including the 4 year-olds) prepared one move to teach, be it a warm-up move, stretch or dance move...
Finally we got this short video from our festival up and running again after some technical problems. For those of you who weren't there - take a brief look at what you missed, for those of you who were there - a memory of the...
So following on from the amazing success of our first festival, Mimbre Circus Central, you may remember that we were running a photo competition for the best image of the day...