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Event
Information:
The Grand Parade for SF Carnaval
will be held on May 27 at
9.30pm starting at 24th & Bryant
Streets. On Saturday and Sunday, May
26 and 27, the San Francisco
Carnaval Festival will transform
Harrison Street into a wonderland of
miscellaneous food, music, dance,
art, crafts and other fun activities
and events on several stages for the
entire family to enjoy. Spanning
seven blocks, the San Francisco
Carnaval Festival will take place on
Harrison Street between 16th and
23rd streets (10 a.m.-6 p.m.). This
year’s festival highlights include
three stages of continuous live
music from around the globe, salsa
dance classes and competitions,
children’s activities, drumming and
much more.
Carnaval San Francisco is an annual
street parade and festival in San
Francisco, California on the last
weekend in May. It was founded by a
large group of visionary artists
brought together by percussionist
Marcus Gordon, dancer Adela Chu, and
costume designer Pam Minor in 1979
who came together in Precita Park to
celebrate living a rich cultural
life in tune with the rhythms of
nature and the ancestors. The
following year the second Carnaval
San Francisco was held in the
Mission District's Dolores Park.
Since 1979, the Carnaval has been
the central event for many thousands
of artists who spend hundreds of
hours each year getting ready for
the Sunday parade.
The
San Francisco Bay Area Carnaval
season begins in February as the
great Western hemisphere Carnaval
celebrations are concluding. The
four Carnaval Cities with the
greatest influence and presence in
the San Francisco Carnaval are Port
of Spain, Trinidad; Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; Salvador, Brazil; and Oruro,
Bolivia. The Mission District, San
Francisco, California since the
1950s, has been a metro center for
the many different Spanish speaking
populations of Latin America and
these groups will often enter a
group or Carnaval contingent in the
parade.
Carnaval or Mardi Gras is best seen
as a spring festival celebrating the
rebirth of life and thus it is a
universal festival celebrated by all
cultures as well as the first
festival. Besides the strong
American hemisphere presence in the
parade there are generally Carnaval
groups from the Philippines, India,
China, Middle East and Africa.
As a
parade, Carnaval San Francisco is
most recognized for its spectacular
choreographed dancers and scantily
clad beautiful women. The Inner
Mission District with two BART
stations supports the Bay Area's
highest concentration of dance
studios and instructors. Many of
these dance instructors have been
pillars of the Carnaval parade
instilling the sublime sense of
uniting with the Carnaval spirit
though movement and song into their
students during the peak moments
best experienced in the parade.
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