Carnaval de Notting Hill 2020

HISTORIQUE

The first Notting Hill Carnival took place in 1959 in St. Pancras Town Hall as a response to the situation of race relations in the country at the time. The Notting Hill Race Riots were an example of the tension, lasting for a week during August and September 1959. This first Carnival was organised by Claudia Jones (who is widely recognised as being the ‘Mother of Carnival’), a Trinidadian journalist and political activist, as a response to this. This first Carnival was considered a huge success, despite being held indoors. A few years later in 1966 the first outdoors event was organised, inspired by the London Free School and the hippie movement. The aim of this event was to promote cultural unity, and was spearheaded by Rhaune Laslett, a community activist. What started as a street party for local children turned into a carnival procession when Russell Henderson’s steel pan band went on a walkabout around local streets.

Nous proposons à nos participants les plus enthousiastes et les plus déterminés, de rejoindre la troupe à pieds improvisée (et internationale) du “JOUVAY ROAD SHOW “ pour parader dans les rues de londres dès les premières lueures du soliel (6h00), accompagnés d'un char de steelband et de percussionnistes, dans la plus grande allégresse et le relâchement le plus total : Album photo

Pour l'occasion, vous pouvez amenez de quoi vous maquiller et(ou) vous déguiser selon le thème qui vous plaira. Sinon, pour éviter que les projections des autres participants (peinture, farine, boue d'argile...) ne salissent voos vêtement et vos cheveux, portez des vêtements que vous ne comptez pas gardez, ou  prévoyez une combinaison jetable. Le départ de la procession est à 6h00, en face du supermarché Saintbury's, desservi par les stations de métro Kensal Green et Ladbroke Grove.

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This was the first time that steelband music was played on any streets in England and it united the minority population, who felt alienated from community celebration. It laid the foundations for the Notting Hill Carnival procession that we see today, which starts at Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance and winds its way through the streets of Notting Hill on floats decked out with steel pan bands, followed by costumed dancers.