Carnaval 2010- World Carnival Dates, Schedules and Information

The Cape Town carnival will be held on 19th March, 2011 in Cape Town, situated in South Africa. The event is creatively inspired and brings together on one platform the diversity found in Cape Town. The communities are bound together by participation in the exciting carnival with music and dance as main features.

A rugby match will be held. One can enjoy the sparkling carnival parade. Here, one can see a huge number of singers, dancers as well as musicians wearing costumes. Also, there will be giant floats, fire dancers along with puppets, jugglers and also marching bands proceeding down the carnival route which is full of color, lights and also dancers who welcome people to the carnival. The whole atmosphere is filled with loud sound systems, DJs, drummers, dancers, performers and huge LED for live footage of the event. A competition between the performers will be organized. There will be stalls of crafts, food and drink as well as evening activities.

At night, the revelers will party. There will be a vibrant kind of street party continuing until midnight when people will be merry, eating and drinking. The carnival is an expression of a true South African form of music, dance as well as arts. It is an opportunity for the world to know the rich South African culture and history.

An important part of the Caribbean festival arts is the ancient tradition that involves the parade and movement through villages in circular manner wearing costumes and masks. It was believed that through circling the villages, there would be good fortune and healing of problems and the dead and angry relatives would be chilled. There was an African tradition of using natural objects like bones, shells, fabric as well as beads and shells for the creation of sculpture, mask and also costume. The objects used represented a particular idea and/or a spiritual force. The carnival traditions have borrowed this concept.

In Africa, feathers were used for making masks and headdresses. It was a symbol of human ability to rise above from negative situations like problems, pains, heartbreaks as well as illness and to enable to be in another world with a rebirth with spiritual growth. Today, feathers are used in the carnival costumes. The early American carnival celebrations were transformed by the African traditions of dance and music. Stilt dancers, drum rhythms, stick fighters as well as large puppets of Africa began to be a part of the carnival festivities.

The roots of carnival can be traced to places of Catholic European colonies; in Brazil, a Portuguese colony. There is the carnival of Mardi Gras of Louisiana, that of the Caribbean in Barbados, Grenada, Cuba, St. Marten, Jamaica, Dominica, Haiti and St, Thomas; it is held in central and south of America; in large cities of Canada and US; in Caribbean settlement such as Brooklyn, Miami and also Toronto; and in San Francisco.

It is going to be the 33rd Festival of the Anguilla this summer; you are welcomed to witness it from the 2nd of August to the 12th of August. Come and enjoy the boat racing festival at the carnival.

Anguilla Summer Festival is a distinctive Caribbean liberation celebration; it has been going on at the island for more than a quarter of a century. It’s rooted in the decades of old conventional Monday August Bazaars, fairs, and the older time Christmas celebrations, which features a number of African prejudiced enriching expressions of isle life. These actions were prearranged by the churches and May pole dancers, wirewalkers, and Mock-a-Jumbies among other things.

Salt Pickers festivities still radiate the same spirit and charm of those early periods of festivities. Festival as we know is an expression of a typical modern Caribbean Carnivals. Summer Festival Committee of Anguilla’s purpose is to revitalize the conventional art forms and amalgamate them with the contemporary future of cultural extravaganzas and mass playing.

Summer Festival of Anguilla events feature kiddies’ parade, musical spectaculars, grand parade of troupes, Miss Anguilla Pageant, J’ouvert, bathing suit competition, Princess and Prince Pageant Senior and Jr. calypso, International Reggae and Soca Night, Ms. Talented Teen as well as the Leeward Calypso Monarch competition. Come be a part of all this and carry memories to cherish all your lifetime.

Carnivals in view of the citizens are enjoyment. Not only enjoyment but sometimes Greatest free enjoyment on earth. Rio carnival and Mardi-Gras in New Orleans are considered as top most among them. Below are the dates of carnivals coming up in current month June and next month July. Decide to which carnivals you are interested, check for the available hotels there and flights. If you don’t care for expenses then no problem, otherwise make plan within your budget and keep some extra dollars for enjoyments and purchases.

Calgary, AB (Canada) – June 4-12, 2010

Hartford, CT – June 6, 2010

Philadelphia, PA – June 12, 2010

Tampa Bay, FL – June 12-13, 2010

West Palm Beach, FL – June 19, 2010

Washington DC – June 24-27, 2010

St. Vincent & The Grenadines – June 25-Jul 6 2010

St. John (V.I) – July, 2010

Houston, TX (Caribfest) – July 1-4, 2010

Montreal, Canada (Carifest) – July 3, 2010

Baltimore Carnival (Maryland) – July 9-11, 2010

St. Lucia – July 14-20, 2010

Jersey City, NJ – July 18, 2010

Vancouver, BC – July 24 & 25, 2010

Toronto (Caribana) – Jul 29-Aug 1, 2010

Rotterdam (Zomer Carnival) – July 31, 2010

Antigua – Jul 24-Aug 3, 2010

Barbados (Crop Over) – Jul 29-Aug 2, 2010