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I think Andrea may have the answer to t his.. do you know when Carnival is...
hmmm
i think it is the 4 weeks preceding ash wednesday.
ash wednesday is Wednesday, February 13, 2013
so that would mean the GRAND PARADE is the Sunday b4 Ash Wed. ( 10th of Feb)
i will drop my supervisor a note and ask him to give me the dates of the other stuff.....lighting parade, children's parade etc....
but count on Carnival Season is for about 4 weeks and ending on the weekend b4 Ash Wednesday with the GRAND PARADE.
QUOTE=sunworshipperII;225370]I think Andrea may have the answer to t his.. do you know when Carnival is...[/QUOTE]
Last edited by Andrea J.; 05-21-2012 at 09:22 PM.
dear husband just reminded me that the 2 days after the GRAND PARADE on Feb 10....
there will be Carnival ending activities in San Nic and in downtown O'staad on Feb 11 and 12.
Here is the schedule I compiled
Tuesday January 22 - 24
Calypso & Roadmarch Contest Pre-Finals
Joe Laveist Sport Park 7:30 pm
Friday January 25
Carnival Queen Election and Coronation
Aruba Entertainment Center, Oranjestad 7:30 pm
Saturday January 26
Grand Final Calypso & Roadmarch Contest
Joe Laveist Sport Park 7:30 pm
Sunday January 27
Children's Parade
San Nicolas 1:00 pm
Wednesday January 30
Mrs. Carnival Election
Aruba Entertainment Center 7:30 pm
Thursday January 31
Hebbe Hebbe Happening
Oranjestad 8:00 pm
Saturday February 2
Children's Parade
Noord 1:00 pm
Saturday February 2
Aruba Tivoli's Lighting Parade
Oranjestad 8:00 pm
Sunday February 3
Grand Children's Parade
Oranjestad 1:00 pm
Wednesday February 6
Tourist Night - Steelband & Costume Show
Palm Beach 8:00 pm
Thursday February 7
Lighting ParadeSan Nicolas 8:00 pm
Friday February 8
Ban Djo Djo Happening for Balashi Lovers
Oranjestad 8:00 pm
Saturday February 9
Jouvert Morning & Pajama Party
Jump-up
San Nicolas 4:00 am in the streets
Grand Parade
San Nicolas 1:00 pm
Sunday February 10
Grand Carnival
Oranjestad 11:00 am
Monday February 12
Carnival Monday
National holiday- official day of rest
Old Mask Parade Burning of the Momito
San Nicolas 6 pm
Tuesday February 21
Grand Evening Parade & Burning of Momo
Oranjestad 8 pm
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Christmas & New Year's at the Amsterdam Manor
wow
lisa where did you find this?
http://www.aruba.com/explorearuba/cu..._carnival.aspx
Born 57 years ago, Carnival first began as a series of small street festivals. The Tivoli Club, Aruba’s oldest private social club, was the first to have a pre-Lenten celebration in Oranjestad in February 1944. The Allied victory of World War II was commemorated by a large parade in San Nicolas comprised largely of Caribbean-English immigrants who came to Aruba to work at the Lago Oil Refinery. The first steel and brass bands debuted a few years later and small parades sprouted here and there.
In 1955, various clubs and districts were brought together for Aruba’s first public Carnaval with the first official Carnaval queen. The traditional Grand Parades were organized in 1957. On November 11, 1966 (11/11/66) at 11:11 am, Stichting Arubaanse Carnaval (SAC), Carnaval’s organizing body, was founded. Each year, the Carnaval season officially begins at this precise moment. Ever since 1981, Tivoli, Aruba’s oldest social club, has produced the Lighting Parade, a twinkling nighttime extravaganza.
Following the Lighting Parade, Children’s Parades, Pajama Party and Grand Carnaval Parade in San Nicolas is the exciting finale - the Grand Carnival Parade in Oranjestad. The midnight burning of the King Momo, a life-size effigy, signals the end of the Carnival season on Shrove Tuesday, after Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. This tradition symbolizes the burning of the Spirit of Carnival who will rise again when the next season begins.
The origins of Carnaval are found thousands of years ago. The word is derived from the Latin carne vale, meaning farewell to flesh, referring to the time when many Christians gave up food, drink and unacceptable behavior for Lent. Its beginnings can be traced back to the feasts of antiquity held to honor such gods as Bacchus and Saturn. Colonization introduced this phenomenon to the New World and the French brought it to the Caribbean.
Originally Posted by Andrea J.
Googled "aruba carnival"
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ya me too
i just apparently look hard enough
thanks
Cool thanks you guys.
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