Festivals & Events

Carnival Arts Group has joined Eastnor Castle’s summer activity week for 10 years, running workshops in which children produce large 3-D as well as smaller flag and 2-D sculptures.

At the end of each day, the children gain a huge sense of fun and pride as they parade their sculptures around the castle grounds.

The success of these projects at Eastnor have seen families return year after year.

Eastnor Castle General Manager Simon Foster said:

“I cannot recommend Carnival Arts highly enough and I am confident that they will add considerable value to other events elsewhere”

For five years the Carnival Arts Group has provided a range of family workshops at the annual Big Chill Festival in Herefordshire. The workshops ended in a parade around the castle stage field each day, which were always helped to bring the festival to life.

During the summer holidays at Kew, Carnival Arts Group helped the children be wonderfully creative and join in updated festival traditions.

Kew Out of School Club Chair Janet Deboo said: “The Carnival Arts sessions were really popular and provided a great addition to our summer programme, very much appreciated by the children and staff too”

The Carnival Arts Group were commissioned to work with children to make heads with back-packs to bring a Spanish fiesta to the streets of London.

San Miguel wanted to create a procession of historically themed papier-mache masks to celebrate the Valencian Festival of Las Fallas and the ‘Carnival of our Fathers’.

The intention was to create a theatrical, passionate, loud and slightly sinister atmosphere and the results were big, bold willow withy heads covered with decorated muslin and latex solution. They remain to be seen in San Miguel’s head office.

For bookings and more information contact Leo on 01432 265464, mobile 07816 686856 or by emailing leocaithness@tiscali.co.uk

For other festival and event project photographs go to

Photo Gallery.

Carnival sculptures bring festivals to life with their colour and sense of fun and an identity all of its own. By involving festival goers in making sculptures, it allows them to become involved, let their hair down and be creative.

Carnival Arts Group festival and event projects aim to build happy family atmospheres by encouraging children and parents to have fun working together to create festival sculptures and take part in processions.

Carnival Arts Group also love joining in collaborative carnival projects with music, drumming and performance that children and adults can learn skills and confidence and enjoy getting to the heart of any event.

Eastnor Castle Kids Week

Harrogate: The Big Draw Eco Project

Hosted by the RHS garden at Harlow Carr, this

project encourages children and families to create

drawings from natural, found objects in the grounds.

Work included tree mobiles and leaf sculptures in the

style of Andy Goldsworthy.