CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO

AUGUST 1st 2010

Free Latin Carnival

The Lebron Brothers Headline Carnaval del Pubelo 2010

The Lebron Brothers hail from Brooklyn with Puerto Rican roots, the Lebron Brothers are well known for classic’s such as “Salsa Y Control” as well as Fe, La temperatura, Prostitucion, Sin negro no hay guaguanco to mention but a few.

The group have been together almost 50 years and are still able to produce hits such as “Si me Permite”, “Complicados”.

The Lebron Brothers are expected to be on the main stage for 20:00

Carnaval del Pueblo

Carnval Del Pueblo has a history of attracting world class stars and Grammy Prize winners such as Grupo Niche, Oscar D’León, Willie Colón, Adalberto Santiago, Gilberto Santarosa and Henry Fiol, as well as Lizandro Mesa and The Embajadores Vallenatos, Lizandro Mesa being a god of cumbia and the later being gods of Vallenato, who introduced the highly danceable Cumbia and Vallenato music to the West. It also counts with the presence of a multitude of London and European based artists performing the best of Latino rhythms, bringing pleasure and excitement to all.

In addition to CdP’s main stage where all international stature artistsentertain the public, there is a show of great diversity that make this day an experience of full Latin passion.

These include:

• 4 areas that provide entertainment from Latin America such as Brazil, Andean countries and not forgetting the very popular space for Reggaeton and Latin Hip Hop for the younger crowd.

• The Open Salsa Dance Championship held publicly, in the open air throughout the day on the Park, with the final held on the main stage at prime time, where the public can choose their winners.

• Large Screen on the sides of the main stage

• The children’s zone full of bouncy castles, workshops and fun fair rides is very popular with children and parents.

• 4 large Bars where a variety of Drinks and Beer are sold

All this topped off with various workshops which have already started all over London…

check http://www.carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk for further info

The best part is that this Latin Fiesta is TOTALLY FREE!!! and its the Biggest Latin Fiesta in Europe.

How to get to Burgess Park – Google Map

To get to the float parade (12-3pm)

The float procession leaves Elephant Road then Walworth Road, Albany Road and Burgess Park. The parade starts at 12pm and reaches the park at around 3 pm where the party continuous until 9.30pm.

Nearest station to Elephant & Castle (SE1)

You are also invited to attend the preparation of the floats, before the parade starts, at Elephant Road, from 10am.

To get to the park (10am-9.30pm)

If you want to join the festival at the park, where attractions start at 10 am, you should go to Burgess Park, in Camberwell, Chumleigh Street, London, SE5. It has easy access from Elephant and Castle underground and British Rail stations plus

Bus numbers 36, 12, 171, 68, 68a, 45, 176, 63, 172.

Argentina Summer Dress

Buy the Uruguay Flag

Buy the book Soccer in the Sun and Shadow By Eduardo Galeano

Carnaval del Pueblo

Competition for main artwork 2010

Carnaval del Pueblo (CDP) has as its main purpose to showcase Latin American culture, being the largest Latin American event in Europe.

CDP invites all designers (professional and non professional), artists.
Photographers and creative people in general, from any part of the world and with no age limitation to produce the main image for the carnival in 2010

Initially the artwork must be an A2 poster and then this artwork will be changed to fit other sizes for different promotions as well as being adapted to the different needs that the promotion requires.

Rules and conditions
1.- Each participant can only submit 2 artworks to the competition
2.- The posters will be selected and judged by the carnival committee and
known designers.
3.- The use of the carnival logo is compulsory
4.- The artworks must be sent as a file no bigger than 2 Mb to
info@carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk
5.- All artworks must be sent with the information detail of the artist
6.- The carnival will keep the right to subsequently reproduce the artworks
in future events.
7.- All the artworks will become part of the heritage of Carnaval de
Pueblo.
8.- The committee reserves the right to refuse entry to any poster that they
might find offensive to the moral values that carnival stands for and also
to any culture of any Latin-American country, also to any poster that does
not comply with the rules of the competition

Prizes
First Place: being credited in all [printed and digital material that is
using his/her artwork plus the chance to design all the promotional material
for the carnival as a paid job.
Second and Third place: the book “Graphic Language” by Neville broody 2.
All the selected artworks will get a certification.

check http://www.carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk for further info

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