News

05/01/2009 - Savile Row Tailor named in Queen’s New Year Honours.
Andrew Madan Ramroop is a previous recipient of a BAS Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his support of carnival arts and his achievements as a Trinbagonian living in the UK.....more info

25/11/2008 - Luton's young people share their Carnival story
Carnival really does reign supreme in the hearts and minds of the young people of Luton....more info

21/11/2008 - BASS 2009 Commissions
A key part of the BASS programme has always been its unique commissions. Here artists, organisations and promoters are individually commissioned to produce an event or new piece of work specifically for the festival. ....more info

05/11/2008 - Obama becomes the President of the USA 
UK centre for carnival Arts celebrate Barack Obama being elected for President of the USA....more info



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/11/2008 - Head of Finance and Resources 
We have a Vacancy at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts...more info



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/10/2008 - UK Centre for Carnival Arts Raise the Roof 
The December completion date draws even closer! ...more info

11/09/2008 - Could you be your own boss?
Business Link East say Don't Doodle, Do! ...more info


08/09/2008 - HALO

Why not join us to celebrate the launch of London 2012's Cultural Olympiad ...more info

08/09/2008 - Nottinghill Carnival Competition results for Steelpan
Find out who won this years Steelpan, was it you?...more info

02/09/2008 - End of Summer Party
Why not Join in and have some Caribbean fun and food on the Thames...more details

20/08/2008 - ITVlocal.com
Once again ITVLocal.com are hosting the Nottinghill Carnival online...more details

19/08/2008 - "Keep Hope Alive"
UKCCA supports Daniel Lakey's Carnival track 'Keep Hope Alive"...more details








14/08/08 - Carnival Celebrates Claudia
50th anniversary tribute to the organiser of Britain’s first Caribbean Carnival (1958) and pioneer of the Notting Hill Street Carnival...more details
claudia jones

29/07/08 -Carnival Arts Academy
FREE workshops for for teens to twenty year olds! Turn up at Lewsey Community Centre on MondayTuesday and Thursday from the 4th-21st August from 10am-12pm...more details

28/07/08 -Carnival in the Park
UKCCA presents Carnival Arts, at Freemans Green from 10am-4pm on the 28th July - 1st August 2008.  Activities in the marquee on Freeman's Green and in the Jubilee Centre...more details

03/07/08 -Artists Brief: Commissions for the Launch of the UK Centre for Carnival Arts
UKCCA are looking to commission five carnival artists who have the capacity and the ability to design and construct 40 Carnival costumes based on the International Carnival Queen theme...more details


26/05/08 - Carnival Website Wows @ Luton International Carnival

www.carnivalarts.org.uk was officially launched today at Luton International Carnival. The website, funded by Arts Council England and run by the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, is the national UK portal for all things carnival.

05/05/08 - Carnival Champions Enterprise
The UK Centre for Carnival Arts was celebrating today as the news came in that it has won the regional final of the prestigious Enterprising Britain Awards for the East of England.
Enterprising Britain

25/03/08 - Roots to Carnival - Learn 2 Earn for Free!
Whatever you're interested in, the new
UK Centre for Carnival Arts has a range of courses available throughout the year and it's all absolutely FREE!

Learn 2 Earn 4 FREE

22/01/08 - Seb Coe Visits UKCCA
Lord Sebastian Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) visited Luton today as part of London 2012's Nations and Regions programme. During his visit he experienced first hand how the UK Centre for Carnival Arts might contribute to the 2012 Games.
Seb Coe