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  • Mimbre Circus Central – Winning Image of a Beautiful Day

    So following on from the amazing success of our first festival, Mimbre Circus Central,  you may remember that we were running a photo competition for the best image of the day…and the wondeful winning image is: What a lovely shot from Kirsten, that shows the day in all it’s have-fun-and-get-involved glory! Kirsten has won a Digital…

  • Mimbre Circus Central – the biggest hit on Narrow Way!

    As already mentioned before on this blog, we had such a great time organising and celebrating Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival on central Hackney’s Narrow Way in early September, and we are VERY proud of all the fantastic feedback we’ve since received! For example, Hackney Today writes: “The latest in in a programme of…

  • Mimbre Circus Central – what a day!

    It is done! Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival, took over the Narrow Way in Hackney last Saturday… and it was a great success! The weather held out and all of us had a really wonderful time (even though the day passed much to quickly!) – thanks so much to all of you…

  • Volunteers and Stewards Needed

    Hi to all our lovely followers and friends! As I hope you’ve seen on the blog/facebook etc over the last week we have an amazing event coming up. On the 7th September you are all invited to Mimbre Circus Central our Hackney take-over, with performances, workshops and activities for everyone!

  • Mimbre Circus Central

    We’re hosting Mimbre Circus Central, an amazing day of performance and workshops in Hackney in September, come and join us! 7th September 2013 – 12pm-5pm Taking advantage of the temporary pedestrianisation on the Narrow Way at the top of Mare Street (E8 1HY), Mimbre will be taking over the whole area for a day. With…

  • Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

    Unfortunately the weather wasn’t very kind to us last Saturday at the Dalston Children’s Festival. Due to heavy wind and rain the performance of “Falling Up” had to be stopped half-way through – the set nearly flew off and it would have been too dangerous for the performers to continue on the slippery ground. Sadly,…

  • Hackney WOW!

    Lina spent some time with the Hackney WOW cubs Kitty and Alma yesterday to teach them some tricks and talk to them about what we’ll be getting up to at the Dalston Children’s Festival on Saturday.

  • Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

    This Saturday, May 25th, the Dalston Children’s Festival will be launched, a new community-led festival that promotes fun and free things to do for children and young people, all over Dalston, all summer long (25th May – 31st Aug 2013). It is a celebration of the extraordinary creativity of Dalston’s community and the resourcefulness and…

  • Mimbre receives Compass Commission!

    Yesterday evening at Laurie Grove Studios in New Cross the Trinity Laban & Greenwich Dance Partnership announced the winners of their newly created Compass Commissions… and Mimbre was awarded one of the three commissions (from a total of 137 competing entries!) to develop a new production with the working title Bench. 

  • Mimbre’s tour dates 2013

    Falling Up and Until Now are ready for the summer tour now – two proven and successful shows that are looking even better after re-rehearsals, with some new material and choreographies developed this year. Both productions use Mimbre’s trademark mix of acrobatics, dance and humour to create strong imagery, visual poetry and emotional content.