Hackney Activities

  • Summer 2014 – What a year!

      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 to have been selected amongst…

  • Mimbre Circus Central is back!

      For the second year running we’re hosting Mimbre Circus Central, an amazing day of performance and workshops in Hackney Central, come and join us! Following last year’s success we’re back on 20th September – 1pm-5:30pm with performances by Mrs H and the Singalong Band, That Juggler, Folk Dance Remixed , Mimbre  and some amazingly talented local…

  • Mimbre Live on Hackney Live – February 13th, 6pm

    Hackney Live, a digital broadcast platform showcasing the best of Hackney’s creative talents (led by Hackney Council and supported by Arts Council England), is returning in February with a feast of acrobatics, dance and theatre – shaped and directed by audiences via social media. And Mimbre is part of it! Are you interested in the research and…

  • Your inspiration, our creation!

    How do you perceive time? How do you visualise it? What happens if you slow down or speed up parts of our everyday life? How else can you mess with our perception of time passing? How would you represent this in a visual medium or in words? Can you video a moment from your day that…

  • Mimbre Youth Classes This Spring

    SPRING PROGRAMME OF CLASSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2014 Below are details of the classes we are running this term. Due to funding cuts we have had to reduce our programme of classes for young people, we are working hard to get more classes up and running again and have exciting opportunities to get the programme extended…

  • Family Day at Milton Gardens

    Family Day at Milton Gardens

    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 and the older kids also prepared little routines. They…

  • Mimbre Circus Central Video Online

    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 last summer day… Enjoy the autumn setting in and leaves…

  • Mimbre Circus Central – Winning Image of a Beautiful Day

    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…and the wondeful winning image is: What a lovely shot from Kirsten, that shows the day in all it’s have-fun-and-get-involved glory! Kirsten has won a Digital…

  • 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…