Sun 12 Sep 2010

7.30pm to 10.30pm

The Mayor's Thames Festival
Night Carnival
Paraiso School of Samba brings 150 people in lavish costume for a Rio-style carnival experience.

The Procession sets up on Victoria Embankment by Embankment Tube station. It then proceeds east and crosses the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. It goes down Upper Ground and finishes at the National Theatre. The procession starts at 7.30 and reaches the National at 9.30. It takes approximately thirty minutes to pass a given point. [map]
[event website]

Fri 17 Sep 2010

6.00pm to 10.00pm

Night of Festivals 2010 - Nottingham
Celebrating the Bicentenary of Latin American Independence
Paraiso bring Rio carnival to the streets of Nottingham with their Heroes of Independence carnival theme and specially written samba enredo.

free
Old Market Square, Nottingham
[event website]

Sat 13 Nov 2010

11.00am to 2.30pm

Lord Mayor's Show

Between Mansion House and Aldwych
[event website]