History is made at night

While huge amounts of  money are being pumped into the top down spectacle of the Olympics, England's long established culture of Africa...

I have been to a few parties in my time, but dancing in a tree house is something I haven't done. In the past year there's been a se...

'Festival communication actively engages the participants. It is this feature that distinguishes festival from those large-scale forms t...

'Festivals are collective phenomena and serve purposes rooted in group life. Systems of reciprocity and of shared responsibil­ity ensure...

Ten years ago today, the G8 Summit in Cologne was the occasion for the global J18 'Carnival Against Capital' with demonstrations, ...

For the umpteenth time, the future of Notting Hill Carnival is under threat, with complaints from the police and the Conservative Council of...

Last week - 18th November - people gathered outside the Royal Exchange in the City of London (financial district) for a mobile clubbing even...

In April 1974, decades of fascist rule in Portugal were brought to an end in a coup staged by left wing military officers. In the weeks and ...

This weekend there has been a 'festival of New Orleans' in London, with Dr John playing for free at the O2 arena in Greenwich. Unfor...

Peter Stallybrass and Allon White on the carnivalesque , extracted from The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (1986): …in the long-ter...

From The Luton News , 27 March 2007: 'Police-run carnival' anger Bedfordshire police appear to be digging in their heels over a ban ...

The Trinidad Carnival this week has commemorated a key point in the Carnival's history - the Canboulay riots of 1881-1884 (the picture ...

It is Carnival time in Brazil , now a major cultural celebration, but one which people had to struggle to establish: 'By the turn of the...