Mimbre Youth Company

10 Mar Exciting times!

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​We got a Mimbre fantastic spring coming up! Here's a list of upcoming events, do join us!

• We'll be at Women of the World (WOW) Festival on the 12 March with a short extract from our new show, If I could I would in the central bar at Royal Festival Hall, 1.50 pm, more details here! No tickets required to see our performance and there are lots of other interesting free things going on as well as a bursting ticketed programme. The festival is AMAZING!
• Mimbre Youth Program is presenting their very own superheroes show on 22 March in Hackney, full details on request.

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04 Dec Meet our Thursday Group: Let’s save their classes too!

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So far we have focused our story on one of our youth groups ("the Tuesday group"). We thought we would just be able to raise funds for that class, but after seeing how much we matter for our community, we have decided to try to...

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02 Dec The campaign is not over yet!

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On Tuesday morning we launched a crowd funding campaign on indiegogo to help secure the future of 2 out of 5 of our youth classes. We conservatively specified a £2,000 target, thinking we could only manage to raise that amount. We did not, in our...

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09 Apr What We Do Is What We Love

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If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we have been working hard making a show that will open for the amazing Circolombia on Thursday 16th April at the Roundhouse. “What we do is what we love” is created with young people from North and...

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13 Feb Looking Back at Orfeo

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I wanted to throw a glance back at the amazing and intense production of Orfeo which I was part of this winter, clearly not having learnt anything from the story (if only Orfeo wouldn't have looked back at Eurydice they would have lived happily ever...

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17 Oct Summer 2014 – What a year!

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  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...

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10 Mar National Youth Circus Event 2014

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Some of our young people recently took part in the National Youth Circus Event, which took place from February 21st – 23rd at Circus Space in London.  This event celebrates UK youth circus through workshops, masterclasses, professional performances, professional development for circus performers and teachers as well...

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13 Jan Mimbre Youth Classes This Spring

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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...

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16 Oct Mimbre Circus Central – Winning Image of a Beautiful Day

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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...

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09 Sep Mimbre Youth Company at Sadler’s Wells’ RIOT Offspring

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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...

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