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- Like many carnivals in the Caribbean, Notting Hill Carnival was born from the seeds of revolution and rebellion. Specifically, it emerged as a powerful response against unprovoked racism and social injustice during the Notting Hill Race Riots.
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In 1966 the first outdoor festival took place in the streets of Notting Hill. A local resident and social worker Rhaune Laslett – a Londoner of Native American and Russian descent – organised an event for local children.
Sep 23, 2024 · Below is a list of political and cultural events that led to the development of the Notting Hill Carnival. Like many carnivals in the Caribbean, Notting Hill Carnival was born from the seeds of revolution and rebellion.
The development of Carnival in the Caribbean, particularly on the island of Trinidad, can be traced to the period of enslavement and the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras masquerade balls held by...
- August 1958: Notting Hill Race Riots
- Tensions Rise
- A Promising Start
- The Soundsystems Arrive
- Carnival Booms and Booms
- 1976-79: The Bad Bits
- Mangrove Steel Band Comes to Carnival
- The First Woman Dj Performs at Carnival
- More Than Just A Party
- Mahogany Carnival Arts Arrives
In the 1950s, Notting Hill was home to a large West Indian community following the arrival in London of the ship SS Empire Windrush in 1948. They travelled from the West Indies to the UK to fill post-war labour shortages. But the area was also a stronghold for Oswald Mosley’s far-right Union party, which included a large group of far-right, young w...
In an attempt to soothe ongoing tensions, Trinidadian-born activist Claudia Jones organised a Caribbean Carnival at St Pancras Town Hall in January 1959. The event had many of the elements that NHC has today: masqueraders, a steel band, calypso performers and dancers, plus the iconic Carnival Queen competition.But events in Notting Hill were about ...
Moving from a town hall to the streets, Carnival began to take shape in 1966. Community activists Rhaune Laslett and Andre Shervington organised a street ‘fayre’ for children in Notting Hill in that year and invited well-known Trinidadian musician Russell Henderson, who conducted an impromptu procession through the streets, led by the distinctive b...
Crates of records. Stacks of speakers. Bassy vibrations shaking the pavements. Sounds of reggae, ska, groove, samba, blues, calypso and hip hop are what fuel the energy of Carnival each year. First arriving at NHC in 1973, Carnival’s soundsystems were pioneered by early musicheads Duke Vin, Count Shelly and Count Suckle, whose legacies shape the 38...
The tenth Carnival in 1975 was a watershed for the event: attendance jumped from 100,000 to 250,000, and it featured on Time Out’s cover for the first time of many appearances. As more soundsystems arrived, along with more bands, costumes and thousands more people dancing in the streets, Carnival was crowned London’s biggest street party.
The authorities started to view the growing Carnival with suspicion. The Metropolitan Police arrived in 1976 with a large force of officers, which led to clashes between them and Carnival goers, leaving 60 attendees needing hospital treatment, while 66 people were arrested. In Time Out’s report of the 1979 event, we said that ‘the revellers were al...
As one of the oldest steel bands in the parade, Mangrove Mas Band always impress at the annual UK National Panorama competition, a musical jam taking place every year on Carnival Saturday. The tradition sees the band swell up to 75 members, who give up their summer to rehearse and perform an original ten-minute composition. At Panorama, bands can p...
Linett Kamala, AKA DJ Thunderbird, was the first woman to get behind the decks at NHC, aged just 15. Playing at the Disya Jeneration soundsystem at Powis Gardens, W11 – one of Carnival’s oldest soundsystems that she co-founded alongside Michael ‘Tempz’ and William ‘EQ Profile’ – Kamala had no idea that she was making history while spinning records ...
Carnival continued to be a form of resistance, as more people from outside the Caribbean community joined the event. ‘All oppressed people of the world are warriors,’ Mangrove Steel Band founder Arthur Phillip (Matthew Phillip’s father) told Time Out in 1986. At a time when the area of Notting Hill was experiencing 75 percent unemployment, and the ...
Carnival’s amazing sparkling costumes are what make the weekend so recognisable. Costume-maker Clary Salandy and structural engineer Michael Ramdeen formed Mahogany Carnival Arts, a tow-person costume powerhouse, making some of the tallest (and widest) costumes in the parade. Today, Mahogany employs 30 people who craft 150 intricate, sculptural cos...
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.
The event was a revelation, showcasing Caribbean culture through the mediums of music, dance, and cuisine, and it laid the foundational stone for the future Notting Hill Carnival. However, it wasn't until 1966 that the carnival took to the streets of Notting Hill, led by community activist Rhaune Laslett.
In 1958 both the Nottingham Race Riots and the Notting Hill riots took place, as violent fights broke out between white and black people. Amid this hostile atmosphere, Trinidadian human rights...
