Lissy Lovett

Acrobat Stuck At Home

Creative challenge time! We invite you to join us and explore these times through our hashtag #acrobatstuckathome. While we realise that this is minor in the grand scheme of things, as acrobatic performers it’s a real issue to not be able to train together. By the time the Stay At Home Directive came into practice,…
We’ve been interviewed on 101 Outdoor Arts’ Podcast

We were invited by our friends over at 101 Outdoor Arts, Corn Exchange’s Newbury creation space, to appear on their Covid-19 Conversations podcast. This is a series about the impact of Covid-19 on Outdoor Artists in the UK with Paschale Straiton. Tune in to hear Mimbre’s Joint Artistic Directors Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli talk…
Mimbre Youth Classes Going Online

Making our summer term available to all withOnline acrobatics and street dance classes! We hope you are all doing OK in these testing times! We wanted to send a quick update with information about classes and activities for those of you with young people at home, or to forward to friends or families who have children climbing the walls! …
Mimbre’s Coronavirus Update

From all of us at Mimbre, we hope you are keeping well! In these fast-changing times we thought we’d email with a quick update about what we’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, and our plans for the immediate future. In this unusual world we find ourselves in we’ve been doing our best…
Physical and Creative Kids’ Activities

At Mimbre, we’ve been busy putting together ideas for you to keep physically and creatively active during this time of the Coronavirus and in this post, we will try to collate activities that you can set the kids up to do on their own while you work, shop, tidy or look after other family members.…
Resources for Artists and Creatives

We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus so we’ve been trying to compile some information and resources in one place. We will keep updating this as we see new opportunities or resources (adding new additions to the top of each list), so check back in as the…
Resources for Youth and their Families

Physical and Creative resources for all ages At Mimbre, we’ve been busy compiling and researching information, brainstorming ways you and your family can keep physically and creatively active during this time of the Coronavirus.These resources are regularly updated, so check back in. Please note, user discretion is advised, the links will take you off the…
Resources on Getting Involved in Your Community

We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus. At Mimbre, we’ve been busy compiling and researching information, brainstorming ways you can be involved, what you can do, how we can keep vulnerable groups in mind…These resources are regularly updated, so check back in. We last updated this post…
Mimbre Youth Programme – End of Spring Term

We are going online: Mimbre’s Acrobatics and Street Dance Classes. Dear Parents and Guardians, We are trying to shape plans for how we can support your young people with physical and creative activity on a remote basis over the next few weeks. So, we wanted to ask a few quick questions to see how we…
Our Approach To: Working Across Different Scales

In our next blog post about Mimbre’s approach to various subjects across outdoor arts, circus and running a company, our Executive Director, Lissy Lovett, writes about working across different scales with a focus on the company’s 2018 tour of The Exploded Circus. Mimbre have been touring three-person shows outdoors since 2000. We’ve also worked on…