Mimbre Youth Company

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…
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 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)…
Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

Unfortunately the weather wasn’t very kind to us last Saturday at the Dalston Children’s Festival. Due to heavy wind and rain the performance of “Falling Up” had to be stopped half-way through – the set nearly flew off and it would have been too dangerous for the performers to continue on the slippery ground. Sadly,…
Hackney WOW!

Lina spent some time with the Hackney WOW cubs Kitty and Alma yesterday to teach them some tricks and talk to them about what we’ll be getting up to at the Dalston Children’s Festival on Saturday.
Support Sabrina in her Race For Life

Sabrina, also known as Ravi’s Mum, is running 5k in Finsbury Park in the memory of her mother. All the money she raises will go towards Cancer Research UK. For more information: www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/sabrinalobo Well done Sabrina!!
Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

This Saturday, May 25th, the Dalston Children’s Festival will be launched, a new community-led festival that promotes fun and free things to do for children and young people, all over Dalston, all summer long (25th May – 31st Aug 2013). It is a celebration of the extraordinary creativity of Dalston’s community and the resourcefulness and…
Mimbre T-Shirts

Our T-shirt making day with Billy was a great success! Thanks so much for all your time and effort and your designs were amazing.
Breaking Convention at Sadler’s Wells

On the weekend Mimbre Youth Company (MYC) went to Breaking Conventions at Sadler’s Wells. They got to see the big stage, where they will perform later in the year and Kieran even got to try it out. He was selected by Jonzi D to come up on stage and show off his moves in front…
WE’RE BACK!!

It was our first session back yesterday, 23rd April, and I had a lovely time with the Milton Garden Groups. Lina and Frank organised a great workshop with games and races, which was really fun. The older group even danced around the hall with their eyes closed. If you can do that then you can go…