{"id":369965,"date":"2025-08-24T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369965\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:49:17","slug":"notting-hill-carnival-2025-begins-with-burst-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369965\/","title":{"rendered":"Notting Hill Carnival 2025 begins with burst of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Briohny Williams<\/p>\n

BBC News<\/p>\n

Reporting fromNotting Hill Carnival<\/p>\n

Sunday during the Notting Hill Carnival is traditionally families and children’s day<\/p>\n

Carefully painted faces and glitter could be seen across the parade<\/p>\n

The annual Notting Hill Carnival has begun with the streets of west London filled with colour and sound.<\/p>\n

Musicians and dancers in bright costumes took to the streets for the children’s parade, as the largest street party in Europe got under way.<\/p>\n

The day began with an explosion of colour as revellers met for J’ouvert at 06:00 BST ahead of the children’s parade, with the streets awash with bright paint and powder. <\/p>\n

J’ouvert, which means “daybreak” or “opening of the day” in French Creole, marks the start of the Carnival celebrations across the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

More than a million people are expected to attend Carnival over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Children in brightly coloured feathers paraded down the street<\/p>\n

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Temperatures are expected to reach 23C in Notting Hill on Sunday<\/p>\n

Among those enjoying the festivities was EastEnders star Rudolph Walker who told BBC London it was “great to see the youngsters enjoying themselves – they are all fantastic”.<\/p>\n

Walker, who plays Patrick Trueman in the BBC soap, said coming to Carnival made him want to live for each future event.<\/p>\n

“I come every year, it’s my tradition, I grew up in Trinidad with carnival and I know what it does for my soul, my body, my peace of mind,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing is to see people together, young and old, having fun.”<\/p>\n

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Feathers and jewels are popular additions to the carnival costumes <\/p>\n

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Children’s day saw the streets flooded with colour, costumes, dancing and music<\/p>\n

Following the parade, Sunday’s festivities continued with sound systems and live stages of music. <\/p>\n

Carnival organisers say the event’s sound system tradition is rooted in Jamaican culture and Reggae music.<\/p>\n

Genres including rare groove, house and samba are expected to be played out across the day.<\/p>\n

Live stages will be held in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park and Powis Square from noon.<\/p>\n

The event continues on Monday with the adults parade, more live stages and sound systems.<\/p>\n

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Children representing different countries joined the performances<\/p>\n

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The jam-packed parade celebrates the next generation at Carnival<\/p>\n

On both days, there will be a 72-second silence at 15:00 to remember the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as those who have died at Carnival in recent years and Kelso Cochrane<\/a> whose murder in 1959 became one of the catalysts for the event.<\/p>\n

The annual celebration has been running for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briohny Williams BBC News Reporting fromNotting Hill Carnival Sunday during the Notting Hill Carnival is traditionally families and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115084301035525750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}