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Thisbe – I fell in love with the power of carnival as an artform and mode of self-expression.
I have been going to Notting Hill Carnival since I moved to the UK from Brazil in 2003, aged 14, when my family temporarily lived in St Charles Square, right behind Ladbroke Grove. Although carnival is part of my culture I hadn’t experienced it before moving to London, and I never really thought of it as part of my life. I got involved with carnival arts when I joined Mandinga Arts as an administration intern in 2012, as an Art…
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