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Beckford, Bristol's first community development worker. Local residents and activists wanted to bring together the European, African-Caribbean and Asian communities, and wanted to challenge negative stereotypes of the area. Originally it was a community event with local
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The festival ran every year until 2002, when it was cancelled. Amirah Cole of the organising committee said: "We've worked hard to get funding for carnival projects and events, but it has been much more difficult to get support for training and extra staff. The fact the carnival happens each year is
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Salandy shifted the festival from multi-cultural celebrations of the various communities living in the St. Paul's neighbourhood to providing a platform for
African and Caribbean artists. He insisted that the Black community had to be central to the decision-making because he did not want St. Paul's
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Salandy's leadership, St. Paul's Festival remained a community event while becoming a consciousness-raising platform, reflecting messages of social justice, Black identity and liberation. This was reflected in the choice of films, talks and artists, as well as the Festival themes such as
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Francis
Salandy as chair in July 1979. He took over from Alfredo Vasquez who had been one of the main organisers of the Festival for the previous two years; Vasquez was elected Secretary and for the next twenty years held key posts on the committee (Secretary and Treasurer).
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Fleming said that "By the mid-1970s the event (now called the 'St. Paul's Festival') was indulging in an extravagant multiculturalism that celebrated in the juxtaposition of Latvian singers and Scottish dancers,
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in neighbouring streets and a range of stalls selling food from a wide range of cultures. In the preceding period, Mas camps create costumes for the parade and there is a week of cultural events in the days before carnival.
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from 2010 to 2018, namely St. Pauls
Afrikan Caribbean Carnival Limited. Its charitable objectives were 'to advance the education of the public in the appreciation and practice of Afrikan and Caribbean Arts and Culture'.
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In 2006 the carnival was not held as the organising committee took a year out to re-structure and develop plans for a festival in 2007 that would be part of the commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the
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down to the hard work of a few association members who give their time freely throughout the year to plan and fund-raise. Carnival has grown so much that this is no longer sustainable."
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camp and procession to St. Paul's
Festival but insisted on keeping up the tradition of booking steel bands. One of his first actions was to use his contacts with the organisers of the
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The carnival was not held in 2015, 2016, or 2017 after the main funders –
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Called the St. Paul's Carnival since 1991, the event includes a
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residents selling home-cooked food from their front gardens.
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332:. www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk. Archived from
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514:"Thousands attend street carnival"
492:"City's carnival takes a year out"
172:Salandy brought Trinidadian-style
132:The carnival started in 1968 as a
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1386:The Famous Royal Naval Volunteer
1130:Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells
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563:Murray, Robin (4 July 2018).
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494:. BBC News. 29 November 2005
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470:"Street carnival cancelled"
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1160:Counterslip Baptist Church
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231:community interest company
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1270:St Mary's Church, Henbury
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823:Bristol Festival of Ideas
792:Whiteladies Picture House
767:St George's, Brandon Hill
198:St. Paul's Carnival, 2008
1150:City Road Baptist Church
1100:Broadmead Baptist Church
1095:Bristol Community Church
936:Kings Weston Roman Villa
828:Bristol Harbour Festival
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386:Fleming, Thomas (1998).
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243:Avon and Somerset Police
911:Bristol Harbour Railway
874:archives and public art
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210:The organisation was a
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1260:St Mary le Port Church
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63:First Saturday of July
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717:Bristol County Ground
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178:Notting Hill Carnival
148:A participant in 2009
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1575:Festivals in Bristol
1330:St Werburgh's Church
1325:St Thomas the Martyr
1300:St Peter and St Paul
1125:Church of All Saints
1044:Oldbury Court Estate
872:Museums, galleries,
239:Bristol City Council
235:Arts Council England
224:Arts Council England
220:Bristol City Council
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1411:Mauretania, Bristol
1320:St Stephen's Church
1275:St Matthew's Church
1265:St Mary on the Quay
1245:St John the Baptist
921:Clifton Observatory
304:"St Pauls Carnival"
237:, and support from
110:St. Paul's, Bristol
102:St. Paul's Carnival
1482:Bierkeller Theatre
1470:Former attractions
1381:The Coronation Tap
1295:St Paul's, Clifton
1230:St George's Church
1085:All Saints' Church
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971:Wild Place Project
858:Slapstick Festival
843:Festival of Nature
752:O2 Academy Bristol
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