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OUR FUTURE
The Notting Hill Carnival has evolved continuously since its early roots were established amongst the 1950s Trinidadian community. The trend is set to continue as we develop our season of events, and maintain and build upon the Carnival weekend's reputation as one of the world's largest, most audacious and professionally managed street parties.
Cultural, musical and artistic skills that have flourished for many years within our Carnival community are refined and diversified every year in workshops and competitions. In addition, Carnivalists are working with local groups and school children across the country to spread our traditions and skills to a wider audience, and preserve them for future generations.
Carnival season attracts a multicultural audience with its unique blend of creativity and revelry. As we grow our reach and artistry into the future, we are establishing links with a number of exciting events from across the world to create a global Carnival network. We'll also be providing sponsors with an unrivalled platform for their brands to be experienced by an audience of millions.
Even more significantly, we know that year after year, Carnival season will highlight the success of multicultural London and reinforce the capital's reputation for staging world-class events, particularly in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics.
We are proud to be developing our relationship with the 2012 team, a partnership that we believe will provide many new commercial and community opportunities. In fact, the 2008 Carnival season will see the installation of a giant screen near Ladbroke Grove that will be used to broadcast the Olympic handover events in Beijing and London, as well as showing live footage from across the whole carnival site.
The future of the Carnival is not only exciting, it is breathtakingly bright and ambitious.
Flying the flag for London 2012 at Carnival in the Royal Borough
Sunday 24 August 2008
12.00noon to 6.00pm
Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens, Bosworth Road, London W10
On Sunday 24 August, the world's attention will turn to London as the Mayor of Beijing hands the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London and our capital officially becomes the Host City.
To coincide with this moment at around 2.30pm, a specially commissioned London 2012 flag will be raised in The Mall in London, setting off a chain of flags being raised in towns and cities across the UK.
At the same time here in the Royal Borough, Cllr Merrick Cockell, Leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council and Allyson Williams, Interim Chair of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, will be part of our local celebration during Children’s Day at the Notting Hill Carnival. We are delighted to be one of only five boroughs in London to be hosting a giant screen – or live site - for this occasion in Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens on Bosworth Road, which will broadcast live the closing ceremony and handover celebration.
The Council in partnership with London Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, has also organised a moment to raise our own flag using the screen as backdrop. With master of ceremonies former British high jumper Dalton Grant, the sounds of steelband Nostalgia and the colour of Mahogany’s Mas costumes will accompany local UK Under 17s fencing champion, Kareem Cheriton in handing the flag onto the Carnival procession.
For further information, please contact the Royal Borough’s 2012 Coordinator Suzel Pitty - suzel.pitty@rbkc.gov.uk / 020 7341 5736
