Creative challenge time! We invite you to join us and explore these times through our hashtag #acrobatstuckathome. Acrobats on the picture: (clockwise from top left): Rebecca Solomon, Rebecca Rennison, one of our brilliant Youth Programme participants Lev, Rebecka Nord, Karin Melin and Sophie Northmore While we realise...
From all of us at Mimbre, we hope you are keeping well! In these fast-changing times we thought we’d email with a quick update about what we’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, and our plans for the immediate future. In this unusual world...
At Mimbre, we’ve been busy putting together ideas for you to keep physically and creatively active during this time of the Coronavirus and in this post, we will try to collate activities that you can set the kids up to do on their own while...
We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus so we've been trying to compile some information and resources in one place. We will keep updating this as we see new opportunities or resources (adding new additions to the...
We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus. At Mimbre, we’ve been busy compiling and researching information, brainstorming ways you can be involved, what you can do, how we can keep vulnerable groups in mind…These resources are regularly...
Mimbre turned 21 recently, so in the coming months we thought we’d share a few thoughts about some of the things we’ve learned across the years. To begin, here’s our Joint Artistic Director Silvia Fratelli (mother of Dylan and Frida), writing about how Mimbre approaches...
Mimbre provide fun acrobatics and street dance classes to young people in Hackney, celebrating creativity, physicality and their community. This Holiday Season, we need your help to keep the programme available to everyone, regardless of income....
With Fierce Sisters heading to New Place in just a weeks time, we caught up with Arielle Lauzon, fresh off tour with The Exploded Circus, for a quick chat about her experiences playing one of Shakespeare's most fierce women. Q. What was your first experience of...
We hope you have had a lovely summer, and enjoyed the fantastic weather. Here at Mimbre, we have been keeping busy, touring The Exploded Circus around the country, as well as taking on some exciting new projects. New Term for Mimbre Youth Programme Mimbre’s acrobatics and street...
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...