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Notting Hill Carnival 2023 spans the August bank holiday weekend from Saturday 26 to Monday 28 August and most of the celebrations are free for anyone to attend. Saturday 26 August
The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival that took shape in the mid-1960s had two separate but connected strands. A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 [7] in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the problematic state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks, the Notting Hill race riots in which 108 people were charged, [8] had occurred the previous year.
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In 2006, Henderson was appointed a member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Services to Music. [8]On Friday, 24 August 2012, just prior to the Notting Hill Carnival weekend, the Nubian Jak Community Trust organised the unveiling of two blue plaques in Notting Hill at the junction of Tavistock Road known as "Carnival Square", to honour the contributions to the development of ...
Carnival, as it is celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, has spread to many other Caribbean islands as well as several cities worldwide. These celebrations include Toronto's Caribana, Miami's Miami Carnival, Houston Carifest, London's Notting Hill Carnival, as well as New York City's Labor Day Carnival.
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The park is the traditional starting point for the Notting Hill Carnival. [2] [3] The Pleasance contains a notable walled garden in the Arts and Crafts style, designed for Horniman by C.F.A. Voysey and Madeline Agar. [1] [3] [4] Voysey's walls and shelters are Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England. [5] [4]
Notting Hill Carnival CEO Matthew Phillips told Reuters a few bands were not going to be able to participate this year. Nestled in a railway arch in Brixton, south London, a large studio hosts a ...