Mansfield Museum

Take a look at the highlinghts from the first ever Mansfield Carnival.

For the first time ever, Mansfield District Council's Cultural Services team will be hosting the Mansfield Carnival.

This will be a full day of FREE family fun including live music, activities, crafts, food, face-painting, walkabout entertainers and a carnival parade to celebrate Mansfield's Windrush generation and the districts diverse culture.

We have a great line up for our main stage, show casing a range of talent, from dance troupes to rappers. Performances starts at 10am and run till 3pm.

Some of the Acts entertaining you are:

Omari Marsalis  -  The Rock Choir  -  Soul Funk Junkies  -  The Pantasy Steel Band  -  Jaya Had A Dream  -  Katie Elizabeth School of Dance  -  Alex Mighten

The mile long route takes you down many of Mansfield main shopping streets so you really wont miss it!

We have four professional carnival troupes joining us, incuding our very own Mansfield Troupe lead by the wonderful Maria Slack of M Productions Time 2 Show.

We also welcome to the parade, Dance Mania who will be adding some local favourties to the line up with their northern Soul and Bhangra routines.

Mansfield Musuem's ART POWER group will be showing off their head dress creations, whilst the Mansfield Steam Punk Alliance will wow us with their fantastic outfits.

Bringing up the rear are the stunning Punjabi Roots, with there colourfuldancers and Dohl Drummers.

it's not to be missed!

In in the activity zone from 10:30am

“Celebrate carnival day with BeatFeet team in the market square. Grab a djembe and explore making music with friends and family. Learn rhythms from around the world and bring out your inner drummer! (Suitable for all ages) 

Then from 12:30pm Grab a hip belt and shimmy across the market square with the phenomenal belly dance teacher and performer, Janet Rose. Join our community belly dance workshops and welcome the carnival procession to the market square in style!’ 

Event notice- please be aware there will be significant road closures for this Saturdays Mansfield Carnival (17 June 2023).

Vehicles are prohibited from proceeding in the following lengths of road:

• West Gate – from its junction with St John Street to its junction with Market Place.
• Church Street – from its junction with Market Place to its junction with White Hart Street.
• Regent Street – from its junction with Clumber Street to its junction with West Gate.
• Leeming Street – from a point 80 metres south-west then south of its junction with St Peter’s Way to its junction with Market Place.
• Market Place – for its whole length.
• Stockwell Gate – from its junction with Market Place to its junction with Queen Street.
• Market Street – for its whole length.
• Queen’s Walk – for its whole length.
• White Hart Street - from its junction with Church Street to its junction with Queen Street
• Albert Street - from its junction with Quaker Way to its junction with Queen Street.
• Queen Street - from its junction with White Hart Street to its junction with Stockwell Gate.
• St John Street – from its junction with Stockwell Gate to its junction with Clumber Street
• Clumber Street – from its junction with St John Street to its junction with Regent Street

Vehicles are prohibited from Waiting, Loading and Unloading (both sides, 05:00-15:30) in the following lengths of road:

• West Gate – from its junction with St John Street to its junction with Market Place.
• Church Street – from its junction with Market Place to its junction with White Hart Street.
• Leeming Street – from a point 80 metres south-west then south of its junction with St Peter’s Way to its junction with Market Place.
• White Hart Street - from its junction with Church Street to its junction with Queen Street
• Queen Street - from its junction with White Hart Street to its junction with Stockwell Gate.
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• All roads will have an A4 notices on and large yellow and black signs as advance warning. This will affect blue badge parking throughout the day, however we do have Walkden Street car park with wide bays and accessible parking bays and Four Seasons car park will accessible parking bays available.
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• Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We have partnered with Vehicles for Change to provide a changing place toilet facility for the Mansfield Carnival.

By enabling disabled children and adults to use the toilet or be changed with dignity and respect, the RevoLOOtion service helps to break down  barriers that often exclude them from participating in activities and events. It is important to recognise that lack of appropriate facilities can be a major obstacle for disabled individuals and a service as run by the charity "Vehicles for Change" can make a real difference in their lives.

You will find them on Church Street by The Swan Public House.

Check out their webiste https://www.revolootion.org.uk/