Notting Hill Carnival 2023: The line-up and what you need to know

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Performers wearing headdresses astatine the Notting Hill Carnival successful London past year

Notting Hill Carnival returns to westbound London this August slope vacation for the 55th year.

Carnival is 1 of the longest moving thoroughfare parties successful the satellite and the largest thoroughfare enactment successful Europe.

Over 2 cardinal people, including thousands of tourists, be each twelvemonth to travel the three-mile parade done W10.

Expect an astonishing parade showcasing the champion of mas dancing, soca, calypso, alloy bands and dependable systems.

When is Notting Hill Carnival 2023?

Saturday 26 August to Monday 28 August.

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A Brazilian alloy set successful August 2022

What is the Notting Hill Carnival 2023 line-up?

Panorama. The UK's biggest alloy cookware contention astatine Emslie Horniman Pleasance Park, 16:00-23:00 BST.

J'Ouvert - Sainsburys Ladbroke Grove, W10 6HJ: From Jour ouvert successful French meaning opening of the time is 1 of carnival's champion kept secrets. Kicking disconnected conscionable earlier sunrise, the hardcore revellers creation into the daybreak to invited the carnival. Expect to spot colourful paints and powders successful spot of the mud and lipid of Caribbean contented from 6:00 BST.
Official opening ceremony, Mas (masquerade) Judging Point, Great Western Road. Traditionally carnival is opened by section residents and participants, accompanied by the organisers and friends astatine 10:00 BST.
Children's parade. This family-friendly greeting lawsuit sees kids dancing successful the streets successful their homemade carnival costumes.
Traditional parade. Features mas, soca, calypso and overmuch more.
Food stalls. There are hundreds of them, including Jamaican jerk chicken, Trinidadian roti and Guyanese capsicum pot.
Sound systems. If you emotion to creation successful the thoroughfare but bash not privation to beryllium "on di road" past dependable systems are wherever it's at. Notting Hill Carnival's sound-system contented is rooted successful Jamaican civilization and reggae euphony but you tin perceive everything from uncommon groove to location to samba. Kicks disconnected astatine 12:00 until 19:00 BST.

Adult's time parade. Expect tons of dancing, parading and partying.
Food stalls and dependable systems

Live stages

Soca City, Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Park, W10 5DH, 12:00-19:00 BST.

Powis Square Stage, W11 2AY, 12.00-19.00 BST.

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Different euphony buses support the enactment live connected the parade

How to get to Notting Hill Carnival 2023?

As Notting Hill's roads volition beryllium closed disconnected passim the slope vacation weekend, you volition not beryllium capable to get an Uber oregon drawback a autobus into the bosom of the action.

Nearby Tube stations wrong walking region of the main lawsuit including Notting Hill Gate, which volition beryllium exit-only from 11:00 to 19:00 BST each day.

Royal Oak and Westbourne Park volition beryllium exit-only until 18:00 BST, with Royal Oak closing thereafter and Westbourne Park closing aft 23:30 GMT.

To permission the country earlier these times, you whitethorn person to locomotion up to 30 minutes to find an unfastened Tube station.

Latimer Road volition beryllium closed from 23:30 BST connected some days. Avoid Ladbroke Grove and Holland Park arsenic they are some closed connected Sunday and Monday.

There volition beryllium nary interchange betwixt the Circle and District lines and Central enactment connected some days.

Do I request a summons for Notting Hill Carnival and however harmless is it?

The carnival is escaped for everyone but the constabulary crowd-control a batch and you whitethorn not beryllium allowed successful to definite areas astatine definite times due to the fact that streets get sectioned off. If you person mobility issues oregon get anxious successful crowds, it is amended to get aboriginal and permission early.

Police accidental this twelvemonth determination has been peculiar enactment devoted to identifying peculiarly dense spots on the carnival route, with 12,500 officers connected the route.

Police are besides trialling assemblage information camera exertion to much rapidly observe overcrowding, arsenic good arsenic deploying mounted officers passim the parade.

Like past year, determination volition beryllium a harmless country for women and girls with specially trained professionals, with the Met moving with foundation Safer Spaces.

Police counsel to:

Go with the travel of the crowd, don't effort and locomotion against it.
Don't conscionable trust connected your phone, acceptable a gathering spot with household oregon friends successful lawsuit you suffer 1 another.
Keep your belongings with you astatine each times.
Plan your travel successful advance; bash not thrust your car to the area, cognize your nationalist transport options and routes to and from carnival
Make question plans earlier you permission - Transport for London(TfL) has a dedicated website showing each the champion and quickest options.
Travel to Tube and railway stations specified arsenic Shepherds Bush oregon Bayswater and locomotion in. Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill Gate and Westbourne Park volition beryllium exceptionally busy. Please see this erstwhile leaving the country also.

For the archetypal clip ever BBC News volition beryllium unrecorded streaming Notting Hill Carnival. As millions flock to London to articulation Europe's biggest thoroughfare party, for those that can't beryllium there, each the enactment volition beryllium streamed unrecorded from 1pm connected Bank Holiday Monday. Head to BBC iPlayer.

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Performers successful the procession connected children's time astatine the Notting Hill Carnival

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