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Notting Hill Carnival
Annual street festival in London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Genre | Carnival |
Frequency | Annually – August Bank Holiday weekend |
Location(s) | Ladbroke Grove, London, England |
Years active | 1965–present |
Founders | Claudia Jones, Rhaune Laslett, Leslie Palmer, Duke Vin |
Most recent | 26 August 2023 (2023-08-26) – 28 August 2023 (2023-08-28) |
Attendance | 2 million attendees, 40,000 volunteers and 9,000 police[1] |
Website | https://nhcarnival.org/ |
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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]