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Africarnival! Sunday 30 August, 12-6pm, Horniman Museum and Gardens


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Africarnival!

Sunday 30 August

12-6pm

Free entry


If you?re staying local this weekend, don?t miss Africarnival, the last of our African Summer events - which promises to be a colourful celebration of our African season featuring circus performers, dancing, music, exuberant carnival parades and workshops. We also have African street food including Ghanaian cuisine.


For the carnival parade, Mandinga Arts, one of the performers, has been working with a number of community partners and artists to create extraordinary costumes, masks and puppets inspired by the African collections at the Horniman. You can see a preview of what they?ve created on our blog.


The full Africarnival programme is on our website www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/africarnival


We hope you've had a great summer so far and we hope to see you on Sunday to help us celebrate the end of our African Summer.


Horniman Museum and Gardens

100 London Road

Forest Hill

SE23 3PQ

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