Carnival articles
CALO Festival is an amalgamation of two major and popular annual events, promoting carnival arts – the Grand Carnival Costume Splash, organised by the Notting Hill Mas Band Association (NHMBA), and the Next Level PoisonUK Carnival Concert. The Grand Carnival Costume Splash element of CALO festival will feature elaborate performances by some of the UK’s […]
CALO Festival organised in collaboration with the Notting Hill Mas Band Association, Next Level PoisonUK and Carnival Village takes place from 19-21st August 2011 at Alexandra Palace. CALO is a newly created festival – ‘where the Caribbean meets London’ – that will take place at Alexandra Palace 19-21st August. The event will be a three […]
The Other Side Of Carnival Documentary The Other Side of Carnival is documentary that offers a brief history of Trinidad & Tobago’s Carnival in order to see how the event impacts the current social and economic conditions in the country. It is more than just a beautiful island… Filmmakers aim to make a point of […]
U.C.O.M. (United Colours Of Mas) launched on the 26th November 2011 to the Public and will be hitting the roads of Notting Hill for the First Time in 2012 – but make no mistake we are not new to the game Richard Gallimore and Paul O’Donoghue formerly of Bachanal Mas have been in the game […]
The hotly contested Panorama the UK’s national steel band competition has been the precursor to the Notting Hill carnival for the last 30 years. The Trinidad Panorama competition is the principle steelband competition in the world. In 1963, the Trinidad and Tobago government together with the National Association of Trinidad and Tobago Steelbandsmen (NATTS) launched […]