Carnival

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annual event cultural celebration festival

Carnival is a vibrant annual festival, especially prominent in Afro-Caribbean cultures, featuring parades, music, dance, and elaborate costumes that celebrate cultural identity and community.

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Observed surface forms (14)

Surface form Occurrences
Rio Carnival 2
Aruban Carnival 1
Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade Carnival 1

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf annual event ⓘ
cultural celebration ⓘ
festival ⓘ
follows Epiphany ⓘ
surface form: Epiphany (in many Catholic regions)
hasActivity costume competitions ⓘ
dance ⓘ
masquerade ⓘ
music performances ⓘ
parades ⓘ
street parties ⓘ
hasCharacteristic colorful ⓘ
community-oriented ⓘ
outdoor ⓘ
public ⓘ
vibrant ⓘ
hasCulturalContext Afro-Caribbean culture ⓘ
Catholic tradition ⓘ
European culture ⓘ
Latin American culture ⓘ
hasEconomicImpact creative industries employment ⓘ
tourism revenue ⓘ
hasElement alcoholic beverages ⓘ
body paint ⓘ
decorated floats ⓘ
elaborate costumes ⓘ
feathers and sequins ⓘ
live bands ⓘ
sound systems ⓘ
street vendors ⓘ
traditional foods ⓘ
hasHistoricalOrigin European pre-Lenten festivities ⓘ
West African masquerade traditions ⓘ
enslaved African cultural practices in the Americas ⓘ
hasNotableForm Caribana (Toronto Caribbean Carnival) ⓘ
Crop Over (Barbados) ⓘ
Caribana (Toronto Caribbean Carnival) ⓘ
surface form: Notting Hill Carnival

Rio de Janeiro Carnival ⓘ
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival ⓘ
hasPurpose artistic expression ⓘ
celebration of cultural identity ⓘ
community cohesion ⓘ
social liberation ⓘ
tourism promotion ⓘ
hasSocialFunction space for satire and social commentary ⓘ
temporary inversion of social hierarchies ⓘ
isAssociatedWith calypso music ⓘ
costume design ⓘ
cultural resistance ⓘ
mas bands (masquerade bands) ⓘ
postcolonial identity ⓘ
pre-Lenten festivities ⓘ
samba music ⓘ
soca music ⓘ
steelpan music ⓘ
street theatre ⓘ
precedes Lent ⓘ
takesPlaceFrequency annually ⓘ
takesPlaceIn Barbados NERFINISHED ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ
Caribbean Canadians ⓘ
surface form: Canada (Caribbean diaspora carnivals)

Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ
Grenada ⓘ
Jamaica ⓘ
Saint Lucia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ
United Kingdom (Caribbean diaspora carnivals) ⓘ
United States (Caribbean diaspora carnivals) ⓘ

Referenced by (21)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Notting Hill Carnival
Jouvert events → associatedWith → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade Carnival
this entity surface form: Junkanoo
Port of Spain → culturalEvent → Carnival ⓘ
Cajun → culturalPractice → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Courir de Mardi Gras
Afro-Arubans → festival → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aruban Carnival
Belize City → hasCulturalEvent → Carnival ⓘ
Cologne → hasCulturalEvent → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cologne Carnival
Nassau → hasCulturalEvent → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Junkanoo festival
subject surface form: Southern Germany
this entity surface form: Fasching
this entity surface form: Rio Carnival
Leicester → hasFestival → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caribbean Carnival
this entity surface form: Carnaval de Santiago de Cuba
subject surface form: Caribana
this entity surface form: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Venice → knownFor → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Carnival of Venice
Veracruz → knownFor → Carnival ⓘ
this entity surface form: Veracruz Carnival
this entity surface form: Rio Carnival