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Notting Hill Carnival
| Notting Hill Carnival | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Carnival goers on the main drag, Carnival 2012 | |
| Genre | Carnival |
| Frequency | Annually – August Bank Holiday weekend |
| Location(s) | Ladbroke Grove, London, England |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Founders | Claudia Jones, Rhaune Laslett, Leslie Palmer, Duke Vin |
| Most recent | 24 August 2024 – 26 August 2024 |
| Attendance | 2 million attendees, 40,000 volunteers and 9,000 police[1] |
| Website | nhcarnival |
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean Carnival event that has taken place in London since 1966[2] on the streets of the Notting Hill area of Kensington, over the August Bank Holiday weekend.[3]
It is led by members of the British Caribbean community, and attracts around two million people annually, making it one of the world's largest street festivals, and a significant event in British African Caribbean and British Indo-Caribbean culture.[4][5] In 2006, the UK public voted it onto a list of icons of England.[6]
- ^ "50 things you didn't know about Notting Hill Carnival", Time Out, 13 July 2016.
- ^ "About us" Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Notting Hill Carnival '13, London Notting Hill Enterprises Trust.
- ^ BBC – 1Xtra – Black History: "What happened in 1965". Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ Shiv Malik, "Notting Hill carnival gets off to a peaceful start", The Guardian, 28 August 2011.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
culturewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "New icons of Englishness unveiled". BBC News. No. 27 April 2006. 10 June 2015.
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