Here are more scenes from Sunday’s festivities:Ĭuba Caribe Carnaval group dancing on Mission Street. The colorful procession included floats, and dancers and performers representing the cultural backgrounds of Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and more. | Photo: Cheryl Guerrero/HoodlineĮnergy was high for this year’s parade, which featured a 60-contingent line-up. Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca prepares before the start of the parade. The Aztec dance group has participated in the festival since 1993, and always opens the Grand Parade with a blessing. Together, with his wife Irma Martinez-Alvarado, he co-founded Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca which has been a constant presence at memorials, protests, and celebrations throughout the city, including at Carnaval. Martinez Perez was honored at Carnaval after passing away earlier this year. The 2023 Grand Marshal was Miguel Angel Martinez Perez.
Sunday’s main event is the Grand Parade, which covers over twenty blocks and hosts performers from around the Bay Area and beyond. It also hosted five main performance stages, including an LGBTQ stage. This year it included arts, crafts, food vendors, a skate park, a lowrider car show, a gaming pavilion, and a community-led cannabis garden. The festival takes place over two days and encompasses 17 blocks in the Mission. Music is always plentiful throughout the celebration and Duran noted that “music paved the way for Carnaval to thrive”.Ĭompton High School Band performs during the parade. “Artists in our beloved Mission District gave birth to Carnaval in 1978,” Executive Director of Carnaval San Francisco, Rodrigo Duran said via a statement, “with the belief that their passion for Latin, Caribbean and Afro-Diasporic music would unite people across ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientation, gender, or religious beliefs.” This year’s theme, “45 Years of Music & Movement”, was chosen to pay homage to the artists that have shaped the multicultural celebration over the years. It strives to educate the public about “the Latino, Caribbean and African Diasporic traditions of the Mission District and the San Francisco Bay Area”.Įsforço samba dancers during the parade. | Photo: Cheryl Guerrero/Hoodline Organized by the Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas (CANA), Carnaval is the largest and longest running multicultural festival on the West Coast.
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The free annual, two-day festival takes place each Memorial Day weekend and culminates with Sunday’s Grand Parade. Salsa, samba, and a host of other Latin rhythms reverberated throughout the Mission District this weekend as locals and visitors alike converged to celebrate the 45th Carnaval.
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