The Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020 is being led by principal consultant Nicole Ferdinand and Kemi Sobers, director of the Carnival Enterprises Trust.
The project aims to build a better future for the carnival, and will begin with three days of planning workshops on 25 September at King's College London Guy's Campus.
It is the first time an exercise like this has been done for the Notting Hill Carnival since the strategic review in 2004.
Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020 was developed out of a symposium that was held last October called the ‘Entrepreneurial Legacies of the Notting Hill Carnival’, which explored the business legacies of the festival and its future challenges, and was hosted by Ferdinand.
Many who attended the symposium felt the carnival had to be reinvented and the product and the process had to be innovated. Building on the momentum created at the symposium, Ferdinand developed the proposal, then approached the King’s Cultural Institute, Creative Futures Fund and received on guidance in developing it.
The findings will be presented at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London, where the filmed research outputs will be shown.
Ferdinand has also been invited to develop a policy paper by the King’s Cultural Institute based on her findings.
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