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International PartnershipsSharing skills and best practice, our friends and collaborators worldwide include Junkanoo artists from the Bahamas, Fratelli Cinquini from Viareggio, Italy, Embaixadores do Alegria from Rio and many more.

Participation & EngagementYoung people from Ryde School take part in the Mardi Gras Parade with costumes themed on Pop Art they have designed and created themselves.

Disability and InclusionOur own Queen of Carnival, Catherine from VIVA Integrated Carnival Club charms the crowd at London 2012.

Training and DevelopmentA frame building Masterclass with carnival artist Colin Spalding from UK Centre for Carnival Arts takes place at the Coaching House in Ryde.

Midsummer Mardi GrasOur own unique blend of New Orleans Mardi Gras spiced with flavours of Latin and Caribbean carnivals, our flagship Carnival in Education project takes to the streets of Ryde every June.

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The New Carnival Company is the leading carnival arts development agency in the South of England.

We are a team of highly experienced carnival artists and producers, teachers and trainers, project managers and outdoor event specialists who believe that carnival and other forms of celebratory arts can make a real difference to people and places.

We are based at The Coaching House in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, a creative workspace and administrative base with facilities for production, teaching and small scale conferencing. We retain use of the facilities of the IW Council’s Learning Centre at Westridge (formerly the Carnival Learning Centre) to deliver some of our core learning programmes.

The New Carnival Company is proud to be part of Arts Council England’s National portfolio and share their vision of Achieving great art for everyone.