Sector Development

An Evaluation: looking back at our 2022 tour of Look Mum, No Hands!

Look back at the 2022 tour of our Daryl & Co co-production Look Mum, No Hands! with us! We’re sharing our evaluation of last year’s tour of Look Mum, No Hands!. We hope it will be helpful to share this information to be able to have open discussions about what we are doing as an…
Our approach to: Acrolab 2023 resources

We recently returned from a fantastic week at 101 Outdoor Arts: National Centre for Arts in Public Space where we hosted our Acrolab 2023! The Acrolab was a week-long residency with women and non-binary acrobatic performers, with the aim of developing the practice of acrobalance and group acrobatics in terms of access, inclusion and excellence. Here, we…
Our approach to: Menstruation

Welcome to this instalment of our blog posts about Mimbre’s approach to various subjects across outdoor arts, circus and running a company. We’re publishing our Executive Director Lissy Lovett’s summary of the presentation she made at the ITC Members Forum Dignity at Work Forum: Menstruation & Menopause. We’re sharing the resources that were discussed too…
Sports Psychology for Circus Artists, presented and facilitated by Jess Abouzeid

Mimbre is pleased to share a free online series of talks: Sports Psychology for Circus Artists, presented and facilitated by Jess Abouzeid, They will be held 21st, 22nd, 28th and 30th September 10-11.30 am on Zoom. Each session will start with a talk by Jess on a specific topic, such as motivation, dealing with change,…
Lina Johansson & Silvia Fratelli : Mimbre for Carry On Touring

This article was written by Mimbre joint Artistic Directors Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli for Carry On Touring and was published there on 8th August, 2021. The day of the Brexit result in 2016, coincided with the London premiere of Mimbre’s new show If I Could I Would. Myself and my joint Artistic Director, Silvia…
Our approach to: Working with high physicality outdoors

Working with high physicality outdoors: challenges and solutions by Lina Johansson, Mimbre acrobats. Since everyone is currently talking about outdoor theatre, we thought it worth sharing Lina Johansson’s talk at the recent online European Federation for Education and Training in Street Arts online conference in Slovenia more widely. Here Lina outlines some of the challenges…
Lina Johansson interviewed in CS LAB#5: Leadership in Times of Crisis

Leadership in Times of Crisis is Circostrada Network‘s & Xtrax‘s publication of their findings from their webinar in June 2020, CS Lab#5. In it, Mimbre’s Joint Artistic Director, Lina Johansson, is interviewed about Mimbre and its place in the sector: “Most of Mimbre’s shows are all women […] to balance the huge numbers of all-male…
The Freelance Task Force

Mimbre is very happy to add our signature to the below open letter (scroll down for alternative formats) along with more than 100 of our sister organisations in the arts sector. One of the commitments we’ve signed up to is paying a freelancer to be part of a Freelance Task Force. We are extremely happy…
Our Approach To: Touring with Children

Mimbre turned 21 recently, so in the coming months we thought we’d share a few thoughts about some of the things we’ve learned across the years. To begin, here’s our Joint Artistic Director Silvia Fratelli (mother of Dylan and Frida), writing about how Mimbre approaches touring with children: In this post I’ll be talking about…