Join Mimbre’s Board

01 Nov Join Mimbre’s Board

This position is from 2019 and now closed.

Mimbre would like to expand its Board and we’re looking for new Trustees from all walks of life who would like to join us. With Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation funding confirmed up until 2022, a tour of outdoor acrobatic show Lifted and a new indoor production When Words Are Not Enough (working title) both planned for 2020, and a thriving youth programme, now is a great time to join this female-led acrobatic theatre company. We’re particularly interested in new Trustees with experience in circus or outdoor performing, programming and youth work, but if you have other skills and experience that you’d like to contribute we’d love to hear from you.

About Mimbre

Mimbre create nuanced, breath taking and highly-skilled acrobatic theatre. We use circus and dance innovatively as a physical language to illuminate human connections and promote a positive image of women.

With an artistic voice that is physical and accessible, Mimbre build relationships with broad, non-traditional audiences and participants, creating unexpected moments in unusual spaces and reclaiming some beauty within the urban environment. Our performances and participation programme reach beyond social, financial and cultural boundaries and find fresh ways to engage, encourage and inspire people, showing that the impossible can be possible on a local, national and international level.

About the role

The Board meets four times a year in east or central London and in addition the trustees are asked to offer some specific advice, networking or help in their areas of expertise outside of these meetings. You will join our enthusiastic Board of experts within the fields of theatre, circus, dance, community work, marketing, governance and finance.

We’d love to hear from:

• performers who work in the outdoor sector or in circus
• programmers and those who have responsibility for curating programmes
• people who work in youth projects and with young people
• people whose voices are under-represented in the Arts

How to find out more and apply

To apply please send a CV and covering letter explaining how you could support Mimbre to Executive Director, Lissy Lovett, on info@mimbre.co.uk. If you’d like to discuss the role first, then feel free to contact Lissy either by email or on 020 7613 1068. The deadline is Monday 9^th December 2019 at 10:00am.

As part of the application process we’ll invite you to have coffee with one of our senior management team, and also to our next Board meeting as an observer.

Mimbre strongly believes in diversity and would like to encourage applications from people of colour, disabled applicants and other marginalised voices in particular. If there are any changes we need to make to the application or our working practices to make them accessible to you we’d be glad to do so, please let us know.