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Nottingham connected
The Carnival Queen Show - where and
when?
The EMCCAN Carnival Queen Show
takes place every year in one of the four
cities in the consortium: Nottingham,
Northampton, Derby and Leicester.
2013 Carnival Queen Show was held at
the Nottingham Playhouse on June 1 st
2013. The 2014 event will be held in
Northampton.
How is carnival linked to Africa, Europe and the Americas?
The three continents are linked through the routes taken
by the ships carrying enslaved Africans from Africa to the
Americas and Europe. Carnivals are often in Catholic
dominated countries. The carnival of Venice was for a
long time the most famous carnival in the world. Carnival
traditions spread to the Catholic nations of Spain, Portugal,
and France from Italy. They later spread to the Rhineland of
Germany, and to New France in North America and to the
colonial territories of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Where are the major carnivals around
the UK?
Nottingham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Derby,
Leicester, Birmingham, Ipswich, Reading,
Preston, Northampton, Luton, Tottenham
and Notting Hill, London, Ashburton,
Oxford and Cardiff.
Where are the major Carnivals around the world?
Trinidad and Tobago, New Orleans, Rio De Janeiro, Toronto,
Venice and Panaji in India.
When was the first carnival in the UK?
There is still scholarly debate about the date of the
very first Caribbean carnival in the UK. Many believe
what is now the Notting Hill, London Carnival was
organised in 1958-59 (held then at St Pancras Town
Hall) by Claudia Jones following the Notting Hill and
Nottingham race riots in 1958. Some believe that
Nottingham created the first Caribbean carnival in
1958 others suggest from the 1970’s. An accurate
date is yet to be verified.
How can one take part in the
carnival parade through the city of
Nottingham?
Contact a dance troupe and join their
practice dance workshops often starting
each year.
Who manages Nottingham Carnival?
Since 1999, the Nottingham Carnival
has been successfully operated by the
Nottingham Carnival Trust and Tuntum
Housing Association.
What food to try at the Carnival?
Jerk chicken, stew chicken, curry
mutton, rice and peas, dumplings (fried
or boiled), slush puppy from the ‘Ice
Man’, fried plantain, pattie, roast corn,
roast breadfruit, ackee and saltfish.
photos courtesy of TUNTUM