Carnival (disambiguation)

Carnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent.

Traveling entertainment

• Any traveling carnival, funfair, or other fair

Annual celebrations

• Carnival of Venice
• Maltese Carnival, a major celebration of Carnival held in Malta
• Bahian Carnival, a popular street event in the Brazilian state of Bahia
• Brazilian Carnival ("Carnaval" in Portuguese), an annual festival in Brazil held forty days before Easter
• Brazilian Street Carnival, an annual event in California
• Buenos Aires Carnival, an annual event that in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Carnaval Brasileiro in Austin, Texas, the largest indoor Brazilian Carnival in the world
• Carnaval of Santiago de Cuba
• Carnaval San Francisco
• Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, the largest Carnival in the Caribbean
• Carnaval de Cádiz, satirical Carnival in Southern Spain
• Carnaval de las Islas Canarias, exotic and folklorical Carnival held in every island

Patrimony of humanity (UNESCO)

• Carnaval de Oruro, (Oruro Carnival) the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia
• Barranquilla's Carnival (Carnaval de Barranquilla), a Colombian festival dating back to the 19th century

Other carnivals

• Caribbean Carnival, the term used for a number of events that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually

• Carnaval del Pueblo, a celebration of Latin American culture held in London
• Summer Carnaval (Zomercarnaval) is summertime version of Carnival held in the Netherlands
• Quebec Winter Carnival (Carnaval de Québec), the largest winter carnival in the world
• West Country Carnival, an English celebration related to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
• Carnivàle Lune Bleue, a 1930s-style travelling carnival that debuted in Ottawa, Ontario
• Electric Daisy Carnival, a music festival held annually in Los Angeles, California
• Notting Hill Carnival, a Caribbean festival held annually in west London

Literature

• Carnival (novel), a 2005 novel by Robert Antoni
• Carnival, a novel by Elizabeth Bear
• Carnival (Compton Mackenzie novel), a novel by Compton Mackenzie
• O País do Carnaval is a Brazilian Modernist novel
• "Carnival! Carnival!", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel

Literary criticism

• Carnivalesque, a term coined by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the subversion of predominant assumptions through humor and chaos

Classical music

• Carnaval (Schumann), a set of piano pieces by Robert Schumann
• The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des Animaux), a musical suite by Camille Saint-Saëns

Popular music

Songs

• Carnaval (song), the first track on the 1977 album Festival by American rock band Santana
• "Carnival", a song from the 1995 album Life by Swedish rock band The Cardigans
• Carnival (Natalie Merchant song), a 1995 song by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant
• "Carnival", a song from the 1976 album No Reason to Cry by singer-songwriter and guitarist Eric Clapton
• "Carnival", a single from the 1997 album Clumsy by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace
• "Carnival", a song from the 1991 album Revolution Girl Style Now! by American punk rock band Bikini Kill
• Carnival (The Pillows song), a 1999 song by Japanese rock band The Pillows
• "Carnival", a song by Japanese rock guitarist Masatoshi Mashima
• "Carnaval de Paris", a song by English pop group Dario G sometimes played at sporting events
• Manhã De Carnaval (A Day in the Life of a Fool) ("Morning of Carnival"), a song which appeared in the 1959 film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

Albums and other musical series

• Carnaval (Spyro Gyra album), a 1980 album by American jazz band Spyro Gyra
• Carnival (EP), a 1982 EP by British band Duran Duran
• Carnaval (Barão Vermelho album), a 1988 album by Brazilian rock band Barão Vermelho
• Carnival of Carnage, the 1992 debut album of American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse
• The Carnival, a 1997 album by the Haitian hip hop artist Wyclef Jean
• Carnival (New Model Army album), a 2005 album by English rock band New Model Army
• Carnival (Kasey Chambers album), a 2006 album by Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers
• CARNAVAL, an album by ZELDA

Bands

• The Carnival Band, a Canadian marching band
• The Carnival Band (folk group), an English folk and early music band
• The Carnival (UK band), an English dark cabaret band
• The Carnival, Brazilian flavored pop band from 1969

Record labels

• Carnival Records, a record label started in 1961 by Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert

Organisations

• Carnival Band Secretaries League, the main authoritative organisation in the Carnival Band movement

Performing arts

• Carnival!, a 1960s Broadway musical
• Carnaval (ballet), a ballet of the Ballets Russes, based on the music of Robert Schumann's Carnaval
• Carnaval en Amazonas is a typical dance from the Amazonas Region, Peru

Television and film

• Carnivàle, a US supernatural drama television series that aired on HBO from 2003 through 2005
• Festive Land: Carnaval in Bahia, a 2000 documentary film directed by Carolina Moraes-Liu
• Domingo de carnaval, a 1945 Spanish crime film written, directed and produced by Edgar Neville
• Le Carnaval des vérités, a 1920 French silent film directed and written by Marcel L, 'Herbier
• "Carnival", the second episode of the first season of The Bellflower Bunnies
• Carnival (1921 film), a British film
• Carnival (1931 film), a British film
• Carnival (1935 film), an American film
• Carnival (1989 film), a Malayalam film

Other

• Carnival (arcade game), a 1980 arcade game by Sega
• Carnival Cruise Lines, a large cruise company, and its parent company Carnival Corporation & plc
• Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, a 2006 Miami performing arts center formerly known as the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
• Kia Carnival, a car built by Kia Motors
• Carnival Food Stores, a grocery chain subsidiary of Minyard Food Stores, Inc.
• The Carnival, a trading algorithm

Alternative spellings

• Karnaval, a 1999 French film
• Karneval (manga), a manga by Touya Mikanagi
• Karneval, anđeo i prah, a 1990 Croatian film
• Karnevalsbotschafter, a waltz by Johann Strauss II
• Karnivool, an Australian progressive rock band

See also

• Karnavar
• Karnavedha
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