May
Panel discussion · walks running throughoutThe Mangrove Nine
Wednesday 27 May · 6 – 8pm · Conservatory · £6
The daughters of the Mangrove Nine speak about their fathers, the landmark 1971 trial and what the Mangrove story means fifty years on. What does it mean to carry that history? What do they want the next generation to know?
June
In Conversation · walks running throughoutAnsel Wong CBE
Saturday 20 June · 6.30 – 8.30pm · Listening Lounge · £6
Trinidadian-born cultural activist, co-founder of UK Black History Month and former chair of the Notting Hill Carnival Board. Ansel Wong arrived in Britain in 1965 and has spent six decades at the heart of Black cultural and political life in this country.
July
In Conversation · Exhibition · Workshops · walks running throughoutAllyson Williams MBE
Saturday 11 July · 6.30 – 8.30pm · Listening Lounge · £6
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Allyson Williams came to Britain in 1969 to train as an NHS midwife. She married Vernon Williams, one of the founding members of Notting Hill Carnival, and in 1980 they founded Genesis mas band. For over four decades she has been at the heart of Carnival as costume maker, administrator and board director.
In Full Colour:
Notting Hill Carnival's Story
Friday 17 – Sunday 19 July · Conservatory · Free
The first Notting Hill Carnival procession took place in September 1966. The archive photographs are in black and white. History recorded a moment of colour, sound and joy and rendered it grey.
In Full Colour gives that colour back. Students have worked with the real newspaper archive from 1966 to paint what the camera could not show: the costumes, the crowds, the steel pan, the dream.
Community exhibition. Free entry. All welcome.
More about the exhibition →"I could see the streets thronged with people in brightly coloured costumes, dancing and following bands and they were happy… men, women, children, black, white, brown, but all laughing."
Rhaune Laslett, 1989
Mason & Fifth
11 Woodfield Road
Westbourne Park, W9 2BA
Fri 17 – Sun 19 July 2026
Free entry
Make & Taste: Caribbean Sweets
Sat 18 & Sun 19 July · 11am – 12.30pm · Conservatory
Make your own sugar cake in Carnival colours using natural food colouring, then taste your way across the Caribbean. Chow, benne balls, coconut drops, red mango, guava cheese and more. Includes a short talk on the history behind each sweet.
Book →Carnival Souvenir Making
Sat 18 & Sun 19 July · 2 – 4pm · Conservatory
Two keepsakes to make and take home. Paint your own glass jar using glass colour paints, outliner and carnival sequins. Then create a jar lantern filled with dried flowers and carnival costume pieces with a battery tea light inside.
Book →August
Suppers · Panel discussions · Carnival weekend 30–31 Aug · walks running throughoutAfrican Heritage Supper
Saturday 1 August · 5 – 10pm · Conservatory
Food is the medium and history is the story. A multigenerational supper evening exploring African food history, heritage and memory. Sit together, eat together, share across generations.
Pricing & booking TBCCaribbean Heritage Supper
Saturday 8 August · 5 – 10pm · Conservatory
Food is the medium and history is the story. A multigenerational supper evening exploring Caribbean food history, heritage and memory. Sit together, eat together, share across generations.
Pricing & booking TBCWhat It Means to Be Caribbean
Wednesday 12 August · 6 – 8pm · Conservatory · £6
Caribbean identity is not a single thing. It is food, language, music, humour, history and family — and it means something different depending on where you are from, when you arrived and what generation you belong to. Eugene Dusauzay, Zara Johnson of Goutebon London and Symone Williams explore what being Caribbean means to them.
Notting Hill Carnival – Past, Present and Future
Wednesday 26 August · 6 – 8pm · Conservatory · £6
Six decades on, what has Notting Hill Carnival become — and who does it belong to? Three panellists who have lived the Carnival story reflect on what has been fought for, what has been lost and what the next sixty years might hold.
September
In Conversation · walks running throughoutRobert Singh
Sunday 27 September · 2 – 4pm · Listening Lounge · £6
Robert Singh ran Grassroots Bookshop on Golborne Road — one of the foundational Black activist centres in Notting Hill, alongside the Mangrove and the Black People's Information Centre. Operating on pan-Third World principles, Grassroots published the Black Liberation Front bulletin and was at the heart of the community's fight against discrimination in housing, policing and the courts.
October
In Conversation · walks running throughoutLeslie Palmer MBE
Saturday 17 October · 6 – 8pm · Listening Lounge · £6
Director of Notting Hill Carnival 1973 to 1975, Leslie Palmer transformed a small community event into the modern Carnival the world knows today. He introduced static sound systems, brought costume bands from across the Caribbean and gave the event its pan-Caribbean identity. Later a repertoire executive at Island Records, he was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to performance and community. An intimate conversation — the final event of Carnival 60
Community Walks
Guest-led · Dates TBCGuest Community Walks
Notting Hill's history belongs to everyone who has lived here, fought here and made something here. As part of Carnival 60 we are inviting community members to lead their own walks through the neighbourhood. If you have a story about this place and its people, we want to hear from you. Guest walks and dates will be announced throughout the programme.
No community walks are scheduled at present. Get in touch if you would like to lead a walk as part of the programme.