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We are looking for board members!

We are currently looking to expand our Board of Trustees and are searching for dynamic individuals from all walks of life to help us develop our work over the coming years and to support the strategic development of the company. Mimbre is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation with funding secured until 2015. We are…
Teaching assistant needed

Teaching Assistant for Mimbre Youth Programme Mimbre is looking for a teaching assistant for our Acrobatics/acrobalance and Street-Dance classes for 4-7 and 8-12 years old children this term.
Mimbre Circus Central – the biggest hit on Narrow Way!

As already mentioned before on this blog, we had such a great time organising and celebrating Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival on central Hackney’s Narrow Way in early September, and we are VERY proud of all the fantastic feedback we’ve since received! For example, Hackney Today writes: “The latest in in a programme of…
Mimbre Circus Central – what a day!

It is done! Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival, took over the Narrow Way in Hackney last Saturday… and it was a great success! The weather held out and all of us had a really wonderful time (even though the day passed much to quickly!) – thanks so much to all of you…
Mimbre Youth Company at Sadler’s Wells’ RIOT Offspring

As I hope you have already seen on this blog and our facebook and twitter, Mimbre Youth Company, our most advanced acrobatics and street dance group, were part of an amazing performance project at Sadler’s Wells this summer: RIOT Offspring, a unique collaboration between five international choreographers: Sébastian Ramirez, Mafalda Deville, Pascal Merighi (guest artist, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch), Ivan Blackstock and Simeon Qsyea (BirdGang)…
Volunteers and Stewards Needed

Hi to all our lovely followers and friends! As I hope you’ve seen on the blog/facebook etc over the last week we have an amazing event coming up. On the 7th September you are all invited to Mimbre Circus Central our Hackney take-over, with performances, workshops and activities for everyone!
More pictures from our summer tour 2013!

Over the past few weeks we had performances of Until Now and Falling Up at City of London Festival, Woking Dance Festival, at Laban, at Alnwick Gardens, at Birmingham Hippodrome and at Appetite in Stoke-on-Trent. We enjoyed each and every one of them very much and would therefore like to share with you some more visual…
Mimbre Circus Central

We’re hosting Mimbre Circus Central, an amazing day of performance and workshops in Hackney in September, come and join us! 7th September 2013 – 12pm-5pm Taking advantage of the temporary pedestrianisation on the Narrow Way at the top of Mare Street (E8 1HY), Mimbre will be taking over the whole area for a day. With…
Mimbre at the Greenwich World Cultural Festival

After a great day at the City of London Festival with Falling Up (some lovely pictures to follow), we’re now looking forward to performing Until Now at the Greenwich World Cultural Festival on Sunday at the lovely Eltham Palace. Come down and enjoy the sun with us! We’re performing at 2.10pm but the programme runs…
Until Now at Cherbourg

Have a look at these lovely pictures of our amazing acrobats performing Until Now at La Breche in Cherbourg, France!