[youtube]EMINRDkb85A[/youtube] Europe’s biggest street festivalThe Notting Hill Carnival festooned London streets with its Bank Holiday Children’s Sunday of Caribbean colour, music, dance, and food.
The festival, which has been going since 1966, is the largest street festival in Europe. Held on August Bank Holiday, Sunday is child-friendly with parade troupes of children in magnificent, themed costumes of extravagant plants, animals, and outrageous designs, while Monday becomes more raucous with the adult troupes.
There is an emphasis on Caribbean culture with 40 static sound systems and marching, dancing bands, steel drums, and tropical food stalls.
With the parade for the 2012 London Olympics to aspire to, this year special auditors are assessing the merits of various groups to bring the standard of the whole up to the prize-winning wonder of the most spectacular troupes.
“This year is the beginning of the run-up to 2012,” says Notting Hill Carnival Ltd director Chris Boothman, according to the BBC. “My vision for 2012 is to make it really spectacular.”
The festival has a reputation around Europe for vibrancy and exceptional colour—striking, over-the-top costumes and group movement are revealed after months of cutting, fitting, welding, bending, sawing, sticking, planning, rehearsing, co-ordinating, syncopating, and bursting out at the seams.
The festival, which has been going since 1966, is the largest street festival in Europe. Held on August Bank Holiday, Sunday is child-friendly with parade troupes of children in magnificent, themed costumes of extravagant plants, animals, and outrageous designs, while Monday becomes more raucous with the adult troupes.
There is an emphasis on Caribbean culture with 40 static sound systems and marching, dancing bands, steel drums, and tropical food stalls.
With the parade for the 2012 London Olympics to aspire to, this year special auditors are assessing the merits of various groups to bring the standard of the whole up to the prize-winning wonder of the most spectacular troupes.
“This year is the beginning of the run-up to 2012,” says Notting Hill Carnival Ltd director Chris Boothman, according to the BBC. “My vision for 2012 is to make it really spectacular.”
The festival has a reputation around Europe for vibrancy and exceptional colour—striking, over-the-top costumes and group movement are revealed after months of cutting, fitting, welding, bending, sawing, sticking, planning, rehearsing, co-ordinating, syncopating, and bursting out at the seams.
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