Notting Hill Carnival faces an existential threat from declining sponsorship and proposals to move or ticket the event. Around two million people attend the festival, which began as a free street party central to London's Black community. The carnival's identity relies on open, mobile marching, sound systems, collective energy, and spontaneous interaction. Confining the event to a single ticketed space would change attendance patterns, reduce accessibility, and diminish the communal atmosphere. Preserving the carnival's traditional location and free-access format is essential to maintaining cultural heritage, participation, and community cohesion.
For something [like that] to just go down, that's going to really impact culture and people in general. Because, even before I've gone to Notting Hill carnival, I've heard about it so many times. It's something you see on TV, your friends tell you about it, and say you should come. It's a different vibe'.
It wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be the same, for sure. Knowing what carnival is it's about marching and the vibes and the energy to put it in one space where people can't move, it's not going to be the same I think it would definitely kill. A lot of people probably wouldn't go that much.
To take something that's so big and so cultural for years, to lose something like that, I think will definitely damage the culture itself.
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