Mimbre Youth Company

What do you worry about?

The last question we think had the most interesting responses: we asked the young people at our workshops what it is that worries them the most. One of their biggest worries was their GCSEs, which was not surprising. We are certain however that, with their maturity and intelligence, our young people are going to do…
Mimbre’s Youth Programme is back for autumn 2016!

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 professional artists. Through our youth program we teach young people…
Discover our world (on video)

Summer is (somewhat) officially here and we hope you – like us – have been enjoying the warm weather. To make it even better we’ve put together a few short and sweet videos highlighting some of the amazing projects we’ve worked on this year. (Oh, and a full length opera if you have more time on…
Exciting times!

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

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 save the entire program! Here is the amazing group of…
The campaign is not over yet!

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 wildest dreams, think we would achieve this goal in LESS…
What We Do Is What We Love

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 East London asking to forget about the materialistic obsessions…
Looking Back at Orfeo

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 after…), with some thoughts and reflections on how this ambitious…
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…
National Youth Circus Event 2014

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 as the opportunity for youth circus groups to showcase…