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Look Mum, No Hands! Easy Read and Audio Introduction

Welcome. We can’t wait for you to attend a performance of Look Mum, No Hands! We hope you’ll have a great time. At Daryl & Co and Mimbre, making this show as accessible to our audiences as possible is key. So we’ve created an Easy Read introduction and synopsis for our audiences to look at…
We’re coming to Nottingham and Leicester

Be Look Mum, No Hands! FIRST audience! Daryl Beeton Productions and us have been working on this show for over(!) two years due to the pandemic and we are so pleased to finally bring it out into the world. Tour Dates Easter 2022 Leicester Tickets: Library members £3, Non-library members £4Telephone or book in person…
Meet the cast of Look Mum, No Hands!

We are so pleased to announce the fantastic cast for Look Mum, No Hands!, our co-production with Daryl Beeton Productions touring the UK this summer.Read on to find out more about who they are! MEET THE CAST Laura Dajao Laura is a smiley bubbly 90s kid, influenced by RNB grooves, eclectic music styles, with a…
Slow Thinking session: tools and strategies to look after performers and creatives

Join Upswing Aerial and us as we co-host a conversation around tools and strategies to look after performers’ and creatives’ mental health in the rehearsal process. Make sure to put Tuesday 1st March 11am-1pm into your diary and register for your ticket on Eventbrite. Looking after performers’ and creatives’ mental health feels more important now…
We’ll be at Circus Rising!

It’s a three day festival of talks, workshops and ideas. You can catch Mimbre’s joint Artistic Director, Lina Johansson speak about acrobatics and movement on Monday 21st February.For the schedule, brimming with workshops, research and talks: https://circusworks.org/event/circus-rising/If you can’t make it to Bristol you can still take part, it’s an in-person and virtual programme of…
Touring Lifted last year

Silvia Fratelli, one of the Lifted performers and the joint Artistic Directors of Mimbre reflects on touring our outdoor production Lifted in 2021: “After a year of not being able to tour and perform in front of a live audience (with theexception of GDIF in September 2020), it was such a joy to be back…
Trans awareness training

Thank you to Gendered Intelligence for holding Mimbre’s Trans Awareness Training today! The facilitator and educator Rahil was fantastic, giving space for intricate discussion, while also moving us forward through all of the topics that needed to be covered to help us with our understanding, for example looking at language, trans rights and scenarios. They…
In-person youth classes, here comes the spring term!

Mimbre Youth: Street Dance & Acrobatics Classes Date: Tuesdays, 18 January – 29 March 2022 (there is no class on 15 February for half term week)Location: St Matthias Church Hall on Wandsworth Rd, N16 8DD (a 5-minute walk from our usual Milton Gardens Community Hall)Times and age recommendation:7 – 9 year olds: 4:15 pm –…
Looking back at 2021

Although 2021 has been another year of change, at Mimbre we’ve been fortunate to be busy with a variety of projects and we wanted to look back to say thank you to everyone we’ve performed to, worked with, been funded by and who have inspired us. Mimbre 2021 Highlights + Lifted Tour 2021. We were so…
Performer call-out for 2022 creation and tour

We are seeking two physical/dance/circus performers for our upcoming 2022 creation and tour of Look Mum, No Hands!, a co-production between Daryl Beeton Productions and Mimbre. We are seeking 1, A physical performer who is a wheelchair user and identifies as Disabled2, A partner-acrobat with strong movement skills (non-disabled or Disabled). We are looking for…