Carnaval.com's CCMixter.org playlist

 

'MANY CULTURES - ONE SPIRIT'
TO JOIN TOGETHER FOR
CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO'S 30th ANNIVERSARY BASH

 DownloadCalifornia and perhaps the world's Largest Annual
Multi-Cultural Extravaganza

For three decades, Carnaval San Francisco has been a much-cherished occasion for many cultures to come together in one spirit: to share in the exhilaration and creative expression, the abundance of beauty and community, the sheer joy and good times that makes Carnaval San Francisco such a rich experience and a spectacular sight to behold. This spring will see a major cause for celebration, with Carnaval San Francisco's 30th anniversary bash taking place in the Mission District over Memorial Day weekend, May 24 and 25.

California's largest annual multi-cultural celebration, Carnaval San Francisco 2008 – themed "Many Cultures - One Spirit" – will showcase the very best of what it truly means to be an American in our hemisphere when indigenous and syncretic, Caribbean and Latin, Brazilian and North American, cultures and traditions all come together in celebration. It is a great tantalizing array of food, music, dance and artistry, and its all hosted with pride at the birthplace of the Bay Area in the sunny Mission District.

For the latest news go to either the countdown section Carnaval.com/sf08 or the image-server for SF 2008 Carnaval
Introduction |  
Events NEWS [main]
King & Queen  Dance & Percussion
Festival History
Grand Marshall  Myth and Magic
Countdown Capoeira
In the News | Carnaval of Cultures |
Bands Awards
Games SF 2006
Photos Oakland
Sounds | Multiculti Carnaval Arts
 Video Planet Carnaval
Carnaval.
com/sf07


The SF Bay Area Carnaval season begins as the major Carnavals in Brazil, Europe, New Orleans and Latin America are ending. For several months thousands will prepare to honor beauty, joyful living, the power of story and rhythms be doing their best using the arts of costume, music and dance. It is a beautiful moment at the birthplace of the Bay Area on the Mission Miracle Mile. Please join us. More at

Carnaval.com/sf08

 
 
 www.carnaval.com/sf07
We moved much of the content from the prior version of this page which becomes part of the our collection of over 4000 Carnaval SF images and hundreds of pages about our great celebration of life at the birthplace of this hot spot for the 21st century which gets to serve up the new stories for the great age of Aquarius we are approaching as we near closer to the winter solistice 2012. '

 Official site: www.carnavalsf.com Hot Line 415-920-0125  Official site has all the entry forms for the festival & contests and lots more

 

Festival May 24th & 25th 2008
A Saturday & Sunday day time event in the San Francisco Mission district on Harrison between 16th & 24th Streets.  Spanning eight blocks the festival takes place on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th streets between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Zona Verde,” a new section of the festival, will feature an array of earth-friendly enjoyments including an Eco Village, an educational space and marketplace, a holistic health pavilion and global healing ceremonies with performance groups representing folkloric healing rituals from around the world.
The festival grounds will offer exciting events planned for the whole family, from children activities, to local visual artists displaying their art, to contingent artists performing at several stages, and many local businesses given an opportunity to participate as well. There will be music on four stages and through the 5 block long 2-day festival, ethnic food, art and lots of fun to be had by all.

CARNAVAL
Carnaval-San Francisco Parade is Sunday May 27th 2007 Map by yahoo Festival is both Saturday & Sunday
Parade is always the 4th Sunday of May or Memorial Weekend

and begins at Bryant & 24th at 10am and heads down the Mission Street to 17th... 

PARADE ROUTE:
 The 2 mile route has few gaps at the start on 24th and some big ones toward the end of the parade on the end of the parade route. Makes for good opportunities to support the local merchants. 

 
 
Introducing  Carnaval San Francisco by wikipedia
Grandstand Seating  
Event Ticket: $30.00
- Sunday, May 25, 2008, Parade scheduled to start at 9:30 am at 24th & Bryant and arrive at- Grand Stand Parade Seating sometime after 10am -Carnaval’s Grand Parade. Best to arrive early to assure a good seat in the bleachers.

 

King & Queen    

Everett & Kellita: King & Queen of SF Carnaval 2008

Learn more about King Everett and Queen Kellita    

The eyeballs are moving to the internet and with regret the 2008 edition of the Carnaval San Francisco will not be traditionally televised as in year's past on Channel 4 of Telemundo [part of NBC] Thus Carnaval.com will be making a greater commitment to round up the video you produce and put up on the internet
See this video in greater resolution at metacafe.com

   
Video
NO
TV
2008

For the first time in many years the Carnaval will not be televised. Carnaval.com hopes you will thus make a special effort to get it on the internet.

Carnaval San Francisco at youtube.com by google search
There are many other options besides google's youtube. We tested a few with our 2007 hot clips. During the test we were pleased to not the addition of a high res version of our clip [click bottom right of player] at youtube.  We think, that you, like us, will enjoy playing this clip many times.
Video
Archives

 

 Bands
Parade Line-UP 2008

Artist Stipends are an important part of the Carnaval and began when parade producer Mission Neighborhood Centers [MNC] took over management in 2002. Over $80,000 is been awarded in grants of $500 to $2000 to 2/3 of the 80 groups scheduled to appear in the Grand Parade. Carnaval SF seeks to push the envelope of parade production values and give the SF Bay Area the great annual unity event every metro center needs to be complete and representative to our global community

Games
Carnaval San Francisco Concentration Game
Test your memory skills against the clock and the spectacular beauty of our 17  Queens & Kings. Press reload or refresh if you start playing too soon and experience difficulty. Visit your next Carnival City as well

May in the Mission
Overflowing from April onto and beyond May day is the country's oldest film festival (San Francisco Film

film_festivals in SF Bay Area
wiki/May_Day

 Festival was 50 years in 2007). Along 16th St. - the Bay Area's oldest street-  are 3 old theatres often used to host Film festivals including San Francisco's finest -the Castro. The Victoria Theatre is celebrating its 100th year in 2007 and the 2-screen Roxie has just been renovated by its New College owners.  Also Carnaval SF groups participate in the keynote celebration of National Dance Week. No event owns May Day here but around the world it is associated with May Queens, International worker's day and the decriminalization of the miracle weed best known as marijuana
Cinco de Mayo on the Bay 2007 || USA
Our Latin neighbors begin the month with biggest parades and festivals in our three metro centers of San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco. In San Francisco, Cinco de Mayor is held at Dolores Park, the site of the Bay's first post-Columbian community and widely acknowledged earth power spot especially during earthquakes.

Three of San Francisco's best arts festivals choose May and feature Mission venues. Mission Creek, Artsfest and International Arts Festival

In 2007, while Precita Eyes went low key on their Mural Month, the 2nd weekend which is best known nationally as mother's day and locally for KFOG's Kaboom Fireworks show, the Mission added MissionArts Open Studio 

May Weekend 3 is anchored by the wild wacky Bay to Breakers race which, as a huge costume parade and wild party atmosphere could also call itself a Carnaval. 

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2006 Carnaval Contingents (partial
Academicos
ACOAM Columbians
African Outlet
Asociacion Mayab
Aquarela
Baby Buggy Brigade
Banda Remelexo
Bay Area Boriquas
Bolivia Corazon
Bolivians of Southern California
Buena Vista School
California Soccer
Dancers of the Mystic Sun
Dykes on Bikes
Energia do Samba
El Tecolote
Fogo Na Roupa
Ginga Brazil, BrasArte
Grupo Aztlan
Guatemalteca Xelaju
Hot Pink Feathers & Blue Bone Express
James Lick Middle
Kip Farris Memorial
Latin American Workout
Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble
MAPP
Maracatu Cazadero
MaraReggae
Mas Makers Massive
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission Housing
Mo' Love
Monroe Elementary
Morenada- Bolivia
Quilombo
Oya Nike
PFG Xelaju
Rara Tou Limen
Sambão
SambAsia
Seven Seas
Super Sonic Samba
West Coast Lion Dance
3NI Productions
2008 Carnaval Countdown Season by sfmission.com at flickr.com

National Dance Week Opens

17 photos, 3 videos |

Carnaval SF City Hall Launch

31 photos |  

 

 

Junior Royalty Canaval SF 2008 23 photos, 4 videos |  

MCCLA Carnaval Band Lauch 200818 photos |



A Fogalistic Photo Gallery  ||  2000
Click pic for some nice ones. Grand champs 2005, 2006, & 2007


LocoBloco
3x Grand Champions

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 Cinco de Mayo & Cesar Chavez Parades 

PRIDE Parade 4th sunday in June

Day of the Dead

Halloween San Francisco

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Fotos what's new SF   
Top level in aforum but go direct to the image server to check for the freshest stuff. top level || SF Bay Area 
Carnaval San Francisco 2006 (Set) by cmc of sfmission.com
The collection of over 10,000 Carnaval San Francisco photographs at the internet's #1 photo site is dominated by Shapeshift with almost half of the top 25 "most interesting" fotos
Tu Foto's Carnaval SF collections nice ones from 2004, 2005 & 2006

Queens & Muses
Starring the Google image search engine and inspired by the popularity of our similar Rio de Janeiro page.

Egdar Lee's  Carnaval 2002 & more event photos at his dogchow.com site
Googled resuts from latinbayarea.com
schwartzphoto.com/gallery/San-Francisco-Carnaval
memorybanque.com/ photos.html for RAYMOND HOLBERT PHOTOGRAPHS

Jim Garza wins google search for "Carnaval San Francisco" Images 
Also visit our growing Link Galleries for
 [F] 2003 Carnaval
 Carnaval SF including
 [F] 2002 Carnaval
 [F]   Carnaval 2001
 [F] Carnaval 2000
 [F] Before 1990 including Santana 1986

GREATEST HITS FROM SF  IN THE GLOBAL CARNAVAL IMAGE SERVER
Less than 1/10 of 1% of the 25,000 global Carnival images have received as much attention as these 6. Which feature Aquarela's
Queen Silvana and Queen Micaela

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We live in a state ruled by a mythic amazon Queen who has inspired humanity for all of recorded history. [more]Download The only graphic with more play in our image server Xochiquetzal: Aztec goddess of spring who also shares a gender destiny with San Francisco
Winner of most popular C'SF foto. Click pic to enlarge. Check today's ranking here  

 

 

Carnaval.com takes a special interest in Brazilian , Latin and Caribbean and Cajun music but we subscribe to the description of Carnaval music as sounds that make you want to jump for joy with others.

Brazil on the SF Bay

Mexico on the SF Bay

The trendy Latin Explosion has been happening on the streets of the Mission since well before Carnaval's birth in 1979 but here's the two web guides which can will bring out the best for you.

Sounds

MPB - Brazilian Popular Music - the essence of our music. Bossa Nova, created in bars of Rio during the 50's. Axé Music, a style born in the state of Bahia with great influence of African rhythms. Samba was the first Brazilian style to become popular globally and has never lost its popularity with the youth.  

 DownloadSince 1998 Eric Crawford's url sfmbp.com   has been worthy of a bookmark as the best source on local Brazilian Music

Music of the world Links by kpfa.org

S
aboraPueblo.com/  by KPFA DJ  Jose Ruiz
A Latino music potpourri: Son, Rumba, Guajira, Bomba, Vallenato, Samba, Batucada, Soca, Calypso, Flamenco, Rancheras, Norteñas, Tangos, Boleros, Nueva Canción y mucho mas!

Events

SF CARNAVAL BAY AREA-Events Board || Carnaval 2007
We can add your Carnaval or World music event here. Simply send withjpeg file to 

-Events Archive  [the aforum system has been upgraded to the event flyer system in the image server]
Also come to the Bay Area's world music entertainment district - the www.SFmission.com [ click for neighborhood events board]

 [F] Carnaval Related Annual Events in Northern California 

Bay Area Annual Events starring the month of May which begins with May Day and Cinco de Mayo.

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Events of Special Note
FriendsofBrazil.org  the Bay Area Brazilian Club holds the biggest pre-Lenten Carnaval at the Galleria every year. 

PRIDE Parade 4th sunday in June
Dia de Los Muertos/ Day of the Dead
Life's greatest fundamental repeat themselves annually and Carnaval invites you to celebrate life or more accurately the rebirth of life in the cycle of life -death & rebirth.

Myth & Magic 
Talk about long and windy road! For these 2008 editions, we went back to the Isis story and visited Tunisia whose pre-Moslem past had her as great crossroads between Africa, Europe and the Phoenicians who ruled the seas before the rise of Rome and the Roman Catholic church which followed. Many believe the true history of Carnaval is most connected to a parade tradition venerating this goddess who threatened control of the Roman empire.
With the magnificent winning performance by our 2008 King and Queen having clever costume changes called a striptease by the leading paper we thought we'd better hurry along on the history of the body which brought us to focus on the three key cultures of Brazil  , France and Rome.  The year 2008 is the 50th anniversary of    which had its global introduction with Black Orpheus and spurred the thong upward with its signature tune the Girl from Ipanema.
www.carnaval.com/venezuela
2007: An amazing story being written as an opening chapter of the 21st century with a connection to the SF Bay area as the North American capital of the progressive left.
Do you know the way to 3 corners on
Mount Roraima
www.carnaval.com/bacchanalia || drum
2006: We started digging last year in the 4th century when the first congress of Cardinals created Carnaval as it related to Lent. There is still amazing nuggets to mine particularly from the land of Isis, pyramids and the fields of the Da Vinci code. 
 

 

ARCHIVES

Archives: 2005 || 2004|| 2003 || 2002 || 2001 ||2000
Aforum-San Francisco
2004 Carnaval SF Awards\

King & Queen of Your Rhythm
from Jay Kinney for C'SF 2004

Carnaval Versus the Klingons
from Tomas Paine for C'SF 2003

www.carnaval.com/Columbus
A special 2002 expanded ion to open 10 year countdown to 2012

Trickster at the Crossroads
  by Erik Davis originally published in  Gnosis Magazine 

12 stepping with the Orixas in Brazil 
Brazilian Jungian analyst John Burns updates the most successful model of drug treatment with spectacular orisha illustrations by  Francisco Santos. The similarity between these deities and those of early Greece and the relationship to Egypt is a new topic in academia

The Black Queen Califa |
Learn the fascinating story about the Goddess the state of California was named after. Throughout history, Black Madonnas have often inspired heroism by historic figures.
www.carnaval.com/campbell

 
LISTEN to Brazilian Music at these artist sites
 

 

Dance & Percussion Classes Top
sfmission.com/dance
East Bay Classes || North Bay & South Bay Classes || Aforum || Carnival Music Terms in Our Bahia Glossary || Bay Area Dance in Imagefolio
The Bay Area is one of the world's most important dance centers. We have linked to the link directories and highlighted the dance instructors and studios who inform their work with the joy of the Carnaval spirit.

Awards

Capoeira
Capoeira Directory for the West Coast
You may be one of the many becoming more interested in how your rhythm is affected by other rhythms. Begin your journey here.

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History
History Section in
Aforum
Carnaval San Francisco: the early years
by Richard Reniceros
KING 1998: Shimon van Collie
Escola Nova=s 15 Years of Carnaval History
By Escola member
Rick Telesforo.
History of Carnival by allahwe.org
Carnaval-San Francisco 1997 ||  1999 
2000 ||
King Jim & Queen Elisa: Carnaval 2000
2001
King Theolonius I & Queen Elizabeth in 2002.
2002 || King Norberto & Queen Maisa 
2003 ||
Queen Iya & King Antonio
2004 || Queen Micaela || King Victor ||
Malonga ||
awards  || events || festival || groups || parade_order || rhythm_magic
the hot 2004 DVD
2005
King Paulo || Queen Vanessa ||Fotos SF 2005 ||2005 Parade Contingents ||May events ||Festival || King-Queen contest ||CAribbeanS on Parade ||CACHAO  ||GLOBAL MAGIC 2005:  Age of Aquarius ||Temples of Rebirth ||drum
2006 ||
2006 King Luis Fernando & Queen Monique Perry ||Youth Royalty 2006

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Multicultural & Carnaval Arts
www.SFIntlArtsFest.org. || Jesse Hamlin reviews the plans for sfgate Can San Francisco go world class in Festival Arts. Former Carnaval Advisory Board member Andrew Wood sets his sites high for Fall 2005
Karen Lusebrink/ costume designer for All Ah We, children's book illustrator and Carnaval artist


Ron Seawright
larger than life cartoonist brings his art form to the streets
Community Festival Arts & The Arts on aforum.com

The New Age of Carnival

The past in the future what can be more certain.

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Carnaval of Cultures on the web
In 2003's carnaval.com/portugal we explored the nation of explorers who triggered the collision of the hemispheres which has made us who we are today.

For 2004 we journey to the land of the two most well known Carnaval deities Orpheus and Dionysus

www.carnaval.com/bulgaria
For 2005, we will be visiting the site of the earliest sacred shrine on the island of Gozo, Malta www.carnaval.com/malta 
 

red_star.gif (2190 bytes)www.carnivalcities.com  (FECC)
The planet's leading organization for people's events as well as
(Federation of Every Carnival City) who invite all Carnival people to an annual Carnival City Conference. Last year, for the first time, Tunisia. ,an African and Arab country hosted the congress This year the conference will be held for the first time in France next to the enchanted forest of Merlin the magician and Camelot in Brittany. Next year in 2009, the world's newest country, Montenegro will be the host.
Sambista Network || www.worldsamba.org || Federation  


 

Chalo Eduardo, C'SF founder and REMO drum spokesperson is looking forward to the Drum Circles at the 2004 festival and invites you to bring your drum to the festival Drum Grove  or the REMO booth for a lesson

Click pic for 15 seconds of Chalo performing with his pandeiro in the 2002 parade with Samba do Coracao. the most played movie in our image server in 2003 & 2004

 

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