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Goodbye Summer ☀️ Hello Autumn 🍂
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 dance classes for young people in Hackney returned…
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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…
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What does it mean to be human?
We continue our series with the second question. The young people were asked to think about what being human means to them (something a bit more broad and warm this time). The answers were truly heartwarming and show how observant young people are. The pictures read: Being creative, being tolerant, to be yourself have fun…
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Thrilled to announce continued support!
Mimbre is extremely pleased to remain a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England in today’s announcements and we look forward to maintaining our contribution to the excellence of the arts in England alongside ACE in the coming years. One of our founding beliefs is that everybody should have access to great art and we…
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH In East London
Women’s History Month Diary in East London Thank you to Alternative Arts for putting this together Please visit the website for full programme DAILY DIARY – March 1 Opening of Women’s History Month and Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) Festival exhibition preview, performances and party from 6pm. Rich Mix E1 6LA Multitudes AWAN exhibition to 18 March. Rich…
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Women’s History Month
In honour of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day on the 8th March, we will be posting a series of blogs featuring women that have made HERstory, stories from the remarkable women we work with and other pieces that commemorate and celebrate women. We hope that reading these stories will inspire you. If you…
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Performance opportunity with Mimbre!
Would you like to perform with Mimbre? Join the cast of Bench at the Kingston Festival to work on a participatory collaboration, Watching The World Go By. We will run workshops on Wednesday 2nd & Friday 4th July, to learn choreographies from the show. Workshop participants will then perform alongside the cast on Saturday afternoon…
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Bench at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival this weekend
Mimbre’s new performance Bench, coming to Greenwich and Docklands International Festival in London as part of Greenwich Fair this weekend the 21-22 June and Tuesday the 24th of June at Dancing City. Here Lina Johansson – joint Artistic Director for Mimbre, share a little window into the process of creating Bench. An annoying bug in our system…
