Young People’s Activities

Hackney Flipped

A creative summer project (at safe distances) Mimbre’s young participants, Marnie and Raya, with input from other Mimbre Youths, are very excited to have secured funding for a series of online creative workshops across the summer. The funding from Young Hackney gives participants a chance to learn a variety of different skills and to create their own choreographies. There…
Mimbre Youth Classes Going Online

Making our summer term available to all withOnline acrobatics and street dance classes! We hope you are all doing OK in these testing times! We wanted to send a quick update with information about classes and activities for those of you with young people at home, or to forward to friends or families who have children climbing the walls! …
Mimbre Youth Programme – End of Spring Term

We are going online: Mimbre’s Acrobatics and Street Dance Classes. Dear Parents and Guardians, We are trying to shape plans for how we can support your young people with physical and creative activity on a remote basis over the next few weeks. So, we wanted to ask a few quick questions to see how we…
Help support Mimbre’s Youth Programme

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.
New Term for Youth Programme

Street Dance & Acrobatics Classes Mimbre offers classes for young people in Hackney to learn acrobatics and street dance in a safe, fun and supportive environment with professional artists. Tuesdays Milton Gardens Community Centre Shakspeare Walk, Stoke Newington, London N16 8TL The Spring term will resume from 15th January – 2nd April (with a break on…
Mimbre’s Youth Programme is back!

Street Dance & Acrobatics Classes Mimbre offers classes for young people in Hackney to learn acrobatics and street dance in a safe, fun and supportive environment with professional artists. Tuesdays Milton Gardens Community Centre Shakspeare Walk, Stoke Newington, London N16 8TL The Autumn term will resume from 18th September – 4th December (with a break…
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…
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…
What would you rebuild?

In the past few months we’ve asked the young people taking part in our workshops a series of questions. We were really curious to find out their answers as they related to our show’s themes. They were so inspiring that we’ve been using some of the answers as inspiration points as we work on our…
Youth Programme End of Term Celebration

On 24th March amidst bunting and balloons, a team of avid circus fans were preparing to dazzle friends and family with the skills they had been learning on Mimbre’s Youth Programme. As the buzz was building, scarves were being tied, costumes adjusted and face paint and glitter applied. The doors of Milton Gardens Community Hall…