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Notting Hill Carnival
GenreCarnival
FrequencyAnnually – August Bank Holiday weekend
Location(s)Ladbroke Grove, London, England
Years active1965–present
FoundersClaudia Jones, Rhaune Laslett, Leslie Palmer
Most recent26 August 2023 (2023-08-26) – 28 August 2023 (2023-08-28)
Attendance2 million attendees, 40,000 volunteers and 9,000 police[1]
Websitehttps://nhcarnival.org/

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 three 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]

  1. ^ "50 things you didn't know about Notting Hill Carnival", Time Out, 13 July 2016.
  2. ^ "About us" Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Notting Hill Carnival '13, London Notting Hill Enterprises Trust.
  3. ^ BBC – 1Xtra – Black History: "What happened in 1965". Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  4. ^ Shiv Malik, "Notting Hill carnival gets off to a peaceful start", The Guardian, 28 August 2011.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference culture was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "New icons of Englishness unveiled". BBC News. No. 27 April 2006. 10 June 2015.

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