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Carnival Music

Music making is for everyone

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  • Hundreds of people were engaged through one-on-one and group conversations, reaching communities across Waltham Forest. This included artists, arts organisations, schools, youth groups, community and faith groups. We reawakened conversations with some of the borough’s Caribbean Carnival pioneers and opened new dialogues with Carnival enthusiasts from diverse cultures.

  • Local Community Artists, Ricardo Boukie, Jenny McKenzie, Delroy Murray, Anna van der Poorten and Frank Sweeney led 300 hours of Carnival Arts workshops, engaging 1,600 participants. At the Carnival Fête, they delivered nonstop activities for children and families throughout the afternoon. From May to July, weekly sessions were held at The Score, Dementia Hub, African Caribbean Elders Association, and Leyton Library. We also hosted pop-up workshops at Langthorne Park Festival and Windrush Day at Fellowship Square, while distributing 1,500 DIY Carnival Masks to Early Years to Key Stage 6 children in Leyton schools.

  • The Heart of Carnival is the driving force behind the community engagement, learning and participation, and creative development of Leyton Mást. It serves as an inclusive cultural space for knowledge exchange between participants, artists, creative practitioners, community activists, organisations, businesses, and institutions.

© 2024 by Great British Carnival. 

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