St Pauls Carnival

St Pauls Carnival
GenreReggae, World music, Folk music, Hip hop, Poetry, Dub, Visual arts
DatesFirst Saturday of July
Location(s)St Pauls, Bristol, United Kingdom
Years activesince 1968
WebsiteSt Pauls Carnival
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St. Paul's Carnival is an annual Caribbean Carnival held, usually on the first Saturday of July, in St. Paul's, Bristol, England. The celebration began in 1968[1] as the St. Paul's Festival, in order to improve relationships between the European, African, Caribbean, and Asian inhabitants of the area.

Called the St. Paul's Carnival since 1991,[2] the event includes a masquerade procession with ornate and colourful costumes and floats from local schools and cultural associations, a stage for professional performers, sound systems in neighbouring streets and a range of stalls selling food from a wide range of cultures. In the preceding period, Mas camps create costumes for the parade and there is a week of cultural events in the days before carnival.[3]

  1. ^ "‘An Interview with Roy Hackett – St Pauls Carnival from 1968’", Bristol Archive Records, 10 April 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Nindi, Pax. "St Pauls Carnival 2008 - More than 40 years of Carnival in Bristol". www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 July 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.