Welcome to The Beat Carnival
BELFAST CITY CARNIVAL WEEKEND
Friday 18th
1) Carnival Puppet Making – Family Fun Workshop
Make a Puppet to bring to the Picnic
with Bongar and Beatndrum performing from 5.30pm
Victoria Square Shopping Centre
4.00pm to 6.00pm Admission Free All ages
2) Carnival Music: Bongar’s Brazil Beats
Black Box, Hill Street
7.30pm to 8.30pm Admission Free Ages 18+
Saturday 19th
3) Carnival Puppet Making – Family Fun Workshop
Make a Puppet to bring to the Picnic
Victoria Square Shopping Centre
10.00am to 12 noon Admission Free All ages
4) Carnival Parade Assembly and Music
12 noon Custom House Square
5) The Puppet Parade
12.30 to 1.30pm Belfast City Centre
12.30pm The Puppet Parade sets off from Custom House Square
Join the Puppet Parade fun: as floats, carnival bands, hundreds of performers and puppets of all sizes take to the streets
1.00pm View the carnival parade in full-swing at Royal Avenue and experience the wonder of the celebratory spectacle
6) The Puppet Picnic
12.00 noon to 5.30pm Belfast City Hall
Music from Belfast and Brazil; puppet performances and a circus show: the Puppet Picnic is a great afternoon out for all the family
Carnival Marquee
12 to 5pm Fun activity workshops with Beat Puppeteers; Artsekta; the Motion Project; A Taste of Belfast; and Jitterbug Jackson
Carnival Music Stage
12 to 5.30pm Love Music Hate Racism DJs; Magwere; Citybeat Star Search; Ulster Scots Folk Orchestra; Bongar; The Puppet Band; and headlining at 4.30pm, 60’s revivalists: The Vals
Puppet Stage
Puppet shows at Stumpy, the tree stump stage, with Brothers Dimm and Tiny Beat
Picnic Lawn
2.15pm Belfast Circus School’s Youth Circus present A Fly in My Soup
From 12 noon: paint on Trans Urban Arts’ wall; bump into wandering entertainers; chat to Homely Planet Radio; be a star with Citybeat and visit WheelWork’s ArtCart
7) The Carnival Party with Force Ten Crew
Mandela Hall Doors open: 8.00pm Admission: £6
Bongar (Brazil)
Rhythms of the City (London)
Beat’n’Drum (Belfast)
DJs Chuck and Plan B
8) The Beat Carnival Fun Afternoon
Black Box, Hill Street
1.00pm to 4.00pm Admission Free All ages
Puppets and music. Sesame Tree, Northern Ireland's very own version of Sesame Street, will be showing a couple of episodes of Sesame Tree from the show's first series, and maybe a few special guests will come along too!
Bongar will be playing. Musicians: bring an instrument and jam along.
9) Samba ’68: Carnival Wind-down Party
The Menagerie, University Street
7.00pm to 11.30pm Admission Free Ages 18+
View our Beat carnival BLOG at: http://blog.belfastcarnival.com
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See latest News:
Newly elected Lord Mayor, Pat Convery, gets the low-down from up-high on the
Puppet Picnic – BELFAST CITY CARNIVAL
BONGAR, from Pernambuco, Brazil, is Beat's
Carnival Band in Residence from 10th to 19th June
see the Feature page: http://www.beatcarnival.com/features/view/83
Headlining the Carnival Music Stage on 19th June: The VALS
Beat'n'Drum & Dancers
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See more pictures here: Flickr pages – Pai Adao children and misc. music
Latest from the Blog
Latest News
- John Wilson at the Beat Carnival Music Residency
- BrasilxBelfast - Carnival Band in Residence, with a taste of Ulster
- Carnaval de Belfast
- Brazil > Belfast: Bongar arrive
- Beat Puppet welcomes new Lord Mayor
- Extra, Extra - Read All About It!
- Puppet Construction Techniques: workshops on 12th and 19th April
- CWA-TRANS-BEAT-Belfast’s Lord Mayor ‘Raise the Dragon’ – this Friday
- Leadership in the independent sector recognised
- Fly Butterfly Performance - videos
- Bologna Press – the BBB performance
- Someone must be working in Bologna?
- Butterfly Mask to print, colour and cut-out
- Beat perform in Bologna
- Beat puppets make a cultural outing
- Busy, busy – and butterflies
- oh yeah, we had a good carnival earlier in the summer
- Next stop: Glasgowbury!
- Fantastic Training Opportunity in Aerial Harness Work
- ...calling...Earth...Carnival...calling...Earth...
- Carnival Supergroup - ATL snippet
- Belfast City Carnival poster
- Music and Dance Masterclasses this weekend
- Music training 11th & 12th May - Masterclases
- North Down Easter Parade - Bright and Beautiful
- Join – New Carnival Dance Workshops
- *Light Up Lilliput* - East Belfast Lantern Festival
- Aisling Awards 2008
- Launched - exclamation mark
- Launch Date - getting close
Latest Features
- Beat Carnival Band in Residence - Grupo Bongar - session 1
- Bongar - Carnival Band in Residency
- Belfast City Carnival - Puppet Picnic. 18th -20th June 2010
- Carnivalise the City! 18th June 2010 - join the fun!
- Carnival Academy
- Maracatu Ilha Brilho - June 2010 performance
- Join our Puppet Picnic Carnival -19th June 2010
- Maracatu Brazilian Dance Masterclass Report
- Brazilian Dance Masterclass, 22nd & 23rd May
- Bongar - Info on our Brazilian samba band friends.
- Create your own flower-mill
- Join BeatnDance and our dance workshop
- Beat 'n' Drum
- Kate Lawerance - 'Fly Butterfly', Vertical Dance Performance
- Fly Butterfly and the Connections programme
- Fly Butterfly – 17th October Event
- Aerial Performance Training
- Carnival Video Part 5 & 6 – the Parade!
- Saturday's Carnival ROUTE and TIMETABLE
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- Carnival 09 - What THEY Say
- Look Up preparations - Carnival 2009 videos pts1 to 5
- FUNKY Carnival Music
- Belfast Carnival - Radio Ulster interview
- Music and Dance for Carnival – masterclasses
- Groups - Register for Belfast City Carnival 2009
- St Patrick's Day 2009: Belfast
- Carnival Centre Launch - Watch the video
- The Lantern Parade
- Puppets in December
- The Puppet Family
- Carnival Creations
- Le Beat - International
- Belfast Carnival History
- Carnival Here?
- A Carnival Arts Centre Plan
- What does a Carnival Centre look like (Luton)
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