Mafwa Theatre
@mafwatheatre.bsky.social
🧡Leeds based community theatre company bringing refugees, asylum seekers & settled communities together ✨ https://t.co/Qz91RTyG8F
✨Little gifts with a big impact ✨
Every item in our shop holds a story & every purchase helps us continue to offer free creative sessions, travel support, childcare to over 200 participants each year.
🎁If you’re choosing thoughtful gifts this season, our shop is open buff.ly/LYa9IQr
Every item in our shop holds a story & every purchase helps us continue to offer free creative sessions, travel support, childcare to over 200 participants each year.
🎁If you’re choosing thoughtful gifts this season, our shop is open buff.ly/LYa9IQr
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
✨Little gifts with a big impact ✨
Every item in our shop holds a story & every purchase helps us continue to offer free creative sessions, travel support, childcare to over 200 participants each year.
🎁If you’re choosing thoughtful gifts this season, our shop is open buff.ly/LYa9IQr
Every item in our shop holds a story & every purchase helps us continue to offer free creative sessions, travel support, childcare to over 200 participants each year.
🎁If you’re choosing thoughtful gifts this season, our shop is open buff.ly/LYa9IQr
We’re so proud that Lincoln Greeners won Environmental Achievement of the Year at the Leeds Compassionate City Awards!🦉🧡
From a small weekly gardening group to a thriving community growing food, sharing skills and transforming the neighbourhood - this award belongs to everyone who’s been part of it.
From a small weekly gardening group to a thriving community growing food, sharing skills and transforming the neighbourhood - this award belongs to everyone who’s been part of it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We’re so proud that Lincoln Greeners won Environmental Achievement of the Year at the Leeds Compassionate City Awards!🦉🧡
From a small weekly gardening group to a thriving community growing food, sharing skills and transforming the neighbourhood - this award belongs to everyone who’s been part of it.
From a small weekly gardening group to a thriving community growing food, sharing skills and transforming the neighbourhood - this award belongs to everyone who’s been part of it.
🍂 We’ve spent the last month running Art Club with Space2 - free creative mornings using leaves and natural materials. Everyone’s been experimenting in their own way, and it’s been such a lovely mix of play, colour and seasonal creativity!
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November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🍂 We’ve spent the last month running Art Club with Space2 - free creative mornings using leaves and natural materials. Everyone’s been experimenting in their own way, and it’s been such a lovely mix of play, colour and seasonal creativity!
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/current-proj...
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/current-proj...
🌿 Filming at the Roxby Community Garden!
The Nature Neighbourhoods team joined us in the Roxby Community Garden the other week to film a short piece celebrating the end of the project and highlighting Mafwa’s involvement. 🎥
Keep your eyes peeled for the finished video!
The Nature Neighbourhoods team joined us in the Roxby Community Garden the other week to film a short piece celebrating the end of the project and highlighting Mafwa’s involvement. 🎥
Keep your eyes peeled for the finished video!
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🌿 Filming at the Roxby Community Garden!
The Nature Neighbourhoods team joined us in the Roxby Community Garden the other week to film a short piece celebrating the end of the project and highlighting Mafwa’s involvement. 🎥
Keep your eyes peeled for the finished video!
The Nature Neighbourhoods team joined us in the Roxby Community Garden the other week to film a short piece celebrating the end of the project and highlighting Mafwa’s involvement. 🎥
Keep your eyes peeled for the finished video!
Late last month we visited Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, exploring their orchards & vegetable beds & learning about their growing practices 🍎. It’s always inspiring to see how urban farms are able to thrive!
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Late last month we visited Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, exploring their orchards & vegetable beds & learning about their growing practices 🍎. It’s always inspiring to see how urban farms are able to thrive!
The Lincoln Greeners were savouring the best of both seasons earlier this month. We enjoyed the late summer sun whilst preparing for the months ahead, picking vine leaves & harvesting pumpkins. 🍁
Shoutout to Asnie, who brought her sash along to celebrate being a Miss Global England finalist! 👑
Shoutout to Asnie, who brought her sash along to celebrate being a Miss Global England finalist! 👑
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Lincoln Greeners were savouring the best of both seasons earlier this month. We enjoyed the late summer sun whilst preparing for the months ahead, picking vine leaves & harvesting pumpkins. 🍁
Shoutout to Asnie, who brought her sash along to celebrate being a Miss Global England finalist! 👑
Shoutout to Asnie, who brought her sash along to celebrate being a Miss Global England finalist! 👑
🍁 New this autumn: Art Club 🎨
Free weekly creative mornings in Roxby Community Garden with Mafwa Theatre & Space2. Explore playful, nature-inspired art like cyanotypes, leaf prints & more.
Spaces are limited so sign up today!
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/sign-up
Free weekly creative mornings in Roxby Community Garden with Mafwa Theatre & Space2. Explore playful, nature-inspired art like cyanotypes, leaf prints & more.
Spaces are limited so sign up today!
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/sign-up
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🍁 New this autumn: Art Club 🎨
Free weekly creative mornings in Roxby Community Garden with Mafwa Theatre & Space2. Explore playful, nature-inspired art like cyanotypes, leaf prints & more.
Spaces are limited so sign up today!
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/sign-up
Free weekly creative mornings in Roxby Community Garden with Mafwa Theatre & Space2. Explore playful, nature-inspired art like cyanotypes, leaf prints & more.
Spaces are limited so sign up today!
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/sign-up
☀️It’s been a summer full of good weather & good growth & the Lincoln Greeners have been busy soaking it up. We’ve welcomed new faces, shared meals, enjoyed harvests & made the most of the season. Now we’re looking forward to settling into the rhythm of planting, pruning & gathering as autumn beckons
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
☀️It’s been a summer full of good weather & good growth & the Lincoln Greeners have been busy soaking it up. We’ve welcomed new faces, shared meals, enjoyed harvests & made the most of the season. Now we’re looking forward to settling into the rhythm of planting, pruning & gathering as autumn beckons
Huge thanks to our superstar playworkers & volunteers who kept everyone safe and happy.
To the parents who cooked and shared food with us🥘 - you made the garden feel like family!
It was wonderful to see neighbours connecting with each other while their kids got creative.
To the parents who cooked and shared food with us🥘 - you made the garden feel like family!
It was wonderful to see neighbours connecting with each other while their kids got creative.
August 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Huge thanks to our superstar playworkers & volunteers who kept everyone safe and happy.
To the parents who cooked and shared food with us🥘 - you made the garden feel like family!
It was wonderful to see neighbours connecting with each other while their kids got creative.
To the parents who cooked and shared food with us🥘 - you made the garden feel like family!
It was wonderful to see neighbours connecting with each other while their kids got creative.
The garden was buzzing with energy & big imaginations. We built dens, played basketball, experimented with monoprinting, decorated pots & pebbles, made clay insects & decorative wreaths, got messy in the mud kitchen & sandpit & painted self-portraits that made the garden brighter than ever!
August 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The garden was buzzing with energy & big imaginations. We built dens, played basketball, experimented with monoprinting, decorated pots & pebbles, made clay insects & decorative wreaths, got messy in the mud kitchen & sandpit & painted self-portraits that made the garden brighter than ever!
🌱✨What a summer it’s been with Garden Gremlins! Over the past month, several hundred children & parents joined us in Roxby Community Garden, filling the space with colour, laughter & creative chaos.
August 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🌱✨What a summer it’s been with Garden Gremlins! Over the past month, several hundred children & parents joined us in Roxby Community Garden, filling the space with colour, laughter & creative chaos.
Huge thanks to Temple Newsham for the warm welcome and brilliant tour! Lots of our group said they found it really inspiring and will be returning with their families.
July 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Huge thanks to Temple Newsham for the warm welcome and brilliant tour! Lots of our group said they found it really inspiring and will be returning with their families.
☀️Such a lovely day out on Thursday with some of our Kuluhenna Drama & Lincoln Greeners crew! We took a trip to Temple Newsam and explored the house, learnt about its history and amazing art collection, then wandered over to the farm to see the piglets 🐷 and spring lambs 🐑
July 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
☀️Such a lovely day out on Thursday with some of our Kuluhenna Drama & Lincoln Greeners crew! We took a trip to Temple Newsam and explored the house, learnt about its history and amazing art collection, then wandered over to the farm to see the piglets 🐷 and spring lambs 🐑
🌞 Just in time for summer – our brand new enamel pin is here!
Inspired by the Roxby Community Garden, it’s a pocket-sized celebration of everything we’ve grown together.
Prices start at £2.50 - or get one for free when you spend £10+ 💛
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/shop/p/mafwa...
Inspired by the Roxby Community Garden, it’s a pocket-sized celebration of everything we’ve grown together.
Prices start at £2.50 - or get one for free when you spend £10+ 💛
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/shop/p/mafwa...
July 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🌞 Just in time for summer – our brand new enamel pin is here!
Inspired by the Roxby Community Garden, it’s a pocket-sized celebration of everything we’ve grown together.
Prices start at £2.50 - or get one for free when you spend £10+ 💛
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/shop/p/mafwa...
Inspired by the Roxby Community Garden, it’s a pocket-sized celebration of everything we’ve grown together.
Prices start at £2.50 - or get one for free when you spend £10+ 💛
www.mafwatheatre.co.uk/shop/p/mafwa...
Their session drew on our work as part of Nature Neighbourhoods, a national programme supporting communities to lead nature recovery where they live.
They shared learning from Lincoln Green & invited reflection on how green spaces can feel welcoming, useful & shaped by the people who use them 🌿
They shared learning from Lincoln Green & invited reflection on how green spaces can feel welcoming, useful & shaped by the people who use them 🌿
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Their session drew on our work as part of Nature Neighbourhoods, a national programme supporting communities to lead nature recovery where they live.
They shared learning from Lincoln Green & invited reflection on how green spaces can feel welcoming, useful & shaped by the people who use them 🌿
They shared learning from Lincoln Green & invited reflection on how green spaces can feel welcoming, useful & shaped by the people who use them 🌿
🌱Last month, Bei & Danmore took a trip to the beautiful Meanwood Valley Urban Farm to lead a workshop for the Nature Recovery & Connections Conference, part of the @climateactionleeds.bsky.social Festival.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🌱Last month, Bei & Danmore took a trip to the beautiful Meanwood Valley Urban Farm to lead a workshop for the Nature Recovery & Connections Conference, part of the @climateactionleeds.bsky.social Festival.
✨ Still feeling the love from Refugee Week 2025 ✨
Family Flourish Day was full of joy, music, dancing & play.
Catch up on the week with photos, a brilliant Chapel FM radio piece & ways to support our work:
tinyurl.com/3yyw3cjk
Family Flourish Day was full of joy, music, dancing & play.
Catch up on the week with photos, a brilliant Chapel FM radio piece & ways to support our work:
tinyurl.com/3yyw3cjk
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
✨ Still feeling the love from Refugee Week 2025 ✨
Family Flourish Day was full of joy, music, dancing & play.
Catch up on the week with photos, a brilliant Chapel FM radio piece & ways to support our work:
tinyurl.com/3yyw3cjk
Family Flourish Day was full of joy, music, dancing & play.
Catch up on the week with photos, a brilliant Chapel FM radio piece & ways to support our work:
tinyurl.com/3yyw3cjk
🌿🖍️ Garden Gremlins is back!
Join our free family art club - a space to build, play & explore together in the Roxby Community Garden.
🎨Each week, we’ll use natural materials to explore colour, shape & imagination. No need to book, just drop in & enjoy some creative time outdoors!
🌞Open to all ages
Join our free family art club - a space to build, play & explore together in the Roxby Community Garden.
🎨Each week, we’ll use natural materials to explore colour, shape & imagination. No need to book, just drop in & enjoy some creative time outdoors!
🌞Open to all ages
June 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🌿🖍️ Garden Gremlins is back!
Join our free family art club - a space to build, play & explore together in the Roxby Community Garden.
🎨Each week, we’ll use natural materials to explore colour, shape & imagination. No need to book, just drop in & enjoy some creative time outdoors!
🌞Open to all ages
Join our free family art club - a space to build, play & explore together in the Roxby Community Garden.
🎨Each week, we’ll use natural materials to explore colour, shape & imagination. No need to book, just drop in & enjoy some creative time outdoors!
🌞Open to all ages
Playbox is open & day one was a blast!
Over 80 kids joined us for bubbles, water play & creative fun in the sun 🫧☀️ Families even brought picnic blankets & stayed to eat dinner by the box! A joyful start to #RefugeeWeek 🧡
Find us by Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers: Wed–Fri 2–5pm | Sat 11–4 | Sun 1–6
Over 80 kids joined us for bubbles, water play & creative fun in the sun 🫧☀️ Families even brought picnic blankets & stayed to eat dinner by the box! A joyful start to #RefugeeWeek 🧡
Find us by Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers: Wed–Fri 2–5pm | Sat 11–4 | Sun 1–6
June 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Playbox is open & day one was a blast!
Over 80 kids joined us for bubbles, water play & creative fun in the sun 🫧☀️ Families even brought picnic blankets & stayed to eat dinner by the box! A joyful start to #RefugeeWeek 🧡
Find us by Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers: Wed–Fri 2–5pm | Sat 11–4 | Sun 1–6
Over 80 kids joined us for bubbles, water play & creative fun in the sun 🫧☀️ Families even brought picnic blankets & stayed to eat dinner by the box! A joyful start to #RefugeeWeek 🧡
Find us by Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers: Wed–Fri 2–5pm | Sat 11–4 | Sun 1–6
Alongside performances & workshops, the garden will be full of activities & stalls to explore this Sunday..
🌼Get creative with Space2’s natural craft activities
🌿Visit the Lincoln Greeners stall for fresh produce & teabag making
🎓Chat to the Lifelong Learning Centre about learning opps & resources
🌼Get creative with Space2’s natural craft activities
🌿Visit the Lincoln Greeners stall for fresh produce & teabag making
🎓Chat to the Lifelong Learning Centre about learning opps & resources
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Alongside performances & workshops, the garden will be full of activities & stalls to explore this Sunday..
🌼Get creative with Space2’s natural craft activities
🌿Visit the Lincoln Greeners stall for fresh produce & teabag making
🎓Chat to the Lifelong Learning Centre about learning opps & resources
🌼Get creative with Space2’s natural craft activities
🌿Visit the Lincoln Greeners stall for fresh produce & teabag making
🎓Chat to the Lifelong Learning Centre about learning opps & resources
🇨🇳 Inside the Breath with Cookie Wang
Artist, educator & Chinese dance specialist Cookie Wang leads a gentle, expressive workshop rooted in traditional movement and breathwork.
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us this Sunday, 4–8pm in the Roxby Community Garden.
Artist, educator & Chinese dance specialist Cookie Wang leads a gentle, expressive workshop rooted in traditional movement and breathwork.
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us this Sunday, 4–8pm in the Roxby Community Garden.
June 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🇨🇳 Inside the Breath with Cookie Wang
Artist, educator & Chinese dance specialist Cookie Wang leads a gentle, expressive workshop rooted in traditional movement and breathwork.
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us this Sunday, 4–8pm in the Roxby Community Garden.
Artist, educator & Chinese dance specialist Cookie Wang leads a gentle, expressive workshop rooted in traditional movement and breathwork.
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us this Sunday, 4–8pm in the Roxby Community Garden.
This year’s Family Flourish Day invites you to move, breathe & connect through 2 dance workshops offering a unique window into culture, tradition & connection💃
🇿🇼 Mambokadzi Dance Workshop: Led by Zimbabwean choreographer Enisia Mashusha, this workshop fuses African rhythms, storytelling & movement.
🇿🇼 Mambokadzi Dance Workshop: Led by Zimbabwean choreographer Enisia Mashusha, this workshop fuses African rhythms, storytelling & movement.
June 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This year’s Family Flourish Day invites you to move, breathe & connect through 2 dance workshops offering a unique window into culture, tradition & connection💃
🇿🇼 Mambokadzi Dance Workshop: Led by Zimbabwean choreographer Enisia Mashusha, this workshop fuses African rhythms, storytelling & movement.
🇿🇼 Mambokadzi Dance Workshop: Led by Zimbabwean choreographer Enisia Mashusha, this workshop fuses African rhythms, storytelling & movement.
Getting ready for the first Playbox session in LS9 today! Water play, & creative games incoming 💦☀️
Find us next to Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers
📍The Playbox is open all week:
Tues–Fri: 2–5pm, Sat: 11–4pm,
Sun: 1–6pm
Find us next to Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers
📍The Playbox is open all week:
Tues–Fri: 2–5pm, Sat: 11–4pm,
Sun: 1–6pm
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Getting ready for the first Playbox session in LS9 today! Water play, & creative games incoming 💦☀️
Find us next to Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers
📍The Playbox is open all week:
Tues–Fri: 2–5pm, Sat: 11–4pm,
Sun: 1–6pm
Find us next to Granville Rd/Ferriby Towers
📍The Playbox is open all week:
Tues–Fri: 2–5pm, Sat: 11–4pm,
Sun: 1–6pm
“Our people are not voiceless. They’re just waiting to be heard” - listening to Sabah Achide of MEMEC at Leeds International African Arts Festival’s ‘North African Narratives’ this morning
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Our people are not voiceless. They’re just waiting to be heard” - listening to Sabah Achide of MEMEC at Leeds International African Arts Festival’s ‘North African Narratives’ this morning
Playbox01 has touched down in LS9! Join us & Playful Anywhere for free family fun this Refugee Week 🎉
Playbox is a big shipping container choc-full of creative games, crafts, & space to build, explore & unwind. Whether you’re 2 or 92 - play is for everyone
Playbox is a big shipping container choc-full of creative games, crafts, & space to build, explore & unwind. Whether you’re 2 or 92 - play is for everyone
June 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Playbox01 has touched down in LS9! Join us & Playful Anywhere for free family fun this Refugee Week 🎉
Playbox is a big shipping container choc-full of creative games, crafts, & space to build, explore & unwind. Whether you’re 2 or 92 - play is for everyone
Playbox is a big shipping container choc-full of creative games, crafts, & space to build, explore & unwind. Whether you’re 2 or 92 - play is for everyone