Participation

  • Mimbre Youth Program Needs Your Help!

    Mimbre Youth Program Needs Your Help!

    We are running a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for our brilliant youth program! To donate, watch the video or spread the word click here! #handstand4hackney Supporting our campaign through the first 3 day, is crucial, as it would help get Indiegogo pick up the campaign and push it to new people! Mimbre Youth Program …

  • Face paint & Monsters: End of term community day at Milton Gardens

    Face paint & Monsters: End of term community day at Milton Gardens

    One of the things I love the most about my job is organising the community days. If you’ve never been to one of ours, you’re really missing out on a big dose of instant happiness. The focus this term was to let the children come up with their own routines, learn how to channel their…

  • What We Do Is What We Love

    If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we have been working hard making a show that will open for the amazing Circolombia on Thursday 16th April at the Roundhouse. “What we do is what we love” is created with young people from North and East London asking to forget about the materialistic obsessions…

  • Mimbre Circus Central this Saturday 20th September!

    We’re very excited to announce the schedule for our 2nd annual Mimbre Circus Central festival in Hackney Central.   The event is on the pedestrianised portion at the north end of Mare Street, very close to Hackney Central Station. The programme this year is so much fun. The festival will open with the lovely Mrs H…

  • National Youth Circus Event 2014

    Some of our young people recently took part in the National Youth Circus Event, which took place from February 21st – 23rd at Circus Space in London.  This event celebrates UK youth circus through workshops, masterclasses, professional performances, professional development for circus performers and teachers as well as the opportunity for youth circus groups to showcase…

  • Do you see Time?

    So we’ve got a very exciting project coming up with Hackney Live, where we’ll be exploring choreography and production design ideas for our new show Time, and we need your help! On Monday 10th February we’ll be going into the rehearsal room for our first week of development on Time, during that week we’ll be…

  • Mimbre Youth Classes This Spring

    SPRING PROGRAMME OF CLASSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2014 Below are details of the classes we are running this term. Due to funding cuts we have had to reduce our programme of classes for young people, we are working hard to get more classes up and running again and have exciting opportunities to get the programme extended…

  • Kids and Fruit?!

    Who said that kids don’t like fruit? An important part of our regular youth classes is the commitment to teach our young people not only acrobatic and street dance moves, but also to discuss healthy eating and living. Therefore we also offer them different kinds of fruit as a “healthy snack” during the class. See below…

  • Family Day at Milton Gardens

    Family Day at Milton Gardens

    Our young people are getting better and better at acrobatics and street dance and for last week we gave them the challenge to lead an open class! Everyone (including the 4 year-olds) prepared one move to teach, be it a warm-up move, stretch or dance move and the older kids also prepared little routines. They…

  • Mimbre Circus Central Video Online

    Finally we got this short video from our festival up and running again after some technical problems. For those of you who weren’t there – take a brief look at what you missed, for those of you who were there – a memory of the last summer day… Enjoy the autumn setting in and leaves…