Carnival of Cultures - Berlin

Every summer, Berlin celebrates its own unique carnival, called the Carnival of Cultures - more than 1,5 million visitors flock to the district of Kreuzberg to celebrate the multicultural spirit of Germany’s capital.

Berlin is home to more than 450,000 people from around the world and proud to be the most international city in Germany. The Carnival of Cultures pays tribute to Berlin’s ethnic diversity and the peaceful coexistence of its different cultures with this fun summer festival.

Carnival of Cultures - What To Expect:

The Berlin Carnival of Cultures is a four-day open-air festival with exotic food and drinks, concerts, performances, and parties.

The colorful highlight of the festivities is the street parade, where more than 4,500 performers in authentic costumes, elaborately decorated floats, and musicians from over 70 different countries dance through the streets of Berlin.

Soak up the samba rhythms, enjoy Brazilian drummers, Congolese singers, Korean culture groups, artistic larger than life puppets - and a bit of Rio de Janeiro in the streets of the German capital.

Carnival of Cultures - Dates of 2010:
In 2010, the Carnival of Cultures is celebrated from May 21st – 25 th. The street parade takes place on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010.

Samba with Madonna, Beyonce and Alicia Keys

This year 3 divas are in Brazil to see and be party of our biggest party, the Carnival!

Madonna arrived last tuesday and will be in Brazil until the Carnival is over, of course, she gonna spend this time with her Brazilian boyfriend jesus Luz.

Beyonce is doing couple of shows and cooler is to see her and Alicia Keys making a new video music dressing samba costumes in the middle of the ordinary samba girls:)

I have to say that I am really curious to see the result of this video...

And as Madonna says in one of her songs: I like to samba samba sambaaaaaaaa
:))

Carnavais!!!

Until we do not have any news from the Prague carnival, let me just let you know that during the summer a lot of cities around the world is celebrating the carnival parades. Some weeks ago, Amsterdam did great, and last weekend also Denmark and San Francico.

If you are planning to go to Finland,19th Helsinki Samba Carnival will take place in June 12th-4th. The Finnish samba schools (nowadays total 7) are having their major happening during weekend including Finnish Championship competition with high class Rio style parades (5 participating this year). In between you'll find all kinds of carnival groups like capoeiristas, Sambic, salsa dancers, visiting samba group from Sweden etc. All together there will be almost 1500 participants on the street and number of audience exceeds 30000. In Fri and Sat evening there will be great Bailes of Carnivals presenting shows and a lot of partying. HSC is one of the biggest free, open air happenings in Helsinki and it's been elected 2006 in the TOP50 festivities of Europe.

The Carnival in Prague is too far to be one of the biggest in Europe but does not mean that is not good and we cannot have fun!Let us wait the news to see what the carnival will bring us this year.