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The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that since 1966 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK each August, over three days (the August bank holiday Monday and the two days beforehand). It is led by members of the West Indian community. The carnival attracted around one million people in the past years, making it one of the largest street festivals in the world. Participant in the Notting Hill Carnival Parade Approximately 1 million people attend the Notting Hill Carnival each year Performers at the Notting Hill carnival in west London
History The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival come from two separate but connected strands. The Carnival began in January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks (the Notting Hill race riots) had occurred the previous year. This carnival organized by Claudia Jones (a "Trini"), who is widely recognized as "the Mother of the Notting Hill Carnival", was a huge success, despite being held indoors. The other important strand was the "hippie" London Free School-inspired festival that became the first organized outside event in August 1966. The prime mover was Rhaune Laslett, who was not aware of the indoor events when she first raised the idea. This was a more diverse Notting Hill event to promote cultural unity. A street party for neighborhood children turned into a carnival procession when Russell Henderson's steel band (who had played at the earlier Claudia Jones events) went on a walkabout.
As the carnival had no permanent staff and head office, the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, run by another Trinidadian, Frank Crichlow, came to function as an informal communication hub and office address for the carnival's organisers. By 1976, the event had become definitely Caribbean in flavour, with around 150, 000 people attending. However, in that year and several subsequent years, the carnival was marred by riots, in which predominantly Caribbean youths fought with police — a target due to the continuous harassment the population felt they were under. During this period, there was considerable coverage of the disorder in the press, which some felt took an unfairly negative and one-sided view of the carnival. For a while it looked as if the event would be banned. Prince Charles was one of the few establishment figures who supported the event.
The carnival's traditional starting point has been Emslie Horniman's Pleasance in nearby Ladbroke Grove Resident participation at Carnival
Notting Hill as many designated graffiti areas displays many great pieces.
This carnival doesn‘t dispense with children. Children also take part in this great Caribbean Festival
Notting Hill carnival is still considered the largest street festival in Europe. For two days on the streets of West London the music reggae is played, and on the corner Caribbean food is sold. Carnival traditionally begins with a procession of children, which is attended by hundreds of descendants of migrants who arrived in Britain nearly 70 years ago, after the end of World War II.
References: • http: //www. thewestway. co. uk/carnival. html • «London. Biography of the city» K. Hibbert • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Notting_Hill_Carn ival Pictures: • • http: //j-times. ru/rejting/luchshie-karnavaly-mira. html http: //abunda. ru/29077 -karnaval-v-notting-xill-notting-hill-carnival-26. html http: //relaxic. net/the-notting-hill-carnival/ http: //cetki. com/2010/09/02/v_londone_proshel_karnaval_notting_hill_carnival. ht ml • http: //europe-today. ru/2011/08/karibskij-karnaval-v-londone-notting-hill-carnival/ • http: //www. yousmi. by/articles/4262/default • http: //www. guardian. co. uk/media/london-evening-standard
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