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THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CARNIVAL IS BACK FOR 2022! EXPECT COLOUR, SPECTACLE, SOUNDS AND ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE AS SCOTLAND’S LARGEST MULTICULTURAL CELEBRATION RETURNS TO EDINBURGH CITY CENTRE.

THE FESTIVAL CARNIVAL PARADE

CARNIVAL IN PRINCES STREET GARDENS

1-3pm From the top of the Mound to the West End of Princes Street

Over 800 carnival performers will present music, dance, costumes, puppets, circus, and acrobatics from groups including Banda Dida (Brazil), Circo Fantazztico (Costa Rica), Belmont Freetown Performing Arts Company (Trinidad), Barefeet Theatre (Zambia), Harlem Samba (USA) Artscape (South Africa) KalentuRa Drums (the Netherlands) Gwanaval (Martinique) and Samba Resille (France) as well as Pulse of the Place, Edinburgh Chinese Art & Culture Community and Dance Ihaymi from Edinburgh.

3-6pm

Sounds will beat from the stage of the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, opening with our ‘Encontro’ featuring 150 drummers, and closing with one of the UK’s finest reggae artists, Tippa Irie. We will also have zones for dance, music, circus performers across the Gardens.

SUNDAY 17 JULY 2022 GOODTREES MINI CARNIVAL

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THE WORLD IN ONE CITY

From 1pm on Saturday 16 July, Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre will play host to a mini Carnival. Children and young adults from the Centre will bring a spectacle of music, dance and vibrant colour to the south east Edinburgh streets.