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The SF Bay Area Carnaval season begins as the major Carnavals in Brazil, Europe, New Orleans and Latin America are ending. For several months thousands will prepare to honor beauty, joyful living, the power of story and rhythms be doing their best using the arts of costume, music and dance. It is a beautiful moment at the birthplace of the Bay Area on the Mission Miracle Mile. Please join us. More at

 

 
 
This is the 29th Carnaval as well as the 40th Anniversary of the summer of Love.  For many millennia, before the Mexicans and Spaniards arrived in 1776, this was the land of the Olhone. A peaceful tribe who lived as if this was the Garden of Eden, wearing few clothes and easily harvesting all they needed from nature's bounty. One of the more remarkable song lyrics to have been passed along to us was: "Dancing on the edge of the earth" - a reference to the special place we inhabit on the planet. Plenty is said about the San Francisco Bay Area being the creative center for cutting edge technologies and every so often others address our claim to also being the spiritual center. We think these words especially hit the mark in this regards. ohlone-dance-costume.jpg

Ohlone Indians

"America's unique creed of science and religion. Here literally on western edge of the North American continent - the European enlightenment meets Asian spirituality, Einstein confronts Walt Whitman, Calvinism takes on mysticism, and secularism encounters the divine. It's a wild ride, filled with ironies and tensions, but it's also America at the start of the 21st century, and perhaps the future of the world."
-Robert B. Reich

To this we add the syncretic traditions of the American hemisphere, the spectacular Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean   Carnival traditions who occupy a central place in defining their  cultures and contributions to world culture and who compete for top prizes and students in the SF Carnaval parade. The conquerors could destroy most of the old world but the dances, costumes and songs live on in the hearts and spirit of the natives Within Carnaval San Francisco is the greatest Bolivian parade outside the Andes mountains and its continues to grow to six groups in 2007, the spirit they display is also their ancestors reaching back through the millennia.

 www.carnaval.com/sf07
Follow the countdown to the 2007 Grand Parade here till we get our 2007 menu bar up. Find new articles in the left column

 Official site: www.carnavalsf.com Hot Line 415-920-0125  Official site has all the entry forms for the festival & contests and lots more

Love:  It could spark in a flash, filling one's life instantly with a blissful radiance, or it could blossom over a long stretch of time, building with a rhythmic intensity much like the beat of a drum.  In San Francisco this May, love happens all weekend long when Carnaval San Francisco, California's largest annual multi-cultural celebration, embraces the Mission District for its 29th annual celebration over Memorial Day weekend, May 26 and 27. 

   

 
GLOBAL MAGIC 2006: www.carnaval.com/baccanalia || drum

SF Carnaval Events check for this weeks eventsCarnaval Current News 2006
Archives: 2005 || 2004|| 2003 || 2002 || 2001 ||
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Aforum-San Francisco
2004 Carnaval SF Awards\

 

Festival May 24th & 25th 2008
A Saturday & Sunday event in the San Francisco Mission district on Harrison between 16th & 24th Streets.
The festival grounds will offer exciting events planned for the whole family, from children activities, to local visual artists displaying their art, to contingent artists performing at several stages, and many local businesses given an opportunity to participate as well. There will be music on three stages and through the 5 block long 2-day festival, ethnic food, art and lots of fun to be had by all.

CARNAVAL
Carnaval-San Francisco Parade is Sunday May 27th 2007 Map by yahoo Festival is both Saturday & Sunday
Parade is always the 4th Sunday of May or Memorial Weekend

and begins at Bryant & 24th at 10am and heads down the Mission Street to 17th... 

PARADE ROUTE:
 The 2 mile route has few gaps at the start on 24th and some big ones toward the end of the parade on the end of the parade route. Makes for good opportunities to support the local merchants. 
Grandstand Seating  
Event Ticket: $25.00
- Sunday, May 27, 2007, Parade starts at 9:30 am at 24th & Bryant and arrive at- Grand Stand Parade Seating -Carnaval’s Grand Parade is a unique multi-cultural event that celebrates the traditions of many countries and cultures around the world ... .
Tickets can also be purchased by phone at 415.920.0125 ext. 4, and at the following locations:
TV

KRON TV Channel 4 broadcasts SF carnaval live on Sunday May 27th and will be doing pre-parde reports on their News from 8:00 to 10:00 then break for a 30 minute paid program and be back with 90 minutes of live parade coverage between 10:30 & 12 noon
Telemundo (KSTS, Channel 48) will also be doing in Spanish a highlight special at 6pm later that day.
You can also find lots of special coverage of the unique Carnaval San Francisco season locally on

COMCAST the Bay Area's cable broadcaster has returned as a major underwriter for 2007 and is joined in the major funder category by Washington Mutual and Macy's

Introducing  Carnaval San Francisco by wikipedia

 

Grand Marshals

Carlene Wells

SHAKA ZULU

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Carlene is considered the Queen of Chutney Soca in her native enchanted land  of Trinidad and Tobago. Besides being beautiful she a song writer and music composer. Chutney Soco is East Indian Soca which is up-tempo, dance music accompanied by the dholak, the harmonium and the dhantal. She is also a rising force in Reggae music.
Chutney-soca crossover style of music incorporating Soca elements and Hindi-English lyrics.  Caribbean  Reggae music keeps being accepted by all cultures and finding a special season after Carnaval for the many outside of organized religion

the Oakland Steelband Carnaval Band Mo Love is proud to announce that their prominent brother from New Orleans, the Stiltwalker/ Mokojumbie has been named a 2007
SF CARNAVAL GRAND MARSHALL!!!

Shaka Zulu the African warrior King by wikipedia

 

King & Queen

 

2007 Youth Royalty

The winners of the crowned court are Prince Raymond Lyons (8 years old from Oakland), Princess Onaja Waki (11, Oakland), Junior King Amoya Walker (17, Oakland), and Junior Queen Yanneth Alvarenga (16, San Francisco).
article by Jamie Windborne at CityFanFare.com which also was published in the Mission Dispatch

King and Queen of Carnaval 2007


Queen Marina   
 


King Danilo

 

  

Bands
Parade Line-UP 2007

Artist Stipends are an important part of the Carnaval. Over $70,000 has been awarded in grants of $500 to $2000 to 2/3 of the 60 groups scheduled to appear in the 2005 Grand Parade

Caribbean Carnival on Parade 2005
Jan McDermott

Games
Carnaval San Francisco Concentration Game
Test your memory skills against the clock and the spectacular beauty of our 17  Queens & Kings. Press reload or refresh if you start playing too soon and experience difficulty. Visit your next Carnival City as well

May in the Mission
Overflowing from April onto and beyond May day is the country's oldest film festival (San Francisco Film

film_festivals in SF Bay Area
wiki/May_Day

 Festival was 50 years in 2007). Along 16th St. - the Bay Area's oldest street-  are 3 old theatres often used to host Film festivals including San Francisco's finest -the Castro. The Victoria Theatre is celebrating its 100th year in 2007 and the 2-screen Roxie has just been renovated by its New College owners.  Also Carnaval SF groups participate in the keynote celebration of National Dance Week. No event owns May Day here but around the world it is associated with May Queens, International worker's day and the decriminalization of the miracle weed best known as marijuana
Cinco de Mayo on the Bay 2007 || USA
Our Latin neighbors begin the month with biggest parades and festivals in our three metro centers of San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco. In San Francisco, Cinco de Mayor is held at Dolores Park, the site of the Bay's first post-Columbian community and widely acknowledged earth power spot especially during earthquakes.

Three of San Francisco's best arts festivals choose May and feature Mission venues. Mission Creek, Artsfest and International Arts Festival

In 2007, while Precita Eyes went low key on their Mural Month, the 2nd weekend which is best known nationally as mother's day and locally for KFOG's Kaboom Fireworks show, the Mission added MissionArts Open Studio 

May Weekend 3 is anchored by the wild wacky Bay to Breakers race which, as a huge costume parade and wild party atmosphere could also call itself a Carnaval. 

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2006 Carnaval Contingents (partial
Academicos
ACOAM Columbians
African Outlet
Asociacion Mayab
Aquarela
Baby Buggy Brigade
Banda Remelexo
Bay Area Boriquas
Bolivia Corazon
Bolivians of Southern California
Buena Vista School
California Soccer
Dancers of the Mystic Sun
Dykes on Bikes
Energia do Samba
El Tecolote
Fogo Na Roupa
Ginga Brazil, BrasArte
Grupo Aztlan
Guatemalteca Xelaju
Hot Pink Feathers & Blue Bone Express
James Lick Middle
Kip Farris Memorial
Latin American Workout
Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble
MAPP
Maracatu Cazadero
MaraReggae
Mas Makers Massive
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission Housing
Mo' Love
Monroe Elementary
Morenada- Bolivia
Quilombo
Oya Nike
PFG Xelaju
Rara Tou Limen
Sambão
SambAsia
Seven Seas
Super Sonic Samba
West Coast Lion Dance
3NI Productions
Fotos what's new SF   
Top level in aforum but go direct to the image server to check for the freshest stuff. top level || SF Bay Area 
Carnaval San Francisco 2006 (Set) by cmc of sfmission.com
     
Tu Foto's Carnaval SF collections nice ones from 2004, 2005 & 2006

Queens & Muses
Starring the Google image search engine and inspired by the popularity of our similar Rio de Janeiro page.

Egdar Lee's  Carnaval 2002 & more event photos at his dogchow.com site
Googled resuts from latinbayarea.com
schwartzphoto.com/gallery/San-Francisco-Carnaval
memorybanque.com/ photos.html for RAYMOND HOLBERT PHOTOGRAPHS

Jim Garza wins google search for "Carnaval San Francisco" Images 
Also visit our growing Link Galleries for
 [F] 2003 Carnaval
 Carnaval SF including
 [F] 2002 Carnaval
 [F]   Carnaval 2001
 [F] Carnaval 2000
 [F] Before 1990 including Santana 1986

 
Winner of most popular C'SF foto. Click pic to enlarge. Check today's ranking here  

Mark Rapoza's SF-area.com/carnaval  went 404 in "04

A Fogalistic Photo Gallery  ||  2000
Click pic for some nice ones. 


LocoBloco
Grand Champions

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 Cinco de Mayo & Cesar Chavez Parades 

PRIDE Parade 4th sunday in June

Day of the Dead

Halloween San Francisco

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Video

Carnaval.com takes a special interest in Brazilian , Latin and Caribbean and Cajun music but we subscribe to the description of Carnaval music as sounds that make you want to jump for joy with others.

Brazil on the SF Bay

Mexico on the SF Bay

The trendy Latin Explosion has been happening on the streets of the Mission since well before Carnaval's birth in 1979 but here's the two web guides which can will bring out the best for you.

Sounds

MPB - Brazilian Popular Music - the essence of our music. Bossa Nova, created in bars of Rio during the 50's. Axé Music, a style born in the state of Bahia with great influence of African rhythms. Samba was the first Brazilian style to become popular globally and has never lost its popularity with the youth.  

 DownloadSince 1998 Eric Crawford's url sfmbp.com   has been worthy of a bookmark as the best source on local Brazilian Music

Music of the world Links by kpfa.org

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aboraPueblo.com/  by KPFA DJ  Jose Ruiz
A Latino music potpourri: Son, Rumba, Guajira, Bomba, Vallenato, Samba, Batucada, Soca, Calypso, Flamenco, Rancheras, Norteñas, Tangos, Boleros, Nueva Canción y mucho mas!

Events

SF CARNAVAL BAY AREA-Events Board || Carnaval 2007
We can add your Carnaval or World music event here. Simply send withjpeg file to 

-Events Archive  [the aforum system has been upgraded to the event flyer system in the image server]
Also come to the Bay Area's world music entertainment district - the www.SFmission.com [ click for neighborhood events board]

 [F] Carnaval Related Annual Events in Northern California 

Bay Area Annual Events starring the month of May which begins with May Day and Cinco de Mayo.

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Events of Special Note
FriendsofBrazil.org  the Bay Area Brazilian Club holds the biggest pre-Lenten Carnaval at the Galleria every year. 

PRIDE Parade 4th sunday in June
Dia de Los Muertos/ Day of the Dead
Life's greatest fundamental repeat themselves annually and Carnaval invites you to celebrate life or more accurately the rebirth of life in the cycle of life -death & rebirth.

Myth & Magic 
www.carnaval.com/venezuela
An amazing story being written as an opening chapter of the 21st century with a connection to the SF Bay area as the North American capital of the progressive left.
Do you know the way to 3 corners on
Mount Roraima
www.carnaval.com/bacchanalia
We started digging last year in the 4th century when the first congress of Cardinals created Carnaval as it related to Lent. There is still amazing nuggets to mine particularly from the land of Isis, pyramids and the fields of the Da Vinci code. 
 

 

Golden Gate International Exposition Download
Let's bring the GGIE's poignant vision of Pacific unity back to the public, uniting the region with the Bay Area's only annual TV parade is a great place to begin. Timothy Pflueger, San Francisco's greatest architect of public buildings was also a great global visionary who was a driving force behind this 3rd and last SF World's Fair. He is also the architect of record for the New Mission Theatre, whose landmark restoration as one of San Francisco's largest theatres is working its was through the planning process

ARCHIVES
King & Queen of Your Rhythm
from Jay Kinney for C'SF 2004

Carnaval Versus the Klingons
from Tomas Paine for C'SF 2003

www.carnaval.com/Columbus
A special 2002 expanded edition to open 10 year countdown to 2012

Trickster at the Crossroads
  by Erik Davis originally published in  Gnosis Magazine 

12 stepping with the Orixas in Brazil 
Brazilian Jungian analyst John Burns updates the most successful model of drug treatment with spectacular orisha illustrations by  Francisco Santos. The similarity between these deities and those of early Greece and the relationship to Egypt is a new topic in academia

The Black Queen Califa |
Learn the fascinating story about the Goddess the state of California was named after. Throughout history, Black Madonnas have often inspired heroism by historic figures.
www.carnaval.com/campbell

 
LISTEN to Brazilian Music at these artist sites
 

 

Dance & Percussion Classes Top
sfmission.com/dance
East Bay Classes || North Bay & South Bay Classes || Aforum || Carnival Music Terms in Our Bahia Glossary || Bay Area Dance in Imagefolio
The Bay Area is one of the world's most important dance centers. We have linked to the link directories and highlighted the dance instructors and studios who inform their work with the joy of the Carnaval spirit.

Awards

Capoeira
Capoeira Directory for the West Coast
You may be one of the many becoming more interested in how your rhythm is affected by other rhythms. Begin your journey here.

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History
History Section in
Aforum
Carnaval San Francisco: the early years
by Richard Reniceros
KING 1998: Shimon van Collie
Escola Nova=s 15 Years of Carnaval History
By Escola member
Rick Telesforo.
History of Carnival by allahwe.org
Carnaval-San Francisco 1997 ||  1999 
2000 ||
King Jim & Queen Elisa: Carnaval 2000
2001
King Theolonius I & Queen Elizabeth in 2002.
2002 || King Norberto & Queen Maisa 
2003 ||
Queen Iya & King Antonio
2004 || Queen Micaela || King Victor ||
Malonga ||
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2005
King Paulo || Queen Vanessa ||Fotos SF 2005 ||2005 Parade Contingents ||May events ||Festival || King-Queen contest ||CAribbeanS on Parade ||CACHAO  ||GLOBAL MAGIC 2005:  Age of Aquarius ||Temples of Rebirth ||drum
2006 ||
2006 King Luis Fernando & Queen Monique Perry ||Youth Royalty 2006

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Multicultural & Carnaval Arts
www.SFIntlArtsFest.org. || Jesse Hamlin reviews the plans for sfgate Can San Francisco go world class in Festival Arts. Former Carnaval Advisory Board member Andrew Wood sets his sites high for Fall 2005
Karen Lusebrink/ costume designer for All Ah We, children's book illustrator and Carnaval artist


Ron Seawright
larger than life cartoonist brings his art form to the streets
Community Festival Arts & The Arts on aforum.com

The New Age of Carnival

The past in the future what can be more certain.

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Carnaval of Cultures on the web
In 2003's carnaval.com/portugal we explored the nation of explorers who triggered the collision of the hemispheres which has made us who we are today.

For 2004 we journey to the land of the two most well known Carnaval deities Orpheus and Dionysus

www.carnaval.com/bulgaria
For 2005, we will be visiting the site of the earliest sacred shrine on the island of Gozo, Malta www.carnaval.com/malta 
 

red_star.gif (2190 bytes)www.carnivalcities.com  (FECC)
The planet's leading organization for people's events as well as .

Sambista Network || www.worldsamba.org || Federation  


 

Chalo Eduardo, C'SF founder and REMO drum spokesperson is looking forward to the Drum Circles at the 2004 festival and invites you to bring your drum to the festival Drum Grove  or the REMO booth for a lesson

Click pic for 15 seconds of Chalo performing with his pandeiro in the 2002 parade with Samba do Coracao. the most played movie in our image server in 2003 & 2004

 

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